The Holy Bible
American Standard Version 1901 (ASV)
Table Of Contents
Genesis
1) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2) And
the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and
the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3) And God said, Let
there be light: and there was light. 4) And God saw the light, that it
was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5) And God called
the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there
was morning, one day. 6) And God said, Let there be a firmament in the
midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7) And
God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8) And God
called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a
second day. 9) And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10)
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters
called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11) And God said, Let the
earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, `and' fruit-trees bearing fruit
after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so. 12)
And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and
trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw
that it was good. 13) And there was evening and there was morning, a
third day. 14) And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of
heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days and years: 15) and let them be for lights in the
firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16) And
God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night: `he made' the stars also. 17) And God set them
in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, 18) and to rule
over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and
God saw that it was good. 19) And there was evening and there was
morning, a fourth day. 20) And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms
of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of
heaven. 21) And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living
creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every
winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good. 22) And God
blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the
seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. 23) And there was evening and
there was morning, a fifth day. 24) And God said, Let the earth bring
forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts
of the earth after their kind: and it was so. 25) And God made the beasts
of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything
that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good. 26)
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth. 27) And God created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28) And God
blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the
earth. 29) And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding
seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the
fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food: 30) and to
every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything
that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, `I have given' every green
herb for food: and it was so. 31) And God saw everything that he had
made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was
morning, the sixth day.
1) And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2) And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he
rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3) And God
blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all
his work which God had created and made. 4) These are the generations of
the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God
made earth and heaven. 5) And no plant of the field was yet in the earth,
and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to
rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground; 6) but
there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7)
And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8) And Jehovah
God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had
formed. 9) And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that
is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst
of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10) And a
river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and
became four heads. 11) The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which
compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12) and the
gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 13) And
the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole
land of Cush. 14) And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it
which goeth in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15)
And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it
and to keep it. 16) And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every
tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17) but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 18) And Jehovah God said, It is not
good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. 19)
And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every
bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call
them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name
thereof. 20) And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of
the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a
help meet for him. 21) And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
instead thereof: 22) and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the
man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23) And the man said,
This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man. 24) Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh. 25) And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not
ashamed.
1) Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which
Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall
not eat of any tree of the garden? 2) And the woman said unto the
serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat: 3) but of
the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye
shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4) And the
serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5) for God doth
know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye
shall be as God, knowing good and evil. 6) And when the woman saw that
the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the
tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did
eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. 7) And
the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they
sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8) And they heard
the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the
man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the
trees of the garden. 9) And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said
unto him, Where art thou? 10) And he said, I heard thy voice in the
garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 11) And
he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree,
whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 12) And the man
said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I
did eat. 13) And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast
done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. 14) And
Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou
above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou
go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15) and I will put
enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 16) Unto the woman he
said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt
bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule
over thee. 17) And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto
the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,
saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil
shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18) thorns also and
thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19) in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto
the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust
shalt thou return. 20) And the man called his wife's name Eve; because
she was the mother of all living. 21) And Jehovah God made for Adam and
for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them. 22) And Jehovah God said,
Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he
put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for
ever- 23) therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,
to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24) So he drove out the man;
and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a
sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
1) And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and
said, I have gotten a man with `the help of' Jehovah. 2) And again she
bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of
the ground. 3) And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought
of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah. 4) And Abel, he also
brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had
respect unto Abel and to his offering: 5) but unto Cain and to his
offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 6)
And Jehovah said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance
fallen? 7) If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou
doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be its desire, but
do thou rule over it. 8) And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to
pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother,
and slew him. 9) And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?
And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper? 10) And he said, What
hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11) And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth
to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; 12) when thou tillest the
ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a
wanderer shalt thou be in the earth. 13) And Cain said unto Jehovah, My
punishment is greater than I can bear. 14) Behold, thou hast driven me
out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and
I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass,
that whosoever findeth me will slay me. 15) And Jehovah said unto him,
Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And
Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite him. 16)
And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on
the east of Eden. 17) And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare
Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of
his son, Enoch. 18) And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael:
and Mehujael begat Methushael; and Methushael begat Lamech. 19) And
Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of
the other Zillah. 20) And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as
dwell in tents and `have' cattle. 21) And his brother's name was Jubal:
he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe. 22) And
Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of
brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. 23) And Lamech
said unto his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken
unto my speech: For I have slain a man for wounding me, And a young man for
bruising me: 24) If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy
and sevenfold. 25) And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and
called his name Seth. For, `said she', God hath appointed me another seed
instead of Abel; for Cain slew him. 26) And to Seth, to him also there
was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then began men to call upon the
name of Jehovah.
1) This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God
created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2) male and female
created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when
they were created. 3) And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and
begat `a son' in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: 4)
and the days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat
sons and daughters. 5) And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred
and thirty years: and he died. 6) And Seth lived a hundred and five
years, and begat Enosh: 7) and Seth lived after he begat Enosh eight
hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: 8) and all the
days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. 9) And
Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Kenan. 10) and Enosh lived after he
begat Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: 11)
and all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years: and he died. 12)
And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel: 13) and Kenan lived
after he begat Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and
daughters: 14) and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years:
and he died. 15) And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat
Jared: 16) And Mahalalel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: 17) and all the days of
Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. 18) And
Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch: 19) and Jared
lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 20)
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. 21)
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 22) and Enoch
walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons
and daughters: 23) and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and
five years: 24) and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took
him. 25) And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat
Lamech: 26) and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred
eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters. 27) And all the days
of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. 28)
And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: 29) and
he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us in our work and in
the toil of our hands, `which cometh' because of the ground which Jehovah hath
cursed. 30) And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and
five years, and begat sons and daughters: 31) And all the days of Lamech
were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. 32) And Noah was
five hundred years old: And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
1) And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the
ground, and daughters were born unto them, 2) that the sons of God saw
the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that
they chose. 3) And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not strive with man for
ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty
years. 4) The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after
that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare
children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of
renown. 5) And Jehovah 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) And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7) And Jehovah said, I will
destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both man, and
beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I
have made them. 8) But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah. 9)
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, `and' perfect in
his generations: Noah walked with God. 10) And Noah begat three sons,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11) And the earth was corrupt before God, and the
earth was filled with violence. 12) And God saw the earth, and, behold,
it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. 13)
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is
filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the
earth. 14) Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the
ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15) And this is
how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth
of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16) A light shalt
thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door
of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third
stories shalt thou make it. 17) And I, behold, I do bring the flood of
waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life,
from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die. 18) But I
will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou,
and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. 19) And of
every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the
ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 20) Of
the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every
creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto
thee, to keep them alive. 21) And take thou unto thee of all food that is
eaten, and gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. 22)
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
1) And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark;
for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 2) Of every
clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, the male and his female;
and of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female: 3) of
the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed
alive upon the face of all the earth. 4) For yet seven days, and I will
cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living
thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground. 5)
And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him. 6) And Noah
was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7)
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into
the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8) Of clean beasts, and of
beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creepeth upon
the ground, 9) there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and
female, as God commanded Noah. 10) And it came to pass after the seven
days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11) In the six
hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of
the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened. 12) And the rain was upon the
earth forty days and forty nights. 13) In the selfsame day entered Noah,
and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three
wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14) they, and every beast
after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind,
every bird of every sort. 15) And they went in unto Noah into the ark,
two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. 16) And they that
went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and Jehovah
shut him in. 17) And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the
waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. 18)
And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went
upon the face of the waters. 19) And the waters prevailed exceedingly
upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were
covered. 20) Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the
mountains were covered. 21) And all flesh died that moved upon the earth,
both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth, and every man: 22) all in whose nostrils was the breath of the
spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died. 23) And every
living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and
cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed
from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark. 24)
And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
1) And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that
were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the
waters assuaged; 2) the fountains also of the deep and the windows of
heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3) and the
waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred
and fifty days the waters decreased. 4) And the ark rested in the seventh
month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5)
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month,
on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. 6)
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the
ark which he had made: 7) and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to
and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8) And he
sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face
of the ground; 9) but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot,
and she returned unto him to the ark; for the waters were on the face of the
whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto
him into the ark. 10) And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he
sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11) and the dove came in to him at
eventide; and, lo, in her mouth an olive-leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the
waters were abated from off the earth. 12) And he stayed yet other seven
days, and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more. 13)
And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the
first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah
removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground
was dried. 14) And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of
the month, was the earth dry. 15) And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16)
Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives
with thee. 17) Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee
of all flesh, both birds, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful,
and multiply upon the earth. 18) And Noah went forth, and his sons, and
his wife, and his sons' wives with him: 19) every beast, every creeping
thing, and every bird, whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after their families,
went forth out of the ark. 20) And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah,
and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered
burnt-offerings on the altar. 21) And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor;
and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for
man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;
neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done. 22)
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer
and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
1) And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2) And the fear of you and the
dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the
heavens; With all wherewith the ground teemeth, and all the fishes of the sea,
into your hand are they delivered. 3) Every moving thing that liveth
shall be food for you; As the green herb have I given you all. 4) But
flesh with the life thereof, `which is' the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 5)
And surely your blood, `the blood' of your lives, will I require; At the hand of
every beast will I require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every
man's brother, will I require the life of man. 6) Whoso sheddeth man's
blood, by man shall his blood be shed: For in the image of God made he man. 7)
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and
multiply therein. 8) And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him,
saying, 9) And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your
seed after you; 10) and with every living creature that is with you, the
birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you. Of all that go out of
the ark, even every beast of the earth. 11) And I will establish my
covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of
the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 12)
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you
and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13)
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between
me and the earth. 14) And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud
over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud, 15) and I will
remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of
all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16)
And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember
the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that
is upon the earth. 17) And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the
covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the
earth. 18) And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem,
and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19) These three
were the sons of Noah: and of these was the whole earth overspread. 20)
And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard: 21) and he
drank of the wine, and was drunken. And he was uncovered within his tent. 22)
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two
brethren without. 23) And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it
upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their
father. And their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's
nakedness. 24) And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest
son had done unto him. 25) And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of
servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26) And he said, Blessed be
Jehovah, the God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. 27) God enlarge
Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. 28)
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 29) And all
the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: And he died.
1) Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, `namely', of Shem,
Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. 2) The
sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech,
and Tiras. 3) And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
4) And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5)
Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after
his tongue, after their families, in their nations. 6) And the sons of
Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. 7) And the sons of Cush:
Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah:
Sheba, and Dedan. 8) And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one
in the earth. 9) He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah: wherefore it is
said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah. 10) And the beginning
of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of
Shinar. 11) Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and builded
Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah, 12) and Resen between Nineveh and
Calah (the same is the great city). 13) And Mizraim begat Ludim, and
Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 14) and Pathrusim, and Casluhim
(whence went forth the Philistines), and Caphtorim. 15) And Canaan begat
Sidon his first-born, and Heth, 16) and the Jebusite, and the Amorite,
and the Girgashite, 17) and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18)
and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the
families of the Canaanite spread abroad. 19) And the border of the
Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest
toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha. 20) These
are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands,
in their nations. 21) And unto Shem, the father of all the children of
Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born. 22)
The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram. 23)
And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. 24) And
Arpachshad begat Shelah; and Shelah begat Eber. 25) And unto Eber were
born two sons: The name of the one was Peleg. For in his days was the earth
divided. And his brother's name was Joktan. 26) And Joktan begat Almodad,
and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 27) and Hadoram, and Uzal, and
Diklah, 28) and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 29) and Ophir, and
Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan. 30) And their
dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. 31)
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their
lands, after their nations. 32) These are the families of the sons of
Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations
divided in the earth after the flood.
1) And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 2)
And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land
of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3) And they said one to another, Come,
let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and
slime had they for mortar. 4) And they said, Come, let us build us a
city, and a tower, whose top `may reach' unto heaven, and let us make us a name;
lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5) And
Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men
builded. 6) And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have
all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be
withholden from them, which they purpose to do. 7) Come, let us go down,
and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's
speech. 8) So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of
all the earth: and they left off building the city. 9) Therefore was the
name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all
the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all
the earth. 10) These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred
years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood. 11) and Shem
lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters. 12) And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat
Shelah. 13) and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and
three years, and begat sons and daughters. 14) And Shelah lived thirty
years, and begat Eber: 15) and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four
hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 16) And Eber lived
four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: 17) and Eber lived after he begat
Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. 18)
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: 19) and Peleg lived after he
begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. 20)
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: 21) and Reu lived
after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. 22)
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: 23) and Serug lived after
he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 24) And
Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: 25) and Nahor lived
after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
26) And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27)
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And
Haran begat Lot. 28) And Haran died before his father Terah in the land
of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29) And Abram and Nahor took them
wives: The name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah,
the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 30)
And Sarai was barren; She had no child. 31) And Terah took Abram his son,
and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son
Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into
the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. 32) And
the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
1) Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy
kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee: 2)
and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make they
name great; and be thou a blessing; 3) and I will bless them that bless
thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families
of the earth be blessed. 4) So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken unto
him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he
departed out of Haran. 5) And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his
brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls
that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of
Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. 6) And Abram passed
through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh. And the
Canaanite was then in the land. 7) And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and
said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto
Jehovah, who appeared unto him. 8) And he removed from thence unto the
mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the
west, and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and called
upon the name of Jehovah. 9) And Abram journeyed, going on still toward
the South. 10) And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down
into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land. 11) And
it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto
Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: 12)
and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say,
This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. 13)
Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake,
and that my soul may live because of thee. 14) And it came to pass, that,
when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very
fair. 15) And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh:
and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16) And he dealt well with
Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants,
and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels. 17) And Jehovah plagued
Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 18)
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me?
why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 19) why saidst thou,
She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold thy
wife, take her, and go thy way. 20) And Pharaoh gave men charge
concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he
had.
1) And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had,
and Lot with him, into the South. 2) And Abram was very rich in cattle,
in silver, and in gold. 3) And he went on his journeys from the South
even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning,
between Beth-el and Ai, 4) unto the place of the altar, which he had made
there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of Jehovah. 5) And
Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 6) And
the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their
substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. 7) And there
was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's
cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land. 8)
And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and
thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen; for we are brethren. 9)
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. If
`thou wilt take' the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if `thou take'
the right hand, then I will go to the left. 10) And Lot lifted up his
eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every
where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah,
like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar. 11) So Lot chose him all
the Plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves
the one from the other. 12) Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot
dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. 13)
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Jehovah exceedingly. 14)
And Jehovah said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now
thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and
eastward and westward: 15) for all the land which thou seest, to thee
will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16) And I will make thy seed as
the dust of the earth: So that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then
may thy seed also be numbered. 17) Arise, walk through the land in the
length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it. 18)
And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in
Hebron, and built there an altar unto Jehovah.
1) And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch
king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, 2)
that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah,
Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the
same is Zoar). 3) All these joined together in the vale of Siddim (the
same is the Salt Sea). 4) Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in
the thirteenth year they rebelled. 5) And in the fourteenth year came
Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in
Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, 6)
and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness. 7)
And they returned, and came to En-mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and smote all
the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in
Hazazon-tamar. 8) And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of
Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela
(the same is Zoar); and they set the battle in array against them in the vale of
Siddim; 9) against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the
five. 10) Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of
Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the
mountain. 11) And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all
their victuals, and went their way. 12) And they took Lot, Abram's
brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. 13) And
there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew: now he dwelt by the
oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these
were confederate with Abram. 14) And when Abram heard that his brother
was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three
hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. 15) And he divided
himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued
them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 16) And he
brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his
goods, and the women also, and the people. 17) And the king of Sodom went
out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the
kings that were with him, at the vale of Shaveh (the same is the King's Vale). 18)
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of
God Most High. 19) And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God
Most High, possessor of heaven and earth: 20) and blessed be God Most
High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of
all. 21) And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and
take the goods to thyself. 22) And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I
have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and
earth, 23) that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught
that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: 24) save
only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men that went
with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.
1) After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision,
saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, `and' thy exceeding great reward. 2)
And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless,
and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? 3) And
Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house
is mine heir. 4) And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying,
This man shall not be thine heir; But he that shall come forth out of thine own
bowels shall be thine heir. 5) And he brought him forth abroad, and said,
Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them:
and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6) And he believed in
Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness. 7) And he said unto
him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this
land to inherit it. 8) And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know
that I shall inherit it? 9) And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three
years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a
turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. 10) And he took him all these, and
divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the
birds divided he not. 11) And the birds of prey came down upon the
carcasses, and Abram drove them away. 12) And when the sun was going
down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell
upon him. 13) And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed
shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they
shall afflict them four hundred years; 14) and also that nation, whom
they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great
substance. 15) But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
buried in a good old age. 16) And in the fourth generation they shall
come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full. 17)
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a
smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces. 18)
In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I
given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river
Euphrates: 19) the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 20)
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21) and the Amorite,
and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
1) Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid,
an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2) And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold
now, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my
handmaid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to
the voice of Sarai. 3) And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian,
her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave
her to Abram her husband to be his wife. 4) And he went in unto Hagar,
and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was
despised in her eyes. 5) And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon
thee: I gave my handmaid into they bosom; and when she saw that she had
conceived, I was despised in her eyes: Jehovah judge between me and thee. 6)
But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which
is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hardly with her, and she fled from her
face. 7) And the angel of Jehovah found her by a fountain of water in the
wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 8) And he said, Hagar,
Sarai's handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I am
fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai. 9) And the angel of Jehovah
said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. 10)
And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that
it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11) And the angel of Jehovah said
unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call
his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath heard thy affliction. 12) And he
shall be `as' a wild ass among men; his hand `shall be' against every man, and
every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren. 13)
And she called the name of Jehovah that spake unto her, Thou art a God that
seeth: for she said, Have I even here looked after him that seeth me? 14)
Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and
Bered. 15) And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called the name of his
son, whom Hagar bare, Ishmael. 16) And Abram was fourscore and six years
old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
1) And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to
Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou
perfect. 2) And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will
multiply thee exceedingly. 3) And Abram fell on his face: and God talked
with him, saying, 4) As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and
thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations. 5) Neither shall thy
name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for the father of
a multitude of nations have I made thee. 6) And I will make thee
exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of
thee. 7) And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy
seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be
a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. 8) And I will give unto thee,
and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan,
for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. 9) And God said
unto Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed
after thee throughout their generations. 10) This is my covenant, which
ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you
shall be circumcised. 11) And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of
your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt me and you. 12)
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male
throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money
of any foreigner that is not of thy seed. 13) He that is born in thy
house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my
covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14) And the
uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that
soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. 15)
And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name
Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. 16) And I will bless her, and
moreover I will give thee a son of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be
`a mother of' nations; kings of peoples shall be of her. 17) Then Abraham
fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born
unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old,
bear? 18) And Abraham said unto God, Oh that Ishmael might live before
thee! 19) And God said, Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son;
and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him
for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him. 20) And as for
Ishmael, I have heard thee: behold, I have blessed him, and will make him
fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and
I will make him a great nation. 21) But my covenant will I establish with
Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. 22)
And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. 23) And
Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that
were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and
circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said
unto him. 24) And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25) And Ishmael his son was
thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26)
In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. 27) And
all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money
of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
1) And Jehovah appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the
tent door in the heat of the day; 2) and he lifted up his eyes and
looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him: and when he saw them, he ran
to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, 3) and
said, My lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray
thee, from thy servant: 4) let now a little water be fetched, and wash
your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: 5) and I will fetch a
morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart; after that ye shall pass on:
forasmuch as ye are come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast
said. 6) And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make
ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes. 7)
And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it
unto the servant; and he hasted to dress it. 8) And he took butter, and
milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by
them under the tree, and they did eat. 9) And they said unto him, Where
is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. 10) And he said, I
will certainly return unto thee when the season cometh round; and, lo, Sarah thy
wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. 11)
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, `and' well stricken in age; it had ceased to be
with Sarah after the manner of women. 12) And Sarah laughed within
herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old
also? 13) And Jehovah said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh,
saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, who am old? 14) Is anything too
hard for Jehovah? At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season
cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son. 15) Then Sarah denied, saying,
I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. 16)
And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with
them to bring them on the way. 17) And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from
Abraham that which I do; 18) seeing that Abraham had surely become a
great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in
him? 19) For I have known him, to the end that he may command his
children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to
do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham
that which he hath spoken of him. 20) And Jehovah said, Because the cry
of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 21)
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the
cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. 22) And the
men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before
Jehovah. 23) And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the
righteous with the wicked? 24) Peradventure there are fifty righteous
within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty
righteous that are therein? 25) That be far from thee to do after this
manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be
as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do
right? 26) And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within
the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake. 27) And Abraham
answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who
am but dust and ashes: 28) peradventure there shall lack five of the
fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I
will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five. 29) And he spake
unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And
he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake. 30) And he said, Oh let
not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: peradventure there shall thirty be
found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. 31)
And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord:
peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy
it for the twenty's sake. 32) And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry,
and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And
he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake. 33) And Jehovah went
his way, as soon as he had left off communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned
unto his place.
1) And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of
Sodom: and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his
face to the earth; 2) and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I
pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet,
and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, Nay; but we will
abide in the street all night. 3) And he urged them greatly; and they
turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and
did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. 4) But before they lay down,
the men of the city, `even' the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both
young and old, all the people from every quarter; 5) and they called unto
Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men that came in to thee this night? bring
them out unto us, that we may know them. 6) And Lot went out unto them to
the door, and shut the door after him. 7) And he said, I pray you, my
brethren, do not so wickedly. 8) Behold now, I have two daughters that
have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to
them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing, forasmuch as they
are come under the shadow of my roof. 9) And they said, Stand back. And
they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now
will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the
man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door. 10) But the men put forth
their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. 11)
And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both
small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door. 12)
And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons,
and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of the
place: 13) for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is
waxed great before Jehovah: and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it. 14)
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and
said, Up, get you out of this place; for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he
seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that mocked. 15) And when the morning
arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two
daughters that are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 16)
But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his
wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful unto him;
and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 17) And it came
to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy
life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the
mountain, lest thou be consumed. 18) And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so,
my lord: 19) behold now, thy servant hath found favor in thy sight, and
thou hast magnified thy lovingkindness, which thou hast showed unto me in saving
my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die: 20)
behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one. Oh let me
escape thither (is it not a little one?), and my soul shall live. 21) And
he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I
will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken. 22) Haste thee,
escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore
the name of the city was called Zoar. 23) The sun was risen upon the
earth when Lot came unto Zoar. 24) Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and
upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven; 25) and he
overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the
cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 26) But his wife looked back
from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 27) And Abraham gat up
early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Jehovah: 28)
and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain,
and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. 29)
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God
remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he
overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt. 30) And Lot went up out of Zoar,
and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to
dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31) And
the first-born said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man
in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: 32)
come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may
preserve seed of our father. 33) And they made their father drink wine
that night: and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he knew not
when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34) And it came to pass on the
morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight
with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and
lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 35) And they made
their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with
him; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 36) Thus were
both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 37) And the
first-born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the
Moabites unto this day. 38) And the younger, she also bare a son, and
called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto
this day.
1) And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and
dwelt between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar. 2) And Abraham
said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and
took Sarah. 3) But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and
said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou
hast taken. For she is a man's wife. 4) Now Abimelech had not come near
her. And he said, Lord, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation? 5) Said
he not himself unto me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is
my brother. In the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I
done this. 6) And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I know that in the
integrity of thy heart thou has done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning
against me. Therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. 7) Now therefore
restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and
thou shalt live. And if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely
die, thou, and all that are thine. 8) And Abimelech rose early in the
morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear.
And the men were sore afraid. 9) Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said
unto him, What hast thou done unto us? And wherein have I sinned against thee,
that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? Thou hast done deeds
unto me that ought not to be done. 10) And Abimelech said unto Abraham,
What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? 11) And Abraham said,
Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place. And they will
slay me for my wife's sake. 12) And moreover she is indeed my sister, the
daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my
wife: 13) and it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my
father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt show
unto me. At every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. 14)
And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants, and gave
them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. 15) And Abimelech
said, Behold, my land is before thee. Dwell where it pleaseth thee. 16)
And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of
silver. Behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all that are with thee.
And in respect of all thou art righted. 17) And Abraham prayed unto God.
And God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants. And they bare
children. 18) For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house
of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
1) And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah
as he had spoken. 2) And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his
old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3) And Abraham
called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him,
Isaac. 4) And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days
old, as God had commanded him. 5) And Abraham was a hundred years old,
when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6) And Sarah said, God hath made me
to laugh. Every one that heareth will laugh with me. 7) And she said, Who
would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children suck? For I have
borne him a son in his old age. 8) And the child grew, and was weaned.
And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 9) And
Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham,
mocking. 10) Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and
her son. For the son of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son, even with
Isaac. 11) And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account
of his son. 12) And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy
sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid. In all that Sarah saith
unto thee, hearken unto her voice. For in Isaac shall thy seed be called. 13)
And also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy
seed. 14) And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a
bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and `gave
her' the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the
wilderness of Beer-sheba. 15) And the water in the bottle was spent, and
she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16) And she went, and sat her
down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot. For she said, Let me
not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted
up her voice, and wept. 17) And God heard the voice of the lad. And the
angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee,
Hagar? Fear not. For God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. 18)
Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand. For I will make him a great
nation. 19) And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she
went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. 20) And
God was with the lad, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness, and became,
as he grew up, an archer. 21) And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran.
And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. 22) And it came
to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spake
unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest. 23) Now
therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor
with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have
done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast
sojourned. 24) And Abraham said, I will swear. 25) And Abraham
reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had
violently taken away. 26) And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done
this thing. Neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day. 27)
And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech. And they two made
a covenant. 28) And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by
themselves. 29) And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven
ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? 30) And he said, These seven
ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I
have digged this well. 31) Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba.
Because there they sware both of them. 32) So they made a covenant at
Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they
returned into the land of the Philistines. 33) And `Abraham' planted a
tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the
Everlasting God. 34) And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines
many days.
1) And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham,
and said unto him, Abraham. And he said, Here am I. 2) And he said, Take
now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the
land of Moriah. And offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the
mountains which I will tell thee of. 3) And Abraham rose early in the
morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac
his son. And he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and went
unto the place of which God had told him. 4) On the third day Abraham
lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. 5) And Abraham said unto
his young men, Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder; and
we will worship, and come again to you. 6) And Abraham took the wood of
the burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the
fire and the knife. And they went both of them together. 7) And Isaac
spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father. And he said, Here am I, my
son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood. But where is the lamb for a
burnt-offering? 8) And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb
for a burnt-offering, my son. So they went both of them together. 9) And
they came to the place which God had told him of. And Abraham built the altar
there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the
altar, upon the wood. 10) And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took
the knife to slay his son. 11) And the angel of Jehovah called unto him
out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here I am. 12)
And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him.
For now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son,
thine only son, from me. 13) And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked,
and behold, behind `him' a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham
went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of
his son. 14) And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh. As
it is said to this day, In the mount of Jehovah it shall be provided. 15)
And the angel of Jehovah called unto Abraham a second time out of heaven, 16)
and said, By myself have I sworn, saith Jehovah, because thou hast done this
thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, 17) that in
blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the
stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore. And thy seed
shall possess the gate of his enemies. 18) And in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed. Because thou hast obeyed my voice. 19)
So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to
Beer-sheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba. 20) And it came to pass
after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also
hath borne children unto they brother Nahor. 21) Uz his first-born, and
Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram. 22) And Chesed, and Hazo,
and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. 23) And Bethuel begat Rebekah.
These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother. 24) And his
concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bare Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash,
and Maacah.
1) And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years. These
were the years of the life of Sarah. 2) And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba
(the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for
Sarah, and to weep for her. 3) And Abraham rose up from before his dead,
and spake unto the children of Heth, saying, 4) I am a stranger and a
sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may
bury my dead out of my sight. 5) And the children of Heth answered
Abraham, saying unto him, 6) Hear us, my lord. Thou art a prince of God
among us. In the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead. None of us shall
withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. 7)
And Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the
children of Heth. 8) And he communed 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, 9) that he may give me the cave of Machpelah,
which he hath, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give
it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place. 10) Now
Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite
answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went
in at the gate of his city, saying, 11) Nay, my lord, hear me. The field
give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee. In the presence of
the children of my people give I it thee. Bury thy dead. 12) And Abraham
bowed himself down before the people of the land. 13) And he spake unto
Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt, I
pray thee, hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it of me, and I
will bury my dead there. 14) And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto
him, 15) My lord, hearken unto me. A piece of land worth four hundred
shekels of silver, what is that betwixt me and thee? Bury therefore thy dead. 16)
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver
which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels
of silver, current `money' with the merchant. 17) So the field of Ephron,
which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which
was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the
border thereof round about, were made sure 18) unto Abraham for a
possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at
the gate of his city. 19) And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife
in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the
land of Canaan. 20) And the field, and the cave that is therein, were
made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the children of
Heth.
1) And Abraham was old, `and' well stricken in age. And Jehovah had
blessed Abraham in all things. 2) And Abraham said unto his servant, the
elder of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand
under my thigh. 3) And I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of
heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of
the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell. 4) But thou shalt go
unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac. 5)
And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to
follow me unto this land. Must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from
whence thou camest? 6) And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou
bring not my son thither again. 7) Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took
me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spake unto
me, and who sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land. He will
send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence. 8)
And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from
this my oath. Only thou shalt not bring my son thither again. 9) And the
servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him
concerning this matter. 10) And the servant took ten camels, of the
camels of his master, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in
his hand. And he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. 11)
And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at
the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water. 12) And he
said, O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray thee, good speed
this day, and show kindness unto my master Abraham. 13) Behold, I am
standing by the fountain of water. And the daughters of the men of the city are
coming out to draw water. 14) And let it come to pass, that the damsel to
whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink. And she
shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. Let the same be she
that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac. And thereby shall I know that
thou hast showed kindness unto my master. 15) And it came to pass, before
he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel
the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon
her shoulder. 16) And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin,
neither had any man known her. And she went down to the fountain, and filled her
pitcher, and came up. 17) And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give
me to drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher. 18) And she
said, Drink, my lord. And she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand,
and gave him drink. 19) And when she had done giving him drink, she said,
I will draw for thy camels also, until they have done drinking. 20) And
she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well
to draw, and drew for all his camels. 21) And the man looked stedfastly
on her, holding his peace, to know whether Jehovah had made his journey
prosperous or not. 22) And it came to pass, as the camels had done
drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two
bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, 23) and said,
Whose daughter art thou? Tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy father's
house for us to lodge in? 24) And she said unto him, I am the daughter of
Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bare unto Nahor. 25) She said
moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge
in. 26) And the man bowed his head, and worshipped Jehovah. 27)
And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not
forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Jehovah
hath led me in the way to the house of my master's brethren. 28) And the
damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words. 29) And
Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man,
unto the fountain. 30) And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the
bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his
sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me. That he came unto the man. And,
behold, he was standing by the camels at the fountain. 31) And he said,
Come in, thou blessed of Jehovah. Wherefore standest thou without? For I have
prepared the house, and room for the camels. 32) And the man came into
the house, and he ungirded the camels. And he gave straw and provender for the
camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men that were with him. 33)
And there was set food before him to eat. But he said, I will not eat, until I
have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on. 34) And he said, I am
Abraham's servant. 35) And Jehovah hath blessed my master greatly. And he
is become great. And he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold,
and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and asses. 36) And Sarah
my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old. And unto him hath he
given all that he hath. 37) And my master made me swear, saying, Thou
shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose
land I dwell. 38) But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my
kindred, and take a wife for my son. 39) And I said unto my master,
Peradventure the woman will not follow me. 40) And he said unto me,
Jehovah, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way.
And thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house. 41)
Then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kindred. And if
they give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath. 42) And I
came this day unto the fountain, and said, O Jehovah, the God of my master
Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go. 43) Behold, I am
standing by the fountain of water. And let it come to pass, that the maiden that
cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water
from thy pitcher to drink. 44) And she shall say to me, Both drink thou,
and I will also draw for thy camels. Let the same be the woman whom Jehovah hath
appointed for my master's son. 45) And before I had done speaking in my
heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went
down unto the fountain, and drew. And I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray
thee. 46) And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder,
and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. So I drank, and she made
the camels drink also. 47) And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art
thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto
him. And I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands. 48)
And I bowed my head, and worshipped Jehovah, and blessed Jehovah, the God of my
master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's
daughter for his son. 49) And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with
my master, tell me. And if not, tell me. That I may turn to the right hand, or
to the left. 50) Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing
proceedeth from Jehovah. We cannot speak unto thee bad or good. 51)
Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's
son's wife, as Jehovah hath spoken. 52) And it came to pass, that, when
Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth unto
Jehovah. 53) And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels
of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah. He gave also to her brother and
to her mother precious things. 54) And they did eat and drink, he and the
men that were with him, and tarried all night. And they rose up in the morning,
and he said, Send me away unto my master. 55) And her brother and her
mother said, Let the damsel abide with us `a few' days, at the least ten. After
that she shall go. 56) And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing
Jehovah hath prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master. 57)
And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth. 58) And
they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she
said, I will go. 59) And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her
nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men. 60) And they blessed Rebekah,
and said unto her, Our sister, be thou `the mother' of thousands of ten
thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them. 61)
And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed
the man. And the servant took Rebekah, and went his way. 62) And Isaac
came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi. For he dwelt in the land of the South. 63)
And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide. And he lifted up
his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming. 64) And Rebekah
lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel. 65)
And she said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to
meet us? And the servant said, It is my master. And she took her veil, and
covered herself. 66) And the servant told Isaac all the things that he
had done. 67) And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and
took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And he loved her. And Isaac was comforted
after his mother's death.
1) And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. 2) And
she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. 3)
And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and
Letushim, and Leummim. 4) And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and
Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 5)
And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. 6) But unto the sons of the
concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. And he sent them away from
Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country. 7)
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred
threescore and fifteen years. 8) And Abraham gave up the ghost, and died
in a good old age, an old man, and full `of years', and was gathered to his
people. 9) And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of
Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before
Mamre. 10) The field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth.
There was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. 11) And it came to pass
after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt by
Beer-lahai-roi. 12) Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's
son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham. 13)
And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to
their generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, and Adbeel,
and Mibsam, 14) and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, 15) Hadad, and
Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. 16) These are the sons of Ishmael, and
these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments. Twelve
princes according to their nations. 17) And these are the years of the
life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years. And he gave up the ghost
and died, and was gathered unto his people. 18) And they dwelt from
Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria. He abode
over against all his brethren. 19) And these are the generations of
Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begat Isaac. 20) And Isaac 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. 21) And Isaac entreated
Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren. And Jehovah was entreated of him,
and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22) And the children struggled together
within her. And she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to
inquire of Jehovah. 23) And Jehovah said unto her, Two nations are in thy
womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels. And the one people
shall be stronger than the other people. And the elder shall serve the younger. 24)
And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in
her womb. 25) And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy
garment. And they called his name Esau. 26) And after that came forth his
brother, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. And his name was called Jacob.
And Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them. 27) And the boys
grew. And Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field. And Jacob was a quiet
man, dwelling in tents. 28) Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of
his venison. And Rebekah loved Jacob. 29) And Jacob boiled pottage. And
Esau came in from the field, and he was faint. 30) And Esau said to
Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red `pottage'. For I am faint.
Therefore was his name called Edom. 31) And Jacob said, Sell me first thy
birthright. 32) And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die. And what profit
shall the birthright do to me? 33) And Jacob said, Swear to me first. And
he sware unto him. And he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 34) And Jacob
gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. And he did eat and drink, and rose up,
and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
1) And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was
in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines,
unto Gerar. 2) And Jehovah appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into
Egypt. Dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. 3) Sojourn in this
land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee. For unto thee, and unto thy
seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware
unto Abraham thy father. 4) And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of
heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands. And in thy seed shall all
the nations of the earth be blessed. 5) Because that Abraham obeyed my
voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. 6)
And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. 7) And the men of the place asked him of his
wife. And he said, She is my sister. For he feared to say, My wife. Lest, `said
he', the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah. Because she was fair to
look upon. 8) And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time,
that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and,
behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. 9) And Abimelech called
Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife. And how saidst thou, She
is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die because of
her. 10) And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? One of
the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought
guiltiness upon us. 11) And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He
that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. 12) And
Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold. And Jehovah
blessed him. 13) And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he
became very great. 14) And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions
of herds, and a great household. And the Philistines envied him. 15) Now
all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his
father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. 16) And
Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us. For thou art much mightier than we. 17)
And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18) And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in
the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the
death of Abraham. And he called their names after the names by which his father
had called them. 19) And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found
there a well of springing water. 20) And the herdsmen of Gerar strove
with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the
well Esek, because they contended with him. 21) And they digged another
well, and they strove for that also. And he called the name of it Sitnah. 22)
And he removed from thence, and digged another well. And for that they strove
not. And he called the name of it Rehoboth. And he said, For now Jehovah hath
made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. 23) And he went
up from thence to Beer-sheba. 24) And Jehovah appeared unto him the same
night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father. Fear not, for I am with
thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. 25)
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of Jehovah, and pitched
his tent there. And there Isaac's servants digged a well. 26) Then
Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the
captain of his host. 27) And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come
unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? 28) And they
said, We saw plainly that Jehovah was with thee. And we said, Let there now be
an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with
thee, 29) that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and
as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace.
Thou art now the blessed of Jehovah. 30) And he made them a feast, and
they did eat and drink. 31) And they rose up betimes in the morning, and
sware one to another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in
peace. 32) And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came,
and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We
have found water. 33) And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the
city is Beer-sheba unto this day. 34) And when Esau was forty years old
he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the
daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35) And they were a grief of mind unto
Isaac and to Rebekah.
1) And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim,
so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said unto him, My
son. And he said unto him, Here am I. 2) And he said, Behold now, I am
old, I know not the day of my death. 3) Now therefore take, I pray thee,
thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me
venison. 4) And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me,
that I may eat. That my soul may bless thee before I die. 5) And Rebekah
heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for
venison, and to bring it. 6) And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son,
saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, 7)
Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless thee before
Jehovah before my death. 8) Now therefore, my son, obey my voice
according to that which I command thee. 9) Go now to the flock, and fetch
me from thence two good kids of the goats. And I will make them savory food for
thy father, such as he loveth. 10) And thou shalt bring it to thy father,
that he may eat, so that he may bless thee before his death. 11) And
Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I
am a smooth man. 12) My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall
seem to him as a deceiver. And I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a
blessing. 13) And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son.
Only obey my voice, and go fetch me them. 14) And he went, and fetched,
and brought them to his mother. And his mother made savory food, such as his
father loved. 15) And Rebekah took the goodly garments of Esau her elder
son, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son. 16)
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the
smooth of his neck. 17) And she gave the savory food and the bread, which
she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. 18) And he came unto
his father, and said, My father. And he said, Here am I. Who art thou, my son? 19)
And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according
as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul
may bless me. 20) And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast
found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah thy God sent me good
speed. 21) And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may
feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. 22) And Jacob
went near unto Isaac his father. And he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's
voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. 23) And he discerned him not,
because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him. 24)
And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. 25) And he
said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may
bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat. And he brought him
wine, and he drank. 26) And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near
now, and kiss me, my son. 27) And he came near, and kissed him. And he
smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of
my son Is as the smell of a field which Jehovah hath blessed. 28) And God
give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of
grain and new wine. 29) Let peoples serve thee, And nations bow down to
thee. Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee.
Cursed be every one that curseth thee, And blessed be every one that blesseth
thee. 30) And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of
blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his
father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 31) And he also
made savory food, and brought it unto his father. And he said unto his father,
Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. 32)
And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy
first-born, Esau. 33) And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who
then is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all
before thou camest, and have blessed him? Yea, `and' he shall be blessed. 34)
When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and
bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. 35)
And he said, Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing. 36)
And he said, Is not he rightly name Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two
time. He took away my birthright. And, behold, now he hath taken away my
blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? 37) And
Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his
brethren have I given to him for servants. And with grain and new wine have I
sustained him. And what then shall I do for thee, my son? 38) And Esau
said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me
also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. 39) And Isaac
his father answered and said unto him, Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall
be thy dwelling, And of the dew of heaven from above. 40) And by thy
sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother. And it shall come to
pass, when thou shalt break loose, That thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy
neck. 41) And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his
father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my
father are at hand. Then will I slay my brother Jacob. 42) And the words
of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called Jacob her
younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth
comfort himself, `purposing' to kill thee. 43) Now therefore, my son,
obey my voice. And arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran. 44) And
tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away. 45) Until
thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done
to him. Then I will send, and fetch thee from thence. Why should I be bereaved
of you both in one day? 46) And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my
life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of
Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do
me?
1) And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said
unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2)
Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father. And take
thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. 3)
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that
thou mayest be a company of peoples. 4) And give thee the blessing of
Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee. That thou mayest inherit the land
of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham. 5) And Isaac sent away
Jacob. And he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the
brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. 6) Now Esau saw that Isaac
had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take him a wife from
thence. And that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not
take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 7) And that Jacob obeyed his
father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram. 8) And Esau saw that
the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father. 9) And Esau went
unto 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. 10) And
Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. 11) And he lighted
upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set. And
he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down
in that place to sleep. 12) And he dreamed. And behold, a ladder set up
on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God
ascending and descending on it. 13) And, behold, Jehovah stood above it,
and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The
land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. 14) And
thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the
west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in thee and in
thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15) And, behold,
I am with thee, and will keep thee, whithersoever thou goest, and will bring
thee again into this land. For I will not leave thee, until I have done that
which I have spoken to thee of. 16) And Jacob awaked out of his sleep,
and he said, Surely Jehovah is in this place. And I knew it not. 17) And
he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! This is none other than the
house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. 18) And Jacob rose up early
in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up
for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19) And he called the
name of that place Beth-el. But the name of the city was Luz at the first. 20)
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this
way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21)
so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Jehovah will be my God, 22)
then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of
all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
1) Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children
of the east. 2) And he looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, lo,
three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the
flocks. And the stone upon the well's mouth was great. 3) And thither
were all the flocks gathered. And they rolled the stone from the well's mouth,
and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its
place. 4) And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they
said, Of Haran are we. 5) And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of
Nahor? And they said, We know him. 6) And he said unto them, Is it well
with him? And they said, It is well. And, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh
with the sheep. 7) And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it
time that the cattle should be gathered together. Water ye the sheep, and go and
feed them. 8) And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered
together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the
sheep. 9) While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep. For she kept them. 10) And it came to pass, when Jacob
saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban
his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's
mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. 11) And Jacob
kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. 12) And Jacob told
Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. And she
ran and told her father. 13) And it came to pass, when Laban heard the
tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him,
and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these
things. 14) And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh.
And he abode with him the space of a month. 15) And Laban said unto
Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought?
Tell me, what shall thy wages be? 16) And Laban had two daughters. The
name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17)
And Leah's eyes were tender. But Rachel was beautiful and well favored. 18)
And Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel
thy younger daughter. 19) And Laban said, It is better that I give her to
thee, than that I should give her to another man. Abide with me. 20) And
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed unto him but a few days,
for the love he had to her. 21) And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my
wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. 22) And Laban
gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. 23) And it
came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to
him. And he went in unto her. 24) And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid unto
his daughter Leah for a handmaid. 25) And it came to pass in the morning
that, behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done
unto me? Did not I serve with thee for Rachel? Wherefore then hast thou beguiled
me? 26) And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the
younger before the first-born. 27) Fulfil the week of this one, and we
will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet
seven other years. 28) And jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. And he
gave him Rachel his daughter to wife. 29) And Laban gave to Rachel his
daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid. 30) And he went in also
unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet
seven other years. 31) And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened
her womb. But Rachel was barren. 32) And Leah conceived, and bare a son,
and she called his name Reuben. For she said, Because Jehovah hath looked upon
my affliction. For now my husband will love me. 33) And she conceived
again, and bare a son: and said, Because Jehovah hath heard that I am hated, he
hath therefore given me this `son' also. And she called his name Simeon. 34)
And she conceived again, and bare a son. And said, Now this time will my husband
be joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore was his name
called Levi. 35) And she conceived again, and bare a son. And she said,
This time will I praise Jehovah. Therefore she called his name Judah. And she
left off bearing.
1) And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her
sister; and she said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2) And
Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who
hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 3) And she said, Behold,
my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may
obtain children by her. 4) And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife:
and Jacob went in unto her. 5) And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a
son. 6) And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my
voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. 7) And
Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. 8)
And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have
prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. 9) When Leah saw that she
had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to
wife. 10) And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bare Jacob a son. 11) And
Leah said, Fortunate! and she called his name Gad. 12) And Zilpah Leah's
handmaid bare Jacob a second son. 13) And Leah said, Happy am I! for the
daughters will call me happy: and she called his name Asher. 14) And
Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and
brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray
thee, of thy son's mandrakes. 15) And she said unto her, Is it a small
matter that thou hast taken away my husband? and wouldest thou take away my
son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night
for thy son's mandrakes. 16) And Jacob came from the field in the
evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for
I have surely hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that
night. 17) And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob
a fifth son. 18) And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I gave
my handmaid to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. 19) And Leah
conceived again, and bare a sixth son to Jacob. 20) And Leah said, God
hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I
have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun. 21) And
afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah. 22) And God
remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. 23) And
she conceived, and bare a son: and said, God hath taken away my reproach: 24)
and she called his name Joseph, saying, Jehovah add to me another son. 25)
And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban,
Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. 26)
Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for
thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee. 27) And Laban said
unto him, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, `tarry': `for' I have divined
that Jehovah hath blessed me for thy sake. 28) And he said, Appoint me
thy wages, and I will give it. 29) And he said unto him, Thou knowest how
I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me. 30) For it was
little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude;
and Jehovah hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I
provide for mine own house also? 31) And he said, What shall I give thee?
And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thing for me,
I will again feed thy flock and keep it. 32) I will pass through all thy
flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every
black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and `of
such' shall be my hire. 33) So shall my righteousness answer for me
hereafter, when thou shalt come concerning my hire that is before thee: every
one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep,
that `if found' with me, shall be counted stolen. 34) And Laban said,
Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. 35) And he removed
that day the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she-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; 36)
and he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest
of Laban's flocks. 37) And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of
the almond and of the plane-tree. And peeled white streaks in them, and made the
white appear which was in the rods. 38) And he set the rods which he had
peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the
flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink. 39) And
the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked,
speckled, and spotted. 40) And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the
faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of
Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock. 41)
And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that
Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might
conceive among the rods; 42) but when the flock were feeble, he put them
not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. 43) And
the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and
men-servants, and camels and asses.
1) And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away
all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all
this glory. 2) And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it
was not toward him as beforetime. 3) And Jehovah said unto Jacob, Return
unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 4)
And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5)
and said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as
beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me. 6) And ye know
that will all my power I have served your father. 7) And your father hath
deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt
me. 8) If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the
flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages;
then bare all the flock ringstreaked. 9) Thus God hath taken away the
cattle of your father, and given them to me. 10) And it came to pass at
the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a
dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked,
speckled, and grizzled. 11) And the angel of God said unto me in the
dream, Jacob: and I said, Here am I. 12) And he said, Lift up now thine
eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked,
speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. 13)
I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst a pillar, where thou vowedst a
vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of
thy nativity. 14) And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is
there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? 15)
Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also
quite devoured our money. 16) For all the riches which God hath taken
away from our father, that is ours and our children's: now then, whatsoever God
hath said unto thee, do. 17) Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his
wives upon the camels; 18) and he carried away all his cattle, and all
his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had
gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan. 19)
Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were
her father's. 20) And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in
that he told him not that he fled. 21) So he fled with all that he had;
and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain
of Gilead. 22) And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was
fled. 23) And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven
days' journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. 24) And God
came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said unto him, Take heed
to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 25) And Laban
came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and Laban
with his brethren encamped in the mountain of Gilead. 26) And Laban said
to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and
carried away my daughters as captives of the sword? 27) Wherefore didst
thou flee secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might
have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp; 28)
and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done
foolishly. 29) It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God
of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou
speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 30) And now, `though' thou
wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house,
`yet' wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? 31) And Jacob answered and said
to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Lest thou shouldest take thy
daughters from me by force. 32) With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he
shall not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take
it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. 33) And Laban
went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two
maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah's tent, and
entered into Rachel's tent. 34) Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and
put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the
tent, but found them not. 35) And she said to her father, Let not my lord
be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me.
And he searched, but found not the teraphim. 36) And Jacob was wroth, and
chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass?
what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me? 37) Whereas thou
hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff?
Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us
two. 38) These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy
she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not
eaten. 39) That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare
the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or
stolen by night. 40) Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and
the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. 41) These twenty
years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two
daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast changed my wages ten
times. 42) Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear
of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath
seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight. 43)
And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the
children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest
is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their
children whom they have borne? 44) And now come, let us make a covenant,
I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. 45) And
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46) And Jacob said unto
his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap: and they did
eat there by the heap. 47) And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but
Jacob called it Galeed. 48) And Laban said, This heap is witness between
me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed: 49) and
Mizpah, for he said, Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we are absent one
from another. 50) If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt
take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt
me and thee. 51) And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold
the pillar, which I have set betwixt me and thee. 52) This heap be
witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee,
and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. 53)
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt
us. And Jacob sware by the Fear of his father Isaac. 54) And Jacob
offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread: and
they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain. 55) And early
in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed
them: and Laban departed and returned unto his place.
1) And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2)
And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's host: and he called the name of
that place Mahanaim. 3) And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his
brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom. 4) And he commanded
them, saying, Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob,
I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now: 5) and I have oxen,
and asses, `and' flocks, and men-servants, and maid-servants: and I have sent to
tell my lord, that I may find favor in thy sight. 6) And the messengers
returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh
to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. 7) Then Jacob was greatly
afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the
flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies; 8) and he
said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is
left shall escape. 9) And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God
of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and
to thy kindred, and I will do thee good: 10) I am not worthy of the least
of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto
thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become
two companies. 11) Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother,
from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother
with the children. 12) And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and
make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. 13)
And he lodged there that night, and took of that which he had with him a present
for Esau his brother: 14) two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two
hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15) thirty milch camels and their colts,
forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals. 16) And he
delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said
unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
17) And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth
thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose
are these before thee? 18) then thou shalt say `They are' thy servant
Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, he also is behind
us. 19) And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that
followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye
find him; 20) and ye shall say, Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob is
behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before
me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me. 21)
So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the
company. 22) And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his
two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok. 23)
And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he
had. 24) And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him
until the breaking of the day. 25) And when he saw that he prevailed not
against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh
was strained, as he wrestled with him. 26) And he said, Let me go, for
the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27)
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28) And he
said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for thou hast striven
with God and with men, and hast prevailed. 29) And Jacob asked him, and
said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou
dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. 30) And Jacob called
the name of the place Peniel: for, `said he', I have seen God face to face, and
my life is preserved. 31) And the sun rose upon him as he passed over
Penuel, and he limped upon his thigh. 32) Therefore the children of
Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto
this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the
hip.
1) And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was
coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah,
and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. 2) And he put the handmaids
and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and
Joseph hindermost. 3) And he himself passed over before them, and bowed
himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 4)
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed
him: and they wept. 5) And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and
the children; and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children whom
God hath graciously given thy servant. 6) Then the handmaids came near,
they and their children, and they bowed themselves. 7) And Leah also and
her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and
Rachel, and they bowed themselves. 8) And he said, What meanest thou by
all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my
lord. 9) And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let that which thou
hast be thine. 10) And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found
favor in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen
thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. 11)
Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt
graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
12) And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go
before thee. 13) And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children
are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young: and if they
overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. 14) Let my lord, I pray
thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the
pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children,
until I come unto my lord unto Seir. 15) And Esau said, Let me now leave
with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let
me find favor in the sight of my lord. 16) So Esau returned that day on
his way unto Seir. 17) And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a
house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called
Succoth. 18) And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in
the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city.
19) And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at
the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of
money. 20) And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-israel.
1) And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob, went out to
see the daughters of the land. 2) And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite,
the prince of the land, saw her; And he took her, and lay with her, and humbled
her. 3) And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved
the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. 4) And Shechem spake unto
his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. 5) Now Jacob heard
that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the
field: and Jacob held his peace until they came. 6) And Hamor the father
of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. 7) And the sons of
Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and
they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with
Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 8) And Hamor communed
with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray
you, give her unto him to wife. 9) And make ye marriages with us; give
your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you. 10) And ye shall
dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and
get you possessions therein. 11) And Shechem said unto her father and
unto her brethren, Let me find favor in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me
I will give. 12) Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give
according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife. 13)
And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and
spake, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, 14) and said unto them,
We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for
that were a reproach unto us. 15) Only on this condition will we consent
unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; 16)
then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us,
and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 17) But if ye
will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and
we will be gone. 18) And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's
son. 19) And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had
delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was honored above all the house of his
father. 20) And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their
city, and communed with the men of their city, saying, 21) These men are
peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for,
behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for
wives, and let us give them our daughters. 22) Only on this condition
will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every
male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised. 23) Shall not
their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us
consent unto them, and they will dwell with us. 24) And unto Hamor and
unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and
every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. 25)
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons
of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came
upon the city unawares, and slew all the males. 26) And they slew Hamor
and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's
house, and went forth. 27) The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and
plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28) They took
their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city,
and that which was in the field; 29) and all their wealth, and all their
little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a prey, even all that
was in the house. 30) And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled
me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and
the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together
against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. 31)
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?
1) And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and
make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the
face of Esau thy brother. 2) Then Jacob said unto his household, and to
all that were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify
yourselves, and change your garments: 3) and let us arise, and go up to
Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of
my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. 4) And they gave
unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which
were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. 5)
And they journeyed: and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round
about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. 6) So Jacob
came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and all
the people that were with him. 7) And he built there an altar, and called
the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from
the face of his brother. 8) And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was
buried below Beth-el under the oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth. 9)
And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed
him. 10) And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be
called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name
Israel. 11) And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and
multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall
come out of thy loins; 12) and the land which I gave unto Abraham and
Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. 13)
And God went up from him in the place where he spake with him. 14) And
Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spake with him, a pillar of stone:
and he poured out a drink-offering thereon, and poured oil thereon. 15)
And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el. 16)
And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some distance to come to
Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. 17) And it came to
pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; for
now thou shalt have another son. 18) And it came to pass, as her soul was
departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father
called him Benjamin. 19) And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to
Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem). 20) And Jacob set up a pillar upon her
grave: the same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. 21) And
Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 22) And
it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with
Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob
were twelve: 23) The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and
Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun; 24) the sons of
Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; 25) and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's
handmaid: Dan and Naphtali; 26) and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid:
Gad and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-aram.
27) And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the
same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. 28) And the days of
Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years. 29) And Isaac gave up the
ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days: and
Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
1) Now these are the generations of Esau (the same is Edom). 2)
Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the
Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
3) and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth. 4) And
Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bare Reuel; 5) and Oholibamah
bare Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, that were born
unto him in the land of Canaan. 6) And Esau took his wives, and his sons,
and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his
beasts, and all his possessions, which he had gather in the land of Canaan; and
went into a land away from his brother Jacob. 7) For their substance was
too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could
not bear them because of their cattle. 8) And Esau dwelt in mount Seir:
Esau is Edom. 9) And these are the generations of Esau the father of the
Edomites in mount Seir: 10) these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz
the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau. 11)
And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. 12)
And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek:
these are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. 13) And these are the sons of
Reuel: Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Basemath,
Esau's wife. 14) And these were the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of
Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jalam,
and Korah. 15) These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of
Eliphaz the first-born of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief
Kenaz, 16) chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs
that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. 17)
And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief
Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs that came of Reuel in the land of
Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. 18) And these are the
sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these
are the chiefs that came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. 19)
These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs: the same is Edom. 20)
These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and
Shobal and Zibeon and Anah, 21) and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan: these are
the chiefs that came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom. 22)
And the children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. And Lotan's sister was Timna. 23)
And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, Shepho and
Onam. 24) And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; this is
Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon
his father. 25) And these are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah
the daughter of Anah. 26) And these are the children of Dishon: Hemdan
and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran. 27) These are the children of Ezer:
Bilhan and Zaavan and Akan. 28) These are the children of Dishan: Uz and
Aran. 29) These are the chiefs that came of the Horites: chief Lotan,
chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, 30) chief Dishon, chief Ezer,
chief Dishan: these are the chiefs that came of the Horites, according to their
chiefs in the land of Seir. 31) And these are the kings that reigned in
the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel. 32)
And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
33) And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his
stead. 34) And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites
reigned in his stead. 35) And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad,
who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his
city was Avith. 36) And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his
stead. 37) And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in
his stead. 38) And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned
in his stead. 39) And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar
reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was
Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab. 40) And
these are the names of the chiefs that came of Esau, according to their
families, after their places, by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief
Jetheth, 41) chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, 42) chief
Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, 43) chief Magdiel, chief Iram: these
are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their
possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
1) And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land
of Canaan. 2) These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen
years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he was a lad with the
sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph
brought the evil report of them unto their father. 3) Now Israel loved
Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he
made him a coat of many colors. 4) And his brethren saw that their father
loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak
peaceably unto him. 5) And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his
brethren: and they hated him yet the more. 6) And he said unto them,
Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: 7) for, behold, we
were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood
upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and made obeisance to my
sheaf. 8) And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us?
Or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for
his dreams, and for his words. 9) And he dreamed yet another dream, and
told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream: and,
behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me. 10)
And he told it to his father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him,
and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy
mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? 11)
And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind. 12)
And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. 13) And
Israel said unto Joseph, Are not thy brethren feeding the flock in Shechem?
Come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I. 14)
And he said to him, Go now, see whether it is well with thy brethren, and well
with the flock; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of
Hebron, and he came to Shechem. 15) And a certain man found him, and,
behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What
seekest thou? 16) And he said, I am seeking my brethren: tell me, I pray
thee, where they are feeding `the flock'. 17) And the man said, They are
departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after
his brethren, and found them in Dothan. 18) And they saw him afar off,
and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. 19)
And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. 20) Come now
therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will
say, And evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his
dreams. 21) And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and
said, Let us not take his life. 22) And Reuben said unto them, Shed no
blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon
him: that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. 23)
And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped
Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him; 24) and they
took him, and cast him into the pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water
in it. 25) And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes
and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with
their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to
Egypt. 26) And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay
our brother and conceal his blood? 27) Come, and let us sell him to the
Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh.
And his brethren hearkened unto him. 28) And there passed by Midianites,
merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph
to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into
Egypt. 29) And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not
in the pit; and he rent his clothes. 30) And he returned unto his
brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go? 31) And
they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood;
32) and they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their
father, and said, This have we found: know now whether it is thy son's coat or
not. 33) And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat: an evil beast
hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces. 34) And Jacob
rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son
many days. 35) And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort
him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to
my son mourning. And his father wept for him. 36) And the Midianites sold
him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
1) And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his
brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 2)
And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. And
he took her, and went in unto her. 3) And she conceived, and bare a son;
and he called his name Er. 4) And she conceived again, and bare a son;
and she called his name Onan. 5) And she yet again bare a son, and called
his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him. 6) And Judah
took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar. 7) And Er,
Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah. And Jehovah slew him. 8)
And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and perform the duty of
a husband's brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother. 9) And
Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in
unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give
seed to his brother. 10) And the thing which he did was evil in the sight
of Jehovah: and he slew him also. 11) Then said Judah to Tamar his
daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be
grown up; for he said, Lest he also die, like his brethren. And Tamar went and
dwelt in her father's house. 12) And in process of time Shua's daughter,
the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers
to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 13) And it was told
Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep. 14)
And she put off from her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with
her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way
to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she was not given unto him
to wife. 15) When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she
had covered her face. 16) And he turned unto her by the way, and said,
Come, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee: for he knew not that she was his
daughter-in-law. And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in
unto me? 17) And he said, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the
flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it? 18)
And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet and thy
cord, and thy staff that is in thy hand. And he gave them to her, and came in
unto her, and she conceived by him. 19) And she arose, and went away, and
put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. 20)
And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to
receive the pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not. 21) Then
he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the prostitute, that was at
Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There hath been no prostitute here. 22)
And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and also the men of
the place said, There hath been no prostitute here. 23) And Judah said,
Let her take it to her, lest we be put to shame: behold, I sent this kid, and
thou hast not found her. 24) And it came to pass about three months
after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the
harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said,
Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. 25) When she was brought forth,
she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with
child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and the
cords, and the staff. 26) And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She is
more righteous than I; forasmuch as I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew
her again no more. 27) And it came to pass in the time of her travail,
that, behold, twins were in her womb. 28) And it came to pass, when she
travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand
a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. 29) And it came to pass,
as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said,
Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself? Therefore his name was called
Perez. 30) And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet
thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zerah.
1) And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of
Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the
Ishmaelites, that had brought him down thither. 2) And Jehovah was with
Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the
Egyptian. 3) And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and that
Jehovah made all that he did to prosper in his hand. 4) And Joseph found
favor in his sight, and he ministered unto him: and he made him overseer over
his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. 5) And it came to
pass from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he
had, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the
blessing of Jehovah was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field. 6)
And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not aught `that was'
with him, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was comely, and
well-favored. 7) And it came to pass after these things, that his
master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. 8)
But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master knoweth not
what is with me in the house, and he hath put all that he hath into my hand: 9)
he is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from
me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness,
and sin against God? 10) And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day
by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, `or' to be with her. 11)
And it came to pass about this time, that he went into the house to do his work;
and there was none of the men of the house there within. 12) And she
caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her
hand, and fled, and got him out. 13) And it came to pass, when she saw
that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth, 14) that
she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath
brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us: he came in unto me to lie with me, and I
cried with a loud voice: 15) and it came to pass, when he heard that I
lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled, and got
him out. 16) And she laid up his garment by her, until his master came
home. 17) And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The
Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me: 18)
and it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment
by me, and fled out. 19) And it came to pass, when his master heard the
words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy
servant to me; that his wrath was kindled. 20) And Joseph's master took
him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were
bound: and he was there in the prison. 21) But Jehovah was with Joseph,
and showed kindness unto him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of
the prison. 22) And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand
all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was
the doer of it. 23) The keeper of the prison looked not to anything that
was under his hand, because Jehovah was with him; and that which he did, Jehovah
made it prosper.
1) And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of
Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt. 2) And Pharaoh
was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and
against the chief of the bakers. 3) And he put them in ward in the house
of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. 4)
And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he ministered unto
them: and they continued a season in ward. 5) And they dreamed a dream
both of them, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the
interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who
were bound in the prison. 6) And Joseph came in unto them in the morning,
and saw them, and, behold, they were sad. 7) And he asked Pharaoh's
officers that were with him in ward in his master's house, saying, Wherefore
look ye so sad to-day? 8) And they said unto him, We have dreamed a
dream, and there is none that can interpret it. And Joseph said unto them, Do
not interpretations belong to God? tell it me, I pray you. 9) And the
chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a
vine was before me; 10) and in the vine were three branches: and it was
as though it budded, `and' its blossoms shot forth; `and' the clusters thereof
brought forth ripe grapes: 11) and Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I
took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into
Pharaoh's hand. 12) And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation
of it: the three branches are three days; 13) within yet three days shall
Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee unto thine office: and thou shalt
give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his
butler. 14) But have me in thy remembrance when it shall be well with
thee, and show kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto
Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: 15) for indeed I was stolen away
out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they
should put me into the dungeon. 16) When the chief baker saw that the
interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and,
behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head: 17) and in the
uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh; and the
birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head. 18) And Joseph
answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are
three days; 19) within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from
off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from
off thee. 20) And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's
birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head
of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants. 21)
And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup
into Pharaoh's hand: 22) but he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had
interpreted to them. 23) Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph,
but forgat him.
1) And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh
dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. 2) And, behold, there came
up out of the river seven kine, well-favored and fat-fleshed; and they fed in
the reed-grass. 3) And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out
of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and stood by the other kine upon the
brink of the river. 4) And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed kine did eat
up the seven well-favored and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. 5) And he slept
and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of grain came up upon one
stalk, rank and good. 6) And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with
the east wind, sprung up after them. 7) And the thin ears swallowed up
the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. 8)
And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and
called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh
told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. 9)
Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this
day: 10) Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the
house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker: 11) and we
dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the
interpretation of his dream. 12) And there was with us there a young man,
a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he
interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did
interpret. 13) And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was;
me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged. 14) Then Pharaoh sent
and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he
shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. 15)
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can
interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou
canst interpret it. 16) And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in
me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace. 17) And Pharaoh spake unto
Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river: 18)
and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and
well-favored: and they fed in the reed-grass: 19) and, behold, seven
other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such
as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: 20) and the lean and
ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: 21) and when they
had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were
still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke. 22) And I saw in my
dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good: 23)
and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, `and' blasted with the east wind,
sprung up after them: 24) and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good
ears: and I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it
to me. 25) And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one:
what God is about to do he hath declared unto Pharaoh. 26) The seven good
kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
27) And the seven lean and ill-favored kine that came up after them are
seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they
shall be seven years of famine. 28) That is the thing which I spake unto
Pharaoh: what God is about to do he hath showed unto Pharaoh. 29) Behold,
there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: 30)
and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall
be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; 31)
and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which
followeth; for it shall be very grievous. 32) And for that the dream was
doubled unto Pharaoh, it is because the thing is established by God, and God
will shortly bring it to pass. 33) Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a
man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34) Let
Pharaoh do `this', and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the
fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. 35) And let
them gather 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 them keep it. 36) And
the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine,
which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the
famine. 37) And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the
eyes of all his servants. 38) And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we
find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is? 39) And
Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all of this, there
is none so discreet and wise as thou: 40) thou shalt be over my house,
and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne
will I be greater than thou. 41) And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I
have set thee over all the land of Egypt. 42) And Pharaoh took off his
signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in
vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; 43) and he
made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him,
Bow the knee: and he set him over all the land of Egypt. 44) And Pharaoh
said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand
or his foot in all the land of Egypt. 45) And Pharaoh called Joseph's
name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath, the daughter of
Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. 46)
And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And
Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land
of Egypt. 47) And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by
handfuls. 48) And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which
were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the
field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. 49) And
Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off
numbering; for it was without number. 50) And unto Joseph were born two
sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera
priest of On, bare unto him. 51) And Joseph called the name of the
first-born Manasseh: For, `said he', God hath made me forget all my toil, and
all my father's house. 52) And the name of the second called he Ephraim:
For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction. 53) And the
seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end. 54)
And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said: and
there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 55)
And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for
bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to
you, do. 56) And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and
Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine
was sore in the land of Egypt. 57) And all countries came into Egypt to
Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth.
1) Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his
sons, Why do ye look one upon another? 2) And he said, Behold, I have
heard that there is grain in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from
thence; that we may live, and not die. 3) And Joseph's ten brethren went
down to buy grain from Egypt. 4) But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob
sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest Peradventure harm befall him. 5)
And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in
the land of Canaan. 6) And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it
was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brethren came, and
bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth. 7) And Joseph
saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and
spake roughly with them; and he said unto them. Whence come ye? And they said,
From the land of Canaan to buy food. 8) And Joseph knew his brethren, but
they knew not him. 9) And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed
of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye
are come. 10) And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are
thy servants come. 11) We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy
servants are no spies. 12) And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the
nakedness of the land ye are come. 13) And they said, We thy servants are
twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the
youngest is this day with our father, and one is not. 14) And Joseph said
unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies: 15)
hereby ye shall be proved: by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence,
except your youngest brother come hither. 16) Send one of you, and let
him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved,
whether there be truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are
spies. 17) And he put them all together into ward three days. 18)
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live: for I fear God: 19)
if ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but
go ye, carry grain for the famine of your houses: 20) and bring your
youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die.
And they did so. 21) And they said one to another, We are verily guilty
concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he
besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. 22)
And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin
against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is
required. 23) And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there
was an interpreter between them. 24) And he turned himself about from
them, and wept; and he returned to them, and spake to them, and took Simeon from
among them, and bound him before their eyes. 25) Then Joseph commanded to
fill their vessels with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack,
and to give them provisions for the way: and thus was it done unto them. 26)
And they laded their asses with their grain, and departed thence. 27) And
as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging-place,
he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. 28)
And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my
sack: and their heart failed them, and they turned trembling one to another,
saying, What is this that God hath done unto us? 29) And they came unto
Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that had befallen
them, saying, 30) The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly with us,
and took us for spies of the country. 31) And we said unto him, We are
true men; and we are no spies: 32) we are twelve brethren, sons of our
father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of
Canaan. 33) And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us, Hereby shall
I know that ye are true men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take `grain
for' the famine of your houses, and go your way; 34) and bring your
youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye
are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the
land. 35) And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold,
every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when they and their father saw
their bundles of money, they were afraid. 36) And Jacob their father said
unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not,
and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me. 37) And
Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to
thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. 38)
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he
only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring
down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
1) And the famine was sore in the land. 2) And it came to pass,
when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their
father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. 3) And Judah spake
unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see
my face, except your brother be with you. 4) If thou wilt send our
brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: 5) but if thou wilt
not send him, we will not go down; for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my
face, except your brother be with you. 6) And Israel said, Wherefore
dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? 7)
And they said, The man asked straitly concerning ourselves, and concerning our
kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye `another' brother? and we
told him according to the tenor of these words: could we in any wise know that
he would say, Bring your brother down? 8) And Judah said unto Israel his
father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and
not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones. 9) I will be surety
for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and
set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever: 10) for except
we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time. 11) And their
father Israel said unto them, If it be so now, do this: take of the choice
fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little
balm, and a little honey, spicery and myrrh, nuts, and almonds; 12) and
take double money in your hand; and the money that was returned in the mouth of
your sacks carry again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight: 13)
take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: 14) and God
Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto you your other
brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. 15)
And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and
Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. 16)
And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house,
Bring the men into the house, and slay, and make ready; for the men shall dine
with me at noon. 17) And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought
the men to Joseph's house. 18) And the 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 are we brought in; that he may seek occasion
against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses. 19)
And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spake unto him at
the door of the house, 20) and said, Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at
the first time to buy food: 21) and it came to pass, when we came to the
lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in
the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in
our hand. 22) And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy
food: we know not who put our money in our sacks. 23) And he said, Peace
be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you
treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them. 24)
And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they
washed their feet. And he gave their asses provender. 25) And they made
ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon: for they heard that they
should eat bread there. 26) And when Joseph came home, they brought him
the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down themselves to
him to the earth. 27) And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is
your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive? 28) And
they said, Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive. And they bowed the
head, and made obeisance. 29) And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin
his brother, his mother's son, and said, Is this your youngest brother, of whom
ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. 30) And
Joseph made haste; for his heart yearned over his brother: and he sought where
to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there. 31) And he
washed his face, and came out; and he refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.
32) And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and
for the Egyptians, that did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians
might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the
Egyptians. 33) And they sat before him, the first-born according to his
birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one
with another. 34) And he took `and sent' messes unto them from before
him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they
drank, and were merry with him.
1) And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's
sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his
sack's mouth. 2) And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of
the youngest, and his grain money. And he did according to the word that Joseph
had spoken. 3) As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away,
they and their asses. 4) `And' when they were gone out of the city, and
were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men;
and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil
for good? 5) Is not this that in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he
indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing. 6) And he overtook them,
and he spake unto them these words. 7) And they said unto him, Wherefore
speaketh my lord such words as these? Far be it from thy servants that they
should do such a thing. 8) Behold, the money, which we found in our
sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then
should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold? 9) With
whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my
lord's bondmen. 10) And he said, Now also let it be according unto your
words: he with whom it is found shall be my bondman; and ye shall be blameless. 11)
Then they hasted, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened
every man his sack. 12) And he searched, `and' began at the eldest, and
left off at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. 13)
Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the
city. 14) And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; and he was
yet there: and they fell before him on the ground. 15) And Joseph said
unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I
can indeed divine? 16) And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord?
what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the
iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's bondmen, both we, and he also
in whose hand the cup is found. 17) And he said, Far be it from me that I
should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my bondman;
but as for you, get you up in peace unto your father. 18) Then Judah came
near unto him, and said, Oh, my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word
in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou
art even as Pharaoh. 19) My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a
father, or a brother? 20) And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an
old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and
he alone is left of his mother; and his father loveth him. 21) And thou
saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon
him. 22) And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for
if he should leave his father, his father would die. 23) And thou saidst
unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see
my face no more. 24) And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant
my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25) And our father said, Go
again, buy us a little food. 26) And we said, We cannot go down: if our
youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's
face, expect our youngest brother be with us. 27) And thy servant my
father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons: 28) and the
one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not
seen him since: 29) and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall
him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. 30) Now
therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us;
seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life; 31) it will come to
pass, when he seeth that the lad is not `with us', that he will die: and thy
servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to
Sheol. 32) For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father,
saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father
for ever. 33) Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead
of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. 34)
For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the
evil that shall come on my father.
1) Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood
before him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no
man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 2) And
he wept aloud: and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. 3)
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his
brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. 4)
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came
near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. 5)
And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for
God did send me before you to preserve life. 6) For these two years hath
the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall
be neither plowing nor harvest. 7) And God sent me before you to preserve
you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. 8)
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father
to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 9)
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph,
God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not; 10) and
thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou,
and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds,
and all that thou hast: 11) and there will I nourish thee; for there are
yet five years of famine; lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household,
and all that thou hast. 12) And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of
my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. 13) And
ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen:
and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither. 14) And he fell upon
his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. 15)
And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren
talked with him. 16) And the report thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house,
saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his
servants. 17) And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This
do ye: lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; 18) and
take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the
good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. 19) Now
thou art commanded, this do ye: take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for
your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20)
Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. 21)
And the sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the
commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. 22) To all
of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three
hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. 23) And to his
father he sent after this manner: ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt,
and ten she-asses laden with grain and bread and provision for his father by the
way. 24) So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said
unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. 25) And they went up out
of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father. 26)
And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the
land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he believed them not. 27) And
they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he
saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their
father revived: 28) and Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet
alive: I will go and see him before I die.
1) And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba,
and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. 2) And God spake
unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said,
Here am I. 3) And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to
go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: 4) I
will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again:
and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. 5) And Jacob rose up from
Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little
ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6)
And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land
of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: 7) his
sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons's daughters, and
all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. 8) And these are the names
of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben,
Jacob's first-born. 9) And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and
Hezron, and Carmi. 10) And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and
Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. 11)
And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12) And the sons of
Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in
the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13) And
the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Iob, and Shimron. 14) And the
sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. 15) These are the sons of
Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the
souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three. 16) And the
sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 17)
And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their
sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel. 18) These are the
sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bare unto
Jacob, even sixteen souls. 19) The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph
and Benjamin. 20) And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh
and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bare unto
him. 21) And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera,
and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. 22) These are the
sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. 23)
And the sons of Dan: Hushim. 24) And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and
Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 25) These are the sons of Bilhah, whom
Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob: all the
souls were seven. 26) All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, that
came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were
threescore and six; 27) and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in
Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, that came into
Egypt, were threescore and ten. 28) And he sent Judah before him unto
Joseph, to show the way before him unto Goshen; and they came into the land of
Goshen. 29) And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel
his father, to Goshen; and he presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck,
and wept on his neck a good while. 30) And Israel said unto Joseph, Now
let me die, since I have seen thy face, that thou art yet alive. 31) And
Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and
tell Pharaoh, and will say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, who
were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; 32) and the men are
shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their
flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. 33) And it shall come to
pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? 34)
that ye shall say, Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even
until now, both we, and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen;
for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
1) Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my
brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come
out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. 2)
And from among his brethren he took five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3)
And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto
Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers. 4) And
they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no
pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan:
now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. 5)
And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto
thee: 6) the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make
thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and
if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. 7)
And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob
blessed Pharaoh. 8) And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of
the years of thy life? 9) And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the
years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been
the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of
the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 10)
And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 11)
And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the
land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had
commanded. 12) And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all
his father's household, with bread, according to their families. 13) And
there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the
land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 14)
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in
the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the
money into Pharaoh's house. 15) And when the money was all spent in the
land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph,
and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for `our' money
faileth. 16) And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for
your cattle, if money fail. 17) And they brought their cattle unto
Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the
flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread in
exchange for all their cattle for that year. 18) And when that year was
ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide
from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my
lord's; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our
lands: 19) wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our
land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto
Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be
not desolate. 20) So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for
the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them:
and the land became Pharaoh's. 21) And as for the people, he removed them
to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
22) Only the land of the priests bought he not: for the priests had a
portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them;
wherefore they sold not their land. 23) Then Joseph said unto the people,
Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed
for you, and ye shall sow the land. 24) And it shall come to pass at the
ingatherings, that ye shall give a fifth unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be
your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your
households, and for food for your little ones. 25) And they said, Thou
hast saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be
Pharaoh's servants. 26) And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land
of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the
priests alone became not Pharaoh's. 27) And Israel dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they gat them possessions therein, and were
fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. 28) And Jacob lived in the land of
Egypt seventeen years: so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a
hundred forty and seven years. 29) And the time drew near that Israel
must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found
favor in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly
and truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt; 30) but when I
sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their
burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 31) And he said,
Swear unto me: and he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's
head.
1) And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph,
Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and
Ephraim. 2) And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh
unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3) And
Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of
Canaan, and blessed me, 4) and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee
fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples, and
will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. 5)
And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came
unto thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon,
shall be mine. 6) And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be
thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their
inheritance. 7) And as 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
unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).
8) And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these? 9)
And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me here.
And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. 10)
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he
brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 11)
And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God
hath let me see thy seed also. 12) And Joseph brought them out from
between his knees; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 13)
And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand,
and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near
unto him. 14) And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon
Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head,
guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born. 15) And he
blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did
walk, the God who hath fed me all my life long unto this day, 16) the
angel who hath 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; and let them grow
into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 17) And when Joseph saw that
his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and
he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's
head. 18) And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is
the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head. 19) And his father
refused, and said, I know `it', my son, I know `it'. He also shall become a
people, and he also shall be great: howbeit his younger brother shall be greater
than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. 20) And he
blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee
as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21) And
Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God will be with you, and bring you
again unto the land of your fathers. 22) Moreover I have given to thee
one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with
my sword and with my bow.
1) And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: gather yourselves together,
that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter days. 2)
Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; And hearken unto Israel your
father. 3) Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of
my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power. 4)
Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou
wentest up to thy father's bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. 5)
Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords. 6) O
my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not
thou united; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they
hocked an ox. 7) Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their
wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in
Israel. 8) Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise: Thy hand shall be on
the neck of thine enemies; Thy father's sons shall bow down before thee. 9)
Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped
down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? 10)
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his
feet, Until Shiloh come: And unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be. 11)
Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass's colt unto the choice vine; He hath
washed his garments in wine, And his vesture in the blood of grapes: 12)
His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with milk. 13)
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; And he shall be for a haven of
ships; And his border shall be upon Sidon. 14) Issachar is a strong ass,
Couching down between the sheepfolds: 15) And he saw a resting-place that
it was good, And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to
bear, And became a servant under taskwork. 16) Dan shall judge his
people, As one of the tribes of Israel. 17) Dan shall be a serpent in the
way, An adder in the path, That biteth the horse's heels, So that his rider
falleth backward. 18) I have waited for thy salvation, O Jehovah. 19)
Gad, a troop shall press upon him; But he shall press upon their heel. 20)
Out of the Asher his bread shall be fat, And he shall yield royal dainties. 21)
Naphtali is a hind let loose: He giveth goodly words. 22) Joseph is a
fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the wall. 23)
The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and persecute him: 24)
But his bow abode in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong, By
the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (From thence is the shepherd, the stone of
Israel), 25) Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, And by
the Almighty, who shall bless thee, With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of
the deep that coucheth beneath, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. 26)
The blessings of thy father Have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors
Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: They shall be on the head of
Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
27) Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth: In the morning she shall devour the
prey, And at even he shall divide the spoil. 28) All these are the twelve
tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them and blessed
them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 29) And he
charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me
with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30)
in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the
land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for
a possession of a burying-place. 31) there they buried Abraham and Sarah
his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah:
32) the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the
children of Heth. 33) And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he
gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered
unto his people.
1) And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed
him. 2) And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his
father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3) And forty days were
fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians
wept for him three-score and ten days. 4) And when the days of weeping
for him were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have
found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5)
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for
me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up,
I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 6) And Pharaoh
said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. 7) And
Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of
Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8)
and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only
their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of
Goshen. 9) And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it
was a very great company. 10) And they came to the threshing-floor of
Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and
sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 11)
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the
floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians:
wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 12)
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: 13) for his
sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the
field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a
burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14) And Joseph
returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury
his father, after he had buried his father. 15) And when Joseph's
brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will
hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him. 16)
And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he
died, saying, 17) So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now,
the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee
evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the
God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him. 18) And his
brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we are
thy servants. 19) And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the
place of God? 20) And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant
it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 21)
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he
comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. 22) And Joseph dwelt in
Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. 23)
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of
Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees. 24) And Joseph
said unto his brethren, I die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up
out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob. 25) And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God
will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 26) So
Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he
was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus
1) Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt
(every man and his household came with Jacob): 2) Reuben, Simeon, Levi,
and Judah, 3) Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4) Dan and
Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5) And all the souls that came out of the loins
of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already. 6) And
Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 7) And the
children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and
waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. 8) Now there
arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 9) And he said unto his
people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than
we: 10) come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it
come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves
unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land. 11)
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.
And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12) But the
more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread
abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13) And
the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: 14) and
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, wherein they made them
serve with rigor. 15) And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives,
of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16)
and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see
them upon the birth-stool; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be
a daughter, then she shall live. 17) But the midwives feared God, and did
not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive. 18)
And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye
done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive? 19) And the
midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian
women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them. 20)
And God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very
mighty. 21) And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he
made them households. 22) And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying,
Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall
save alive.
1) And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter
of Levi. 2) And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him
that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3) And when she
could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it
with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the
flags by the river's brink. 4) And his sister stood afar off, to know
what would be done to him. 5) And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to
bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw
the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it. 6) And she
opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion
on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. 7) Then said his
sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew
women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 8) And Pharaoh's daughter
said to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child's mother. 9)
And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me,
and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. 10)
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became
her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the
water. 11) And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up,
that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an
Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12) And he looked this
way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian,
and hid him in the sand. 13) And he went out the second day, and, behold,
two men of the Hebrews were striving together: and he said to him that did the
wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? 14) And he said, Who made thee
a prince and a judge over us? Thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the
Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known. 15) Now
when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the
face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well. 16)
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and
filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17) And the shepherds
came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their
flock. 18) And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it
that ye are come so soon to-day? 19) And they said, An Egyptian delivered
us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and
watered the flock. 20) And he said unto his daughters, And where is he?
Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread. 21)
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his
daughter. 22) And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he
said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land. 23) And it came to pass
in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children
of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up
unto God by reason of the bondage. 24) And God heard their groaning, and
God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25)
And God saw the children of Israel, and God took knowledge `of them'.
1) Now 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 the mountain of God, unto Horeb. 2) And the angel of Jehovah appeared
unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and,
behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3) And
Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not
burnt. 4) And when Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, God called
unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here
am I. 5) And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off
thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. 6) Moreover
he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. 7)
And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in
Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their
sorrows; 8) and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large,
unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and
the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite. 9) And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come
unto me: moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress
them. 10) Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that
thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. 11)
And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I
should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12) And he said,
Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the token unto thee, that I
have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall
serve God upon this mountain. 13) And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I
come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your
fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What
shall I say unto them? 14) And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and
he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto
you. 15) And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name
forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. 16) Go, and gather
the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Jehovah, the God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me,
saying, I have surely visited you, and `seen' that which is done to you in
Egypt: 17) and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of
Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the
Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and
honey. 18) And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou
and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him,
Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with us: and now let us go, we pray
thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah
our God. 19) And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you leave to
go, no, not by a mighty hand. 20) And I will put forth my hand, and smite
Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that
he will let you go. 21) And I will give this people favor in the sight of
the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go
empty. 22) But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her that
sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and
ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall despoil
the Egyptians.
1) And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me,
nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say, Jehovah hath not appeared unto
thee. 2) And Jehovah said unto him, What is that in thy hand? And he
said, A rod. 3) And he said, Cast in on the ground. And he cast it on the
ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 4) And
Jehovah said unto Moses, Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail: (and he
put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand:) 5)
That they may believe that Jehovah, the God of their fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee. 6)
And Jehovah said furthermore unto him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he
put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was
leprous, as `white as' snow. 7) And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom
again. (And he put his hand into his bosom again; and when he took it out of his
bosom, behold, it was turned again as his `other' flesh.) 8) And it shall
come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the
first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. 9) And
it shall come to pass, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither
hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour
it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall
become blood upon the dry land. 10) And Moses said unto Jehovah, Oh,
Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy
servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. 11) And Jehovah
said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? Or who maketh `a man' dumb, or deaf,
or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah? 12) Now therefore go, and I
will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak. 13) And he
said, Oh, Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. 14)
And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is there not
Aaron thy brother the Levite? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold,
he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his
heart. 15) And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth:
and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye
shall do. 16) And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and it shall
come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be to him as God.
17) And thou shalt take in thy hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the
signs. 18) And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and
said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren that are in
Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
19) And Jehovah said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all
the men are dead that sought thy life. 20) And Moses took his wife and
his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and
Moses took the rod of God in his hand. 21) And Jehovah said unto Moses,
When thou goest back into Egypt, see that thou do before Pharaoh all the wonders
which I have put in thy hand: but I will harden his heart and he will not let
the people go. 22) And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah,
Israel is my son, my first-born: 23) and I have said unto thee, Let my
son go, that he may serve me; and thou hast refused to let him go: behold, I
will slay thy son, thy first-born. 24) And it came to pass on the way at
the lodging-place, that Jehovah met him, and sought to kill him. 25) Then
Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his
feet; and she said, Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me. 26) So
he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood `art thou', because of
the circumcision. 27) And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness
to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him. 28)
And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah wherewith he had sent him, and all
the signs wherewith he had charged him. 29) And Moses and Aaron went and
gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel: 30) and Aaron
spake all the words which Jehovah had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in
the sight of the people. 31) And the people believed: and when they heard
that Jehovah had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their
affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
1) And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said unto Pharaoh, Thus saith
Jehovah, the God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me
in the wilderness. 2) And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should
hearken unto his voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will
not let Israel go. 3) And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with
us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, and
sacrifice unto Jehovah our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with
the sword. 4) And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye,
Moses and Aaron, loose the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. 5)
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many, and ye make them
rest from their burdens. 6) And the same day Pharaoh commanded the
taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, 7) Ye shall no
more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather
straw for themselves. 8) And the number of the bricks, which they did
make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof:
for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our
God. 9) Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labor
therein; and let them not regard lying words. 10) And the taskmasters of
the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying,
Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. 11) Go yourselves, get you
straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished. 12)
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather
stubble for straw. 13) And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil
your works, `your' daily tasks, as when there was straw. 14) And the
officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over
them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task both
yesterday and to-day, in making brick as heretofore? 15) Then the
officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying,
Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? 16) There is no straw
given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy
servants are beaten; but the fault it in thine own people. 17) But he
said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to
Jehovah. 18) Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be
given you, yet shall ye deliver the number of bricks. 19) And the
officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, when it
was said, Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks, `your' daily tasks. 20)
And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from
Pharaoh: 21) and they said unto them, Jehovah look upon you, and judge:
because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the
eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us. 22) And
Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou dealt ill with
this people? why is it that thou hast sent me? 23) For since I came to
Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast
thou delivered thy people at all.
1) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to
Pharaoh: for by a strong hand shall he let them go, and by a strong hand shall
he drive them out of his land. 2) And God spake unto Moses, and said unto
him, I am Jehovah: 3) and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto
Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them. 4)
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of
Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned. 5) And
moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians
keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. 6) Wherefore say unto
the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will
redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: 7) and I
will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know
that I am Jehovah your God, who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the
Egyptians. 8) And I will bring you in unto the land which I sware to give
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am
Jehovah. 9) And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they
hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. 10)
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 11) Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king
of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. 12) And
Moses spake before Jehovah, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not
hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
13) And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge
unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. 14) These are the heads of
their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and
Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben. 15) And the
sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul
the son of a Canaanitish woman; these are the families of Simeon. 16) And
these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon,
and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty
and seven years. 17) The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to
their families. 18) And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron,
and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three
years. 19) And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the
families of the Levites according to their generations. 20) And Amram
took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses:
and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years. 21)
And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. 22) And the sons of
Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. 23) And Aaron took him
Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, to wife; and she
bare him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 24) And the sons of Korah:
Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites. 25)
And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she
bare him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' `houses' of the Levites
according to their families. 26) These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom
Jehovah said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according
to their hosts. 27) These are they that spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt,
to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron. 28)
And it came to pass on the day when Jehovah spake unto Moses in the land of
Egypt, 29) that Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, I am Jehovah: speak
thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak unto thee. 30) And Moses
said before Jehovah, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh
hearken unto me?
1) And Jehovah said unto Moses, See, I have made thee as God to Pharaoh;
and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. 2) Thou shalt speak all that
I command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he let the
children of Israel go out of his land. 3) And I will harden Pharaoh's
heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 4) But
Pharaoh will not hearken unto you, and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring
forth my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by
great judgments. 5) And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when
I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from
among them. 6) And Moses and Aaron did so; as Jehovah commanded them, so
did they. 7) And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and
three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh. 8) And Jehovah spake unto
Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 9) When Pharaoh shall speak unto you,
saying, Show a wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and
cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent. 10) And Moses and
Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so, as Jehovah had commanded: and Aaron
cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a
serpent. 11) Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers:
and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their
enchantments. 12) For they cast down every man his rod, and they became
serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. 13) And Pharaoh's
heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as Jehovah had spoken. 14)
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is stubborn, he refuseth to let the
people go. 15) Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out
unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink to meet him; and the
rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand. 16) And
thou shalt say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, hath sent me unto
thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and,
behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened. 17) Thus saith Jehovah, In this
thou shalt know that I am Jehovah: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in
my hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to
blood. 18) And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river
shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.
19) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and
stretch out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their
streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may
become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in
vessels of wood and in vessels of stone. 20) And Moses and Aaron did so,
as Jehovah commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were
in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all
the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. 21) And the fish
that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians could
not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of
Egypt. 22) And the magicians of Egypt did in like manner with their
enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them;
as Jehovah had spoken. 23) And Pharaoh turned and went into his house,
neither did he lay even this to heart. 24) And all the Egyptians digged
round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water
of the river. 25) And seven days were fulfilled, after that Jehovah had
smitten the river.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and say unto him,
Thus saith Jehovah, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2) And if
thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: 3)
and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into thy house,
and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants,
and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs: 4)
and the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all
thy servants. 5) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch
forth thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the
pools, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. 6) And Aaron
stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and
covered the land of Egypt. 7) And the magicians did in like manner with
their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. 8) Then
Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat Jehovah, that he take away
the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they
may sacrifice unto Jehovah. 9) And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Have thou
this glory over me: against what time shall I entreat for thee, and for thy
servants, and for thy people, that the frogs be destroyed from thee and thy
houses, and remain in the river only? 10) And he said, Against to-morrow.
And he said, Be it according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is
none like unto Jehovah our God. 11) And the frogs shall depart from thee,
and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall
remain in the river only. 12) And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh:
and Moses cried unto Jehovah concerning the frogs which he had brought upon
Pharaoh. 13) And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses; and the
frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. 14)
And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank. 15) But
when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened
not unto them, as Jehovah had spoken. 16) And Jehovah said unto Moses,
Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the earth, that is
may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 17) And they did so;
and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth,
and there were lice upon man, and upon beast; all the dust of the earth became
lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 18) And the magicians did so with
their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: and there were lice
upon man, and upon beast. 19) Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This
is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not
unto them; as Jehovah had spoken. 20) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Rise
up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the
water; and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Let my people go, that they may
serve me. 21) Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will
send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon they servants, and upon thy people, and
into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of
flies, and also the ground whereon they are. 22) And I will set apart in
that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies
shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am Jehovah in the midst of
the earth. 23) And I will put a division between my people and thy
people: by to-morrow shall this sign be. 24) And Jehovah 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. 25) And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron,
and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. 26) And Moses said,
It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians
to Jehovah our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians
before their eyes, and will they not stone us? 27) We will go three days'
journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall
command us. 28) And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may
sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far
away: entreat for me. 29) And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and
I will entreat Jehovah that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from
his servants, and from his people, to-morrow: only let not Pharaoh deal
deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Jehovah. 30)
And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Jehovah. 31) And Jehovah
did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from
Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one. 32)
And Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go.
1) Then Jehovah said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus
saith Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2) For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, 3)
behold, the hand of Jehovah is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the
horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks:
`there shall be' a very grievous murrain. 4) And Jehovah shall make a
distinction between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there
shall nothing die of all that belongeth to the children of Israel. 5) And
Jehovah appointed a set time, saying, To-morrow Jehovah shall do this thing in
the land. 6) And Jehovah did that thing on the morrow; and all the cattle
of Egypt died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one. 7)
And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the cattle of the
Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he did not let the
people go. 8) And Jehovah said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you
handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward heaven in the
sight of Pharaoh. 9) And it shall become small dust over all the land of
Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast,
throughout all the land of Egypt. 10) And they took ashes of the furnace,
and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became
a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast. 11) And the
magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were
upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. 12) And Jehovah hardened
the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them, as Jehovah had spoken unto
Moses. 13) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and
stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of the
Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 14) For I will this
time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy
people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth. 15)
For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with
pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth: 16) but in very
deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, to show thee my power, and that
my name may be declared throughout all the earth. 17) As yet exaltest
thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go? 18)
Behold, to-morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail,
such as hath not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now. 19)
Now therefore send, hasten in thy cattle and all that thou hast in the field;
`for' every man and beast that shall be found in the field, and shall not be
brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die. 20)
He that feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made his
servants and his cattle flee into the houses. 21) And he that regarded
not the word of Jehovah left his servants and his cattle in the field. 22)
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch forth thy hand toward heaven, that there
may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every
herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. 23) And Moses stretched
forth his rod toward heaven: and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran
down unto the earth; and Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24)
So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had
not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25) And the
hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man
and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of
the field. 26) Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel
were, was there no hail. 27) And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and
Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: Jehovah is righteous, and I
and my people are wicked. 28) Entreat Jehovah; for there hath been enough
of `these' mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay
no longer. 29) And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the
city, I will spread abroad my hands unto Jehovah; the thunders shall cease,
neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is
Jehovah's. 30) But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not
yet fear Jehovah God. 31) And the flax and the barley were smitten: for
the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom. 32) But the wheat
and the spelt were not smitten: for they were not grown up. 33) And Moses
went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto Jehovah: and
the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth. 34)
And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he
sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 35) And the
heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the children of Israel go, as
Jehovah had spoken by Moses.
1) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go in unto 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, 2) and that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and
of thy son's son, what things I have wrought upon Egypt, and my signs which I
have done among them; that ye may know that I am Jehovah. 3) And Moses
and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God
of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my
people go, that they may serve me. 4) Else, if thou refuse to let my
people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border: 5) and
they shall cover the face of the earth, so that one shall not be able to see the
earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth
unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of
the field: 6) and thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy
servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither thy fathers nor thy
fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto
this day. And he turned, and went out from Pharaoh. 7) And Pharaoh's
servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men
go, that they may serve Jehovah their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is
destroyed? 8) And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he
said unto them, Go, serve Jehovah your God; but who are they that shall go? 9)
And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and
with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must
hold a feast unto Jehovah. 10) And he said unto them, So be Jehovah with
you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before
you. 11) Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve Jehovah; for that is
what ye desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. 12) And
Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the
locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the
land, even all that the hail hath left. 13) And Moses stretched forth his
rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all
that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the
locusts. 14) And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and
rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there
were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. 15) For
they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and
they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the
hail had left: and there remained not any green thing, either tree or herb of
the field, through all the land of Egypt. 16) Then Pharaoh called for
Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against Jehovah your God,
and against you. 17) Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this
once, and entreat Jehovah your God, that he may take away from me this death
only. 18) And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Jehovah. 19)
And Jehovah turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and
drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of
Egypt. 20) But Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the
children of Israel go. 21) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy
hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even
darkness which may be felt. 22) And Moses stretched forth his hand toward
heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; 23)
they saw not one another, neither rose any one from his place for three days:
but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. 24) And
Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve Jehovah; only let your flocks
and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you. 25) And
Moses said, Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings,
that we may sacrifice unto Jehovah our God. 26) Our cattle also shall go
with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind: for thereof must we take to
serve Jehovah our God; and we know not with what we must serve Jehovah, until we
come thither. 27) But Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not
let them go. 28) And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed
to thyself, see my face no more; for in the day thou seest my face thou shalt
die. 29) And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well. I will see thy face again
no more.
1) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Yet one plague more will I bring upon
Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let
you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether. 2) Speak now in
the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every
woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold. 3) And
Jehovah 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. 4) And Moses said, Thus saith Jehovah,
About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: 5) and all the
first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that
sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is
behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle. 6) And there shall be
a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there hath not been, nor
shall be any more. 7) But against any of the children of Israel shall not
a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that Jehovah
doth make a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel. 8) And all
these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me,
saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will
go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger. 9) And Jehovah said
unto Moses, Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied
in the land of Egypt. 10) And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders
before Pharaoh: and Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the
children of Israel go out of his land.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2)
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first
month of the year to you. 3) Speak ye unto all the congregation of
Israel, saying, In the tenth `day' of this month they shall take to them every
man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household: 4)
and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor
next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to
every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. 5) Your lamb
shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or
from the goats: 6) and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the
same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it
at even. 7) And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two
side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it. 8)
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened
bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9) Eat not of it raw, nor
boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with
the inwards thereof. 10) And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the
morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with
fire. 11) And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on
your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is
Jehovah's passover. 12) For I will go through the land of Egypt in that
night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and
beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Jehovah.
13) And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye
are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague
be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 14) And this
day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to Jehovah:
throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. 15)
Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away
leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first
day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. 16)
And in the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the
seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, save
that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you. 17) And ye
shall observe the `feast of' unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I
brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day
throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever. 18) In the first
`month', on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened
bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. 19) Seven
days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that
which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel,
whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land. 20) Ye shall
eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. 21)
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out,
and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover. 22)
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the
basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in
the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the
morning. 23) For Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and
when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Jehovah will
pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your
houses to smite you. 24) And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance
to thee and to thy sons for ever. 25) And it shall come to pass, when ye
are come to the land which Jehovah will give you, according as he hath promised,
that ye shall keep this service. 26) And it shall come to pass, when your
children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? 27) that ye
shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah's passover, who passed over the houses
of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered
our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped. 28) And the
children of Israel went and did so; as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron, so
did they. 29) And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah smote all the
first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his
throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the
first-born of cattle. 30) And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all
his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for
there was not a house where there was not one dead. 31) And he called for
Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, get you forth from among my people,
both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as ye have said. 32)
Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me
also. 33) And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out
of the land in haste; for they said, We are all dead men. 34) And the
people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being
bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. 35) And the children of
Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment. 36) And Jehovah gave
the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what
they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians. 37) And the children of
Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot
that were men, besides children. 38) And a mixed multitude went up also
with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. 39) And they
baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for
it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry,
neither had they prepared for themselves any victuals. 40) Now the time
that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. 41)
And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the
selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Jehovah went out from the
land of Egypt. 42) It is a night to be much observed unto Jehovah for
bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of Jehovah, to be
much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations. 43)
And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover:
there shall no foreigner eat thereof; 44) but every man's servant that is
bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. 45)
A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof. 46) In one house
shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of
the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. 47) All the
congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48) And when a stranger shall
sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to Jehovah, let all his males be
circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that
is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 49)
One law shall be to him that is home-born, and unto the stranger that sojourneth
among you. 50) Thus did all the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded
Moses and Aaron, so did they. 51) And it came to pass the selfsame day,
that Jehovah did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their
hosts.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2) Sanctify unto me all
the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both
of man and of beast: it is mine. 3) And Moses said unto the people,
Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
for by strength of hand Jehovah brought you out from this place: there shall no
leavened bread be eaten. 4) This day ye go forth in the month Abib. 5)
And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite,
and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he
sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that
thou shalt keep this service in this month. 6) Seven days thou shalt eat
unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Jehovah. 7)
Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall no
leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee,
in all thy borders. 8) And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying,
It is because of that which Jehovah did for me when I came forth out of Egypt. 9)
And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between
thine eyes, that the law of Jehovah may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand
hath Jehovah brought thee out of Egypt. 10) Thou shalt therefore keep
this ordinance in its season from year to year. 11) And it shall be, when
Jehovah shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, as he sware unto thee
and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee, 12) that thou shalt set apart
unto Jehovah all that openeth the womb, and every firstling which thou hast that
cometh of a beast; the males shall be Jehovah's. 13) And every firstling
of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then
thou shalt break its neck: and all the first-born of man among thy sons shalt
thou redeem. 14) And it shall be, when thy son asketh thee in time to
come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand
Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: 15) and it
came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Jehovah slew all the
first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born
of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that openeth the womb, being
males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem. 16) And it shall be
for a sign upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength
of hand Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt. 17) And it came to pass,
when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land
of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the
people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 18) but God
led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea: and the
children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. 19) And Moses
took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of
Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away
hence with you. 20) And they took their journey from Succoth, and
encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. 21) And Jehovah went
before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in a
pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night: 22)
the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, departed not from
before the people.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2) Speak unto the
children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between
Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon: over against it shall ye encamp by the
sea. 3) And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are
entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. 4) And I will
harden Pharaoh's heart, and he shall follow after them; and I will get me honor
upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host: and the Egyptians shall know that I am
Jehovah. And they did so. 5) And it was told the king of Egypt that the
people were 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 from serving us? 6) And he made ready his chariot, and took his
people with him: 7) and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the
chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them. 8) And Jehovah 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. 9) And the
Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses `and' chariots of Pharaoh, and his
horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside
Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon. 10) And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the
children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were
marching after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried
out unto Jehovah. 11) And they said unto Moses, Because there were no
graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore
hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt? 12) Is not
this the word that we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we
may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than
that we should die in the wilderness. 13) And Moses said unto the people,
Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which he will work
for you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them
again no more for ever. 14) Jehovah will fight for you, and ye shall hold
your peace. 15) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto
me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. 16) And lift
thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it: and the
children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground. 17)
And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in
after them: and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon
his chariots, and upon his horsemen. 18) And the Egyptians shall know
that I am Jehovah, when I have gotten me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots,
and upon his horsemen. 19) And the angel of God, who went before the camp
of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud removed from
before them, and stood behind them: 20) and it 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 came not near the other all the night. 21)
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go
`back' by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the
waters were divided. 22) And the children of Israel went into the midst
of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their
right hand, and on their left. 23) And the Egyptians pursued, and went in
after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and
his horsemen. 24) And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah
looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of
cloud, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians. 25) And he took off
their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said,
Let us flee from the face of Israel; for Jehovah fighteth for them against the
Egyptians. 26) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the
sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and
upon their horsemen. 27) And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea,
and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the
Egyptians fled against it; and Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of
the sea. 28) And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the
horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea;
there remained not so much as one of them. 29) But the children of Israel
walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto
them on their right hand, and on their left. 30) Thus Jehovah saved
Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians
dead upon the sea-shore. 31) And Israel saw the great work which Jehovah
did upon the Egyptians, and the people feared Jehovah: and they believed in
Jehovah, and in his servant Moses.
1) Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto Jehovah, and
spake, saying, I will sing unto Jehovah, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The
horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. 2) Jehovah is my
strength and song, And he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will
praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him. 3) Jehovah is a man of
war: Jehovah is his name. 4) Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast
into the sea; And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea. 5) The
deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone. 6) Thy
right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power, Thy right hand, O Jehovah, dasheth
in pieces the enemy. 7) And in the greatness of thine excellency thou
overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it
consumeth them as stubble. 8) And with the blast of thy nostrils the
waters were piled up, The floods stood upright as a heap; The deeps were
congealed in the heart of the sea. 9) The enemy said, I will pursue, I
will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them;
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 10) Thou didst blow
with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters. 11)
Who is like unto thee, O Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in
holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders? 12) Thou stretchedst out thy
right hand, The earth swallowed them. 13) Thou in thy lovingkindness hast
led the people that thou hast redeemed: Thou hast guided them in thy strength to
thy holy habitation. 14) The peoples have heard, they tremble: Pangs have
taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. 15) Then were the chiefs of
Edom dismayed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them: All the
inhabitants of Canaan are melted away. 16) Terror and dread falleth upon
them; By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone; Till thy
people pass over, O Jehovah, Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.
17) Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine
inheritance, The place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in,
The sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established. 18) Jehovah
shall reign for ever and ever. 19) For the horses of Pharaoh went in with
his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the
waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in
the midst of the sea. 20) And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron,
took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels
and with dances. 21) And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to Jehovah, for he
hath triumphed gloriously; The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. 22)
And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the
wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no
water. 23) And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the
waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called
Marah. 24) And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we
drink? 25) An he cried unto Jehovah; And Jehovah showed him a tree, and
he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made for
them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them; 26) and he
said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt
do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and
keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have
put upon the Egyptians: for I am Jehovah that healeth thee. 27) And they
came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and threescore and ten
palm-trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
1) And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the
children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and
Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the
land of Egypt. 2) And the whole congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness: 3) and the
children of Israel said unto them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah
in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to
the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole
assembly with hunger. 4) Then said Jehovah unto Moses, Behold, I will
rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's
portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or
not. 5) And it shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall
prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather
daily. 6) And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At
even, then ye shall know that Jehovah hath brought you out from the land of
Egypt; 7) and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of Jehovah; for
that he heareth your murmurings against Jehovah: and what are we, that ye murmur
against us? 8) And Moses said, `This shall be', when Jehovah shall give
you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that
Jehovah heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we?
your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah. 9) And Moses
said unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come
near before Jehovah; for he hath heard your murmurings. 10) And it came
to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel,
that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of Jehovah
appeared in the cloud. 11) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 12)
I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying,
At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread:
and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God. 13) And it came to pass at
even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew
lay round about the camp. 14) And when the dew that lay was gone up,
behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the
hoar-frost on the ground. 15) And when the children of Israel saw it,
they said one to another, What is it? For they knew not what it was. And Moses
said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath given you to eat. 16)
This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, Gather ye of it every man
according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your
persons, shall ye take it, every man for them that are in his tent. 17)
And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less. 18)
And when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over,
and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to
his eating. 19) And Moses said unto them, Let no man leave of it till the
morning. 20) Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of
them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses
was wroth with them. 21) And they gathered it morning by morning, every
man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. 22)
And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread,
two omers for each one: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told
Moses. 23) And he said unto them, This is that which Jehovah hath spoken,
Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy sabbath unto Jehovah: bake that which ye will
bake, and boil that which ye will boil; and all that remaineth over lay up for
you to be kept until the morning. 24) And they laid it up till the
morning, as Moses bade: and it did not become foul, neither was there any worm
therein. 25) And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sabbath
unto Jehovah: to-day ye shall not find it in the field. 26) Six days ye
shall gather it; but on the seventh day is the sabbath, in it there shall be
none. 27) And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out
some of the people to gather, and they found none. 28) And Jehovah said
unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? 29)
See, for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the
sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go
out of his place on the seventh day. 30) So the people rested on the
seventh day. 31) And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna:
and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers
`made' with honey. 32) And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah
hath commanded, Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that
they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you
forth from the land of Egypt. 33) And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot,
and put an omerful of manna therein, and lay it up before Jehovah, to be kept
throughout your generations. 34) As Jehovah commanded Moses, so Aaron
laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. 35) And the children of
Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they
did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. 36)
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
1) And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the
wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of Jehovah,
and encamped in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. 2)
Wherefore the people stove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may
drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? Wherefore do ye tempt
Jehovah? 3) And the people thirsted there for water; and the people
murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of
Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? 4) And
Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, What shall I do unto this people? They are
almost ready to stone me. 5) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pass on before
the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and they rod, wherewith
thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go. 6) Behold, I will stand
before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and
there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in
the sight of the elders of Israel. 7) And he called the name of the place
Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and
because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not? 8)
Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 9) And Moses said
unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will
stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand. 10) So
Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron,
and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11) And it came to pass, when
Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand,
Amalek prevailed. 12) But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone,
and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands,
the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; And his hands were
steady until the going down of the sun. 13) And Joshua discomfited Amalek
and his people with the edge of the sword. 14) And Jehovah said unto
Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of
Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under
heaven. 15) And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it
Jehovah-nissi; 16) And he said, Jehovah hath sworn: Jehovah will have war
with Amalek from generation to generation.
1) Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all
that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Jehovah had
brought Israel out of Egypt. 2) And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took
Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, 3) and her two sons;
of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in
a foreign land: 4) and the name of the other was Eliezer; for `he said',
The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh. 5)
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses
into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mount of God: 6) and he
said unto Moses, I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come unto thee, and thy wife,
and her two sons with her. 7) And Moses went out to meet his
father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him: and they asked each other of
their welfare; and they came into the tent. 8) And Moses told his
father-in-law all that Jehovah had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for
Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how
Jehovah delivered them. 9) And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which
Jehovah had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the
Egyptians. 10) And Jethro said, Blessed be Jehovah, who hath delivered
you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who hath
delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 11) Now I know
that Jehovah is greater than all gods; yea, in the thing wherein they dealt
proudly against them. 12) And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a
burnt-offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of
Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God. 13) And it
came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people
stood about Moses from the morning unto the evening. 14) And when Moses'
father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing
that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the
people stand about thee from morning unto even? 15) And Moses said unto
his father-in-law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God: 16)
when they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between a man and his
neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws. 17) And
Moses' father-in-law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good. 18)
Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for
the thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. 19)
Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee: be
thou for the people to God-ward, and bring thou the causes unto God: 20)
and thou shalt teach them the statutes and the laws, and shalt show them the way
wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. 21) Moreover thou
shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth,
hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers
of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: 22) and let them
judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they
shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge themselves: so
shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear `the burden' with thee. 23)
If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to
endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace. 24) So
Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
25) And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over
the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and
rulers of tens. 26) And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard
causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. 27)
And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land.
1) In the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth out of
the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2)
And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness of
Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the
mount. 3) And Moses went up unto God, and Jehovah called unto him out of
the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the
children of Israel: 4) Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and
how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 5) Now
therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall
be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine: 6)
and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the
words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. 7) And Moses
came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these
words which Jehovah commanded him. 8) And all the people answered
together, and said, All that Jehovah hath spoken we will do. And Moses reported
the words of the people unto Jehovah. 9) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Lo,
I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with
thee, and may also believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people
unto Jehovah. 10) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and
sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments, 11)
and be ready against the third day; for the third day Jehovah will come down in
the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. 12) And thou shalt set
bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go
not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount
shall be surely put to death: 13) no hand shall touch him, but he shall
surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, he shall not
live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. 14)
And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people;
and they washed their garments. 15) And he said unto the people, Be ready
against the third day: come not near a woman. 16) And it came to pass on
the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and
a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; and all
the people that were in the camp trembled. 17) And Moses brought forth
the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the
mount. 18) And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah
descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a
furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 19) And when the voice of
the trumpet waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a
voice. 20) And Jehovah came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the
mount: and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. 21)
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through
unto Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish. 22) And let the priests
also, that come near to Jehovah, sanctify themselves, lest Jehovah break forth
upon them. 23) And Moses said unto Jehovah, The people cannot come up to
mount Sinai: for thou didst charge us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and
sanctify it. 24) And Jehovah said unto him, Go, get thee down; and thou
shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people
break through to come up unto Jehovah, lest he break forth upon them. 25)
So Moses went down unto the people, and told them.
1) And God spake all these words, saying, 2) I am Jehovah thy God,
who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3)
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4) Thou shalt not make unto thee
a graven image, nor any likeness `of any thing' that is in heaven above, or that
is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5) Thou
shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the
third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me, 6) and showing
lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. 7)
Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain; for Jehovah will not
hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 8) Remember the sabbath
day, to keep it holy. 9) Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; 10)
but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: `in it' thou shalt not do
any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy
maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11)
for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is,
and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and
hallowed it. 12) Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be
long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. 13) Thou shalt not
kill. 14) Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15) Thou shalt not
steal. 16) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 17)
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor
anything that is thy neighbor's. 18) And all the people perceived the
thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain
smoking: and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off. 19)
And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God
speak with us, lest we die. 20) And Moses said unto the people, Fear not:
for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin
not. 21) And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the
thick darkness where God was. 22) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Thus thou
shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye yourselves have seen that I have
talked with you from heaven. 23) Ye shall not make `other gods' with me;
gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you. 24) An altar
of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy
burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in every
place where I record my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee. 25)
And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones;
for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. 26) Neither
shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered
thereon.
1) Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. 2)
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he
shall go out free for nothing. 3) If he come in by himself, he shall go
out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4)
If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and
her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 5)
But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my
children; I will not go out free: 6) then his master shall bring him unto
God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master
shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. 7)
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the
men-servants do. 8) If she please not her master, who hath espoused her
to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people
he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 9) And
if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of
daughters. 10) If he take him another `wife'; her food, her raiment, and
her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. 11) And if he do not these
three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money. 12)
He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death. 13)
And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver `him' into his hand; then I will
appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 14) And if a man come
presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him
from mine altar, that he may die. 15) And he that smiteth his father, or
his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16) And he that stealeth a man,
and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17) And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to
death. 18) And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or
with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed; 19) if he rise again,
and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he
shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
20) And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die
under his hand; he shall surely be punished. 21) Notwithstanding, if he
continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money. 22)
And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit
depart, and yet no harm follow; he shall be surely fined, according as the
woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23)
But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24) eye for
eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25) burning for
burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26) And if a man smite the
eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go
free for his eye's sake. 27) And if he smite out his man-servant's tooth,
or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. 28)
And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be surely stoned, and
its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. 29)
But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and it hath been testified to its
owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman, the ox
shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 30) If there
be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life
whatsoever is laid upon him. 31) Whether it have gored a son, or have
gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. 32)
If the ox gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given unto their
master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 33) And if a
man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or
an ass fall therein, 34) the owner of the pit shall make it good; he
shall give money unto the owner thereof, and the dead `beast' shall be his. 35)
And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dieth, then they shall sell the
live ox, and divide the price of it: and the dead also they shall divide. 36)
Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath
not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead `beast' shall be his
own.
1) If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he
shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2) If the
thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no
bloodguiltiness for him. 3) If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be
bloodguiltiness for him; he shall make restitution: if he have nothing, then he
shall be sold for his theft. 4) If the theft be found in his hand alive,
whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double. 5) If a man
shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and
it feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of
his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. 6) If fire break out, and
catch in thorns, so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the
field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. 7)
If a man shall deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be
stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double. 8)
If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near unto
God, `to see' whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods. 9)
For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for
raiment, `or' for any manner of lost thing, whereof one saith, This is it, the
cause of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay
double unto his neighbor. 10) If a man deliver unto his neighbor an ass,
or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven
away, no man seeing it: 11) the oath of Jehovah shall be between them
both, whether he hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods; and the owner
thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. 12) But if it
be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. 13)
If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness: he shall not make good
that which was torn. 14) And if a man borrow aught of his neighbor, and
it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make
restitution. 15) If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it
good: if it be a hired thing, it came for its hire. 16) And if a man
entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a
dowry for her to be his wife. 17) If her father utterly refuse to give
her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 18)
Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live. 19) Whosoever lieth with a
beast shall surely be put to death. 20) He that sacrificeth unto any god,
save unto Jehovah only, shall be utterly destroyed. 21) And a sojourner
shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were sojourners in
the land of Egypt. 22) Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless
child. 23) If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I
will surely hear their cry; 24) and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will
kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children
fatherless. 25) If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is
poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him
interest. 26) If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou
shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down: 27) for that is his
only covering, it is his garment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? And it
shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
28) Thou shalt not revile God, nor curse a ruler of thy people. 29)
Thou shalt not delay to offer of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses.
The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. 30) Likewise shalt
thou do with thine oxen, `and' with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with its
dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. 31) And ye shall be holy
men unto me: therefore ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the
field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
1) Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the
wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2) Thou shalt not follow a multitude
to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude
to wrest `justice': 3) neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause. 4)
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring
it back to him again. 5) If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee
lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely
release `it' with him. 6) Thou shalt not wrest the justice `due' to thy
poor in his cause. 7) Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent
and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. 8) And
thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and
perverteth the words of the righteous. 9) And a sojourner shalt thou not
oppress: for ye know the heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourners in the
land of Egypt. 10) And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt
gather in the increase thereof: 11) but the seventh year thou shalt let
it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave
the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy
vineyard, `and' with thy oliveyard. 12) Six days thou shalt do thy work,
and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have
rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed. 13)
And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of
the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. 14)
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. 15) The feast of
unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as
I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it thou camest
out from Egypt); and none shall appear before me empty: 16) and the feast
of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the field: and
the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy
labors out of the field. 17) Three times in the year all thy males shall
appear before the Lord Jehovah. 18) Thou shalt not offer the blood of my
sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all
night until the morning. 19) The first of the first-fruits of thy ground
thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in
it mother's milk. 20) Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee
by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21)
Take ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice; provoke him not; for he
will not pardon your transgression: for my name is in him. 22) But if
thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will
be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. 23)
For mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorite, and the
Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: and
I will cut them off. 24) Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve
them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break
in pieces their pillars. 25) And ye shall serve Jehovah your God, and he
will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the
midst of thee. 26) There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy
land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. 27) I will send my terror
before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I
will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. 28) And I will
send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite,
and the Hittite, from before thee. 29) I will not drive them out from
before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the
field multiply against thee. 30) By little and little I will drive them
out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. 31)
And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines,
and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of
the land into your hand: and thou shalt drive them out before thee. 32)
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33) They
shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou
serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
1) And he said unto Moses, Come up unto Jehovah, thou, and Aaron, Nadab,
and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off: 2)
and Moses alone shall come near unto Jehovah; but they shall not come near;
neither shall the people go up with him. 3) And Moses came and told the
people all the words of Jehovah, and all the ordinances: and all the people
answered with one voice, and said, All the words which Jehovah hath spoken will
we do. 4) And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and rose up early in
the morning, and builded an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according
to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5) And he sent young men of the children
of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen
unto Jehovah. 6) And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins;
and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7) And he took the book
of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that
Jehovah hath spoken will we do, and be obedient. 8) And Moses took the
blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the
covenant, which Jehovah hath made with you concerning all these words. 9)
Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel. 10) And they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet
as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for
clearness. 11) And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not
his hand: and they beheld God, and did eat and drink. 12) And Jehovah
said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give
thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written,
that thou mayest teach them. 13) And Moses rose up, and Joshua his
minister: and Moses went up into the mount of God. 14) And he said unto
the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold,
Aaron and Hur are with you: whosoever hath a cause, let him come near unto them.
15) And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount. 16)
And the glory of Jehovah abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six
days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17)
And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of
the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18) And Moses entered
into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the
mount forty days and forty nights.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2) Speak unto the
children of Israel, that they take for me an offering: of every man whose heart
maketh him willing ye shall take my offering. 3) And this is the offering
which ye shall take of them: gold, and silver, and brass, 4) and blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' `hair', 5) and rams'
skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia wood, 6) oil for the light,
spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense, 7) onyx stones,
and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate. 8) And let
them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. 9) According to
all that I show thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the
furniture thereof, even so shall ye make it. 10) And they shall make an
ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a
cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
11) And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt
thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about. 12)
And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four feet
thereof; and two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the
other side of it. 13) And thou shalt make staves of acacia wood, and
overlay them with gold. 14) And thou shalt put the staves into the rings
on the sides of the ark, wherewith to bear the ark. 15) The staves shall
be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it. 16) And thou
shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. 17) And
thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half `shall be' the
length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 18) And thou
shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two
ends of the mercy-seat. 19) And make one cherub at the one end, and one
cherub at the other end: of one piece with the mercy-seat shall ye make the
cherubim on the two ends thereof. 20) And the cherubim shall spread out
their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, with their faces
one to another; toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. 21)
And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt
put the testimony that I shall give thee. 22) And there I will meet with
thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the
two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will
give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. 23) And thou shalt
make a table of acacia wood: two cubits `shall be' the length thereof, and a
cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. 24)
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round
about. 25) And thou shalt make unto it a border of a handbreadth round
about; and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about. 26)
And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four
corners that are on the four feet thereof. 27) Close by the border shall
the rings be, for places for the staves to bear the table. 28) And thou
shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table
may be borne with them. 29) And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and
the spoons thereof, and the flagons thereof, and the bowls thereof, wherewith to
pour out: of pure gold shalt thou make them. 30) And thou shalt set upon
the table showbread before me alway. 31) And thou shalt make a
candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made, even its
base, and its shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers, shall be of one piece
with it. 32) And there shall be six branches going out of the sides
thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and
three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof: 33)
three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower; and
three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower:
so for the six branches going out of the candlestick: 34) and in the
candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the
flowers thereof; 35) and a knop under two branches of one piece with it,
and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two
branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the
candlestick. 36) Their knops and their branches shall be of one piece
with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold. 37) And thou shalt
make the lamps thereof, seven: and they shall light the lamps thereof, to give
light over against it. 38) And the snuffers thereof, and the snuffdishes
thereof, shall be of pure gold. 39) Of a talent of pure gold shall it be
made, with all these vessels. 40) And see that thou make them after their
pattern, which hath been showed thee in the mount.
1) Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine
twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim the work of the
skilful workman shalt thou make them. 2) The length of each curtain shall
be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the
curtains shall have one measure. 3) Five curtains shall be coupled
together one to another; and `the other' five curtains shall be coupled one to
another. 4) And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one
curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the
edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling. 5) Fifty
loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the
edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling; the loops shall be opposite
one to another. 6) And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple
the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be one
`whole'. 7) And thou shalt make curtains of goats' `hair' for a tent over
the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them. 8) The length of
each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four
cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure. 9) And thou shalt
couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt
double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent. 10) And thou
shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the
coupling, and fifty loops upon the edge of the curtain which is `outmost in' the
second coupling. 11) And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and put
the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. 12)
And the overhanging part that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half
curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. 13)
And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which
remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides
of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. 14) And
thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering
of sealskins above. 15) And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle
of acacia wood, standing up. 16) Ten cubits shall be the length of a
board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. 17) Two tenons
shall there be in each board, joined one to another: thus shalt thou make for
all the boards of the tabernacle. 18) And thou shalt make the boards for
the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward. 19) And thou
shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under
one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two
tenons. 20) And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side,
twenty boards, 21) and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under
one board, and two sockets under another board. 22) And for the hinder
part of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards. 23) And two
boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part. 24)
And they shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire unto
the top thereof unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for
the two corners. 25) And there shall be eight boards, and their sockets
of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under
another board. 26) And thou shalt make bars of acacia wood: five for the
boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 27) and five bars for the
boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the
side of the tabernacle, for the hinder part westward. 28) And the middle
bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end. 29)
And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for
places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold. 30) And
thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which hath
been showed thee in the mount. 31) And thou shalt make a veil of blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim the work of the
skilful workman shall it be made. 32) And thou shalt hang it upon four
pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks `shall be' of gold, upon four
sockets of silver. 33) And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps,
and shalt bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the
veil shall separate unto you between the holy place and the most holy. 34)
And thou shalt put the mercy-seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy
place. 35) And thou shalt set the table without the veil, and the
candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the
south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side. 36) And thou shalt
make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer. 37) And thou shalt make
for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks
shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
1) And thou shalt make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and
five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall
be three cubits. 2) And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four
corners thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it: and thou shalt
overlay it with brass. 3) And thou shalt make its pots to take away its
ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its firepans:
all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass. 4) And thou shalt make
for it a grating of network of brass: and upon the net shalt thou make four
brazen rings in the four corners thereof. 5) And thou shalt put it under
the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar. 6)
And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia wood, and overlay
them with brass. 7) And the staves thereof shall be put into the rings,
and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it. 8)
Hollow with planks shalt thou make it: as it hath been showed thee in the mount,
so shall they make it. 9) And thou shalt make the court of the
tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court
of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side: 10) and the
pillars thereof shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks
of the pillars and their fillets `shall be' of silver. 11) And likewise
for the north side in length there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, and
the pillars thereof twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the
pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 12) And for the breadth of the
court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and
their sockets ten. 13) And the breadth of the court on the east side
eastward shall be fifty cubits. 14) The hangings for the one side `of the
gate' shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 15)
And for the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three,
and their sockets three. 16) And for the gate of the court shall be a
screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four. 17)
All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their
hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass. 18) The length of the court
shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height
five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass. 19) All
the instruments of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins
thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass. 20) And thou
shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil
beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. 21) In the
tent of meeting, without the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his
sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah: it shall be
a statue for ever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of
Israel.
1) And bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with
him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the
priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
2) And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and
for beauty. 3) And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise-hearted, whom
I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to
sanctify him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. 4) And
these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a
robe, and a coat of checker work, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make
holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me
in the priest's office. 5) And they shall take the gold, and the blue,
and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen. 6) And they shall
make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the
work of the skilful workman. 7) It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined
to the two ends thereof, that it may be joined together. 8) And the
skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be like
the work thereof `and' of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9) And thou shalt take two onyx stones,
and grave on them the names of the children of Israel: 10) six of their
names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone,
according to their birth. 11) With the work of an engraver in stone, like
the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones, according to the
names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be inclosed in settings
of gold. 12) And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces
of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron
shall bear their names before Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a memorial. 13)
And thou shalt make settings of gold, 14) and two chains of pure gold;
like cords shalt thou make them, of wreathen work: and thou shalt put the
wreathen chains on the settings. 15) And thou shalt make a breastplate of
judgment, the work of the skilful workman; like the work of the ephod thou shalt
make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, shalt
thou make it. 16) Foursquare it shall be `and' double; a span shall be
the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof. 17) And thou shalt
set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of sardius, topaz, and
carbuncle shall be the first row; 18) and the second row an emerald, a
sapphire, and a diamond; 19) and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and
an amethyst; 20) and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper:
they shall be inclosed in gold in their settings. 21) And the stones
shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to
their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name,
they shall be for the twelve tribes. 22) And thou shalt make upon the
breastplate chains like cords, of wreathen work of pure gold. 23) And
thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two
rings on the two ends of the breastplate. 24) And thou shalt put the two
wreathen chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. 25)
And the `other' two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt put on the two
settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod in the forepart
thereof. 26) And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put
them upon the two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge thereof, which is
toward the side of the ephod inward. 27) And thou shalt make two rings of
gold, and shalt put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in
the forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof, above the skilfully woven
band of the ephod. 28) And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings
thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be upon the
skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from
the ephod. 29) And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel
in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy
place, for a memorial before Jehovah continually. 30) And thou shalt put
in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon
Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before Jehovah: and Aaron shall bear the
judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before Jehovah continually. 31)
And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue. 32) And it shall
have a hole for the head in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven
work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it
be not rent. 33) And upon the skirts of it thou shalt make pomegranates
of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the skirts thereof; and
bells of gold between them round about: 34) a golden bell and a
pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round
about. 35) And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and the sound thereof
shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before Jehovah, and when he
cometh out, that he die not. 36) And thou shalt make a plate of pure
gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH. 37)
And thou shalt put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre; upon
the forefront of the mitre it shall be. 38) And it shall be upon Aaron's
forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the
children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always
upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before Jehovah. 39) And thou
shalt weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and thou shalt make a mitre
of fine linen, and thou shalt make a girdle, the work of the embroiderer. 40)
And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them
girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty. 41)
And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and upon his sons with him, and
shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may
minister unto me in the priest's office. 42) And thou shalt make them
linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto
the thighs they shall reach: 43) And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon
his sons, when they go in unto the tent of meeting, or when they come near unto
the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die:
it shall be a statute for ever unto him and unto his seed after him.
1) And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to
minister unto me in the priest's office: take one young bullock and two rams
without blemish, 2) and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled
with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of fine wheaten flour shalt
thou make them. 3) And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring
them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams. 4) And Aaron and
his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash
them with water. 5) And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron
the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and
gird him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod; 6) and thou shalt
set the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre. 7)
Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint
him. 8) And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them. 9)
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind head-tires
on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and thou
shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. 10) And thou shalt bring the bullock
before the tent of meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon
the head of the bullock. 11) And thou shalt kill the bullock before
Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting. 12) And thou shalt take of
the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy
finger; and thou shalt pour out all the blood at the base of the altar. 13)
And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul upon the
liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon
the altar. 14) But the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and it dung,
shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin-offering. 15)
Thou shalt also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands
upon the head of the ram. 16) And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt
take its blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar. 17) And thou
shalt cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs, and put
them with its pieces, and with its head. 18) And thou shalt burn the
whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt-offering unto Jehovah; it is a sweet
savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. 19) And thou shalt take the
other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the
ram. 20) Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of its blood, and put it
upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his
sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their
right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. 21) And
thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil,
and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon
the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments,
and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. 22) Also thou shalt take
of the ram the fat, and the fat tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and
the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and
the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration), 23) and one loaf of
bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of
unleavened bread that is before Jehovah. 24) And thou shalt put the whole
upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons, and shalt wave them for
a wave-offering before Jehovah. 25) And thou shalt take them from their
hands, and burn them on the altar upon the burnt-offering, for a sweet savor
before Jehovah: it is an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. 26) And thou
shalt take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a
wave-offering before Jehovah: and it shall be thy portion. 27) And thou
shalt sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the
heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of
consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his
sons: 28) and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as `their' portion for
ever from the children of Israel; for it is a heave-offering: and it shall be a
heave-offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their
peace-offerings, even their heave-offering unto Jehovah. 29) And the holy
garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and
to be consecrated in them. 30) Seven days shall the son that is priest in
his stead put them on, when he cometh into the tent of meeting to minister in
the holy place. 31) And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and boil
its flesh in a holy place. 32) And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh
of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of
meeting. 33) And they shall eat those things wherewith atonement was
made, to consecrate `and' to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat
thereof, because they are holy. 34) And if aught of the flesh of the
consecration, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the
remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy. 35) And
thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have
commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them. 36) And every day
shalt thou offer the bullock of sin-offering for atonement: and thou shalt
cleanse the altar, when thou makest atonement for it; and thou shalt anoint it,
to sanctify it. 37) Seven days thou shalt make atonement for the altar,
and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatsoever toucheth the altar
shall be holy. 38) Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the
altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually. 39) The one lamb thou
shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: 40)
and with the one lamb a tenth part `of an ephah' of fine flour mingled with the
fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a
drink-offering. 41) And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and
shalt do thereto according to the meal-offering of the morning, and according to
the drink-offering thereof, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto
Jehovah. 42) It shall be a continual burnt-offering throughout your
generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah, where I will meet
with you, to speak there unto thee. 43) And there I will meet with the
children of Israel; and `the Tent' shall be sanctified by my glory. 44)
And I will sanctify the tent of meeting, and the altar: Aaron also and his sons
will I sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office. 45) And I will
dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. 46) And they
shall know that I am Jehovah their God, that brought them forth out of the land
of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Jehovah their God.
1) And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of acacia wood
shalt thou make it. 2) A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit
the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height
thereof: the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it. 3) And thou
shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round
about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round
about. 4) And two golden rings shalt thou make for it under the crown
thereof; upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make
them; and they shall be for places for staves wherewith to bear it. 5)
And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. 6)
And thou shalt 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 thee. 7)
And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices: every morning, when he
dresseth the lamps, he shall burn it. 8) And when Aaron lighteth the
lamps at even, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout
your generations. 9) Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor
burnt-offering, nor meal-offering; and ye shall pour no drink-offering thereon. 10)
And Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it once in the year; with the
blood of the sin-offering of atonement once in the year shall he make atonement
for it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto Jehovah. 11) And
Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 12) When thou takest the sum of the
children of Israel, according to those that are numbered of them, then shall
they give every man a ransom for his soul unto Jehovah, when thou numberest
them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. 13)
This they shall give, every one that passeth over unto them that are numbered,
half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;)
half a shekel for an offering to Jehovah. 14) Every one that passeth over
unto them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the
offering of Jehovah. 15) The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall
not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Jehovah, to
make atonement for your souls. 16) And thou shalt take the atonement
money from the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the
tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before
Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls. 17) And Jehovah spake unto
Moses, saying, 18) Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and the base
thereof of brass, whereat to wash. And thou shalt put it between the tent of
meeting and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. 19) And Aaron
and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: 20) when they
go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or
when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire
unto Jehovah. 21) So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that
they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his
seed throughout their generations. 22) Moreover Jehovah spake unto Moses,
saying, 23) Take thou also unto thee the chief spices: of flowing myrrh
five hundred `shekels', and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and
fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty, 24) and of cassia five
hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin. 25)
And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art
of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. 26) And thou shalt
anoint therewith the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, 27)
and the table and all the vessels thereof, and the candlestick and the vessels
thereof, and the altar of incense, 28) and the altar of burnt-offering
with all the vessels thereof, and the laver and the base thereof. 29) And
thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them
shall be holy. 30) And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify
them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office. 31) And thou
shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing
oil unto me throughout your generations. 32) Upon the flesh of man shall
it not be poured, neither shall ye make any like it, according to the
composition thereof: it is holy, `and' it shall be holy unto you. 33)
Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a
stranger, he shall be cut off from his people. 34) And Jehovah said unto
Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet
spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight; 35)
and thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer,
seasoned with salt, pure `and' holy: 36) and thou shalt beat some of it
very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I
will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy. 37) And the incense
which thou shalt make, according to the composition thereof ye shall not make
for yourselves: it shall be unto thee holy for Jehovah. 38) Whosoever
shall make like unto that, to smell thereof, he shall be cut off from his
people.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2) See, I have called by
name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: 3)
and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding,
and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, 4) to devise skilful
works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 5) and in cutting of
stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of
workmanship. 6) And I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son
of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all that are wise-hearted
I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee: 7)
the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy-seat that is
thereupon, and all the furniture of the Tent, 8) and the table and its
vessels, and the pure candlestick with all its vessels, and the altar of
incense, 9) and the altar of burnt-offering with all its vessels, and the
laver and its base, 10) and the finely wrought garments, and the holy
garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the
priest's office, 11) and the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet
spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall
they do. 12) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 13) Speak thou
also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily ye shall keep my sabbaths: for
it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know
that I am Jehovah who sanctifieth you. 14) Ye shall keep the sabbath
therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be
put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off
from among his people. 15) Six days shall work be done, but on the
seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Jehovah: whosoever doeth any
work on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 16) Wherefore
the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout
their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17) It is a sign between me
and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days Jehovah made heaven and
earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. 18) And he
gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai,
the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of
God.
1) And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the
mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him,
Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that
brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. 2)
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of
your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3)
And all the people brake off the golden rings which were in their ears, and
brought them unto Aaron. 4) And he received it at their hand, and
fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said,
These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5)
And when Aaron saw `this', he built an altar before it; and Aaron made
proclamation, and said, To-morrow shall be a feast to Jehovah. 6) And
they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought
peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to
play. 7) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people,
that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: 8)
they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have
made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it,
and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of
Egypt. 9) And Jehovah said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 10) now therefore let me alone, that
my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make
of thee a great nation. 11) And Moses besought Jehovah his God, and said,
Jehovah, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, that thou hast brought
forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12)
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil did he bring them forth,
to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth?
Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 13)
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine
own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of
heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and
they shall inherit it for ever. 14) And Jehovah repented of the evil
which he said he would do unto his people. 15) And Moses turned, and went
down from the mount, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand; tables
that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were
they written. 16) And the tables were the work of God, and the writing
was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. 17) And when Joshua heard
the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of
war in the camp. 18) And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout
for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome; but
the noise of them that sing do I hear. 19) And it came to pass, as soon
as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses'
anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath
the mount. 20) And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it
with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the
children of Israel drink of it. 21) And Moses said unto Aaron, What did
this people unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them? 22)
And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people,
that they are `set' on evil. 23) For they said unto me, Make us gods,
which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out
of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. 24) And I said
unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off: so they gave it me;
and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. 25) And when
Moses saw that the people were broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a
derision among their enemies,) 26) then Moses stood in the gate of the
camp, and said, Whoso is on Jehovah's side, `let him come' unto me. And all the
sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. 27) And he said unto
them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Put ye every man his sword upon his
thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every
man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. 28)
And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the
people that day about three thousand men. 29) And Moses said, Consecrate
yourselves to-day to Jehovah, yea, every man against his son, and against his
brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day. 30) And it came
to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great
sin: and now I will go up unto Jehovah; peradventure I shall make atonement for
your sin. 31) And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Oh, this people
have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32) Yet now, if
thou wilt forgive their sin-; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book
which thou hast written. 33) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Whosoever hath
sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. 34) And now go, lead
the people unto `the place' of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine angel
shall go before thee; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their
sin upon them. 35) And Jehovah smote the people, because they made the
calf, which Aaron made.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Depart, go up hence, thou and the people
that thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land of which I
sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give
it: 2) and I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the
Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite: 3) unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go
up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiffnecked people, lest I consume thee
in the way. 4) And when the people heard these evil tidings, they
mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments. 5) And Jehovah said
unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people; if I
go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee: therefore now
put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. 6)
And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount
Horeb onward. 7) Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without
the camp, afar off from the camp; and he called it, The tent of meeting. And it
came to pass, that every one that sought Jehovah went out unto the tent of
meeting, which was without the camp. 8) And it came to pass, when Moses
went out unto the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, every man at his
tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the Tent. 9)
And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud
descended, and stood at the door of the Tent: and `Jehovah' spake with Moses. 10)
And all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent: and
all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent door. 11)
And Jehovah spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.
And he turned again into the camp: but his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a
young man, departed not out of the Tent. 12) And Moses said unto Jehovah,
See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know
whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou
hast also found favor in my sight. 13) Now therefore, I pray thee, if I
have found favor in thy sight, show me now thy ways, that I may know thee, to
the end that I may find favor in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy
people. 14) And he said, My presence shall go `with thee', and I will
give thee rest. 15) And he said unto him, If thy presence go not `with
me', carry us not up hence. 16) For wherein now shall it be known that I
have found favor in thy sight, I and thy people? is it not in that thou goest
with us, so that we are separated, I and thy people, from all the people that
are upon the face of the earth? 17) And Jehovah said unto Moses, I will
do this thing also that thou hast spoken; for thou hast found favor in my sight,
and I know thee by name. 18) And he said, Show me, I pray thee, thy
glory. 19) And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and
will proclaim the name of Jehovah before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I
will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20) And
he said, Thou canst not see my face; for man shall not see me and live. 21)
and Jehovah said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon the
rock: 22) and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I
will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand until I
have passed by: 23) and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my
back; but my face shall not be seen.
1) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto
the first: and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first
tables, which thou brakest. 2) And be ready by the morning, and come up
in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of
the mount. 3) And no man shall come up with thee; neither let any man be
seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that
mount. 4) And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses
rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as Jehovah had
commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone. 5) And Jehovah
descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of
Jehovah. 6) And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah,
Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in
lovingkindness and truth, 7) keeping lovingkindness for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear
`the guilty', visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon
the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. 8)
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. 9)
And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I
pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our
iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. 10) And he said,
Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have
not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among
which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible thing that I
do with thee. 11) Observe thou that which I command thee this day:
behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite,
and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12) Take heed to
thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou
goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: 13) but ye shall
break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down
their Asherim; 14) for thou shalt worship no other god: for Jehovah,
whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: 15) lest thou make a covenant
with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and
sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice; 16)
and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters play the
harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods. 17)
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. 18) The feast of unleavened bread
shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded
thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou camest
out from Egypt. 19) All that openeth the womb is mine; and all thy cattle
that is male, the firstlings of cow and sheep. 20) And the firstling of
an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou
shalt break its neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none
shall appear before me empty. 21) Six days thou shalt work, but on the
seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. 22)
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, `even' of the first-fruits of wheat
harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. 23) Three times
in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of
Israel. 24) For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy
borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear
before Jehovah thy God three times in the year. 25) Thou shalt not offer
the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of
the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. 26) The first of the
first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of Jehovah thy God.
Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk. 27) And Jehovah said unto
Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a
covenant with thee and with Israel. 28) And he was there with Jehovah
forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he
wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. 29)
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables
of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses
knew not that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him. 30)
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his
face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. 31) And Moses called
unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him:
and Moses spake to them. 32) And afterward all the children of Israel
came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him
in mount Sinai. 33) And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a
veil on his face. 34) But when Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with
him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spake unto
the children of Israel that which he was commanded. 35) And the children
of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses
put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
1) And Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel,
and said unto them, These are the words which Jehovah hath commanded, that ye
should do them. 2) Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day
there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to Jehovah: whosoever
doeth any work therein shall be put to death. 3) Ye shall kindle no fire
throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. 4) And Moses spake unto
all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which
Jehovah commanded, saying, 5) Take ye from among you an offering unto
Jehovah; whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Jehovah's offering:
gold, and silver, and brass, 6) and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine linen, and goats' `hair', 7) and rams' skins dyed red, and
sealskins, and acacia wood, 8) and oil for the light, and spices for the
anointing oil, and for the sweet incense, 9) and onyx stones, and stones
to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate. 10) And let every
wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that Jehovah hath commanded: 11)
the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its
bars, its pillars, and its sockets; 12) the ark, and the staves thereof,
the mercy-seat, and the veil of the screen; 13) the table, and its
staves, and all its vessels, and the showbread; 14) the candlestick also
for the light, and its vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for the light; 15)
and the altar of incense, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet
incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle; 16)
the altar of burnt-offering, with its grating of brass, it staves, and all its
vessels, the laver and its base; 17) the hangings of the court, the
pillars thereof, and their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court; 18)
the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords; 19)
the finely wrought 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. 20) And all the congregation of the children of Israel
departed from the presence of Moses. 21) And they came, every one whose
heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, `and' brought
Jehovah's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all the service
thereof, and for the holy garments. 22) And they came, both men and
women, as many as were willing-hearted, `and' brought brooches, and ear-rings,
and signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man that offered
an offering of gold unto Jehovah. 23) And every man, with whom was found
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' `hair', and rams'
skins dyed red, and sealskins, brought them. 24) Every one that did offer
an offering of silver and brass brought Jehovah's offering; and every man, with
whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it. 25)
And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought
that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine
linen. 26) And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun
the goats' `hair'. 27) And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the
stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate; 28) and the
spice, and the oil; for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet
incense. 29) The children of Israel brought a freewill-offering unto
Jehovah; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the
work, which Jehovah had commanded to be made by Moses. 30) And Moses said
unto the children of Israel, See, Jehovah hath called by name Bezalel the son of
Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. 31) And he hath filled him
with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in
all manner of workmanship; 32) and to devise skilful works, to work in
gold, and in silver, and in brass, 33) and in cutting of stones for
setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship. 34)
And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. 35) Them hath he filled with wisdom of
heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, and of the skilful
workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine
linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any workmanship, and of those
that devise skilful works.
1) And Bezalel and Oholiab shall work, and every wise-hearted man, in
whom Jehovah hath put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work
for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Jehovah hath commanded. 2)
And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart
Jehovah had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto
the work to do it: 3) and they received of Moses all the offering which
the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary,
wherewith to make it. And they brought yet unto him freewill-offerings every
morning. 4) And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the
sanctuary, came every man from his work which they wrought. 5) And they
spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service
of the work which Jehovah commanded to make. 6) And Moses gave
commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying,
Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary.
So the people were restrained from bringing. 7) For the stuff they had
was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much. 8) And all the
wise-hearted men among them that wrought the work made the tabernacle with ten
curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with
cherubim, the work of the skilful workman, `Bezalel' made them. 9) The
length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each
curtain four cubits: all the curtains had one measure. 10) And he coupled
five curtains one to another: and `the other' five curtains he coupled one to
another. 11) And he made loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain
from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the edge of the curtain
that was outmost in the second coupling. 12) Fifty loops made he in the
one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain that was in the
second coupling: the loops were opposite one to another. 13) And he made
fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps:
so the tabernacle was one. 14) And he made curtains of goats' `hair' for
a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them. 15) The length
of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain:
the eleven curtains had one measure. 16) And he coupled five curtains by
themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17) And he made fifty loops
on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops
made he upon the edge of the curtain which was `outmost in' the second coupling.
18) And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that
it might be one. 19) And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins
dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above. 20) And he made the boards
for the tabernacle, of acacia wood, standing up. 21) Ten cubits was the
length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. 22)
Each board had two tenons, joined one to another: thus did he make for all the
boards of the tabernacle. 23) And he made the boards for the tabernacle:
twenty boards for the south side southward. 24) And he made forty sockets
of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two
tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. 25) And
for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards,
26) and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and
two sockets under another board. 27) And for the hinder part of the
tabernacle westward he made six boards. 28) And two boards made he for
the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part. 29) And they were
double beneath; and in like manner they were entire unto the top thereof unto
one ring: thus he did to both of them in the two corners. 30) And there
were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every
board two sockets. 31) And he made bars of acacia wood; five for the
boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 32) and five bars for the
boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the
tabernacle for the hinder part westward. 33) And he made the middle bar
to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other. 34)
And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places
for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold. 35) And he made the veil
of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim, the work
of the skilful workman, made he it. 36) And he made thereunto four
pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; And he
cast for them four sockets of silver. 37) And he made a screen for the
door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the
work of the embroiderer; 38) and the five pillars of it with their hooks:
and he overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold; and their five
sockets were of brass.
1) And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half was the
length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half
the height of it: 2) and he overlaid it with pure gold within and
without, and made a crown of gold to it round about. 3) And he cast for
it four rings of gold, in the four feet thereof; even two rings on the one side
of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 4) And he made staves of
acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. 5) And he put the staves into
the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. 6) And he made a
mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half `was' the length thereof, and a
cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 7) And he made two cherubim of
gold; of beaten work made he them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat; 8)
one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end: of one piece with
the mercy-seat made he the cherubim at the two ends thereof. 9) And the
cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their
wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy-seat were the faces of
the cherubim. 10) And he made the table of acacia wood: two cubits `was'
the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the
height thereof: 11) and he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a
crown of gold round about. 12) And he made unto it a border of a
handbreadth round about, and made a golden crown to the border thereof round
about. 13) And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in
the four corners that were on the four feet thereof. 14) Close by the
border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table. 15)
And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the
table. 16) And he made the vessels which were upon the table, the dishes
thereof, and the spoons thereof, and the bowls thereof, and the flagons thereof,
wherewith to pour out, of pure gold. 17) And he made the candlestick of
pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick, even its base, and its shaft;
its cups, it knops, and its flowers, were of one piece with it: 18) and
there were six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the
candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick
out of the other side thereof: 19) three cups made like almond-blossoms
in one branch, a knop and a flower, and three cups made like almond-blossoms in
the other branch, a knop and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the
candlestick. 20) And in the candlestick were four cups made like
almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof; 21) and a
knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of
one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, for the
six branches going out of it. 22) Their knops and their branches were of
one piece with it: the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold. 23)
And he made the lamps thereof, seven, and the snuffers thereof, and the
snuffdishes thereof, of pure gold. 24) Of a talent of pure gold made he
it, and all the vessels thereof. 25) And he made the altar of incense of
acacia wood: a cubit was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof,
foursquare; and two cubits was the height thereof; the horns thereof were of one
piece with it. 26) And he overlaid it with pure gold, the top thereof,
and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: and he made unto it a
crown of gold round about. 27) And he made for it two golden rings under
the crown thereof, upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it, for
places for staves wherewith to bear it. 28) And he made the staves of
acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. 29) And he made the holy
anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the
perfumer.
1) And he made the altar of burnt-offering of acacia wood: five cubits
was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof, foursquare; and
three cubits the height thereof. 2) And he made the horns thereof upon
the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of one piece with it: and he
overlaid it with brass. 3) And he made all the vessels of the altar, the
pots, and the shovels, and the basins, the flesh-hooks, and the firepans: all
the vessels thereof made he of brass. 4) And he made for the altar a
grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway
up. 5) And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass,
to be places for the staves. 6) And he made the staves of acacia wood,
and overlaid them with brass. 7) And he put the staves into the rings on
the sides of the altar, wherewith to bear it; he made it hollow with planks. 8)
And he made the laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, of the mirrors of
the ministering women that ministered at the door of the tent of meeting. 9)
And he made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court
were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits; 10) their pillars were
twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their
fillets were of silver. 11) And for the north side a hundred cubits,
their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the
pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 12) And for the west side were
hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of
the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 13) And for the east side
eastward fifty cubits. 14) The hangings for the one side `of the gate'
were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three; 15)
and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court
were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 16)
All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen. 17)
And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and
their fillets, of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and
all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. 18) And the
screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length,
and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the
court. 19) And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass;
their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets,
of silver. 20) And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round
about, were of brass. 21) This is the sum of `the things for' the
tabernacle, even the tabernacle 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. 22) And Bezalel the son of
Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Jehovah commanded
Moses. 23) And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe
of Dan, an engraver, and a skilful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in
purple, and in scarlet, and in fine linen. 24) All the gold that was used
for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering,
was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary. 25) And the silver of them that were numbered of
the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and
threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: 26) a
beka a head, `that is', half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for
every one that passed over to them that were numbered, from twenty years old and
upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty
men. 27) And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets
of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; a hundred sockets for the hundred
talents, a talent for a socket. 28) And of the thousand seven hundred
seventy and five `shekels' he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their
capitals, and made fillets for them. 29) And the brass of the offering
was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels. 30) And
therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tent of meeting, and the brazen
altar, and the brazen grating for it, and all the vessels of the altar, 31)
and the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the gate of the
court, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round
about.
1) And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made finely wrought
garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for
Aaron; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 2) And he made the ephod of gold,
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 3) And they did
beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue,
and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the
skilful workman. 4) They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at
the two ends was it joined together. 5) And the skilfully woven band,
that was upon it, wherewith to gird it on, was of the same piece `and' like the
work thereof; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen;
as Jehovah commanded Moses. 6) And they wrought the onyx stones, inclosed
in settings of gold, graven with the engravings of a signet, according to the
names of the children of Israel. 7) And he put them on the
shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of
Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 8) And he made the breastplate, the
work of the skilful workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9) It was foursquare; they
made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the
breadth thereof, being double. 10) And they set in it four rows of
stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row; 11) and
the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; 12) and the third
row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 13) and the fourth row, a
beryl, an onyx, and a jaspar: they were inclosed in inclosings of gold in their
settings. 14) And the stones were according to the names of the children
of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet,
every one according to his name, for the twelve tribes. 15) And they made
upon the breastplate chains like cords, of wreathen work of pure gold. 16)
And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on
the two ends of the breastplate. 17) And they put the two wreathen chains
of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. 18) And the
`other' two ends of the two wreathen chains they put on the two settings, and
put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart thereof. 19)
And they made two rings of gold, and put them upon the two ends of the
breastplate, upon the edge thereof, which was toward the side of the ephod
inward. 20) And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two
shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the
coupling thereof, above the skilfully woven band of the ephod. 21) And
they did bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod
with a lace of blue, that it might be upon the skilfully woven band of the
ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as Jehovah
commanded Moses. 22) And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all
of blue. 23) And the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole
of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not
be rent. 24) And they made upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of
blue, and purple, and scarlet, `and' twined `linen'. 25) And they made
bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the skirts
of the robe round about, between the pomegranates; 26) a bell and a
pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about,
to minister in; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 27) And they made the coats
of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons, 28) and the
mitre of fine linen, and the goodly head-tires of fine linen, and the linen
breeches of fine twined linen, 29) and the girdle of fine twined linen,
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer; as Jehovah
commanded Moses. 30) And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure
gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO
JEHOVAH. 31) And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it upon the
mitre above; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 32) Thus was finished all the
work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting: and the children of Israel did
according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses; so did they. 33) And they
brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the Tent, and all its furniture, its clasps,
its boards, it bars, and its pillars, and it sockets; 34) and the
covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of sealskins, and the veil of
the screen; 35) the ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the
mercy-seat; 36) the table, all the vessels thereof, and the showbread; 37)
the pure candlestick, the lamps thereof, even the lamps to be set in order, and
all the vessels thereof, and the oil for the light; 38) and the golden
altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the door
of the Tent; 39) the brazen altar, and its grating of brass, its staves,
and all its vessels, the laver and its base; 40) the hangings of the
court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court,
the cords thereof, and the pins thereof, and all the instruments of the service
of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting; 41) the finely wrought
garments for ministering in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the
priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office. 42)
According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all
the work. 43) And Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it;
as Jehovah had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2) On the first day of
the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 3)
And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and thou shalt screen the
ark with the veil. 4) And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order
the things that are upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light
the lamps thereof. 5) And thou shalt set the golden altar for incense
before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the
tabernacle. 6) And thou shalt set the altar of burnt-offering before the
door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 7) And thou shalt set the
laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put water therein. 8)
And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the screen of the gate
of the court. 9) And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the
tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the furniture
thereof: and it shall be holy. 10) And thou shalt anoint the altar of
burnt-offering, and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar shall
be most holy. 11) And thou shalt anoint the laver and its base, and
sanctify it. 12) And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of
the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water. 13) And thou shalt
put upon Aaron the holy garments; and thou shalt anoint him, and sanctify him,
that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. 14) And thou shalt
bring his sons, and put coats upon them; 15) and thou shalt anoint them,
as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the
priest's office: and their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting
priesthood throughout their generations. 16) Thus did Moses: according to
all that Jehovah commanded him, so did he. 17) And it came to pass in the
first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the
tabernacle was reared up. 18) And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and
laid its sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof,
and reared up its pillars. 19) And he spread the tent over the
tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as Jehovah commanded
Moses. 20) And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the
staves on the ark, and put the mercy-seat above upon the ark: 21) and he
brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and
screened the ark of the testimony; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 22) And he
put the table in the tent of meeting, upon the side of the tabernacle northward,
without the veil. 23) And he set the bread in order upon it before
Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 24) And he put the candlestick in
the tent of meeting, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle
southward. 25) And he lighted the lamps before Jehovah; as Jehovah
commanded Moses. 26) And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting
before the veil: 27) and he burnt thereon incense of sweet spices; as
Jehovah commanded Moses. 28) And he put the screen of the door to the
tabernacle. 29) And he set the altar of burnt-offering at the door of the
tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt-offering and
the meal-offering; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 30) And he set the laver
between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, wherewith to
wash. 31) And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their
feet thereat; 32) when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they
came near unto the altar, they washed; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 33)
And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up
the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work. 34) Then
the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Jehovah filled the
tabernacle. 35) And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of meeting,
because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.
36) And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the
children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys: 37) but if
the cloud was not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was
taken up. 38) For the cloud of Jehovah was upon the tabernacle by day,
and there was fire therein by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel,
throughout all their journeys.
Leviticus
1) And Jehovah called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tent of
meeting, saying, 2) Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When any man of you offereth an oblation unto Jehovah, ye shall offer your
oblation of the cattle, `even' of the herd and of the flock. 3) If his
oblation be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male without
blemish: he shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be
accepted before Jehovah. 4) And he shall lay his hand upon the head of
the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 5)
And he shall kill the bullock before Jehovah: and Aaron's sons, the priests,
shall present the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that
is at the door of the tent of meeting. 6) And he shall flay the
burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces. 7) And the sons of Aaron the
priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay wood in order upon the fire; 8)
and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat, in
order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar: 9) but
its inwards and its legs shall he wash with water: and the priest shall burn the
whole on the altar, for a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savor unto Jehovah. 10) And if his oblation be of the flock, of the
sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt-offering; he shall offer it a male without
blemish. 11) And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward
before Jehovah: and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood upon the
altar round about. 12) And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head
and its fat; and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the
fire which is upon the altar: 13) but the inwards and the legs shall he
wash with water; and the priest shall offer the whole, and burn it upon the
altar: it is a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto
Jehovah. 14) And if his oblation to Jehovah be a burnt-offering of birds,
then he shall offer his oblation of turtle-doves, or of young pigeons. 15)
And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off its head, and burn
it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be drained out on the side of the
altar; 16) and he shall take away its crop with the filth thereof, and
cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes: 17)
and he shall rend it by the wings thereof, `but' shall not divide it asunder;
and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the
fire: it is a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto
Jehovah.
1) And when any one offereth an oblation of a meal-offering unto Jehovah,
his oblation shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put
frankincense thereon: 2) and he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the
priests; and he shall take thereout his handful of the fine flour thereof, and
of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn
`it as' the memorial thereof upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savor unto Jehovah: 3) and that which is left of the meal-offering
shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of
Jehovah made by fire. 4) And when thou offerest an oblation of a
meal-offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour
mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 5) And if thy
oblation be a meal-offering of the baking-pan, it shall be of fine flour
unleavened, mingled with oil. 6) Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour
oil thereon: it is a meal-offering. 7) And if thy oblation be a
meal-offering of the frying-pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. 8)
And thou shalt bring the meal-offering that is made of these things unto
Jehovah: and it shall be presented unto the priest, and he shall bring it unto
the altar. 9) And the priest shall take up from the meal-offering the
memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of
a sweet savor unto Jehovah. 10) And that which is left of the
meal-offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the
offerings of Jehovah made by fire. 11) No meal-offering, which ye shall
offer unto Jehovah, shall be made with leaven; for ye shall burn no leaven, nor
any honey, as an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. 12) As an oblation
of first -`fruits' ye shall offer them unto Jehovah: but they shall not come up
for a sweet savor on the altar. 13) And every oblation of thy
meal-offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of
the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering: with all thine
oblations thou shalt offer salt. 14) And if thou offer a meal-offering of
first-fruits unto Jehovah, thou shalt offer for the meal-offering of thy
first-fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.
15) And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a
meal-offering. 16) And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of
the bruised grain thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
1) And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace-offerings; if he offer of
the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before
Jehovah. 2) And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation, and
kill it at the door of the tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons the priests shall
sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. 3) And he shall offer of
the sacrifice of peace-offerings an offering made by fire unto Jehovah; the fat
that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 4)
and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the
caul upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away. 5) And Aaron's
sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt-offering, which is upon the wood
that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto
Jehovah. 6) And if his oblation for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto
Jehovah be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. 7)
If he offer a lamb for his oblation, then shall he offer it before Jehovah; 8)
and he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation, and kill it before the
tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the
altar round about. 9) And he shall offer of the sacrifice of
peace-offerings an offering made by fire unto Jehovah; the fat thereof, the fat
tail entire, he shall take away hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth
the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 10) and the two
kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the caul upon
the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away. 11) And the priest shall
burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto
Jehovah. 12) And if his oblation be a goat, then he shall offer it before
Jehovah: 13) and he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it
before the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood
thereof upon the altar round about. 14) And he shall offer thereof his
oblation, `even' an offering made by fire unto Jehovah; the fat that covereth
the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 15) and the two
kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the caul upon
the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away. 16) And the priest shall
burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a
sweet savor; all the fat is Jehovah's. 17) It shall be a perpetual
statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat
neither fat nor blood.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2) Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, If any one shall sin unwittingly, in any of the
things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of
them: 3) if the anointed priest shall sin so as to bring guilt on the
people, then let him offer for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock
without blemish unto Jehovah for a sin-offering. 4) And he shall bring
the bullock unto the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah; and he shall
lay his hand upon the head of the bullock, and kill the bullock before Jehovah. 5)
And the anointed priest shall take of the blood of the bullock, and bring it to
the tent of meeting: 6) and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood,
and sprinkle of the blood seven times before Jehovah, before the veil of the
sanctuary. 7) And the priest shall put of the blood upon the horns of the
altar of sweet incense before Jehovah, which is in the tent of meeting; and all
the blood of the bullock shall he pour out at the base of the altar of
burnt-offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting. 8) And all
the fat of the bullock of the sin-offering he shall take off from it; the fat
that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 9)
and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and
the caul upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away, 10) as it
is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace-offerings: and the priest
shall burn them upon the altar of burnt-offering. 11) And the skin of the
bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards,
and its dung, 12) even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the
camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood
with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall it be burnt. 13) And if
the whole congregation of Israel err, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the
assembly, and they have done any of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not
to be done, and are guilty; 14) when the sin wherein they have sinned is
known, then the assembly shall offer a young bullock for a sin-offering, and
bring it before the tent of meeting. 15) And the elders of the
congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before Jehovah;
and the bullock shall be killed before Jehovah. 16) And the anointed
priest shall bring of the blood of the bullock to the tent of meeting: 17)
and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times
before Jehovah, before the veil. 18) And he shall put of the blood upon
the horns of the altar which is before Jehovah, that is in the tent of meeting;
and all the blood shall he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering,
which is at the door of the tent of meeting. 19) And all the fat thereof
shall he take off from it, and burn it upon the altar. 20) Thus shall he
do with the bullock; as he did with the bullock of the sin-offering, so shall he
do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be
forgiven. 21) And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and
burn it as he burned the first bullock: it is the sin-offering for the assembly.
22) When a ruler sinneth, and doeth unwittingly any one of all the things
which Jehovah his God hath commanded not to be done, and is guilty; 23)
if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, be made known to him, he shall bring for his
oblation a goat, a male without blemish. 24) And he shall lay his hand
upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the
burnt-offering before Jehovah: it is a sin-offering. 25) And the priest
shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put it upon the
horns of the altar of burnt-offering; and the blood thereof shall he pour out at
the base of the altar of burnt-offering. 26) And all the fat thereof
shall he burn upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace-offerings;
and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin, and he shall
be forgiven. 27) And if any one of the common people sin unwittingly, in
doing any of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done, and be
guilty; 28) if his sin, which he hath sinned, be made known to him, then
he shall bring for his oblation a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin
which he hath sinned. 29) And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the
sin-offering, and kill the sin-offering in the place of burnt-offering. 30)
And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon
the horns of the altar of burnt-offering; and all the blood thereof shall he
pour out at the base of the altar. 31) And all the fat thereof shall he
take away, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace-offerings;
and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savor unto Jehovah; and
the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven. 32)
And if he bring a lamb as his oblation for a sin-offering, he shall bring it a
female without blemish. 33) And he shall lay his hand upon the head of
the sin-offering, and kill it for a sin-offering in the place where they kill
the burnt-offering. 34) And the priest shall take of the blood of the
sin-offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of
burnt-offering; and all the blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the
altar: 35) and all the fat thereof shall he take away, as the fat of the
lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall
burn them on the altar, upon the offerings of Jehovah made by fire; and the
priest shall make atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned, and
he shall be forgiven.
1) And if any one sin, in that he heareth the voice of adjuration, he
being a witness, whether he hath seen or known, if he do not utter `it', then he
shall bear his iniquity. 2) Or if any one touch any unclean thing,
whether it be the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean cattle,
or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it be hidden from him, and he be
unclean, then he shall be guilty. 3) Or if he touch the uncleanness of
man, whatsoever his uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from
him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty. 4) Or if any one
swear rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a
man shall utter rashly with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of
it, then he shall be guilty in one of these `things'. 5) And it shall be,
when he shall be guilty in one of these `things', that he shall confess that
wherein he hath sinned: 6) and he shall bring his trespass-offering unto
Jehovah for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a
goat, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him as
concerning his sin. 7) And if his means suffice not for a lamb, then he
shall bring his trespass-offering for that wherein he hath sinned, two
turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, unto Jehovah; one for a sin-offering, and
the other for a burnt-offering. 8) And he shall bring them unto the
priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin-offering first, and wring off
its head from its neck, but shall not divide it asunder: 9) and he shall
sprinkle of the blood of the sin-offering upon the side of the altar; and the
rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar: it is a
sin-offering. 10) And he shall offer the second for a burnt-offering,
according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him as
concerning his sin which he hath sinned, and he shall be forgiven. 11)
But if his means suffice not for two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then he
shall bring his oblation for that wherein he hath sinned, the tenth part of an
ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering: he shall put no oil upon it, neither
shall he put any frankincense thereon; for it is a sin-offering. 12) And
he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as
the memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, upon the offerings of Jehovah
made by fire: it is a sin-offering. 13) And the priest shall make
atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in any of these
things, and he shall be forgiven: and `the remnant' shall be the priest's, as
the meal-offering. 14) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 15)
If any one commit a trespass, and sin unwittingly, in the holy things of
Jehovah; then he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah, a ram without
blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation in silver by shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass-offering: 16) and he
shall make restitution for that which he hath done amiss in the holy thing, and
shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest; and the priest
shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, and he shall
be forgiven. 17) And if any one sin, and do any of the things which
Jehovah hath commanded not to be done; though he knew it not, yet is he guilty,
and shall bear his iniquity. 18) And he shall bring a ram without blemish
out of the flock, according to thy estimation, for a trespass-offering, unto the
priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing wherein
he erred unwittingly and knew it not, and he shall be forgiven. 19) It is
a trespass-offering: he is certainly guilty before Jehovah.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2) If any one sin, and
commit a trespass against Jehovah, and deal falsely with his neighbor in a
matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or have oppressed his neighbor,
3) or have found that which was lost, and deal falsely therein, and swear
to a lie; in any of all these things that a man doeth, sinning therein; 4)
then it shall be, if he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that
which he took by robbery, or the thing which he hath gotten by oppression, or
the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, 5)
or any thing about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in
full, and shall add the fifth part more thereto: unto him to whom it
appertaineth shall he give it, in the day of his being found guilty. 6)
And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah, a ram without blemish out
of the flock, according to thy estimation, for a trespass-offering, unto the
priest: 7) and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah;
and he shall be forgiven concerning whatsoever he doeth so as to be guilty
thereby. 8) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 9) Command Aaron
and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt-offering: the burnt-offering
shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night unto the morning; and the fire
of the altar shall be kept burning thereon. 10) And the priest shall put
on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh; and he
shall take up the ashes whereto the fire hath consumed the burnt-offering on the
altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. 11) And he shall put off
his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the
camp unto a clean place. 12) And the fire upon the altar shall be kept
burning thereon, 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
thereon the fat of the peace-offerings. 13) Fire shall be kept burning
upon the altar continually; it shall not go out. 14) And this is the law
of the meal-offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Jehovah, before
the altar. 15) And he shall take up therefrom his handful, of the fine
flour of the meal-offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense
which is upon the meal-offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet
savor, as the memorial thereof, unto Jehovah. 16) And that which is left
thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: it shall be eaten without leaven in a holy
place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it. 17) It
shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings
made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin-offering, and as the
trespass-offering. 18) Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat
of it, as `his' portion for ever throughout your generations, from the offerings
of Jehovah made by fire: whosoever toucheth them shall be holy. 19) And
Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 20) This is the oblation of Aaron and
of his sons, which they shall offer unto Jehovah in the day when he is anointed:
the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering perpetually, half
of it in the morning, and half thereof in the evening. 21) On a
baking-pan it shall be made with oil; when it is soaked, thou shalt bring it in:
in baken pieces shalt thou offer the meal-offering for a sweet savor unto
Jehovah. 22) And the anointed priest that shall be in his stead from
among his sons shall offer it: by a statute for ever it shall be wholly burnt
unto Jehovah. 23) And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly
burnt: it shall not be eaten. 24) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 25)
Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin-offering:
in the place where the burnt-offering is killed shall the sin-offering be killed
before Jehovah: it is most holy. 26) The priest that offereth it for sin
shall eat it: in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of
meeting. 27) Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy; and
when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash
that whereon it was sprinkled in a holy place. 28) But the earthen vessel
wherein it is boiled shall be broken; and if it be boiled in a brazen vessel, it
shall be scoured, and rinsed in water. 29) Every male among the priests
shall eat thereof: it is most holy. 30) And no sin-offering, whereof any
of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy
place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt with fire.
1) And this is the law of the trespass-offering: it is most holy. 2)
In the place where they kill the burnt-offering shall they kill the
trespass-offering; and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle upon the altar round
about. 3) And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof: the fat tail, and
the fat that covereth the inwards, 4) and the two kidneys, and the fat
that is on them, which is by the loins, and the caul upon the liver, with the
kidneys, shall he take away; 5) and the priest shall burn them upon the
altar for an offering made by fire unto Jehovah: it is a trespass-offering. 6)
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in a holy
place: it is most holy. 7) As is the sin-offering, so is the
trespass-offering; there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement
therewith, he shall have it. 8) And the priest that offereth any man's
burnt-offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the
burnt-offering which he hath offered. 9) And every meal-offering that is
baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the frying-pan, and on the
baking-pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it. 10) And every
meal-offering, mingled with oil, or dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one
as well as another. 11) And this is the law of the sacrifice of
peace-offerings, which one shall offer unto Jehovah. 12) If he offer it
for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving
unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and
cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour soaked. 13) With cakes of leavened
bread he shall offer his oblation with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for
thanksgiving. 14) And of it he shall offer one out of each oblation for a
heave-offering unto Jehovah; it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood
of the peace-offerings. 15) And the flesh of the sacrifice of his
peace-offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his oblation; he
shall not leave any of it until the morning. 16) But if the sacrifice of
his oblation be a vow, or a freewill-offering, it shall be eaten on the day that
he offereth his sacrifice; and on the morrow that which remaineth of it shall be
eaten: 17) but that which remaineth of the flesh of the sacrifice on the
third day shall be burnt with fire. 18) And if any of the flesh of the
sacrifice of his peace-offerings be eaten on the third day, it shall not be
accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an
abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity. 19)
And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be
burnt with fire. And as for the flesh, every one that is clean shall eat
thereof: 20) but the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of
peace-offerings, that pertain unto Jehovah, having his uncleanness upon him,
that soul shall be cut off from his people. 21) And when any one shall
touch any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean beast, or any
unclean abomination, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings,
which pertain unto Jehovah, that soul shall be cut off from his people. 22)
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 23) Speak unto the children of
Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat. 24) And
the fat of that which dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of
beasts, may be used for any other service; but ye shall in no wise eat of it. 25)
For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made
by fire unto Jehovah, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his
people. 26) And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of bird or
of beast, in any of your dwellings. 27) Whosoever it be that eateth any
blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people. 28) And Jehovah spake
unto Moses, saying, 29) Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He
that offereth the sacrifice of his peace-offerings unto Jehovah shall bring his
oblation unto Jehovah out of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings: 30)
his own hands shall bring the offerings of Jehovah made by fire; the fat with
the breast shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave-offering
before Jehovah. 31) And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar; but
the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. 32) And the right thigh shall
ye give unto the priest for a heave-offering out of the sacrifices of your
peace-offerings. 33) He among the sons of Aaron that offereth the blood
of the peace-offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion. 34)
For the wave-breast and the heave-thigh have I taken of the children of Israel
out of the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, and have given them unto Aaron
the priest and unto his sons as `their' portion for ever from the children of
Israel. 35) This is the anointing-portion of Aaron, and the
anointing-portion of his sons, out of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, in
the day when he presented them to minister unto Jehovah in the priest's office; 36)
which Jehovah commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day
that he anointed them. It is `their' portion for ever throughout their
generations. 37) This 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; 38) which Jehovah
commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of
Israel to offer their oblations unto Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2) Take Aaron and his
sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bullock of the
sin-offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; 3)
and assemble thou all the congregation at the door of the tent of meeting. 4)
And Moses did as Jehovah commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at
the door of the tent of meeting. 5) And Moses said unto the congregation,
This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded to be done. 6) And Moses
brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. 7) And he put
upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the
robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the skilfully woven
band of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. 8) And he placed the
breastplate upon him: and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim. 9)
And he set the mitre upon his head; and upon the mitre, in front, did he set the
golden plate, the holy crown; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 10) And Moses
took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein,
and sanctified them. 11) And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven
times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its base,
to sanctify them. 12) And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's
head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. 13) And Moses brought Aaron's
sons, and clothed them with coats, and girded them with girdles, and bound
head-tires upon them; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 14) And he brought the
bullock of the sin-offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the
head of the bullock of the sin-offering. 15) And he slew it; and Moses
took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his
finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the
altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it. 16) And he took all
the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two
kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it upon the altar. 17) But the
bullock, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burnt with fire without
the camp; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 18) And he presented the ram of the
burnt-offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the
ram. 19) And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar
round about. 20) And he cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burnt the
head, and the pieces, and the fat. 21) And he washed the inwards and the
legs with water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a
burnt-offering for a sweet savor: it was an offering made by fire unto Jehovah;
as Jehovah commanded Moses. 22) And he presented the other ram, the ram
of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the
ram. 23) And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood thereof, and put it
upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and
upon the great toe of his right foot. 24) And he brought Aaron's sons;
and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumb
of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot: and Moses
sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about. 25) And he took the fat,
and the fat tail, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul of the
liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh: 26) and
out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before Jehovah, he took one
unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on
the fat, and upon the right thigh: 27) and he put the whole upon the
hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons, and waved them for a
wave-offering before Jehovah. 28) And Moses took them from off their
hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt-offering: they were a
consecration for a sweet savor: it was an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. 29)
And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave-offering before Jehovah: it
was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration; as Jehovah commanded Moses. 30)
And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar,
and sprinkled it upon Aaron, upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his
sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and
his sons' garments with him. 31) And Moses said unto Aaron and to his
sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tent of meeting: and there eat it and
the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, Aaron
and his sons shall eat it. 32) And that which remaineth of the flesh and
of the bread shall ye burn with fire. 33) And ye shall not go out from
the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration
be fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days. 34) As hath been
done this day, so Jehovah hath commanded to do, to make atonement for you. 35)
And at the door of the tent of meeting shall ye abide day and night seven days,
and keep the charge of Jehovah, that ye die not: for so I am commanded. 36)
And Aaron and his sons did all the things which Jehovah commanded by Moses.
1) And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his
sons, and the elders of Israel; 2) and he said unto Aaron, Take thee a
calf of the herd for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering, without
blemish, and offer them before Jehovah. 3) And unto the children of
Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a he-goat for a sin-offering; and a
calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt-offering; 4)
and an ox and a ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice before Jehovah; and a
meal-offering mingled with oil: for to-day Jehovah appeareth unto you. 5)
And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tent of meeting: and all
the congregation drew near and stood before Jehovah. 6) And Moses said,
This is the thing which Jehovah commanded that ye should do: and the glory of
Jehovah shall appear unto you. 7) And Moses said unto Aaron, Draw near
unto the altar, and offer thy sin-offering, and thy burnt-offering, and make
atonement for thyself, and for the people; and offer the oblation of the people,
and make atonement for them; as Jehovah commanded. 8) So Aaron drew near
unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin-offering, which was for himself. 9)
And the sons of Aaron presented the blood unto him; and he dipped his finger in
the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at
the base of the altar: 10) but the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul
from the liver of the sin-offering, he burnt upon the altar; as Jehovah
commanded Moses. 11) And the flesh and the skin he burnt with fire
without the camp. 12) And he slew the burnt-offering; and Aaron's sons
delivered unto him the blood, and he sprinkled it upon the altar round about. 13)
And they delivered the burnt-offering unto him, piece by piece, and the head:
and he burnt them upon the altar. 14) And he washed the inwards and the
legs, and burnt them upon the burnt-offering on the altar. 15) And he
presented the people's oblation, and took the goat of the sin-offering which was
for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first. 16)
And he presented the burnt-offering, and offered it according to the ordinance. 17)
And he presented the meal-offering, and filled his hand therefrom, and burnt it
upon the altar, besides the burnt-offering of the morning. 18) He slew
also the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which was for the
people: and Aaron's sons delivered unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon
the altar round about, 19) and the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat
tail, and that which covereth `the inwards', and the kidneys, and the caul of
the liver: 20) and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the
fat upon the altar: 21) and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved
for a wave-offering before Jehovah; as Moses commanded. 22) And Aaron
lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from
offering the sin-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings. 23)
And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and came out, and blessed the
people: and the glory of Jehovah appeared unto all the people. 24) And
there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and consumed upon the altar the
burnt-offering and the fat: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and
fell on their faces.
1) And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer,
and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before
Jehovah, which he had not commanded them. 2) And there came forth fire
from before Jehovah, and devoured them, and they died before Jehovah. 3)
Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that Jehovah spake, saying, I will be
sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be
glorified. And Aaron held his peace. 4) And Moses called Mishael and
Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Draw near,
carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp. 5) So they
drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said. 6)
And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Let not
the hair of your heads go loose, neither rend your clothes; that ye die not, and
that he be not wroth with all the congregation: but let your brethren, the whole
house of Israel, bewail the burning which Jehovah hath kindled. 7) And ye
shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, lest ye die; for the
anointing oil of Jehovah is upon you. And they did according to the word of
Moses. 8) And Jehovah spake unto Aaron, saying, 9) Drink no wine
nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of
meeting, that ye die not: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your
generations: 10) and that ye may make a distinction between the holy and
the common, and between the unclean and the clean; 11) and that ye may
teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto
them by Moses. 12) And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto
Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meal-offering that remaineth of the
offerings of Jehovah made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar;
for it is most holy; 13) and ye shall eat it in a holy place, because it
is thy portion, and thy sons' portion, of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire:
for so I am commanded. 14) And the wave-breast and the heave-thigh shall
ye eat in a clean place, thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for
they are given as thy portion, and thy sons' portion, out of the sacrifices of
the peace-offerings of the children of Israel. 15) The heave-thigh and
the wave-breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to
wave it for a wave-offering before Jehovah: and it shall be thine, and thy sons'
with thee, as a portion for ever; as Jehovah hath commanded. 16) And
Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin-offering, and, behold, it was burnt:
and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were
left, saying, 17) Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the
place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he hath given it you to bear
the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Jehovah? 18)
Behold, the blood of it was not brought into the sanctuary within: ye should
certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded. 19) And Aaron
spake unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin-offering and
their burnt-offering before Jehovah; and there have befallen me such things as
these: and if I had eaten the sin-offering to-day, would it have been
well-pleasing in the sight of Jehovah? 20) And when Moses heard `that',
it was well-pleasing in his sight.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, 2)
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye
may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. 3) Whatsoever parteth
the hoof, and is clovenfooted, `and' cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may
ye eat. 4) Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud,
or of them that part the hoof: the camel, because he cheweth the cud but parteth
not the hoof, he is unclean unto you. 5) And the coney, because he
cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you. 6) And
the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean
unto you. 7) And the swine, because he parteth the hoof, and is
clovenfooted, but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you. 8) Of
their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch; they are
unclean unto you. 9) These may ye eat of all that are in the waters:
whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers,
that may ye eat. 10) And all that have not 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 unto you, 11)
and they shall be an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, and
their carcasses ye shall have in abomination. 12) Whatsoever hath no fins
nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination unto you. 13) And these
ye shall have in abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are
an abomination: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray, 14) and
the kite, and the falcon after its kind, 15) every raven after its kind, 16)
and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the seamew, and the hawk after its
kind, 17) and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, 18)
and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the vulture, 19) and the stork,
the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 20) All winged
creeping things that go upon all fours are an abomination unto you. 21)
Yet these may ye eat of all winged creeping things that go upon all fours, which
have legs above their feet, wherewith to leap upon the earth. 22) Even
these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after
its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind. 23)
But all winged creeping things, which have four feet, are an abomination unto
you. 24) And by these ye shall become unclean: whosoever toucheth the
carcass of them shall be unclean until the even; 25) And whosoever
beareth `aught' of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean
until the even. 26) Every beast which parteth the hoof, and is not
clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, is unclean unto you: every one that toucheth
them shall be unclean. 27) And whatsoever goeth upon its paws, among all
beasts that go on all fours, they are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their
carcass shall be unclean until the even. 28) And he that beareth the
carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are
unclean unto you. 29) And these are they which are unclean unto you among
the creeping things that creep upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and
the great lizard after its kind, 30) and the gecko, and the
land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon. 31)
These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth
touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even. 32) And
upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean;
whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever
vessel it be, wherewith any work is done, it must be put into water, and it
shall be unclean until the even; then shall it be clean. 33) And every
earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be
unclean, and it ye shall break. 34) All food `therein' which may be
eaten, that on which water cometh, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be
drunk in every `such' vessel shall be unclean. 35) And every thing
whereupon `any part' of their carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether oven, or
range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be
unclean unto you. 36) Nevertheless a fountain or a pit wherein is a
gathering of water shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcass shall
be unclean. 37) And if `aught' of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed
which is to be sown, it is clean. 38) But if water be put upon the seed,
and `aught' of their carcass fall thereon, it is unclean unto you. 39)
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcass thereof
shall be unclean until the even. 40) And he that eateth of the carcass of
it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth
the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. 41)
And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth is an abomination; it
shall not be eaten. 42) Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever
goeth upon all fours, or whatsoever hath many feet, even all creeping things
that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination. 43)
Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth,
neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled
thereby. 44) For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves therefore,
and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any
manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth. 45) For I am Jehovah
that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore
be holy, for I am holy. 46) This is the law of the beast, and of the
bird, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every
creature that creepeth upon the earth; 47) to 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.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2) Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, If a woman conceive seed, and bear a man-child, then
she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness
shall she be unclean. 3) And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin
shall be circumcised. 4) And she shall continue in the blood of `her'
purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come
into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled. 5) But
if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her
impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of `her' purifying threescore and
six days. 6) And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son,
or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb a year old for a burnt-offering, and a
young pigeon, or a turtle-dove, for a sin-offering, unto the door of the tent of
meeting, unto the priest: 7) and he shall offer it before Jehovah, and
make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her
blood. This is the law for her that beareth, whether a male or a female. 8)
And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she shall take two turtle-doves,
or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt-offering, and the other for a
sin-offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be
clean.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2) When a
man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, or a scab, or a bright spot,
and it become in the skin of his flesh the plague of leprosy, then he shall be
brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests: 3)
and the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and if the
hair in the plague be turned white, and the appearance of the plague be deeper
than the skin of his flesh, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall
look on him, and pronounce him unclean. 4) And if the bright spot be
white in the skin of his flesh, and the appearance thereof be not deeper than
the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white, then the priest shall shut
up `him that hath' the plague seven days: 5) and the priest shall look on
him the seventh day: and, behold, if in his eyes the plague be at a stay, and
the plague be not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven
days more: 6) and the priest shall look on him again the seventh day;
and, behold, if the plague be dim, and the plague be not spread in the skin,
then the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is a scab: and he shall wash his
clothes, and be clean. 7) But if the scab spread abroad in the skin,
after that he hath showed himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show
himself to the priest again: 8) and the priest shall look; and, behold,
if the scab be spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean:
it is leprosy. 9) When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall
be brought unto the priest; 10) and the priest shall look; and, behold,
if there be a white rising in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and
there be quick raw flesh in the rising, 11) it is an old leprosy in the
skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: he shall not shut
him up, for he is unclean. 12) And if the leprosy break out abroad in the
skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of `him that hath' the plague from his
head even to his feet, as far as appeareth to the priest; 13) then the
priest shall look; and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he
shall pronounce `him' clean `that hath' the plague: it is all turned white: he
is clean. 14) But whensoever raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be
unclean. 15) And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce
him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean: it is leprosy. 16) Or if the raw
flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, then he shall come unto the priest;
17) and the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the plague be
turned into white, then the priest shall pronounce `him' clean `that hath' the
plague: he is clean. 18) And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a
boil, and it is healed, 19) and in the place of the boil there is a white
rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then is shall be showed to the priest; 20)
and the priest shall look; and, behold, if the appearance thereof be lower than
the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white, then the priest shall pronounce
him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy, it hath broken out in the boil. 21)
But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and
it be not lower than the skin, but be dim; then the priest shall shut him up
seven days: 22) And if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest
shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague. 23) But if the bright spot
stay in its place, and be not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest
shall pronounce him clean. 24) Or when the flesh hath in the skin thereof
a burning by fire, and the quick `flesh' of the burning become a bright spot,
reddish-white, or white; 25) then the priest shall look upon it; and,
behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and the appearance
thereof be deeper than the skin; it is leprosy, it hath broken out in the
burning: and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of
leprosy. 26) But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white
hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the skin, but be dim; then the
priest shall shut him up seven days: 27) and the priest shall look upon
him the seventh day: if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy. 28) And if the bright
spot stay in its place, and be not spread in the skin, but be dim; it is the
rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is the
scar of the burning. 29) And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the
head or upon the beard, 30) then the priest shall look on the plague;
and, behold, if the appearance thereof be deeper than the skin, and there be in
it yellow thin hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a scall,
it is leprosy of the head or of the beard. 31) And if the priest look on
the plague of the scall, and, behold, the appearance thereof be not deeper than
the skin, and there be no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up `him
that hath' the plague of the scall seven days: 32) And in the seventh day
the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the scall be not spread,
and there be in it no yellow hair, and the appearance of the scall be not deeper
than the skin, 33) then he shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not
shave; and the priest shall shut up `him that hath' the scall seven days more: 34)
and in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall; and, behold, if the
scall be not spread in the skin, and the appearance thereof be not deeper than
the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his
clothes, and be clean. 35) But if the scall spread abroad in the skin
after his cleansing, 36) then the priest shall look on him; and, behold,
if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the yellow
hair; he is unclean. 37) But if in his eyes the scall be at a stay, and
black hair be grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest
shall pronounce him clean. 38) And when a man or a woman hath in the skin
of the flesh bright spots, even white bright spots; 39) then the priest
shall look; and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be of a
dull white, it is a tetter, it hath broken out in the skin; he is clean. 40)
And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; `yet' is he clean. 41)
And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead
bald; `yet' is he clean. 42) But if there be in the bald head, or the
bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald
head, or his bald forehead. 43) Then the priest shall look upon him; and,
behold, if the rising of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his
bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh; 44)
he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him
unclean; his plague is in his head. 45) And the leper in whom the plague
is, his clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he
shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. 46) All the
days wherein the plague is in him he shall be unclean; he is unclean: he shall
dwell alone; without the camp shall his dwelling be. 47) The garment also
that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen
garment; 48) whether it be in warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen;
whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin; 49) if the plague be
greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the
woof, or in anything of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be showed
unto the priest. 50) And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut
up `that which hath' the plague seven days: 51) and he shall look on the
plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the
warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever service skin is used for; the
plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean. 52) And he shall burn the
garment, whether the warp or the woof, in woollen or in linen, or anything of
skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in
the fire. 53) And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be
not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of
skin; 54) then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein
the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more: 55) and the
priest shall look, after that the plague is washed; and, behold, if the plague
have not changed its color, and the plague be not spread, it is unclean; thou
shalt burn it in the fire: it is a fret, whether the bareness be within or
without. 56) And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be dim after
the washing thereof, then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the
skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof: 57) and if it appear still
in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it
is breaking out: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire. 58)
And the garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it
be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be
washed the second time, and shall be clean. 59) This is the law of the
plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or the
woof, or anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2) This shall be the law
of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest: 3)
and the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look; and,
behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper, 4) then shall
the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two living clean
birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 5) And the priest shall
command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. 6)
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet,
and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird
that was killed over the running water: 7) And he shall sprinkle upon him
that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him
clean, and shall let go the living bird into the open field. 8) And he
that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and
bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean: and after that he shall come into
the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days. 9) And it shall be
on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard
and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his
clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean. 10)
And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one
ewe-lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenth parts `of an ephah' of fine
flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil. 11) And
the priest that cleanseth him shall set the man that is to be cleansed, and
those things, before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting. 12) And
the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and offer him for a
trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave-offering before
Jehovah: 13) and he shall kill the he-lamb in the place where they kill
the sin-offering and the burnt-offering, in the place of the sanctuary: for as
the sin-offering is the priest's, so is the trespass-offering: it is most holy: 14)
and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest
shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and
upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. 15)
And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his
own left hand; 16) and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil
that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven
times before Jehovah: 17) and of the rest of the oil that is in his hand
shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be
cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his
right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offering: 18) and the rest of
the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is
to be cleansed: and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah. 19)
And the priest shall offer the sin-offering, and make atonement for him that is
to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the
burnt-offering; 20) and the priest shall offer the burnt-offering and the
meal-offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make atonement for him, and
he shall be clean. 21) And if he be poor, and cannot get so much, then he
shall take one he-lamb for a trespass-offering to be waved, to make atonement
for him, and one tenth part `of an ephah' of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering, and a log of oil; 22) and two turtle-doves, or two young
pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin-offering, and the
other a burnt-offering. 23) And on the eighth day he shall bring them for
his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tent of meeting, before
Jehovah: 24) and the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass-offering,
and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before
Jehovah. 25) And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass-offering; and the
priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and put it upon the tip
of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right
hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. 26) And the priest shall
pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand; 27) and the priest
shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand
seven times before Jehovah: 28) and the priest shall put of the oil that
is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and
upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon
the place of the blood of the trespass-offering: 29) and the rest of the
oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be
cleansed, to make atonement for him before Jehovah. 30) And he shall
offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is able to
get, 31) even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin-offering, and
the other for a burnt-offering, with the meal-offering: and the priest shall
make atonement for him that is to be cleansed before Jehovah. 32) This is
the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to get `that
which pertaineth' to his cleansing. 33) And Jehovah spake unto Moses and
unto Aaron, saying, 34) When ye are come into the land of Canaan, which I
give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the
land of your possession; 35) then he that owneth the house shall come and
tell the priest, saying, There seemeth to me to be as it were a plague in the
house. 36) And the priest shall command that they empty the house, before
the priest goeth in to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made
unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: 37) and
he shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the
house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be
lower than the wall; 38) then the priest shall go out of the house to the
door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. 39) And the priest
shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague be
spread in the walls of the house; 40) then the priest shall command that
they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean
place without the city: 41) and he shall cause the house to be scraped
within round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scrape off,
without the city into an unclean place: 42) and they shall take other
stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other
mortar, and shall plaster the house. 43) And if the plague come again,
and break out in the house, after that he hath taken out the stones, and after
he hath scraped the house, and after it is plastered; 44) then the priest
shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is
a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean. 45) And he shall break
down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of
the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place. 46)
Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be
unclean until the even. 47) And he that lieth in the house shall wash his
clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes. 48) And
if the priest shall come in, and look, and, behold, the plague hath not spread
in the house, after the house was plastered; then the priest shall pronounce the
house clean, because the plague is healed. 49) And he shall take to
cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 50)
and he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water: 51)
and he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the
living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running
water, and sprinkle the house seven times: 52) and he shall cleanse the
house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the
living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
53) but he shall let got the living bird out of the city into the open
field: so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean. 54)
This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and for a scall, 55)
and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house, 56) and for a rising,
and for a scab, and for a bright spot; 57) to teach when it is unclean,
and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2) Speak
unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath an issue out
of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean. 3) And this shall be
his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh
be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness. 4) Every bed whereon he
that hath the issue lieth shall be unclean; and everything whereon he sitteth
shall be unclean. 5) And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 6)
And he that sitteth on anything whereon he that hath the issue sat shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 7)
And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 8)
And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean, then he shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 9)
And what saddle soever he that hath the issue rideth upon shall be unclean. 10)
And whosoever toucheth anything that was under him shall be unclean until the
even: and he that beareth those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself
in water, and be unclean until the even. 11) And whomsoever he that hath
the issue toucheth, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 12)
And the earthen vessel, which he that hath the issue toucheth, shall be broken;
and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. 13) And when he that
hath an issue is cleansed of his issue, then he shall number to himself seven
days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in
running water, and shall be clean. 14) And on the eighth day he shall
take to him two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and come before Jehovah unto
the door of the tent of meeting, and give them unto the priest: 15) and
the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a
burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah for
his issue. 16) And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then
he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. 17)
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be
washed with water, and be unclean until the even. 18) The woman also with
whom a man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves
in water, and be unclean until the even. 19) And if a woman have an
issue, `and' her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her impurity seven
days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. 20) And
everything that she lieth upon in her impurity shall be unclean: everything also
that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. 21) And whosoever toucheth her
bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even. 22) And whosoever toucheth anything that she sitteth upon shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 23)
And if it be on the bed, or on anything whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth
it, he shall be unclean until the even. 24) And if any man lie with her,
and her impurity be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed
whereon he lieth shall be unclean. 25) And if a woman have an issue of
her blood many days not in the time of her impurity, or if she have an issue
beyond the time of her impurity; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness
she shall be as in the days of her impurity: she is unclean. 26) Every
bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of
her impurity: and everything whereon she sitteth shall be unclean, as the
uncleanness of her impurity. 27) And whosoever toucheth those things
shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even. 28) But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she
shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 29)
And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtle-doves, or two young
pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting. 30)
And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a
burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Jehovah for
the issue of her uncleanness. 31) Thus shall ye separate the children of
Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they
defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them. 32) This is the law of
him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed of copulation goeth from him, so
that he is unclean thereby; 33) and of her that is sick with her
impurity, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of
him that lieth with her that is unclean.
1) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, after the death of the two sons of
Aaron, when they drew near before Jehovah, and died; 2) and Jehovah said
unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the
holy place within the veil, before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark; that he
die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat. 3) Herewith
shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin-offering,
and a ram for a burnt-offering. 4) He shall put on the holy linen coat,
and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with
the linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: they are the
holy garments; and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on. 5)
And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two he-goats for
a sin-offering, and one ram for a burnt-offering. 6) And Aaron shall
present the bullock of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and make
atonement for himself, and for his house. 7) And he shall take the two
goats, and set them before Jehovah at the door of the tent of meeting. 8)
And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for Jehovah, and the other
lot for Azazel. 9) And Aaron shall present the goat upon which the lot
fell for Jehovah, and offer him for a sin-offering. 10) But the goat, on
which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive before Jehovah, to make
atonement for him, to send him away for Azazel into the wilderness. 11)
And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-offering, which is for himself,
and shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the
bullock of the sin-offering which is for himself: 12) and he shall take a
censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Jehovah, and his hands
full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil: 13) and
he shall put the incense upon the fire before Jehovah, that the cloud of the
incense may cover the mercy-seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not: 14)
and he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger
upon the mercy-seat on the east; and before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of
the blood with his finger seven times. 15) Then shall he kill the goat of
the sin-offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil,
and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it
upon the mercy-seat, and before the mercy-seat: 16) and he shall make
atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleannesses of the children of
Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins: and so shall
he do for the tent of meeting, that dwelleth with them in the midst of their
uncleannesses. 17) And there shall be no man in the tent of meeting when
he goeth in to make atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have
made atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the assembly of
Israel. 18) And he shall go out unto the altar that is before Jehovah,
and make atonement for it, and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of
the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about. 19)
And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and
cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel. 20)
And when he hath made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the tent of
meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat: 21) and Aaron
shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him
all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even
all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and shall send
him away by the hand of a man that is in readiness into the wilderness: 22)
and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a solitary land: and
he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. 23) And Aaron shall come into
the tent of meeting, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when
he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there: 24) and he shall
bathe his flesh in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come
forth, and offer his burnt-offering and the burnt-offering of the people, and
make atonement for himself and for the people. 25) And the fat of the
sin-offering shall he burn upon the altar. 26) And he that letteth go the
goat for Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward he shall come into the camp. 27) And the bullock of the
sin-offering, and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to
make atonement in the holy place, shall be carried forth without the camp; and
they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung. 28)
And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water,
and afterward he shall come into the camp. 29) And it shall be a statute
for ever unto you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall
afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the home-born, or the
stranger that sojourneth among you: 30) for on this day shall atonement
be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins shall ye be clean before
Jehovah. 31) It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall
afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever. 32) And the priest, who
shall be anointed and who shall be consecrated to be priest in his father's
stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the
holy garments: 33) and he shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary;
and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and f