Non-Archaic King James Version (KJV)
The First Book of Moses, called Genesis
1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 And the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God
moved upon the face of the waters.
1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
1:5 And God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first
day.
1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in
the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the
waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were]
above the firmament: and it was so.
1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land]
appear: and it was so.
1:10 And God called the dry [land] Earth; and
the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that
[it was] good.
1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth
grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after
his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and]
herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose
seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them
be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
1:15 And let them be for lights in the
firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater
light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he
made] the stars also.
1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
1:18 And to rule over the day and over the
night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it
was] good.
1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature that has life, and fowl [that] may fly
above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
1:21 And God created great whales, and every
living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly,
after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that
[it was] good.
1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in
the earth.
1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth
the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and
beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after
his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps upon
the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all
the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
1:27 So God created man in his [own] image, in
the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you
every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and
every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you
it shall be for meat.
1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to
every fowl of the air, and to everything that creeps upon the earth,
wherein [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for meat: and
it was so.
1:31 And God saw everything that he had made,
and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day.
2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work
which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
which he had made.
2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which
God created and made.
2:4 These [are] the generations of the heavens
and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God
made the earth and the heavens,
2:5 And every plant of the field before it was
in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD
God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man
to till the ground.
2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust
of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living soul.
2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to
grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the
tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge
of good and evil.
2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the
garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
2:11 The name of the first [is] Pison: that
[is] it which compasses the whole land of Havilah, where [there is]
gold;
2:12 And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone.
2:13 And the name of the second river [is]
Gihon: the same [is] it that compasses the whole land of Ethiopia.
2:14 And the name of the third river [is]
Hiddekel: that [is] it which goes toward the east of Assyria. And the
fourth river [is] Euphrates.
2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof
you shall surely die.
2:18 And the LORD God said, [It is] not good
that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed
every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them]
unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called
every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.
2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to
the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there
was not found an help meet for him.
2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to
fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up
the flesh instead thereof;
2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
2:23 And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my
bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was
taken out of Man.
2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and
his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh.
2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any
beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the
woman, Yea, has God said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in
the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither
shall you touch it, lest you die.
3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die:
3:5 For God doth know that in the day you eat
thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.
3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree [was]
good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be
desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and
they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together,
and made themselves aprons.
3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the
garden.
3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where [are] you?
3:10 And he said, I heard your voice in the
garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself.
3:11 And he said, Who told you that you [were]
naked? Have you eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded you that you
should not eat?
3:12 And the man said, The woman whom you gave [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What
[is] this [that] you have done? And the woman said, The serpent
beguiled me, and I did eat.
3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent,
Because you have done this, you [are] cursed above all cattle, and above
every beast of the field; upon your belly shall you go, and dust shall
you eat all the days of your life:
3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the
woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.
3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly
multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring
forth children; and your desire [shall be] to your husband, and he shall
rule over you.
3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because you have
hearkened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of
which I commanded you, saying, you shall not eat of it: cursed [is] the
ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat [of] it all the days of
your life;
3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the herb of the field;
3:19 In the sweat of thy face shall you eat
bread, till you return unto the ground; for out of it were you taken:
for dust you [are,] and unto dust shall you return.
3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is
become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth
his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:
3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from
the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at
the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which
turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she
conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And
Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
4:3 And in process of time it came to pass,
that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings
of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel
and to his offering:
4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had
not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
4:6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why are you wroth? and why is your countenance fallen?
4:7 If you do well, shall you not be accepted?
and if you do not well, sin lies at the door. And unto you [shall be]
his desire, and you shall rule over him.
4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and
it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against
Abel his brother, and slew him.
4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is]
Abel your brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother's keeper?
4:10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries unto me from the ground.
4:11 And now [are] you cursed from the earth,
which has opened her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your
hand;
4:12 When you till the ground, it shall not
henceforth yield unto you her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shall
you be in the earth.
4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment [is] greater than I can bear.
4:14 Behold, you have driven me out this day
from the face of the earth; and from your face shall I be hid; and I
shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to
pass, [that] every one that finds me shall slay me.
4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore
whosoever slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the
LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the
LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived,
and bare Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city,
after the name of his son, Enoch.
4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad
begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat
Lamech.
4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the
name of the one [was] Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle.
4:21 And his brother's name [was] Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubal- cain, an
instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of
Tubal-cain [was] Naamah.
4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and
Zillah, Hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I
have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare
a son, and called his name Seth: For God, [said she,] has appointed me
another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a
son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name
of the LORD.
5:1 This [is] the book of the generations of
Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he
him;
5:2 Male and female created he them; and
blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were
created.
5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years,
and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his
name Seth:
5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten
Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
5:6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
5:7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
5:9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
5:10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight
hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel
eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
5:16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared
eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
5:18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
5:19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat
Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him.
5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech
seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
5:28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This
[same] shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands,
because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.
5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five
hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to
multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of
men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they
chose.
6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not
always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall
be an hundred and twenty years.
6:4 There were giants in the earth in those
days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the
daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became]
mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.
6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man
[was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts
of his heart [was] only evil continually.
6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I
have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the
creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repents me that I have
made them.
6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
6:9 These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah
was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with
God.
6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and,
behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the
earth.
6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all
flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through
them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
6:14 Make you an ark of gopher wood; rooms
shall you make in the ark, and shall pitch it within and without with
pitch.
6:15 And this [is the fashion] which you shall
make it [of:] The length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the
breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
6:16 A window shall you make to the ark, and in
a cubit shall you finish it above; and the door of the ark shall you
set in the side thereof; [with] lower, second, and third [stories] shall
you make it.
6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood
of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath
of life, from under heaven; [and] everything that [is] in the earth
shall die.
6:18 But with you will I establish my covenant;
and you shall come into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and
thy sons' wives with you.
6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh,
two of every [sort] shall you bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive
with you; they shall be male and female.
6:20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle
after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind,
two of every [sort] shall come unto you, to keep [them] alive.
6:21 And take you unto you of all food that is
eaten, and you shall gather [it] to you; and it shall be for food for
you, and for them.
6:22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come you and
all your house into the ark; for you have I seen righteous before me in
this generation.
7:2 Of every clean beast you shall take to you
by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean
by two, the male and his female.
7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the
male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to
rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living
substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the
earth.
7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
7:6 And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his
wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters
of the flood.
7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are]
not clean, and of fowls, and of everything that creeps upon the earth,
7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into
the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life,
in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were
all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of
heaven were opened.
7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and
Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the
three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
7:14 They, and every beast after his kind, and
all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps
upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird
of every sort.
7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark,
two and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.
7:16 And they that went in, went in male and
female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the
earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up
above the earth.
7:18 And the waters prevailed, and were
increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the
waters.
7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon
the earth; and all the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven,
were covered.
7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the
earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping
thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man:
7:22 All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land,] died.
7:23 And every living substance was destroyed
which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the
creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed
from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive,] and they that [were]
with him in the ark.
7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living
thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a
wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the
windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth
continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters
were abated.
8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on
the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
8:5 And the waters decreased continually until
the tenth month: in the tenth [month,] on the first [day] of the month,
were the tops of the mountains seen.
8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty
days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth
to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see
if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of
her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were]
on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took
her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
8:11 And the dove came in to him in the
evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah
knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and
sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth
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 dry.
8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
8:15 And God spoke unto Noah, saying,
8:16 Go forth of the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
8:17 Bring forth with you every living thing
that [is] with you, of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of
every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth; that they may breed
abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and
every fowl, [and] whatsoever creeps upon the earth, after their kinds,
went forth out of the ark.
8:20 And Noah built an altar unto the LORD; and
took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt
offerings on the altar.
8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savor; and
the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more
for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his
youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have
done.
8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and
harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night
shall not cease.
9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said
unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you
shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air,
upon all that moves [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the
sea; into your hand are they delivered.
9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be meat
for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall you not eat.
9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I
require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand
of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of
man.
9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
9:7 And you, be you fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
9:8 And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
9:10 And with every living creature that [is]
with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth
with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you;
neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood;
neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
9:12 And God said, This [is] the token of the
covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that
[is] with you, for perpetual generations:
9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a
cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
9:15 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.
9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I
will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between
God and every living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth.
9:17 And God said unto Noah, This [is] the
token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh
that [is] upon the earth.
9:18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of
the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of
Canaan.
9:19 These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
9:20 And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and
laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the
nakedness of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw
not their father's nakedness.
9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
9:25 And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
9:26 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall
dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
10:1 Now these [are] the generations of the
sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after
the flood.
10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
10:3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
10:4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles
divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their
families, in their nations.
10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
10:7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah,
and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba,
and Dedan.
10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD:
why it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was
Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great city.
10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
10:14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
10:16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
10:17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
10:18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and
the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread
abroad.
10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from
Sidon, as you come to Gerar, unto Gaza; as you goes, unto Sodom, and
Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
10:20 These [are] the sons of Ham, after their
families, after their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their
nations.
10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the
children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were
[children] born.
10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
10:24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the
name of one [was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his
brother's name [was] Joktan.
10:26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth, and Jerah,
10:27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
10:28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
10:29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were] the sons of Joktan.
10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you goes unto Sephar a mount of the east.
10:31 These [are] the sons of Shem, after their
families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
10:32 These [are] the families of the sons of
Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the
nations divided in the earth after the flood.
11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed
from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they
dwelt there.
11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let
us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone,
and slime had they for morter.
11:4 And they said, Go to, 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.
11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is]
one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now
nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound
their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from
thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the
city.
11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel;
because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and
from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the
earth.
11:10 These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem
[was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the
flood:
11:11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
11:13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah
four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
11:15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
11:17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
11:19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
11:21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
11:23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
11:25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27 Now these [are] the generations of Terah:
Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the
name of Abram's wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah,
the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
11:30 But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child.
11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the
son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son
Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to
go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get you
out of thy country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house,
unto a land that I will shew you:
12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and
I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a
blessing:
12:3 And I will bless them that bless you, and
curse him that curses you: and in you shall all families of the earth be
blessed.
12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken
unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years
old when he departed out of Haran.
12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his
brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the
souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the
land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the
place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite [was] then
in the land.
12:7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and
said, Unto your seed will I give this land: and there built he an altar
unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
12:8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain
on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the
west, and Hai on the east: and there he built an altar unto the LORD,
and called upon the name of the LORD.
12:9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
12:10 And there was a famy in the land: and
Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famy [was] grievous
in the land.
12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come
near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I
know that you [are] a fair woman to look upon:
12:12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the
Egyptians shall see you, that they shall say, This [is] his wife: and
they will kill me, but they will save you alive.
12:13 Say, I pray you, you [are] my sister:
that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because
of you.
12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was
come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] very
fair.
12:15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and
commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's
house.
12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake:
and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and
maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
12:17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What
[is] this [that] you have done unto me? why didst you not tell me that
she [was] your wife?
12:19 Why saidst you, She [is] my sister? so I
might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold your wife, take
[her,] and go your way.
12:20 And Pharaoh commanded [his] men
concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he
had.
13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and
his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
13:2 And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
13:3 And he went on his journeys from the south
even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the
beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
13:4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had
made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
13:5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
13:6 And the land was not able to bear them,
that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that
they could not dwell together.
13:7 And there was a strife between the
herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the
Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
13:8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no
strife, I pray you, between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your
herdsmen; for we [be] brethren.
13:9 [Is] not the whole land before you?
separate thyself, I pray you, from me: if [you will take] the left hand,
then I will go to the right; or if [you depart] to the right hand, then
I will go to the left.
13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld
all the plain of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before
the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the LORD,
like the land of Egypt, as you come unto Zoar.
13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of
Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one
from the other.
13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and
Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent toward
Sodom.
13:13 But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
13:14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that
Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the
place where you are northward, and southward, and eastward, and
westward:
13:15 For all the land which you seest, to you will I give it, and to your seed forever.
13:16 And I will make your seed as the dust of
the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then]
shall your seed also be numbered.
13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the
length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto you.
13:18 Then Abram removed [his] tent, and came
and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which [is] in Hebron, and built there
an altar unto the LORD.
14:1 And it came to pass in the days of
Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of
Elam, and Tidal king of nations;
14:2 [That these] 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, which is Zoar.
14:3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
14:5 And in the fourteenth year came
Chedorlaomer, and the kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims
in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh
Kiriathaim,
14:6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which [is] by the wilderness.
14:7 And they returned, and came to En-mishpat,
which [is] Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and
also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon- tamar.
14:8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and
the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim,
and the king of Bela (the same [is] Zoar;) and they joined battle with
them in the vale of Siddim;
14:9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and
with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king
of Ellasar; four kings with five.
14:10 And the vale of Siddim [was full of]
slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and
they that remained fled to the mountain.
14:11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
14:12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and
told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite,
brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these [were] confederate
with Abram.
14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was
taken captive, he armed his trained [servants,] born in his own house,
three hundred and eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan.
14:15 And he divided himself against them, he
and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah,
which [is] on the left hand of Damascus.
14:16 And he brought back all the goods, and
also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also,
and the people.
14:17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet
him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the
kings that [were] with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which [is] the
king's dale.
14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought
forth bread and wine: and he [was] the priest of the most high God.
14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed
[be] Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which
has delivered thine enemies into your hand. And he gave him tithes of
all.
14:21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I
have lift up my hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of
heaven and earth,
14:23 That I will not [take] from a thread even
to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take anything that [is] thine,
lest you should say, I have made Abram rich:
14:24 Save only that which the young men have
eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and
Mamre; let them take their portion.
15:1 After these things the word of the LORD
came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] your
shield, [and] your exceeding great reward.
15:2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what will you
give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this
Eliezer of Damascus?
15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is my heir.
15:4 And, behold, the word of the LORD [came]
unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come
forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said,
Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number
them: and he said unto him, So shall your seed be.
15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
15:7 And he said unto him, I [am] the LORD that
brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit
it.
15:8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of
three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three
years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
15:10 And he took unto him all these, and
divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but
the birds divided he not.
15:11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep
sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon
him.
15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety
that your seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and
shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall
serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great
substance.
15:15 And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall
come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.
15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun
went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp
that passed between those pieces.
15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant
with Abram, saying, Unto your seed have I given this land, from the
river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
15:19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
15:20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
15:21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
16:1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no
children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar.
16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the
LORD has restrained me from bearing: I pray you, go in unto my maid; it
may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the
voice of Sarai.
16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid
the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan,
and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she
conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was
despised in her eyes.
16:5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong [be]
upon you: I have given my maid into your bosom; and when she saw that
she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me
and you.
16:6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, your
maid [is] in your hand; do to her as it pleases you. And when Sarai
dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
16:7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a
fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence
camest you? and where will you go? And she said, I flee from the face of
my mistress Sarai.
16:9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,
Return to your mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
16:10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I
will multiply your seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for
multitude.
16:11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,
Behold, you [are] with child, and shall bear a son, and shall call his
name Ishmael; because the LORD has heard your affliction.
16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand [will
be] against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall
dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
16:13 And she called the name of the LORD that
spoke unto her, you God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked
after him that sees me?
16:14 Why the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, [it is] between Kadesh and Bered.
16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
16:16 And Abram [was] fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and
nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty
God; walk before me, and be you perfect.
17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.
17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.
17:5 Neither shall your name any more be called
Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations
have I made you.
17:6 And I will make you exceeding fruitful,
and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you.
17:7 And I will establish my covenant between
me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an
everlasting covenant, to be a God unto you, and to your seed after you.
17:8 And I will give unto you, and to thy seed
after you, the land wherein you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan,
for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
17:9 And God said unto Abraham, you shall keep
my covenant therefore, you, and your seed after you in their
generations.
17:10 This [is] my covenant, which you shall
keep, between me and you and thy seed after you; Every man child among
you shall be circumcised.
17:11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of
your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and
you.
17:12 And he that is eight days old shall be
circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is
born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which [is] not
of your seed.
17:13 He that is born in thy house, and he that
is bought with your money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant
shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose
flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off
from his people; he has broken my covenant.
17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai
your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall] her name
[be. ]17:16 And I will bless her, and give you a son also of her: yea, I
will bless her, and she shall be [a mother] of nations; kings of people
shall be of her.
17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and
laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him that is
an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
17:18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before you!
17:19 And God said, Sarah your wife shall bear
you a son indeed; and you shall call his name Isaac: and I will
establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, [and] with
his seed after him.
17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you:
Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will
multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make
him a great nation.
17:21 But my covenant will I establish with
Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto you at this set time in the next
year.
17:22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all
that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money,
every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh
of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
17:24 And Abraham [was] ninety years old and
nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
17:25 And Ishmael his son [was] thirteen years
old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
17:26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
17:27 And all the men of his house, born in the
house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with
him.
18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the
plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and,
lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw [them,] he ran to meet them
from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
18:3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found
favor in your sight, pass not away, I pray you, from your servant:
18:4 Let a little water, I pray you, be
fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and
comfort you your hearts; after that you shall pass on: for therefore are
you come to your servant. And they said, So do, as you have said.
18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto
Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead
[it,] and make cakes upon the hearth.
18:7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a
calf tender and good, and gave [it] unto a young man; and he hasted to
dress it.
18:8 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.
18:9 And they said unto him, Where [is] Sarah your wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
18:10 And he said, I will certainly return unto
you according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah your wife shall have a
son. And Sarah heard [it] in the tent door, which [was] behind him.
18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and]
well stricken in age; [and] it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner
of women.
18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself,
saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old
also?
18:13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Why did
Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
18:14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the
time appointed I will return unto you, according to the time of life,
and Sarah shall have a son.
18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not;
for she was afraid. And he said, No; but you didst laugh.
18:16 And the men rose up from thence, and
looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the
way.
18:17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a
great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him?
18:19 For I know him, that he will command his
children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the
LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham
that which he has spoken of him.
18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of
Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they
have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me;
and if not, I will know.
18:22 And the men turned their faces from
thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
18:24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous
within the city: will you also destroy and not spare the place for the
fifty righteous that [are] therein?
18:25 That be far from you to do after this
manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous
should be as the wicked, that be far from you: Shall not the Judge of
all the earth do right?
18:26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom
fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for
their sakes.
18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold
now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust
and ashes:
18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the
fifty righteous: will you destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And
he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it. ]18:29
And he spoke unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be
forty found there. And he said, I will not do [it] for forty's sake.
18:30 And he said [unto him,] 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.
18:31 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 twenty's sake.
18:32 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 ten's sake.
18:33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he
had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at
even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to
meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
19:2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn
in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash
your feet, and you shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they
said, No; but we will abide in the street all night.
19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they
turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a
feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the
city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and
young, all the people from every quarter:
19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto
him, Where [are] the men which came in to you this night? bring them out
unto us, that we may know them.
19:6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
19:7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters which
have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do
you to them as [is] good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing;
for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said
[again,] This one [fellow] came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a
judge: now will we deal worse with you, than with them. And they pressed
sore upon the man, [even] Lot, and came near to break the door.
19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
19:11 And they smote the men that [were] at the
door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they
wearied themselves to find the door.
19:12 And the men said unto Lot, Have you here
any besides? son in law, and your sons, and your daughters, and
whatsoever you have in the city, bring [them] out of this place:
19:13 For we will destroy this place, because
the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD
has sent us to destroy it.
19:14 And Lot went out, and spoke unto his sons
in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this
place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that
mocked unto his sons in law.
19:15 And when the morning arose, then the
angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife, and your two
daughters, which are here; lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the
city.
19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold
upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his
two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him
forth, and set him without the city.
19:17 And it came to pass, when they had
brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for your life; look not
behind you, neither stay you in all the plain; escape to the mountain,
lest you be consumed.
19:18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
19:19 Behold now, your servant has found grace
in your sight, and you have magnified your mercy, which you have shewed
unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest
some evil take me, and I die:
19:20 Behold now, this city is near to flee
unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape there, ([is] it not a
little one?) and my soul shall live.
19:21 And he said unto him, See, I have
accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this
city, for the which you have spoken.
19:22 Haste you, escape there; for I cannot do
anything till you be come there. Therefore the name of the city was
called Zoar.
19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all
the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew
upon the ground.
19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
19:27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:
19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah,
and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of
the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed
the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out
of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which
Lot dwelt.
19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in
the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in
Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger,
Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the earth to come in
unto us after the manner of all the earth:
19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine,
and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
19:33 And they made their father drink wine
that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he
perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that
the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my
father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go you in, [and]
lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
19:35 And they made their father drink wine
that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he
perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
19:37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called
his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites unto this day.
19:38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and
called his name Benammi: the same [is] the father of the children of
Ammon unto this day.
20:1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward
the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in
Gerar.
20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She
[is] my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by
night, and said to him, Behold, you [are but] a dead man, for the woman
which you have taken; for she [is] a man's wife.
20:4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, will you slay also a righteous nation?
20:5 Said he not unto me, She [is] my sister?
and she, even she herself said, He [is] my brother: in the integrity of
my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
20:6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I
know that you didst this in the integrity of your heart; for I also
withheld you from sinning against me: therefore suffered I you not to
touch her.
20:7 Now therefore restore the man [his] wife;
for he [is] a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live:
and if you restore [her] not, know you that you shall surely die, you,
and all that [are] thine.
20:8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the
morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their
ears: and the men were sore afraid.
20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said
unto him, What have you done unto us? and what have I offended you, that
you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? you have done
deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
20:10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What saw you, that you have done this thing?
20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought,
Surely the fear of God [is] not in this place; and they will slay me for
my wife's sake.
20:12 And yet indeed [she is] my sister; she
[is] the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and
she became my wife.
20:13 And it came to pass, when God caused me
to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This [is] your
kindness which you shall shew unto me; at every place where we shall
come, say of me, He [is] my brother.
20:14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and
menservants, and womenservants, and gave [them] unto Abraham, and
restored him Sarah his wife.
20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land [is] before you: dwell where it pleases you.
20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have
given your brother a thousand [pieces] of silver: behold, he [is] to you
a covering of the eyes, unto all that [are] with you, and with all
[other:] thus she was reproved.
20:17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God
healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare
[children. ]20:18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the
house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
21:2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a
son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
21:5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
21:6 And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh, [so that] all that hear will laugh with me.
21:7 And she said, Who would have said unto
Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born
[him] a son in his old age.
21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and
Abraham made a great feast the [same] day that Isaac was weaned.
21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
21:10 Why she said unto Abraham, Cast out this
bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir
with my son, [even] with Isaac.
21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.
21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be
grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of your bondwoman;
in all that Sarah has said unto you, hearken unto her voice; for in
Isaac shall thy seed be called.
21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he [is] your seed.
21:14 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 the child, and sent her away: and she
departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
21:15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
21:16 And she went, and sat her down over
against [him] a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me
not see the death of the child. And she sat over against [him,] and
lift up her voice, and wept.
21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and
the angel of God called Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What
ails you, Hagar? fear not; for God has heard the voice of the lad where
he [is. ]21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I
will make him a great nation.
21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a
well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave
the lad drink.
21:20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that
Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spoke unto Abraham,
saying, God [is] with you in all that you do:
21:23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God
that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my
son's son: [but] according to the kindness that I have done unto you,
you shall do unto me, and to the land wherein you have sojourned.
21:24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of
a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
21:26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who has
done this thing: neither didst you tell me, neither yet heard I [of it,]
but today.
21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
21:28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What
[mean] these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?
21:30 And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs
shall you take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I
have digged this well.
21:31 Why he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they swore both of them.
21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba:
then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and
they returned into the land of the Philistines.
21:33 And [Abraham] planted a grove in
Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting
God.
21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
22:1 And it came to pass after these things,
that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said,
Behold, [here] I [am. ]22:2 And he said, Take now your son, thine only
[son] Isaac, whom you lovest, and get you into the land of Moriah; and
offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I
will tell you of.
22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning,
and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac
his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and
went unto the place of which God had told him.
22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide
you here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship,
and come again to you,
22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt
offering, and laid [it] upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his
hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
22:7 And Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father,
and said, My father: and he said, Here [am] I, my son. And he said,
Behold the fire and the wood: but where [is] the lamb for a burnt
offering?
22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide
himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them
together.
22:9 And they came to the place which God had
told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in
order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
22:11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him
out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here [am] I.
22:12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the
lad, neither do you anything unto him: for now I know that you fearest
God, seeing you have not withheld your son, thine only [son] from me.
22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and behold behind [him] a ram caught in a thicket by his horns:
and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt
offering in the stead of his son.
22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place
Jehovah-jireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the mount of the LORD it
shall be seen.
22:15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
22:16 And said, By myself have I sworn, says
the LORD, for because you have done this thing, and have not withheld
thy son, thine only [son: ]22:17 That in blessing I will bless you, and
in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven, and
as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and your seed shall possess
the gate of his enemies;
22:18 And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed my voice.
22:19 So Abraham returned unto his young men,
and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at
Beer-sheba.
22:20 And it came to pass after these things,
that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she has also born
children unto thy brother Nahor;
22:21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
22:22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
22:23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
22:24 And his concubine, whose name [was]
Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
23:1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and
twenty years old: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.
23:2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same
[is] Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah,
and to weep for her.
23:3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke unto the sons of Heth, saying,
23:4 I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with
you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my
dead out of my sight.
23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
23:6 Hear us, my lord: you [are] a mighty
prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury your dead; none of
us shall withhold from you his sepulchre, but that you may bury thy
dead.
23:7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, [even] to the children of Heth.
23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it
be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and
intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
23:9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah,
which he has, which [is] in the end of his field; for as much money as
it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace
amongst you.
23:10 And Ephron dwelt among 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,
23:11 No, my lord, hear me: the field give I
you, and the cave that [is] therein, I give it you; in the presence of
the sons of my people give I it you: bury thy dead.
23:12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
23:13 And he spoke unto Ephron in the audience
of the people of the land, saying, But if you [will give it,] I pray
you, hear me: I will give you money for the field; take [it] of me, and I
will bury my dead there.
23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
23:15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is
worth] four hundred shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and
you? bury therefore your dead.
23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and
Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience
of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money]
with the merchant.
23:17 And 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 borders round about, were made sure
23:18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the
presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of
his city.
23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his
wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is]
Hebron in the land of Canaan.
23:20 And the field, and the cave that [is]
therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace
by the sons of Heth.
24:1 And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
24:2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant
of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray you, your
hand under my thigh:
24:3 And I will make you swear by the LORD, the
God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife
unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
24:4 But you shall go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
24:5 And the servant said unto him,
Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land:
must I needs bring your son again unto the land from whence you camest?
24:6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware you that you bring not my son there again.
24:7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from
my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spoke
unto me, and that swore unto me, saying, Unto your seed will I give this
land; he shall send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife
unto my son from thence.
24:8 And if the woman will not be willing to
follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath: only bring not my
son there again.
24:9 And the servant put his hand under the
thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning that matter.
24:10 And the servant took ten camels of the
camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master
[were] in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city
of Nahor.
24:11 And he made his camels to kneel down
without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, [even]
the time that women go out to draw [water. ]24:12 And he said, O LORD
God of my master Abraham, I pray you, send me good speed this day, and
shew kindness unto my master Abraham.
24:13 Behold, I stand [here] by the well of
water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
24:14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel
to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray you, that I may drink;
and she shall say, Drink, and I will give your camels drink also: [let
the same be] she [that] you have appointed for your servant Isaac; and
thereby shall I know that you have shewed kindness unto my master.
24:15 And it came to pass, before he had done
speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son
of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon
her shoulder.
24:16 And the damsel [was] very fair to look
upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the
well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and
said, Let me, I pray you, drink a little water of your pitcher.
24:18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she
hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
24:19 And when she had done giving him drink,
she said, I will draw [water] for your camels also, until they have done
drinking.
24:20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher
into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw [water,] and drew
for all his camels.
24:21 And the man wondering at her held his
peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
24:22 And it came to pass, as the camels had
done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel
weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold;
24:23 And said, Whose daughter [are] you? tell
me, I pray you: is there room [in] your father's house for us to lodge
in?
24:24 And she said unto him, I [am] the
daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
24:25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
24:26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.
24:27 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of
my master Abraham, who has not left destitute my master of his mercy
and his truth: I [being] in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my
master's brethren.
24:28 And the damsel ran, and told [them of] her mother's house these things.
24:29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name
[was] Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
24:30 And it came to pass, when he saw the
earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the
words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spoke the man unto me; that he
came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
24:31 And he said, Come in, you blessed of the
LORD; why standest you without? for I have prepared the house, and room
for the camels.
24:32 And the man came into the house: and he
ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and
water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that [were] with him.
24:33 And there was set [meat] before him to
eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told my errand. And he
said, Speak on.
24:34 And he said, I [am] Abraham's servant.
24:35 And the LORD has blessed my master
greatly; and he is become great: and he has given him flocks, and herds,
and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels,
and asses.
24:36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to
my master when she was old: and unto him has he given all that he has.
24:37 And my master made me swear, saying, you
shall not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in
whose land I dwell:
24:38 But you shall go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
24:39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.
24:40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before
whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way; and you
shall take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:
24:41 Then shall you be clear from [this] my
oath, when you come to my kindred; and if they give not you [one,] you
shall be clear from my oath.
24:42 And I came this day unto the well, and
said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way
which I go;
24:43 Behold, I stand by the well of water; and
it shall come to pass, that when the virgin comes forth to draw
[water,] and I say to her, Give me, I pray you, a little water of your
pitcher to drink;
24:44 And she say to me, Both drink you, and I
will also draw for your camels: [let] the same [be] the woman whom the
LORD has appointed out for my master's son.
24:45 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 well, and drew [water:] and I said unto her, Let
me drink, I pray you.
24:46 And she made haste, and let down her
pitcher from her [shoulder,] and said, Drink, and I will give your
camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
24:47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter
[are] you? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom
Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the
bracelets upon her hands.
24:48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped
the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led
me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
24:49 And now if you will deal kindly and truly
with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the
right hand, or to the left.
24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said,
The thing proceeds from the LORD: we cannot speak unto you bad or good.
24:51 Behold, Rebekah [is] before you, take
[her,] and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as the LORD has
spoken.
24:52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's
servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, [bowing himself] to
the earth.
24:53 And the servant brought forth jewels of
silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave [them] to Rebekah: he
gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
24:54 And they did eat and drink, he and the
men that [were] with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the
morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let
the damsel abide with us [a few] days, at the least ten; after that she
shall go.
24:56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not,
seeing the LORD has prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my
master.
24:57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.
24:58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Will you go with this man? And she said, I will go.
24:59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto
her, you [are] our sister, be you [the mother] of thousands of millions,
and let your seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
24:61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and
they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took
Rebekah, and went his way.
24:62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the south country.
24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the
field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold,
the camels [were] coming.
24:64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
24:65 For she [had] said unto the servant, What
man [is] this that walks in the field to meet us? And the servant [had]
said, It [is] my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered
herself.
24:66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother
Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved
her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's [death.]
25:1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name [was] Keturah.
25:2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And
the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
25:4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher,
and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these [were] the children of
Keturah.
25:5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
25:6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which
Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son,
while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
25:7 And these [are] the days of the years of
Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
25:8 Then 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.
25:9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him
in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the
Hittite, which [is] before Mamre;
25:10 The field which Abraham purchased of the
sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
25:11 And it came to pass after the death of
Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well
Lahai-roi.
25:12 Now these [are] the generations of
Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare
unto Abraham:
25:13 And these [are] the names of the sons of
Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn
of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
25:14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
25:15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
25:16 These [are] the sons of Ishmael, and
these [are] their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve
princes according to their nations.
25:17 And these [are] the years of the life of
Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost
and died; and was gathered unto his people.
25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur,
that [is] before Egypt, as you goes toward Assyria: [and] he died in the
presence of all his brethren.
25:19 And these [are] the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:
25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he
took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram,
the sister to Laban the Syrian.
25:21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his
wife, because she [was] barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and
Rebekah his wife conceived.
25:22 And the children struggled together
within her; and she said, If [it be] so, why [am] I thus? And she went
to enquire of the LORD.
25:23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations
[are] in your womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from
your bowels; and [the one] people shall be stronger than [the other]
people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
25:24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, [there were] twins in her womb.
25:25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
25:26 And after that came his brother out, and
his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and
Isaac [was] threescore years old when she bare them.
25:27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning
hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob [was] a plain man, dwelling in
tents.
25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of [his] venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
25:29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he [was] faint:
25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray
you, with that same red [pottage;] for I [am] faint: therefore was his
name called Edom.
25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day your birthright.
25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the
point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and
he swore unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of
lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus
Esau despised [his] birthright.
26:1 And there was a famy in the land, beside
the first famy that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto
Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
26:2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said,
Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell you of:
26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with
you, and will bless you; for unto you, and unto your seed, I will give
all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore unto
Abraham thy father;
26:4 And I will make your seed to multiply as
the stars of heaven, and will give unto your seed all these countries;
and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and
kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
26:7 And the men of the place asked [him] of
his wife; and he said, She [is] my sister: for he feared to say, [She
is] my wife; lest, [said he,] the men of the place should kill me for
Rebekah; because she [was] fair to look upon.
26:8 And it came to pass, when he had been
there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a
window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac [was] sporting with Rebekah his
wife.
26:9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said,
Behold, of a surety she [is] your wife: and how saidst you, She [is] my
sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
26:10 And Abimelech said, What [is] this you
have done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with your
wife, and you should have brought guiltiness upon us.
26:11 And Abimelech charged all [his] people,
saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to
death.
26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and
received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and
possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines
envied him.
26:15 For all the wells which his father's
servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines
had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for you are much mightier than we.
26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of
water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the
philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called
their names after the names by which his father had called them.
26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
26:20 And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with
Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water [is] ours: and he called the name
of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged
another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it
Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD has made room for us, and we
shall be fruitful in the land.
26:23 And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
26:24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same
night, and said, I [am] the God of Abraham your father: fear not, for I
[am] with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant
Abraham's sake.
26:25 And he built an altar there, and called
upon the name of the LORD and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's
servants digged a well.
26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar,
and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his
army.
26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Why come you to me, seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you?
26:28 And they said, We saw certainly that the
LORD was with you: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us,
[even] betwixt us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;
26:29 That you will do us no hurt, as we have
not touched you, and as we have done unto you nothing but good, and have
sent you away in peace: you [are] now the blessed of the LORD.
26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning,
and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed
from him in peace.
26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that
Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had
digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
26:33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city [is] Beer-sheba unto this day.
26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took
to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the
daughter of Elon the Hittite:
26:35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was
old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his
eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold,
[here am] I.
27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
27:3 Now therefore take, I pray you, your
weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me
[some] venison;
27:4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love,
and bring [it] to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless you before I
die.
27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau
his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt [for] venison, [and] to
bring [it.]
27:6 And Rebekah spoke unto Jacob her son,
saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau your brother, saying,
27:7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury
meat, that I may eat, and bless you before the LORD before my death.
27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from
thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for
your father, such as he loves:
27:10 And you shall bring [it] to your father,
that he may eat, and that he may bless you before his death.
27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother,
Behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man:
27:12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I
shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and
not a blessing.
27:13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me
[be] your curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me [them.
]27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought [them] to his mother: and
his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her
eldest son Esau, which [were] with her in the house, and put them upon
Jacob her younger son:
27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
27:17 And she gave the savoury meat and the
bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
27:18 And he came unto his father, and said, My
father: and he said, Here [am] I; who [are] you, my son?
27:19 And Jacob said unto his father, I [am]
Esau your firstborn; I have done according as you badest me: arise, I
pray you, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.
27:20 And Isaac said unto his son, How [is it]
that you have found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the
LORD thy God brought [it] to me.
27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I
pray you, that I may feel you, my son, whether you [be] my very son Esau
or not.
27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his
father; and he felt him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob's voice, but the
hands [are] the hands of Esau.
27:23 And he discerned him not, because his
hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
27:24 And he said, [Are] you my very son Esau?
And he said, I [am. ]27:25 And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I
will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you. And he brought
[it] near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he
drank.
27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
27:27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he
smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the
smell of my son [is] as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed:
27:28 Therefore God give you of the dew of
heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
27:29 Let people serve you, and nations bow
down to you: be lord over your brethren, and let your mother's sons bow
down to you: cursed [be] every one that curses you, and blessed [be] he
that blesses you.
27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had
made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from
the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his
hunting.
27:31 And he also had made savoury meat, and
brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father
arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me.
27:32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who
[are] you? And he said, I [am] your son, thy firstborn Esau.
27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and
said, Who? where [is] he that has taken venison, and brought [it] me,
and I have eaten of all before you camest, and have blessed him? yea,
[and] he shall be blessed.
27:34 And when Esau heard the words of his
father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto
his father, Bless me, [even] me also, O my father.
27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and has taken away your blessing.
27:36 And he said, Is not he rightly named
Jacob? for he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my
birthright; and, behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said,
Have you not reserved a blessing for me?
27:37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau,
Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brethren have I given to
him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what
shall I do now unto you, my son?
27:38 And Esau said unto his father, Have you
but one blessing, my father? bless me, [even] me also, O my father. And
Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said
unto him, Behold, your dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and
of the dew of heaven from above;
27:40 And by your sword shall you live, and
shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass when you shall have
the dominion, that you shall break his yoke from off your neck.
27:41 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.
27:42 And these 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 you, doth comfort
himself, [purposing] to kill you.
27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee you to Laban my brother to Haran;
27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until your brother's fury turn away;
27:45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from
you, and he forget [that] which you have done to him: then I will send,
and fetch you from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in
one day?
27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of
my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the
daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters of the
land, what good shall my life do me?
28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him,
and charged him, and said unto him, you shall not take a wife of the
daughters of Canaan.
28:2 Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of
Bethuel your mother's father; and take you a wife from thence of the
daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
28:3 And God Almighty bless you, and make you
fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a multitude of people;
28:4 And give you the blessing of Abraham, to
you, and to your seed with you; that you may inherit the land wherein
you are a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to
Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of
Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
28:6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed
Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence;
and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, you shall not
take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
28:7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
28:8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
28:9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto
the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son,
the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
28:10 And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and
tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the
stones of that place, and [put] them for his pillows, and lay down in
that place to sleep.
28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set
up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the
angels of God ascending and descending on it.
28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and
said, I [am] the LORD God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac:
the land whereon you liest, to you will I give it, and to your seed;
28:14 And your seed shall be as the dust of the
earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to
the north, and to the south: and in you and in your seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed.
28:15 And, behold, I [am] with you, and will
keep you in all [places] where you goes, and will bring you again into
this land; for I will not leave you, until I have done [that] which I
have spoken to you of.
28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he
said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not.
28:17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful
[is] this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this [is]
the gate of heaven.
28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning,
and took the stone that he had put [for] his pillows, and set it up
[for] a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
28:19 And he called the name of that place
Bethel: but the name of that city [was called] Luz at the first.
28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God
will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give
me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
28:21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:
28:22 And this stone, which I have set [for] a
pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that you shall give me I will
surely give the tenth unto you.
29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.
29:2 And he looked, and behold a well in the
field, and, lo, there [were] three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out
of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the
well's mouth.
29:3 And there 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 his place.
29:4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence [be] you? And they said, Of Haran [are] we.
29:5 And he said unto them, Know you Laban the
son of Nahor? And they said, We know [him. ]29:6 And he said unto them,
[Is] he well? And they said, [He is] well: and, behold, Rachel his
daughter comes with the sheep.
29:7 And he said, Lo, [it is] yet high day,
neither [is it] time that the cattle should be gathered together: water
you the sheep, and go [and] feed [them. ]29:8 And they said, We cannot,
until all the flocks be gathered together, and [till] they roll the
stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
29:9 And while he yet spoke with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.
29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw
Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of
Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone
from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's
brother.
29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he [was] her
father's brother, and that he [was] Rebekah's son: and she ran and told
her father.
29:13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the
tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and
embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told
Laban all these things.
29:14 And Laban said to him, Surely you [are]
my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because you
[are] my brother, should you therefore serve me for nought? tell me,
what [shall] thy wages [be? ]29:16 And Laban had two daughters: the name
of the elder [was] Leah, and the name of the younger [was] Rachel.
29:17 Leah [was] tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.
29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.
29:19 And Laban said, [It is] better that I
give her to you, than that I should give her to another man: abide with
me.
29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel;
and they seemed unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her.
29:21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give [me] my
wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that
he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto
her.
29:24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid [for] an handmaid.
29:25 And it came to pass, that in the morning,
behold, it [was] Leah: and he said to Laban, What [is] this you have
done unto me? did not I serve with you for Rachel? why then have you
beguiled me?
29:26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
29:27 Fulfil her week, and we will give you
this also for the service which you shall serve with me yet seven other
years.
29:28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29:29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he
loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other
years.
29:31 And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren.
29:32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and
she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD has looked
upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
29:33 And she conceived again, and bare a son;
and said, Because the LORD has heard that I [was] hated, he has
therefore given me this [son] also: and she called his name Simeon.
29:34 And she conceived again, and bare a son;
and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I
have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
29:35 And she conceived again, and bare a son:
and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name
Judah; and left bearing.
30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no
children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me
children, or else I die.
30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against
Rachel: and he said, [Am] I in God's stead, who has withheld from you
the fruit of the womb?
30:3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in
unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees that I may also have
children by her.
30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
30:6 And Rachel said, God has judged me, and
has also heard my voice, and has given me a son: therefore called she
his name Dan.
30:7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
30:8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings
have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his
name Naphtali.
30:9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
30:10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
30:11 And Leah said, A troop comes: and she called his name Gad.
30:12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
30:14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat
harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his
mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray you, of your
son's mandrakes.
30:15 And she said unto her, [Is it] a small
matter that you have taken my husband? and wouldest you take away my
son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with you
tonight for thy son's mandrakes.
30:16 And Jacob came out of the field in the
evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, you must come in unto
me; for surely I have hired you with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with
her that night.
30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
30:18 And Leah said, God has given me my hire,
because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name
Issachar.
30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
30:20 And Leah said, God has endued me [with] a
good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him
six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
30:21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
30:23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God has taken away my reproach:
30:24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
30:25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born
Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto my
own place, and to my country.
30:26 Give [me] my wives and my children, for
whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service which I
have done you.
30:27 And Laban said unto him, I pray you, if I
have found favor in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I have learned by
experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.
30:28 And he said, Appoint me your wages, and I
will give [it. ]30:29 And he said unto him, you know how I have served
you, and how your cattle was with me.
30:30 For [it was] little which you had before I
[came,] and it is [now] increased unto a multitude; and the LORD has
blessed you since my coming: and now when shall I provide for my own
house also?
30:31 And he said, What shall I give you? And
Jacob said, you shall not give me anything: if you will do this thing
for me, I will again feed [and] keep your flock:
30:32 I will pass through all your flock today,
removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the
brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the
goats: and [of such] shall be my hire.
30:33 So shall my righteousness answer for me
in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before your face: every
one that [is] not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among
the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
30:34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to your word.
30:35 And he removed that day the he goats that
were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled
and spotted, [and] every one that had [some] white in it, and all the
brown among the sheep, and gave [them] into the hand of his sons.
30:36 And he set three days journey betwixt
himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
30:37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar,
and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and
made the white appear which [was] in the rods.
30:38 And he set the rods which he had pilled
before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks
came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods,
and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set
the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in
the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put
them not unto Laban's cattle.
30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the
stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes
of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
30:42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put
[them] not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and
had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and
asses.
31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons,
saying, Jacob has taken away all that [was] our father's; and of [that]
which [was] our father's has he gotten all this glory.
31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it [was] not toward him as before.
31:3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto
the land of thy fathers, and to your kindred; and I will be with you.
31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
31:5 And said unto them, I see your father's
countenance, that it [is] not toward me as before; but the God of my
father has been with me.
31:6 And you know that with all my power I have served your father.
31:7 And your father has deceived me, and
changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be
your wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The
ringstraked shall be your hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
31:9 Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.
31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the
cattle conceived, that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and,
behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle [were] ringstraked,
speckled, and grisled.
31:11 And the angel of God spoke unto me in a dream, [saying,] Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I.
31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and
see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle [are] ringstraked,
speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban does unto you.
31:13 I [am] the God of Bethel, where you
anointedst the pillar, [and] where you vowedst a vow unto me: now arise,
get you out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said
unto him, [Is there] yet any portion or inheritance for us in our
father's house?
31:15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has quite devoured also our money.
31:16 For all the riches which God has taken
from our father, that [is] ours, and our children's: now then,
whatsoever God has said unto you, do.
31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
31:18 And he carried away all his cattle, and
all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he
had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of
Canaan.
31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that [were] her father's.
31:20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he
rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face [toward] the mount
Gilead.
31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and
pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the
mount Gilead.
31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a
dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that you speak not to Jacob
either good or bad.
31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had
pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in
the mount of Gilead.
31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, What have you
done, that you have stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my
daughters, as captives [taken] with the sword?
31:27 Why didst you flee away secretly, and
steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent you
away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
31:28 And have not suffered me to kiss my sons
and my daughters? you have now done foolishly in so doing.
31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do you
hurt: but the God of your father spoke unto me yesternight, saying, Take
you heed that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
31:30 And now, [though] you wouldest needs be
gone, because you sore longedst after your father's house, [yet] why
have you stolen my gods?
31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban,
Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure you wouldest take by
force your daughters from me.
31:32 With whomsoever you findest your gods,
let him not live: before our brethren discern you what [is] thine with
me, and take [it] to you. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen
them.
31:33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and
into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found
[them] not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's
tent.
31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put
them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all
the tent, but found [them] not.
31:35 And she said to her father, Let it not
displease my lord that I cannot rise up before you; for the custom of
women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with
Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What [is] my trespass? what
[is] my sin, that you have so hotly pursued after me?
31:37 Whereas you have searched all my stuff,
what have you found of all your household stuff? set [it] here before my
brethren and your brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
31:38 This twenty years [have] I [been] with
you; thy ewes and your she goats have not cast their young, and the rams
of thy flock have I not eaten.
31:39 That which was torn [of beasts] I brought
not unto you; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst you require it,
[whether] stolen by day, or stolen by night.
31:40 [Thus] I was; in the day the drought
consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.
31:41 Thus have I been twenty years in your
house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years
for your cattle: and you have changed my wages ten times.
31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of
Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely you had sent me
away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the labour of my hands,
and rebuked [you] yesternight.
31:43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob,
[These] daughters [are] my daughters, and [these] children [are] my
children, and [these] cattle [are] my cattle, and all that you seest
[is] my: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto
their children which they have born?
31:44 Now therefore come you, let us make a
covenant, I and you; and let it be for a witness between me and you.
31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.
31:46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather
stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there
upon the heap.
31:47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
31:48 And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness
between me and you this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
31:49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
31:50 If you shall afflict my daughters, or if
you shall take [other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us;
see, God [is] witness betwixt me and you.
31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this
heap, and behold [this] pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and you;
31:52 This heap [be] witness, and [this] pillar
[be] witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you
shall not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor,
the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob swore by the fear
of his father Isaac.
31:54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the
mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and
tarried all night in the mount.
31:55 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.
32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
32:2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This
[is] God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to
Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall
you speak unto my lord Esau; your servant Jacob says thus, I have
sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
32:5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and
menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I
may find grace in your sight.
32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob,
saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he comes to meet you, and
four hundred men with him.
32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and
distressed: and he divided the people that [was] with him, and the
flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
32:8 And said, If Esau come to the one company,
and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father
Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me,
Return unto your country, and to your kindred, and I will deal well with
you:
32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the
mercies, and of all the truth, which you have shewed unto your servant;
for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two
bands.
32:11 Deliver me, I pray you, from the hand of
my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and
smite me, [and] the mother with the children.
32:12 And you saidst, I will surely do you
good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be
numbered for multitude.
32:13 And he lodged there that same night; and
took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
32:14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
32:16 And he delivered [them] into the hand of
his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants,
Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
32:17 And he commanded the foremost, saying,
When Esau my brother meeteth you, and asks you, saying, Whose [are] you?
and where goes you? and whose [are] these before you?
32:18 Then you shall say, [They be] your
servant Jacob's; it [is] a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold,
also he [is] behind us.
32:19 And so commanded he the second, and the
third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall
you speak unto Esau, when you find him.
32:20 And say you moreover, Behold, your
servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the
present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face;
peradventure he will accept of me.
32:21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
32:22 And he rose up that night, and took his
two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed
over the ford Jabbok.
32:23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
32:25 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 out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day
breaketh. And he said, I will not let you go, except you bless me.
32:27 And he said unto him, What [is] your name? And he said, Jacob.
32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no
more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince have you power with God and with
men, and have prevailed.
32:29 And Jacob asked [him,] and said, Tell
[me,] I pray you, your name. And he said, Why [is] it [that] you dost
ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place
Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
32:31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
32:32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not
[of] the sinew which shrank, which [is] upon the hollow of the thigh,
unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the
sinew that shrank.
33:1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked,
and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided
the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
33:2 And he put the handmaids and their
children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and
Joseph hindermost.
33:3 And he passed over before them, and bowed
himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
33:5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the
women and the children; and said, Who [are] those with you? And he said,
The children which God has graciously given your servant.
33:6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
33:7 And Leah also with her children came near,
and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they
bowed themselves.
33:8 And he said, What [meanest] you by all
this drove which I met? And he said, [These are] to find grace in the
sight of my lord.
33:9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that you have unto thyself.
33:10 And Jacob said, No, I pray you, if now I
have found grace in your sight, then receive my present at my hand: for
therefore I have seen your face, as though I had seen the face of God,
and you were pleased with me.
33:11 Take, I pray you, my blessing that is
brought to you; because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I
have enough. And he urged him, and he took [it. ]33:12 And he said, Let
us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you.
33:13 And he said unto him, My lord knows that
the children [are] tender, and the flocks and herds with young [are]
with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will
die.
33:14 Let my lord, I pray you, pass over before
his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that
goes before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my
lord unto Seir.
33:15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with you
[some] of the folk that [are] with me. And he said, What needs it? let
me find grace in the sight of my lord.
33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built
him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the
place is called Succoth.
33:18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of
Shechem, which [is] in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram;
and pitched his tent before the city.
33:19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where
he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's
father, for an hundred pieces of money.
33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she
bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
34:2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the
Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her,
and defiled her.
34:3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter
of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke kindly unto the damsel.
34:4 And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
34:5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah
his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob
held his peace until they were come.
34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
34:7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the
field when they heard [it:] and the men were grieved, and they were very
wroth, because he had worked folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's
daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
34:8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The
soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter: I pray you give her him
to wife.
34:9 And make you marriages with us, [and] give
your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
34:10 And you shall dwell with us: and the land
shall be before you; dwell and trade you therein, and get you
possessions therein.
34:11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto
her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what you shall say
unto me I will give.
34:12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I
will give according as you shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to
wife.
34:13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem
and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah
their sister:
34:14 And they said unto them, We cannot do
this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that
[were] a reproach unto us:
34:15 But in this will we consent unto you: If
you will be as we [be,] that every male of you be circumcised;
34:16 Then will we give our daughters unto you,
and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and
we will become one people.
34:17 But if you will not hearken unto us, to
be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
34:18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
34:19 And the young man deferred not to do the
thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he [was] more
honourable than all the house of his father.
34:20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto
the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
34:21 These men [are] peaceable with us;
therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land,
behold, [it is] large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us
for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
34:22 Only herein will the men consent unto us
for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be
circumcised, as they [are] circumcised.
34:23 [Shall] not their cattle and their
substance and every beast of theirs [be] ours? only let us consent unto
them, and they will dwell with us.
34:24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son
hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was
circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
34:25 And it came to pass on the third day,
when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi,
Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city
boldly, and slew all the males.
34:26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son
with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and
went out.
34:27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain,
and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
34:28 They took their sheep, and their oxen,
and their asses, and that which [was] in the city, and that which [was]
in the field,
34:29 And all their wealth, and all their
little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all
that [was] in the house.
34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You
have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land,
among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I [being] few in number,
they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I
shall be destroyed, I and my house.
34:31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
35:1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to
Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared
unto you when you fleddest from the face of Esau your brother.
35:2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to
all that [were] with him, Put away the strange gods that [are] among
you, and be clean, and change your garments:
35:3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and
I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my
distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange
gods which [were] in their hand, and [all their] earrings which [were]
in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which [was] by Shechem.
35:5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God
was upon the cities that [were] round about them, and they did not
pursue after the sons of Jacob.
35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in the
land of Canaan, that [is,] Bethel, he and all the people that [were]
with him.
35:7 And he built there an altar, and called
the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled
from the face of his brother.
35:8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she
was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called
Allon-bachuth.
35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.
35:10 And God said unto him, your name [is]
Jacob: your name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be
your name: and he called his name Israel.
35:11 And God said unto him, I [am] God
Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations
shall be of you, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
35:12 And the land which I gave Abraham and
Isaac, to you I will give it, and to your seed after you will I give the
land.
35:13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place
where he talked with him, [even] a pillar of stone: and he poured a
drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.
35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there
was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she
had hard labour.
35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard
labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; you shall have this
son also.
35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in
departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his
father called him Benjamin.
35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which [is] Bethlehem.
35:20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that [is] the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
35:22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in
that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine:
and Israel heard [it.] Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
35:23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's
firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
35:24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
35:25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid;
Gad, and Asher: these [are] the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in
Padan-aram.
35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto
Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which [is] Hebron, where Abraham and
Isaac sojourned.
35:28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
35:29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died,
and was gathered unto his people, [being] old and full of days: and his
sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
36:1 Now these [are] the generations of Esau, who [is] Edom.
36:2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of
Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the
daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
36:3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
36:4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
36:5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and
Korah: these [are] the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the
land of Canaan.
36:6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and
his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and
all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of
Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
36:7 For their riches were more than that they
might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not
bear them because of their cattle.
36:8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau [is] Edom.
36:9 And these [are] the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
36:10 These [are] the names of Esau's sons;
Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the
wife of Esau.
36:11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
36:12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's
son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these [were] the sons of Adah
Esau's wife.
36:13 And these [are] the sons of Reuel;
Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath
Esau's wife.
36:14 And these were the sons of Aholibamah,
the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare
to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
36:15 These [were] dukes of the sons of Esau:
the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn [son] of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar,
duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,
36:16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, [and] duke
Amalek: these [are] the dukes [that came] of Eliphaz in the land of
Edom; these [were] the sons of Adah.
36:17 And these [are] the sons of Reuel Esau's
son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these [are] the
dukes [that came] of Reuel in the land of Edom; these [are] the sons of
Bashemath Esau's wife.
36:18 And these [are] the sons of Aholibamah
Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these [were] the dukes
[that came] of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
36:19 These [are] the sons of Esau, who [is] Edom, and these [are] their dukes.
36:20 These [are] the sons of Seir the Horite,
who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
36:21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these
[are] the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of
Edom.
36:22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister [was] Timna.
36:23 And the children of Shobal [were] these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
36:24 And these [are] the children of Zibeon;
both Ajah, and Anah: this [was that] Anah that found the mules in the
wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
36:25 And the children of Anah [were] these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.
36:26 And these [are] the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
36:27 The children of Ezer [are] these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.
36:28 The children of Dishan [are] these: Uz, and Aran.
36:29 These [are] the dukes [that came] of the
Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
36:30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan:
these [are] the dukes [that came] of Hori, among their dukes in the land
of Seir.
36:31 And these [are] the kings that reigned in
the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of
Israel.
36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah.
36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
36:34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead.
36:35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of
Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and
the name of his city [was] Avith.
36:36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
36:37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth [by] the river reigned in his stead.
36:38 And Saul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
36:39 And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died,
and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city [was] Pau; and
his wife's name [was] Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of
Mezahab.
36:40 And these [are] the names of the dukes
[that came] of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by
their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,
36:41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
36:42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
36:43 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these [be] the
dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their
possession: he [is] Esau the father of the Edomites.
37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
37:2 These [are] the generations of Jacob.
Joseph, [being] seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his
brethren; and the lad [was] with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons
of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their
evil report.
37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his
children, because he [was] the son of his old age: and he made him a
coat of [many] colours.
37:4 And when his brethren saw that their
father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could
not speak peaceably unto him.
37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
37:6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
37:7 For, behold, we [were] binding sheaves in
the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold,
your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
37:8 And his brethren said to him, Shall you
indeed reign over us? or shall you indeed have dominion over us? And
they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told
it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and,
behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
37:10 And he told [it] to his father, and to
his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What [is]
this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your
brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to you to the earth?
37:11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
37:12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
37:13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not your
brethren feed [the flock] in Shechem? come, and I will send you unto
them. And he said to him, Here [am] I.
37:14 And he said to him, Go, I pray you, see
whether it be well with your brethren, and well with the flocks; and
bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he
came to Shechem.
37:15 And a certain man found him, and, behold,
[he was] wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What
seekest you?
37:16 And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me,
I pray you, where they feed [their flocks. ]37:17 And the man said,
They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And
Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.
37:18 And when they saw him afar off, even
before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
37:19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer comes.
37:20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him,
and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast has
devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
37:21 And Reuben heard [it,] and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.
37:22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood,
[but] cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand
upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to
his father again.
37:23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come
unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, [his]
coat of [many] colours that [was] on him;
37:24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit [was] empty, [there was] no water in it.
37:25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they
lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites
came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh,
going to carry [it] down to Egypt.
37:26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What
profit [is it] if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
37:27 Come, and let us sell him to the
Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he [is] our brother
[and] our flesh. And his brethren were content.
37:28 Then there passed by Midianites
merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold
Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty [pieces] of silver: and they
brought Joseph into Egypt.
37:29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and,
behold, Joseph [was] not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
37:30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child [is] not; and I, where shall I go?
37:31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
37:32 And they sent the coat of [many] colours,
and they brought [it] to their father; and said, This have we found:
know now whether it [be] your son's coat or no.
37:33 And he knew it, and said, [It is] my
son's coat; an evil beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent
in pieces.
37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters
rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For
I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father
wept for him.
37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt
unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, [and] captain of the guard.
38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that
Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain
Adullamite, whose name [was] Hirah.
38:2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a
certain Canaanite, whose name [was] Shuah; and he took her, and went in
unto her.
38:3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.
38:4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
38:5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a
son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare
him.
38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name [was] Tamar.
38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto your
brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to your brother.
38:9 And Onan knew that the seed should 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 that he should give seed to his
brother.
38:10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: why he slew him also.
38:11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in
law, Remain a widow at your father's house, till Shelah my son be grown:
for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren [did.] And
Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
38:12 And in process of time the daughter of
Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his
sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold your father in law goes up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
38:14 And she put her widow's garments off from
her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an
open place, which [is] by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah
was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot; because she had covered her face.
38:16 And he turned unto her by the way, and
said, Go to, I pray you, let me come in unto you; (for he knew not that
she [was] his daughter in law.) And she said, What will you give me,
that you mayest come in unto me?
38:17 And he said, I will send [you] a kid from
the flock. And she said, Will you give [me] a pledge, till you send
[it? ]38:18 And he said, What pledge shall I give you? And she said,
your signet, and your bracelets, and your staff that [is] in thine hand.
And he gave [it] her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
38:19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by
her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
38:20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his
friend the Adullamite, to receive [his] pledge from the woman's hand:
but he found her not.
38:21 Then he asked the men of that place,
saying, Where [is] the harlot, that [was] openly by the way side? And
they said, There was no harlot in this [place. ]38:22 And he returned to
Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said,
[that] there was no harlot in this [place. ]38:23 And Judah said, Let
her take [it] to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and
you have not found her.
38:24 And it came to pass about three months
after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar your daughter in law has
played the harlot; and also, behold, she [is] with child by whoredom.
And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
38:25 When she [was] brought forth, she sent to
her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these [are, am] I with
child: and she said, Discern, I pray you, whose [are] these, the signet,
and bracelets, and staff.
38:26 And Judah acknowledged [them,] and said,
She has been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to
Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
38:27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins [were] in her womb.
38:28 And it came to pass, when she travailed,
that [the one] put out [his] hand: and the midwife took and bound upon
his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first,
38:29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his
hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How have you
broken forth? [this] breach [be] upon you: therefore his name was called
Pharez.
38:30 And afterward came out his brother, that
had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.
39:1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and
Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian,
bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down
there.
39:2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a
prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
39:3 And his master saw that the LORD [was]
with him, and that the LORD made all [that] he did to prosper in his
hand.
39:4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and
he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he
had he put into his hand.
39:5 And it came to pass from the time [that]
he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that
the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the
blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the
field.
39:6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's
hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And
Joseph was [a] goodly [person,] and well favored.
39:7 And it came to pass after these things,
that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with
me.
39:8 But he refused, and said unto his master's
wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what [is] with me in the house, and
he has committed all that he has to my hand;
39:9 [There is] none greater in this house than
I; neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you [are]
his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
39:10 And it came to pass, as she spoke to
Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, [or]
to be with her.
39:11 And it came to pass about this time, that
[Joseph] went into the house to do his business; and [there was] none
of the men of the house there within.
39:12 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.
39:13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
39:14 That she called unto the men of her
house, and spoke unto them, saying, See, he has brought in an Hebrew
unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a
loud voice:
39:15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I
lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and
fled, and got him out.
39:16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
39:17 And she spoke unto him according to these
words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which you have brought unto us, came
in unto me to mock me:
39:18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my
voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
39:19 And it came to pass, when his master
heard the words of his wife, which she spoke unto him, saying, After
this manner did your servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
39:20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him
into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners [were] bound: and
he was there in the prison.
39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed
him mercy, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
39:22 And the keeper of the prison committed to
Joseph's hand all the prisoners that [were] in the prison; and
whatsoever they did there, he was the doer [of it. ]39:23 The keeper of
the prison looked not to anything [that was] under his hand; because the
LORD was with him, and [that] which he did, the LORD made [it] to
prosper.
40:1 And it came to pass after these things,
[that] the butler of the king of Egypt and [his] baker had offended
their lord the king of Egypt.
40:2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two [of] his
officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of
the bakers.
40:3 And he put them in ward in the house of
the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph [was]
bound.
40:4 And the captain of the guard charged
Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in
ward.
40:5 And they dreamed a dream both of them,
each man his dream in one night, each man according to the
interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of
Egypt, which [were] bound in the prison.
40:6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they [were] sad.
40:7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that
[were] with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Why look you
[so] sadly today?
40:8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a
dream, and [there is] no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them,
[Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me [them,] I pray you.
40:9 And the chief butler told his dream to
Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine [was] before me;
40:10 And in the vine [were] three branches:
and it [was] as though it budded, [and] her blossoms shot forth; and the
clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
40:11 And Pharaoh's cup [was] in my hand: and I
took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the
cup into Pharaoh's hand.
40:12 And Joseph said unto him, This [is] the
interpretation of it: The three branches [are] three days:
40:13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift
up thine head, and restore you unto your place: and you shall deliver
Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when you were his
butler.
40:14 But think on me when it shall be well
with you, and shew kindness, I pray you, unto me, and make mention of me
unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
40:15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the
land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should
put me into the dungeon.
40:16 When the chief baker saw that the
interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also [was] in my dream,
and, behold, [I had] three white baskets on my head:
40:17 And in the uppermost basket [there was]
of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out
of the basket upon my head.
40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This [is]
the interpretation thereof: The three baskets [are] three days:
40:19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift
up your head from off you, and shall hang you on a tree; and the birds
shall eat your flesh from off you.
40:20 And it came to pass the third day, [which
was] Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants:
and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker
among his servants.
40:21 And he restored the chief butler unto his
butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:
40:22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full
years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the
river seven well favored kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
41:3 And, behold, seven other kine came up
after them out of the river, ill favored and leanfleshed; and stood by
the [other] kine upon the brink of the river.
41:4 And the ill favored and leanfleshed kine
did eat up the seven well favored and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second time:
and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
41:6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
41:7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven
rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, [it was] a dream.
41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that
his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of
Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream;
but [there was] none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
41:9 Then spoke the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
41:10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and
put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both [me] and the
chief baker:
41:11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I
and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his
dream.
41:12 And [there was] there with us a young
man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him,
and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream
he did interpret.
41:13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to
us, so it was; me he restored unto my office, and him he hanged.
41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and
they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved [himself,]
and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
41:15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have
dreamed a dream, and [there is] none that can interpret it: and I have
heard say of you, [that] you canst understand a dream to interpret it.
41:16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, [It
is] not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
41:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
41:18 And, behold, there came up out of the
river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favored; and they fed in a meadow:
41:19 And, behold, seven other kine came up
after them, poor and very ill favored and leanfleshed, such as I never
saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
41:20 And the lean and the ill favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
41:21 And when they had eaten them up, it could
not be known that they had eaten them; but they [were] still ill
favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
41:22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
41:23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
41:24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good
ears: and I told [this] unto the magicians; but [there was] none that
could declare [it] to me.
41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream
of Pharaoh [is] one: God has shewed Pharaoh what he [is] about to do.
41:26 The seven good kine [are] seven years;
and the seven good ears [are] seven years: the dream [is] one.
41:27 And the seven thin and ill favored kine
that came up after them [are] seven years; and the seven empty ears
blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famy.
41:28 This [is] the thing which I have spoken
unto Pharaoh: What God [is] about to do he shows unto Pharaoh.
41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
41:30 And there shall arise after them seven
years of famy; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of
Egypt; and the famy shall consume the land;
41:31 And the plenty shall not be known in the
land by reason of that famy following; for it [shall be] very grievous.
41:32 And for that the dream was doubled unto
Pharaoh twice; [it is] because the thing [is] established by God, and
God will shortly bring it to pass.
41:33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
41:34 Let Pharaoh do [this,] and let him
appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land
of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
41:35 And let them gather all the food of those
good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and
let them keep food in the cities.
41:36 And that food shall be for store to the
land against the seven years of famy, which shall be in the land of
Egypt; that the land perish not through the famy.
41:37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can
we find [such a one] as this [is,] a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
41:39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch
as God has shewed you all this, [there is] none so discreet and wise as
you [are: ]41:40 you shall be over my house, and according unto your
word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater
than you.
41:41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.
41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his
hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine
linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
41:43 And he made him to ride in the second
chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he
made him [ruler] over all the land of Egypt.
41:44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I [am]
Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all
the land of Egypt.
41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name
Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-
pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over [all] the land of Egypt.
41:46 And Joseph [was] thirty years old when he
stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the
presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
41:47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the
seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in
the cities: the food of the field, which [was] round about every city,
laid he up in the same.
41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of
the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without
number.
41:50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before
the years of famy came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti- pherah
priest of On bare unto him.
41:51 And Joseph called the name of the
firstborn Manasseh: For God, [said he,] has made me forget all my toil,
and all my father's house.
41:52 And the name of the second called he
Ephraim: For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my
affliction.
41:53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
41:54 And the seven years of dearth began to
come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but
in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
41:55 And when all the land of Egypt was
famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto
all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he says to you, do.
41:56 And the famy was over all the face of the
earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the
Egyptians; and the famy waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to
Joseph for to buy [corn;] because that the famy was so sore in all
lands.
42:1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in
Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do you look one upon another?
42:2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that
there is corn in Egypt: get you down there, and buy for us from thence;
that we may live, and not die.
42:3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent
not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall
him.
42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn]
among those that came: for the famy was in the land of Canaan.
42:6 And Joseph [was] the governor over the
land, [and] he [it was] that sold to all the people of the land: and
Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him [with]
their faces to the earth.
42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew
them, but made himself strange unto them, and spoke roughly unto them;
and he said unto them, Whence come you? And they said, From the land of
Canaan to buy food.
42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he
dreamed of them, and said unto them, You [are] spies; to see the
nakedness of the land you are come.
42:10 And they said unto him, No, my lord, but to buy food are your servants come.
42:11 We [are] all one man's sons; we [are] true [men,] your servants are no spies.
42:12 And he said unto them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land you are come.
42:13 And they said, your servants [are] twelve
brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the
youngest [is] this day with our father, and one [is] not.
42:14 And Joseph said unto them, That [is it] that I spoke unto you, saying, You [are] spies:
42:15 Hereby you shall be proved: By the life
of Pharaoh you shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother
come here.
42:16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your
brother, and you shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved,
whether [there be any] truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh
surely you [are] spies.
42:17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; [for] I fear God:
42:19 If you [be] true [men,] let one of your
brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go you, carry corn for
the famy of your houses:
42:20 But bring your youngest brother unto me;
so shall your words be verified, and you shall not die. And they did so.
42:21 And they said one to another, We [are]
verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his
soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this
distress come upon us.
42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spoke I
not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and you would not
hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood [them;] for he spoke unto them by an interpreter.
42:24 And he turned himself about from them,
and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took
from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks
with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give
them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
42:26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
42:27 And as one of them opened his sack to
give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it
[was] in his sack's mouth.
42:28 And he said unto his brethren, My money
is restored; and, lo, [it is] even in my sack: and their heart failed
[them,] and they were afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this
[that] God has done unto us?
42:29 And they came unto Jacob their father
unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
42:30 The man, [who is] the lord of the land,
spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
42:31 And we said unto him, We [are] true [men;] we are no spies:
42:32 We [be] twelve brethren, sons of our
father; one [is] not, and the youngest [is] this day with our father in
the land of Canaan.
42:33 And the man, the lord of the country,
said unto us, Hereby shall I know that you [are] true [men;] leave one
of your brethren [here] with me, and take [food for] the famy of your
households, and be gone:
42:34 And bring your youngest brother unto me:
then shall I know that you [are] no spies, but [that] you [are] true
[men: so] will I deliver you your brother, and you shall traffick in the
land.
42:35 And it came to pass as they emptied their
sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money [was] in his sack: and
when [both] they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were
afraid.
42:36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me
have you bereaved [of my children:] Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is]
not, and you will take Benjamin [away:] all these things are against me.
42:37 And Reuben spoke unto his father, saying,
Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to you: deliver him into my hand,
and I will bring him to you again.
42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down
with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief
befall him by the way in the which you go, then shall you bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
43:1 And the famy [was] sore in the land.
43:2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten
up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto
them, Go again, buy us a little food.
43:3 And Judah spoke unto him, saying, The man
did solemnly protest unto us, saying, You shall not see my face, except
your brother [be] with you.
43:4 If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food:
43:5 But if you will not send [him,] we will
not go down: for the man said unto us, You shall not see my face, except
your brother [be] with you.
43:6 And Israel said, Why dealt you so ill with me, as to tell the man whether you had yet a brother?
43:7 And they said, The man asked us straitly
of our state, and of our kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet alive?
have you [another] brother? and we told him according to the tenor of
these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your
brother down?
43:8 And Judah said unto Israel his father,
Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and
not die, both we, and you, [and] also our little ones.
43:9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shall
you require him: if I bring him not unto you, and set him before you,
then let me bear the blame forever:
43:10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
43:11 And their father Israel said unto them,
If [it must be] so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in
your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a
little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
43:12 And take double money in your hand; and
the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry [it]
again in your hand; peradventure it [was] an oversight:
43:13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
43:14 And God Almighty give you mercy before
the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be
bereaved [of my children,] I am bereaved.
43:15 And the men took that present, and they
took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went
down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
43:16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them,
he said to the ruler of his house, Bring [these] men home, and slay, and
make ready; for [these] men shall dine with me at noon.
43:17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.
43:18 And the men were afraid, because they
were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money
that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that
he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for
bondmen, and our asses.
43:19 And they came near to the steward of
Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,
43:20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
43:21 And it came to pass, when we came to the
inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, [every] man's money [was] in
the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it
again in our hand.
43:22 And other money have we brought down in
our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
43:23 And he said, Peace [be] to you, fear not:
your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your
sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
43:24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's
house, and gave [them] water, and they washed their feet; and he gave
their asses provender.
43:25 And they made ready the present against
Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
43:26 And when Joseph came home, they brought
him the present which [was] in their hand into the house, and bowed
themselves to him to the earth.
43:27 And he asked them of [their] welfare, and
said, [Is] your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? [Is] he yet
alive?
43:28 And they answered, your servant our
father [is] in good health, he [is] yet alive. And they bowed down their
heads, and made obeisance.
43:29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his
brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, [Is] this your younger
brother, of whom you spoke unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto
you, my son.
43:30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did
yearn upon his brother: and he sought [where] to weep; and he entered
into [his] chamber, and wept there.
43:31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.
43:32 And they set on for him by himself, and
for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him,
by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the
Hebrews; for that [is] an abomination unto the Egyptians.
43:33 And they sat before him, the firstborn
according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth:
and the men marvelled one at another.
43:34 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.
44:1 And he commanded the steward of his house,
saying, Fill the men's sacks [with] food, as much as they can carry,
and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
44:2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the
sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according
to the word that Joseph had spoken.
44:3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
44:4 [And] when they were gone out of the city,
[and] not [yet] far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after
the men; and when you dost overtake them, say unto them, Why have you
rewarded evil for good?
44:5 [Is] not this [it] in which my lord
drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? you have done evil in so
doing.
44:6 And he overtook them, and he spoke unto them these same words.
44:7 And they said unto him, Why says my lord
these words? God forbid that your servants should do according to this
thing:
44:8 Behold, the money, which we found in our
sacks' mouths, we brought again unto you out of the land of Canaan: how
then should we steal out of your lord's house silver or gold?
44:9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be
found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
44:10 And he said, Now also [let] it [be]
according unto your words; he with whom it is found shall be my servant;
and you shall be blameless.
44:11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
44:12 And he searched, [and] began at the
eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's
sack.
44:13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
44:14 And Judah and his brethren came to
Joseph's house; for he [was] yet there: and they fell before him on the
ground.
44:15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed [is]
this that you have done? wot you not that such a man as I can certainly
divine?
44:16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my
lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God has
found out the iniquity of your servants: behold, we [are] my lord's
servants, both we, and [he] also with whom the cup is found.
44:17 And he said, God forbid that I should do
so: [but] the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my
servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
44:18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said,
Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray you, speak a word in my lord's ears,
and let not thine anger burn against your servant: for you [are] even
as Pharaoh.
44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father, or a brother?
44:20 And we said unto my lord, We have a
father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his
brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father
loves him.
44:21 And you saidst unto your servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set my eyes upon him.
44:22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot
leave his father: for [if] he should leave his father, [his father]
would die.
44:23 And you saidst unto your servants, Except
your youngest brother come down with you, you shall see my face no
more.
44:24 And it came to pass when we came up unto
your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
44:25 And our father said, Go again, [and] buy us a little food.
44:26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our
youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see
the man's face, except our youngest brother [be] with us.
44:27 And your servant my father said unto us,
You know that my wife bare me two [sons: ]44:28 And the one went out
from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not
since:
44:29 And if you take this also from me, and
mischief befall him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to
the grave.
44:30 Now therefore when I come to your servant
my father, and the lad [be] not with us; seeing that his life is bound
up in the lad's life;
44:31 It shall come to pass, when he sees that
the lad [is] not [with us,] that he will die: and thy servants shall
bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to the
grave.
44:32 For your servant became surety for the
lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto you, then I shall
bear the blame to my father forever.
44:33 Now therefore, I pray you, let your
servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad
go up with his brethren.
44:34 For how shall I go up to my father, and
the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall
come on my father.
45:1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself
before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go
out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself
known unto his brethren.
45:2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
45:3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I [am]
Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him;
for they were troubled at his presence.
45:4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come
near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I [am] Joseph
your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
45:5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry
with yourselves, that you sold me here: for God did send me before you
to preserve life.
45:6 For these two years [has] the famy [been]
in the land: and yet [there are] five years, in the which [there shall]
neither [be] earing nor harvest.
45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve you
a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great
deliverance.
45:8 So now [it was] not you [that] sent me
here, but God: and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all
his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
45:9 Haste you, and go up to my father, and say
unto him, Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt:
come down unto me, tarry not:
45:10 And you shall dwell in the land of
Goshen, and you shall be near unto me, you, and thy children, and your
children's children, and your flocks, and thy herds, and all that you
have:
45:11 And there will I nourish you; for yet
[there are] five years of famy; lest you, and your household, and all
that you have, come to poverty.
45:12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes
of my brother Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth that speaks unto you.
45:13 And you shall tell my father of all my
glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen; and you shall haste and
bring down my father here.
45:14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
45:15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and
wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
45:16 And the fame thereof was heard in
Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased
Pharaoh well, and his servants.
45:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto
your brethren, This do you; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the
land of Canaan;
45:18 And take your father and your households,
and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt,
and you shall eat the fat of the land.
45:19 Now you are commanded, this do you; take
you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your
wives, and bring your father, and come.
45:20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt [is] yours.
45:21 And the children of Israel did so: and
Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and
gave them provision for the way.
45:22 To all of them he gave each man changes
of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred [pieces] of silver,
and five changes of raiment.
45:23 And to his father he sent after this
[manner;] ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she
asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
45:24 So he sent his brethren away, and they
departed: and he said unto them, See that you fall not out by the way.
45:25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
45:26 And told him, saying, Joseph [is] yet
alive, and he [is] governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's
heart fainted, for he believed them not.
45:27 And they told him all the words of
Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which
Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
45:28 And Israel said, [It is] enough; Joseph
my son [is] yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that
he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of
his father Isaac.
46:2 And God spoke unto Israel in the visions
of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here [am] I.
46:3 And he said, I [am] God, the God of your
father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of you a
great nation:
46:4 I will go down with you into Egypt; and I
will also surely bring you up [again:] and Joseph shall put his hand
upon thine eyes.
46:5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the
sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and
their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
46:6 And they took their cattle, and their
goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt,
Jacob, and all his seed with him:
46:7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his
daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with
him into Egypt.
46:8 And these [are] the names of the children
of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's
firstborn.
46:9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
46:10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and
Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a
Canaanitish woman.
46:11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
46:12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and
Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of
Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
46:13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
46:14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
46:15 These [be] the sons of Leah, which she
bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of
his sons and his daughters [were] thirty and three.
46:16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
46:17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and
Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of
Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
46:18 These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom
Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, [even]
sixteen souls.
46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
46:20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were
born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah
priest of On bare unto him.
46:21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and
Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim,
and Ard.
46:22 These [are] the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls [were] fourteen.
46:23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
46:24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
46:25 These [are] the sons of Bilhah, which
Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all
the souls [were] seven.
46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob into
Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the
souls [were] threescore and six;
46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born
him in Egypt, [were] two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob,
which came into Egypt, [were] threescore and ten.
46:28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph,
to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
46:29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and
went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto
him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
46:30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me
die, since I have seen your face, because you [are] yet alive.
46:31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and
unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto
him, My brethren, and my father's house, which [were] in the land of
Canaan, are come unto me;
46:32 And the men [are] shepherds, for their
trade has been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and
their herds, and all that they have.
46:33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What [is] your occupation?
46:34 That you shall say, your servants' trade
has been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, [and] also
our fathers: that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; forevery
shepherd [is] an abomination unto the Egyptians.
47:1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and
said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and
all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold,
they [are] in the land of Goshen.
47:2 And he took some of his brethren, [even] five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
47:3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What
[is] your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants [are]
shepherds, both we, [and] also our fathers.
47:4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to
sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for
their flocks; for the famy [is] sore in the land of Canaan: now
therefore, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
47:5 And Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph, saying, your father and your brethren are come unto you:
47:6 The land of Egypt [is] before you; in the
best of the land make your father and brethren to dwell; in the land of
Goshen let them dwell: and if you know [any] men of activity among them,
then make them rulers over my cattle.
47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old [are] you?
47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of
the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and
evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained
unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of
their pilgrimage.
47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his
brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best
of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his
brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to
[their] families.
47:13 And [there was] no bread in all the land;
for the famy [was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and [all] the
land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famy.
47:14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that
was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn
which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
47:15 And when money failed 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 your presence? for the
money fails.
47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
47:17 And they brought their cattle unto
Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread [in exchange] for horses, and for the
flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed
them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
47:18 When that year was ended, they came unto
him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide [it] from my
lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of cattle;
there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and
our lands:
47:19 Why shall 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, that the land be not desolate.
47:20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt
for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the
famy prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to
cities from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end
thereof.
47:22 Only the land of the priests bought he
not; for the priests had a portion [assigned them] of Pharaoh, and did
eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: why they sold not their
lands.
47:23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold,
I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, [here is]
seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
47:24 And it shall come to pass in the
increase, that you shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four
parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and
for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
47:25 And they said, you have saved our lives:
let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's
servants.
47:26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of
Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part;]
except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh's.
47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in
the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and
multiplied exceedingly.
47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt
seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and
seven years.
47:29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must
die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have
found grace in your sight, put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh,
and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray you, in Egypt:
47:30 But I will lie with my fathers, and you
shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he
said, I will do as you have said.
47:31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he swore unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.
48:1 And it came to pass after these things,
that [one] told Joseph, Behold, your father [is] sick: and he took with
him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
48:2 And [one] told Jacob, and said, Behold,
your son Joseph comes unto you: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat
upon the bed.
48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty
appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
48:4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make you
fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of
people; and will give this land to your seed after you [for] an
everlasting possession.
48:5 And now your two sons, Ephraim and
Manasseh, which were born unto you in the land of Egypt before I came
unto you into Egypt, [are] my; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be my.
48:6 And thy issue, which you begettest after
them, shall be thine, [and] shall be called after the name of their
brethren in their inheritance.
48:7 And as for me, when I came from Padan,
Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet [there was]
but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the
way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
48:8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who [are] these?
48:9 And Joseph said unto his father, They
[are] my sons, whom God has given me in this [place.] And he said, Bring
them, I pray you, unto me, and I will bless them.
48:10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age,
[so that] he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he
kissed them, and embraced them.
48:11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not
thought to see your face: and, lo, God has shewed me also your seed.
48:12 And Joseph brought them out from between
his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
48:13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his
right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand
toward Israel's right hand, and brought [them] near unto him.
48:14 And Israel stretched out his right hand,
and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who [was] the younger, and his left
hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh
[was] the firstborn.
48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God,
before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me
all my life long unto this day,
48:16 The Angel which 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.
48:17 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.
48:18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so,
my father: for this [is] the firstborn; put your right hand upon his
head.
48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know
[it,] my son, I know [it:] he also shall become a people, and he also
shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he,
and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In
you shall Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh:
and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I
die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of
your fathers.
48:22 Moreover I have given to you one portion
above your brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my
sword and with my bow.
49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said,
Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you [that] which shall
befall you in the last days.
49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, you sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
49:3 Reuben, you [are] my firstborn, my might,
and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the
excellency of power:
49:4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel;
because you wentest up to your father's bed; then defiledst you [it:] he
went up to my couch.
49:5 Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of cruelty [are in] their habitations.
49:6 O my soul, come not you into their secret;
unto their assembly, my honour, be not you united: for in their anger
they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
49:7 Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was]
fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob,
and scatter them in Israel.
49:8 Judah, you [are he] whom your brethren
shall praise: your hand [shall be] in the neck of thine enemies; your
father's children shall bow down before you.
49:9 Judah [is] a lion's whelp: from the prey,
my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as
an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,
nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him
[shall] the gathering of the people [be. ]49:11 Binding his foal unto
the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his
garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
49:12 His eyes [shall be] red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the
sea; and he [shall be] for an haven of ships; and his border [shall be]
unto Zidon.
49:14 Issachar [is] a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
49:15 And he saw that rest [was] good, and the
land that [it was] pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a
servant unto tribute.
49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an
adder in the path, that bites the horse heels, so that his rider shall
fall backward.
49:18 I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.
49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
49:20 Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
49:21 Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he gives goodly words.
49:22 Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a
fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:
49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at him,] and hated him:
49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the
arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty [God] of
Jacob; (from thence [is] the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
49:25 [Even] by the God of your father, who
shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings
of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the
breasts, and of the womb:
49:26 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.
49:27 Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the
morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the
spoil.
49:28 All these [are] the twelve tribes of
Israel: and this [is it] that their father spoke unto them, and blessed
them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
49:29 And 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,
49:30 In the cave that [is] in the field of
Machpelah, which [is] before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham
bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a
buryingplace.
49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his
wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried
Leah.
49:32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that [is] therein [was] from the children of Heth.
49:33 And when Jacob had made an end of
commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded
up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the
physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for
so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the
Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
50:4 And when the days of his mourning were
past, Joseph spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have
found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh,
saying,
50:5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I
die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there
shall you bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my
father, and I will come again.
50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury your father, according as he made you swear.
50:7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and
with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house,
and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
50:8 And all the house of Joseph, and his
brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their
flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
50:10 And they came to the threshingfloor of
Atad, which [is] beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and
very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the
Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This [is]
a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: why the name of it was called
Abel-mizraim, which [is] beyond Jordan.
50:12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
50:13 For his sons carried him into the land of
Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which
Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of
Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
50:14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and
his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he
had buried his father.
50:15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their
father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will
certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
50:16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, your father did command before he died, saying,
50:17 So shall you say unto Joseph, Forgive, I
pray you now, the trespass of your brethren, and their sin; for they did
unto you evil: and now, we pray you, forgive the trespass of the
servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke unto
him.
50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down
before his face; and they said, Behold, we [be] your servants.
50:19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of God?
50:20 But as for you, you thought evil against
me; [but] God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as [it is] this day,
to save much people alive.
50:21 Now therefore fear you not: I will
nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke
kindly unto them.
50:22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
50:23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the
third [generation:] the children also of Machir the son Manasseh were
brought up upon Joseph's knees.
50:24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die:
and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the
land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
50:25 And Joseph took an oath of the children
of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my
bones from hence.
50:26 So Joseph died, [being] an hundred and
ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in
Egypt.
The Second Book of Moses, called Exodus
1:1 Now these [are] the names of the children
of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with
Jacob.
1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
1:4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
1:5 And all the souls that came out of the
loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already.
]1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful,
and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty;
and the land was filled with them.
1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
1:9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the
people of the children of Israel [are] more and mightier than we:
1:10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them;
lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falls out any
war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and [so] get
them up out of the land.
1:11 Therefore they did set over them
taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for
Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more
they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children
of Israel.
1:13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard
bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the
field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, [was] with
rigour.
1:15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew
midwives, of which the name of the one [was] Shiphrah, and the name of
the other Puah:
1:16 And he said, When you do the office of a
midwife to the Hebrew women, and see [them] upon the stools; if it [be] a
son, then you shall kill him: but if it [be] a daughter, then she shall
live.
1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not
as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
1:18 And the king of Egypt called for the
midwives, and said unto them, Why have you done this thing, and have
saved the men children alive?
1:19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh,
Because the Hebrew women [are] not as the Egyptian women; for they [are]
lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
1:20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
1:21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people,
saying, Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every
daughter you shall save alive.
2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took [to wife] a daughter of Levi.
2:2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son:
and when she saw him that he [was a] goodly [child,] she hid him three
months.
2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she
took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with
pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the
river's brink.
2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
2:5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to
wash [herself] at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's
side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to
fetch it.
2:6 And when she had opened [it,] she saw the
child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and
said, This [is one] of the Hebrews' children.
2:7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter,
Shall I go and call to you a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may
nurse the child for you?
2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take
this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give [you] your wages.
And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him
unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name
Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
2:11 And it came to pass in those days, when
Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their
burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his
brethren.
2:12 And he looked this way and that way, and
when he saw that [there was] no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him
in the sand.
2:13 And when he went out the second day,
behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that
did the wrong, Why smitest you your fellow?
2:14 And he said, Who made you a prince and a
judge over us? intendest you to kill me, as you killedst the Egyptian?
And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he
sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt
in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven
daughters: and they came and drew [water,] and filled the troughs to
water their father's flock.
2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them
away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How [is it that] you are come so soon today?
2:19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us
out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew [water] enough for us,
and watered the flock.
2:20 And he said unto his daughters, And where
[is] he? why [is] it [that] you have left the man? call him, that he may
eat bread.
2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
2:22 And she bare [him] a son, and he called
his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
2:23 And it came to pass in process of time,
that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason
of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by
reason of the bondage.
2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God
remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
2:25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto [them.]
3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his
father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the
backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, [even] to
Horeb.
3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him
in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and,
behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed.
3:3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
3:4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside
to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said,
Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am] I.
3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh here: put off
your shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon you standest is holy
ground.
3:6 Moreover he said, I [am] the God of your
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.
3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the
affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry
by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of
the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a
good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the
place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
3:9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the
children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression
wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send you
unto Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people the children of Israel
out of Egypt.
3:11 And Moses said unto God, Who [am] I, that I
should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of
Israel out of Egypt?
3:12 And he said, Certainly I will be with you;
and this [shall be] a token unto you, that I have sent you: When you
have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon
this mountain.
3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, [when] I
come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of
your fathers has sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his
name? what shall I say unto them?
3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM:
and he said, Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, I AM has
sent me unto you.
3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus
shall you say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me
unto you: this [is] my name forever, and this [is] my memorial unto all
generations.
3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel
together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely
visited you, and [seen] that which is done to you in Egypt:
3:17 And I have said, I will bring you up out
of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
3:18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and
you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt,
and you shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has met with us:
and now let us go, we beseech you, three days' journey into the
wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
3:19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
3:20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite
Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and
after that he will let you go.
3:21 And I will give this people favor in the
sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when you go,
you shall not go empty:
3:22 But every woman shall borrow of her
neighbor, and of her that sojourns in her house, jewels of silver, and
jewels of gold, and raiment: and you shall put [them] upon your sons,
and upon your daughters; and you shall spoil the Egyptians.
4:1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold,
they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say,
The LORD has not appeared unto you.
4:2 And the LORD said unto him, What [is] that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
4:3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he
cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from
before it.
4:4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth
thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and
caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
4:5 That they may believe that the LORD God of
their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob, has appeared unto you.
4:6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put
now thine hand into your bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and
when he took it out, behold, his hand [was] leprous as snow.
4:7 And he said, Put thine hand into your bosom
again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of
his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his [other] flesh.
4:8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not
believe you, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they
will believe the voice of the latter sign.
4:9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not
believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto your voice, that you
shall take of the water of the river, and pour [it] upon the dry
[land:] and the water which you takest out of the river shall become
blood upon the dry [land.]
4:10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I
[am] not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since you have spoken unto
your servant: but I [am] slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who has made
man's mouth? or who makes the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the
blind? have not I the LORD?
4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall say.
4:13 And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray you, by the hand [of him whom] you will send.
4:14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled
against Moses, and he said, [Is] not Aaron the Levite your brother? I
know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he comes forth to meet
you: and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
4:15 And you shall speak unto him, and put
words in his mouth: and I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth,
and will teach you what you shall do.
4:16 And he shall be your spokesman unto the
people: and he shall be, [even] he shall be to you instead of a mouth,
and you shall be to him instead of God.
4:17 And you shall take this rod in thine hand, wherewith you shall do signs.
4:18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his
father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray you, and return unto
my brethren which [are] in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive.
And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
4:19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian,
Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and
set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses
took the rod of God in his hand.
4:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When you
goes to return into Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before
Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart,
that he shall not let the people go.
4:22 And you shall say unto Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD, Israel [is] my son, [even] my firstborn:
4:23 And I say unto you, Let my son go, that he
may serve me: and if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your
son, [even] thy firstborn.
4:24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.
4:25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut
off the foreskin of her son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely
a bloody husband [are] you to me.
4:26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband [you are,] because of the circumcision.
4:27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the
wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God,
and kissed him.
4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the
LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
4:29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
4:30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the
LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the
people.
4:31 And the people believed: and when they
heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had
looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and
worshipped.
5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and
told Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that
they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who [is] the LORD, that I
should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither
will I let Israel go.
5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews has
met with us: let us go, we pray you, three days' journey into the
desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with
pestilence, or with the sword.
5:4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Why
do you, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto
your burdens.
5:5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the
land now [are] many, and you make them rest from their burdens.
5:6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
5:7 You shall no more give the people straw to
make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
5:8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did
make heretofore, you shall lay upon them; you shall not diminish [ought]
thereof: for they [be] idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go
[and] sacrifice to our God.
5:9 Let there more work be laid upon the men,
that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
5:10 And the taskmasters of the people went
out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, Thus says
Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
5:11 Go you, get you straw where you can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
5:12 So the people were scattered abroad
throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
5:13 And the taskmasters hasted [them,] saying,
Fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.
5:14 And the officers of the children of
Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten,
[and] demanded, Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick
both yesterday and today, as heretofore?
5:15 Then the officers of the children of
Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Why dealest you thus with
your servants?
5:16 There is no straw given unto your
servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, your servants
[are] beaten; but the fault [is] in thine own people.
5:17 But he said, You [are] idle, [you are]
idle: therefore you say, Let us go [and] do sacrifice to the LORD.
5:18 Go therefore now, [and] work; for there
shall no straw be given you, yet shall you deliver the tale of bricks.
5:19 And the officers of the children of Israel
did see [that] they [were] in evil [case,] after it was said, You shall
not minish [ought] from your bricks of your daily task.
5:20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
5:21 And they said unto them, The LORD look
upon you, and judge; because you 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.
5:22 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and
said, Lord, why have you [so] evil entreated this people? why [is] it
[that] you have sent me?
5:23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in
your name, he has done evil to this people; neither have you delivered
your people at all.
6:1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shall
you see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let
them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
6:2 And God spoke unto Moses, and said unto him, I [am] the LORD:
6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac,
and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH
was I not known to them.
6:4 And I have also established my covenant
with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their
pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
6:5 And I have also heard the groaning of the
children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have
remembered my covenant.
6:6 Why say unto the children of Israel, I [am]
the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the
Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem
you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
6:7 And I will take you to me for a people, and
I will be to you a God: and you shall know that I [am] the LORD your
God, which brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land,
concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I [am] the LORD.
6:9 And Moses spoke so unto the children of
Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for
cruel bondage.
6:10 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
6:11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
6:12 And Moses spoke before the LORD, saying,
Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then
shall Pharaoh hear me, who [am] of uncircumcised lips?
6:13 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto
Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto
Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land
of Egypt.
6:14 These [be] the heads of their fathers'
houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu,
Hezron, and Carmi: these [be] the families of Reuben.
6:15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin,
and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish
woman: these [are] the families of Simeon.
6:16 And these [are] the names of the sons of
Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari:
and the years of the life of Levi [were] an hundred thirty and seven
years.
6:17 The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.
6:18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar,
and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath [were] an
hundred thirty and three years.
6:19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi:
these [are] the families of Levi according to their generations.
6:20 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] an hundred and thirty and seven years.
6:21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
6:22 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
6:23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of
Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and
Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
6:24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these [are] the families of the Korhites.
6:25 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 of the Levites according to their families.
6:26 These [are] that Aaron and Moses, to whom
the LORD said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt
according to their armies.
6:27 These [are] they which spoke to Pharaoh
king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these
[are] that Moses and Aaron.
6:28 And it came to pass on the day [when] the LORD spoke unto Moses in the land of Egypt,
6:29 That the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, I
[am] the LORD: speak you unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto
you.
6:30 And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I
[am] of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
7:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have
made you a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
7:2 you shall speak all that I command you: and
Aaron your brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children
of Israel out of his land.
7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
7:4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you,
that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth my armies, [and] my
people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great
judgments.
7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I [am]
the LORD, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the
children of Israel from among them.
7:6 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they.
7:7 And Moses [was] fourscore years old, and
Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh.
7:8 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
7:9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying,
Shew a miracle for you: then you shall say unto Aaron, Take your rod,
and cast [it] before Pharaoh, [and] it shall become a serpent.
7:10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh,
and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod
before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
7:11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and
the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner
with their enchantments.
7:12 For they cast down every man his rod, and
they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
7:13 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
7:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart [is] hardened, he refuses to let the people go.
7:15 Get you unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo,
he goes out unto the water; and you shall stand by the river's brink
against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shall you
take in thine hand.
7:16 And you shall say unto him, The LORD God
of the Hebrews has sent me unto you, saying, Let my people go, that they
may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hereto you wouldest not
hear.
7:17 Thus says the LORD, In this you shall know
that I [am] the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that [is] in my
hand upon the waters which [are] in the river, and they shall be turned
to blood.
7:18 And the fish that [is] in the river shall
die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink
of the water of the river.
7:19 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, Say unto
Aaron, Take your rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of
Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and
upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and [that]
there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in [vessels
of] wood, and in [vessels of] stone.
7:20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD
commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that [were] in
the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants;
and all the waters that [were] in the river were turned to blood.
7:21 And the fish that [was] in the river died;
and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of
the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
7:22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with
their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he
hearken unto them; as the LORD had said.
7:23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.
7:24 And all the Egyptians digged round about
the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of
the river.
7:25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.
8:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, Go unto
Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus says the LORD, Let my people go, that
they may serve me.
8:2 And if you refuse to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
8:3 And the river shall bring forth frogs
abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy
bedchamber, and upon your bed, and into the house of your servants, and
upon your people, and into thine ovens, and into your kneadingtroughs:
8:4 And the frogs shall come up both on you, and upon your people, and upon all your servants.
8:5 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, Say unto
Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with your rod over the streams, over the
rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of
Egypt.
8:6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the
waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
8:7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron,
and said, Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and
from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do
sacrifice unto the LORD.
8:9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me:
when shall I intreat for you, and for your servants, and for your
people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, [that] they may
remain in the river only?
8:10 And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, [Be
it] according to thy word: that you may know that [there is] none like
unto the LORD our God.
8:11 And the frogs shall depart from you, and
from thy houses, and from your servants, and from your people; they
shall remain in the river only.
8:12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh:
and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought
against Pharaoh.
8:13 And the LORD did according to the word of
Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and
out of the fields.
8:14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was
respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD
had said.
8:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto
Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may
become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
8:17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out
his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became
lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice
throughout all the land of Egypt.
8:18 And the magicians did so with their
enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice
upon man, and upon beast.
8:19 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 the LORD had said.
8:20 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up
early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he comes forth to
the water; and say unto him, Thus says the LORD, Let my people go, that
they may serve me.
8:21 Else, if you will not let my people go,
behold, I will send swarms [of flies] upon you, and upon your servants,
and upon thy people, and into your houses: and the houses of the
Egyptians shall be full of swarms [of flies,] and also the ground
whereon they [are. ]8:22 And I will sever in that day the land of
Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms [of flies] shall be
there; to the end you mayest know that I [am] the LORD in the midst of
the earth.
8:23 And I will put a division between my people and your people: tomorrow shall this sign be.
8:24 And the LORD did so; and there came a
grievous swarm [of flies] into the house of Pharaoh, and [into] his
servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted
by reason of the swarm [of flies.]
8:25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go you, sacrifice to your God in the land.
8:26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do;
for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our
God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before
their eyes, and will they not stone us?
8:27 We will go three days' journey into the
wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
8:28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that
you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall
not go very far away: intreat for me.
8:29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from you,
and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms [of flies] may depart from
Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow: but let not
Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to
sacrifice to the LORD.
8:30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
8:31 And the LORD did according to the word of
Moses; and he removed the swarms [of flies] from Pharaoh, from his
servants, and from his people; there remained not one.
8:32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.
9:1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto
Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my
people go, that they may serve me.
9:2 For if you refuse to let [them] go, and will hold them still,
9:3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon your
cattle which [is] in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon
the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: [there shall be] a very
grievous murrain.
9:4 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle
of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all
[that is] the children's of Israel.
9:5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, Tomorrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.
9:6 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow,
and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of
Israel died not one.
9:7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was
not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh
was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
9:8 And the LORD said unto Moses and unto
Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses
sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
9:9 And it shall become small dust in all the
land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth [with] blains upon
man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
9:10 And they took 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.
9:11 And the magicians could not stand before
Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and
upon all the Egyptians.
9:12 And the LORD hardened the heart of
Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto
Moses.
9:13 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up
early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus
says the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve
me.
9:14 For I will at this time send all my
plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon your people;
that you may know that [there is] none like me in all the earth.
9:15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I
may smite you and your people with pestilence; and you shall be cut off
from the earth.
9:16 And in very deed for this [cause] have I
raised you up, for to shew [in] you my power; and that my name may be
declared throughout all the earth.
9:17 As yet exaltest you thyself against my people, that you will not let them go?
9:18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will
cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt
since the foundation thereof even until now.
9:19 Send therefore now, [and] gather thy
cattle, and all that you have in the field; [for upon] every man and
beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home,
the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
9:20 He that feared the word of the LORD among
the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the
houses:
9:21 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
9:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch
forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land
of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field,
throughout the land of Egypt.
9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward
heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon
the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with
the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land
of Egypt since it became a nation.
9:25 And the hail smote throughout all the land
of Egypt all that [was] in the field, both man and beast; and the hail
smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel [were,] was there no hail.
9:27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and
Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD [is]
righteous, and I and my people [are] wicked.
9:28 Intreat the LORD (for [it is] enough) that
there be no [more] mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go,
and you shall stay no longer.
9:29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am
gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; [and]
the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you
may know how that the earth [is] the LORD'S.
9:30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you will not yet fear the LORD God.
9:31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax [was] bolled.
9:32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they [were] not grown up.
9:33 And Moses went out of the city from
Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and
hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
9:34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the
hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his
heart, he and his servants.
9:35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened,
neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken
by Moses.
10:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto
Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants,
that I might shew these my signs before him:
10:2 And that you may tell in the ears of your
son, and of your son's son, what things I have worked in Egypt, and my
signs which I have done among them; that you may know how that I [am]
the LORD.
10:3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh,
and said unto him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will
you refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may
serve me.
10:4 Else, if you refuse to let my people go,
behold, tomorrow will I bring the locusts into your coast:
10:5 And they shall cover the face of the
earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the
residue of that which is escaped, which remains unto you from the hail,
and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field:
10:6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the
houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which
neither your fathers, nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day
that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and
went out from Pharaoh.
10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How
long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may
serve the LORD their God: know you not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
10:8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again
unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: [but]
who [are] they that shall go?
10:9 And Moses said, We will go with our young
and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks
and with our herds will we go; for we [must hold] a feast unto the LORD.
10:10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so
with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look [to it;] for
evil [is] before you.
10:11 Not so: go now you [that are] men, and
serve the LORD; for that you did desire. And they were driven out from
Pharaoh's presence.
10:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out
thine 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 has left.
10:13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over
the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all
that day, and all [that] night; [and] when it was morning, the east wind
brought the locusts.
10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land
of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous [were
they;] before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after
them shall be such.
10:15 For they covered the face of the whole
earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the
land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there
remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the
field, through all the land of Egypt.
10:16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron
in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and
against you.
10:17 Now therefore forgive, I pray you, my sin
only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away
from me this death only.
10:18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
10:19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west
wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there
remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
10:20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so
that he would not let the children of Israel go.
10:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out
thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of
Egypt, even darkness [which] may be felt.
10:22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward
heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three
days:
10:23 They saw not one another, neither rose
any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had
light in their dwellings.
10:24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said,
Go you, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed:
let your little ones also go with you.
10:25 And Moses said, you must give us also
sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our
God.
10:26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there
shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the
LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we
come there.
10:27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.
10:28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get you from
me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in [that] day you
seest my face you shall die.
10:29 And Moses said, you have spoken well, I will see your face again no more.
11:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I
bring one plague [more] upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will
let you go hence: when he shall let [you] go, he shall surely thrust
you out hence altogether.
11:2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and
let every man borrow of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor,
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
11:3 And the LORD gave the people favor in the
sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses [was] very great in the
land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of
the people.
11:4 And Moses said, Thus says the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
11:5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt
shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sits upon his throne,
even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that [is] behind the mill;
and all the firstborn of beasts.
11:6 And there shall be a great cry throughout
all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like
it any more.
11:7 But against any of the children of Israel
shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that you may know
how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and
Israel.
11:8 And all these thy servants shall come down
unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get you out, and all
the people that follow you: and after that I will go out. And he went
out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
11:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh
shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the
land of Egypt.
11:10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders
before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would
not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
12:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
12:2 This month [shall be] unto you the
beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.
12:3 Speak you 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 the house of [their] fathers, a lamb for
an house:
12:4 And if the household be too little for the
lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take [it] according
to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make
your count for the lamb.
12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male
of the first year: you shall take [it] out from the sheep, or from the
goats:
12:6 And you shall keep it up until the
fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the
congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and
strike [it] on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the
houses, wherein they shall eat it.
12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that
night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; [and] with bitter [herbs]
they shall eat it.
12:9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with
water, but roast [with] fire; his head with his legs, and with the
purtenance thereof.
12:10 And you shall let nothing of it remain
until the morning; and that which remains of it until the morning you
shall burn with fire.
12:11 And thus shall you eat it; [with] your
loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and
you shall eat it in haste: it [is] the LORD'S passover.
12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt
this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both
man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute
judgment: I [am] the LORD.
12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token
upon the houses where you [are:] and when I see the blood, I will pass
over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy [you,] when I
smite the land of Egypt.
12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a
memorial; and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your
generations; you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
12:15 Seven days shall you eat unleavened
bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses:
for whosoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh
day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
12:16 And in the first day [there shall be] an
holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy
convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save [that]
which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
12:17 And you shall observe [the feast of]
unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies
out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day in your
generations by an ordinance forever.
12:18 In the first [month,] on the fourteenth
day of the month at even, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one
and twentieth day of the month at even.
12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found
in your houses: for whosoever eats that which is leavened, even that
soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a
stranger, or born in the land.
12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall you eat unleavened bread.
12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of
Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to
your families, and kill the passover.
12:22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and
dip [it] in the blood that [is] in the bason, and strike the lintel and
the two side posts with the blood that [is] in the bason; and none of
you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
12:23 For the LORD will pass through to smite
the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the
two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer
the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite [you. ]12:24 And you
shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons
forever.
12:25 And it shall come to pass, when you be
come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he has
promised, that you shall keep this service.
12:26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean you by this service?
12:27 That you shall say, It [is] the sacrifice
of the LORD'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.
12:28 And the children of Israel went away, and
did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the
LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn
of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that
[was] in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and
all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in
Egypt; for [there was] not a house where [there was] not one dead.
12:31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by
night, and said, Rise up, [and] get you forth from among my people, both
you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have
said.
12:32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
12:33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the
people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they
said, We [be] all dead [men. ]12:34 And the people took their dough
before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their
clothes upon their shoulders.
12:35 And the children of Israel did according
to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of
silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
12:36 And the LORD gave the people favor in the
sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them [such things as
they required.] And they spoiled the Egyptians.
12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from
Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men,
beside children.
12:38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, [even] very much cattle.
12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the
dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened;
because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had
they prepared for themselves any victual.
12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of
Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, [was] four hundred and thirty years.
12:41 And it came to pass at the end of the
four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass,
that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
12:42 It [is] a night to be much observed unto
the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this [is] that
night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their
generations.
12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron,
This [is] the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat
thereof:
12:44 But every man's servant that is bought
for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
12:45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall
not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither
shall you break a bone thereof.
12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with
you, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be
circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as
one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat
thereof.
12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourns among you.
12:50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
12:51 And it came to pass the selfsame day,
[that] the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt by their armies.
13:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
13:2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn,
whatsoever opens the womb among the children of Israel, [both] of man
and of beast: it [is] my.
13:3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember
this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this [place:]
there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
13:4 This day came you out in the month Abib.
13:5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring
you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore unto your fathers to
give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this
service in this month.
13:6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day [shall be] a feast to the LORD.
13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven
days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with you, neither shall
there be leaven seen with you in all thy quarters.
13:8 And you shall shew your son in that day,
saying, [This is done] because of that [which] the LORD did unto me when
I came forth out of Egypt.
13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto you upon
thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law
may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand has the LORD brought you
out of Egypt.
13:10 you shall therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
13:11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring
you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore unto you and to your
fathers, and shall give it you,
13:12 That you shall set apart unto the LORD
all that opens the matrix, and every firstling that comes of a beast
which you have; the males [shall be] the LORD'S.
13:13 And every firstling of an ass you shall
redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break
his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shall you
redeem.
13:14 And it shall be when your son asks you in
time to come, saying, What [is] this? that you shall say unto him, By
strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of
bondage:
13:15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would
hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I
sacrifice to the LORD all that opens the matrix, being males; but all
the firstborn of my children I redeem.
13:16 And it shall be for a token upon thine
hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the
LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.
13:17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let
the people go, that God led them not [through] the way of the land of
the Philistines, although that [was] near; for God said, Lest
peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to
Egypt:
13:18 But God led the people about, [through]
the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel
went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with
him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you; and you shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
13:20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
13:21 And the LORD went before them by day in a
pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of
fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
13:22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud
by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, [from] before the people.
14:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
14:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that
they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea,
over against Baal-zephon: before it shall you encamp by the sea.
14:3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of
Israel, They [are] entangled in the land, the wilderness has shut them
in.
14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he
shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon
all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I [am] the LORD. And they
did so.
14:5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the
people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned
against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have
let Israel go from serving us?
14:6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
14:7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots,
and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
14:8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the
children of Israel went out with an high hand.
14:9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all
the horses [and] chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army,
and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before
Baal-zephon.
14:10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children
of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after
them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out
unto the LORD.
14:11 And they said unto Moses, Because [there
were] no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the
wilderness? why have you dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of
Egypt?
14:12 [Is] not this the word that we did tell
you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For
[it had been] better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should
die in the wilderness.
14:13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear you
not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew
to you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall see
them again no more forever.
14:14 The LORD shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.
14:15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Why cry you
unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
14:16 But lift you up your rod, and stretch out
thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel
shall go on dry [ground] through the midst of the sea.
14:17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts
of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour
upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his
horsemen.
14:18 And the Egyptians shall know that I [am]
the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots,
and upon his horsemen.
14:19 And the angel of God, which went before
the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the
cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
14:20 And it came between the camp of the
Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness [to
them,] but it gave light by night [to these:] so that the one came not
near the other all the night.
14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the
sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all
that night, and made the sea dry [land,] and the waters were divided.
14:22 And the children of Israel went into the
midst of the sea upon the dry [ground:] and the waters [were] a wall
unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
14:23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in
after them to the midst of the sea, [even] all Pharaoh's horses, his
chariots, and his horsemen.
14:24 And it came to pass, that in the morning
watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar
of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
14:25 And took off their chariot wheels, that
they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from
the face of Israel; for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians.
14:26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out
thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the
Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
14:27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over
the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared;
and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians
in the midst of the sea.
14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the
chariots, and the horsemen, [and] all the host of Pharaoh that came into
the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
14:29 But the children of Israel walked upon
dry [land] in the midst of the sea; and the waters [were] a wall unto
them on their right hand, and on their left.
14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out
of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the
sea shore.
14:31 And Israel saw that great work which the
LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and
believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.
15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel
this song unto the LORD, and spoke, saying, I will sing unto the LORD,
for he has triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider has he thrown
into the sea.
15:2 The LORD [is] my strength and song, and he
is become my salvation: he [is] my God, and I will prepare him an
habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
15:3 The LORD [is] a man of war: the LORD [is] his name.
15:4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host has he
cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
15:5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
15:6 your right hand, O LORD, is become
glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, has dashed in pieces the
enemy.
15:7 And in the greatness of thine excellency
you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sentest forth
your wrath, [which] consumed them as stubble.
15:8 And with the blast of your nostrils the
waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap,
[and] the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will
overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them;
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
15:10 you didst blow with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
15:11 Who [is] like unto you, O LORD, among the
gods? who [is] like you, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises,
doing wonders?
15:12 you stretchedst out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
15:13 you in your mercy have led forth the
people [which] you have redeemed: you have guided [them] in thy strength
unto your holy habitation.
15:14 The people shall hear, [and] be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
15:15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed;
the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the
inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
15:16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by
the greatness of thine arm they shall be [as] still as a stone; till thy
people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, [which] you have
purchased.
15:17 you shall bring them in, and plant them
in the mountain of thine inheritance, [in] the place, O LORD, [which]
you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, [which] thy
hands have established.
15:18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever.
15:19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his
chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again
the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry
[land] in the midst of the sea.
15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of
Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her
with timbrels and with dances.
15:21 And Miriam answered them, Sing you to the
LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider has he
thrown into the sea.
15:22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea,
and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days
in the wilderness, and found no water.
15:23 And when they came to Marah, they could
not drink of the waters of Marah, for they [were] bitter: therefore the
name of it was called Marah.
15:24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
15:25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD
shewed him a tree, [which] when he had cast into the waters, the waters
were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and
there he proved them,
15:26 And said, If you will diligently hearken
to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in
his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his
statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have
brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am] the LORD that heals you.
15:27 And they came to Elim, where [were]
twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they
encamped there by the waters.
16:1 And they took their journey from Elim, and
all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness
of Sin, which [is] between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the
second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
16:2 And the whole congregation of the children
of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
16:3 And the children of Israel said unto them,
Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt,
when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full;
for you have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole
assembly with hunger.
16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I
will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and
gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they
will walk in my law, or no.
16:5 And it shall come to pass, that on the
sixth day they shall prepare [that] which they bring in; and it shall be
twice as much as they gather daily.
16:6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the
children of Israel, At even, then you shall know that the LORD has
brought you out from the land of Egypt:
16:7 And in the morning, then you shall see the
glory of the LORD; for that he hears your murmurings against the LORD:
and what [are] we, that you murmur against us?
16:8 And Moses said, [This shall be,] when the
LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning
bread to the full; for that the LORD hears your murmurings which you
murmur against him: and what [are] we? your murmurings [are] not against
us, but against the LORD.
16:9 And Moses spoke unto Aaron, Say unto all
the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD:
for he has heard your murmurings.
16:10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spoke unto
the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked
toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in
the cloud.
16:11 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
16:12 I have heard the murmurings of the
children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even you shall eat
flesh, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall
know that I [am] the LORD your God.
16:13 And it came to pass, that at even the
quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay
round about the host.
16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up,
behold, upon the face of the wilderness [there lay] a small round thing,
[as] small as the hoar frost on the ground.
16:15 And when the children of Israel saw [it,]
they said one to another, It [is] manna: for they wist not what it
[was.] And Moses said unto them, This [is] the bread which the LORD has
given you to eat.
16:16 This [is] the thing which the LORD has
commanded, Gather of it every man [according to] his eating, an omer
forevery man, according to the number of your persons; take you every
man for [them] which [are] in his tents.
16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
16:18 And when they did mete [it] with an omer,
he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had
no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
16:19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto
Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms,
and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
16:21 And they gathered it every morning, every
man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
16:22 And it came to pass, [that] on the sixth
day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one [man:] and all
the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
16:23 And he said unto them, This [is that]
which the LORD has said, Tomorrow [is] the rest of the holy Sabbath unto
the LORD: bake [that] which you will bake [today,] and seese that you
will seese; and that which remains over lay up for you to be kept until
the morning.
16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as
Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
16:25 And Moses said, Eat that today; for today
[is] a Sabbath unto the LORD: today you shall not find it in the field.
16:26 Six days you shall gather it; but on the
seventh day, [which is] the Sabbath, in it there shall be none.
16:27 And it came to pass, [that] there went
out [some] of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they
found none.
16:28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse you to keep my commandments and my laws?
16:29 See, for that the LORD has given you the
Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days;
abide you every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the
seventh day.
16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
16:31 And the house of Israel called the name
thereof Manna: and it [was] like coriander seed, white; and the taste of
it [was] like wafers [made] with honey.
16:32 And Moses said, This [is] the thing which
the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your
generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the
wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
16:33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot,
and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to
be kept for your generations.
16:34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
16:35 And the children of Israel did eat manna
forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna,
until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
16:36 Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an ephah.
17:1 And all the congregation of the children
of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys,
according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and
[there was] no water for the people to drink.
17:2 Why the people did chide with Moses, and
said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why
chide you with me? why do you tempt the LORD?
17:3 And the people thirsted there for water;
and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why [is] this [that]
you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our
cattle with thirst?
17:4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying,
What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
17:5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before
the people, and take with you of the elders of Israel; and your rod,
wherewith you smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
17:6 Behold, I will stand before you there upon
the rock in Horeb; and you shall smite the rock, and there shall come
water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the
sight of the elders of Israel.
17:7 And he called the name of the place
Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel,
and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
17:8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out
men, and go out, fight with Amalek: tomorrow I will stand on the top of
the hill with the rod of God in my hand.
17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him,
and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of
the hill.
17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up
his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek
prevailed.
17:12 But Moses' hands [were] heavy; and they
took a stone, and put [it] under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and
Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the
other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
17:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this
[for] a memorial in a book, and rehearse [it] in the ears of Joshua: for
I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi:
17:16 For he said, Because the LORD has sworn
[that] the LORD [will have] war with Amalek from generation to
generation.
18:1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses'
father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel
his people, [and] that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
18:2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
18:3 And her two sons; of which the name of the
one [was] Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
18:4 And the name of the other [was] Eliezer;
for the God of my father, [said he, was] my help, and delivered me from
the sword of Pharaoh:
18:5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came
with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he
encamped at the mount of God:
18:6 And he said unto Moses, I your father in
law Jethro am come unto you, and your wife, and her two sons with her.
18:7 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.
18:8 And Moses told his father in law all that
the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake,
[and] all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and [how] the
LORD delivered them.
18:9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness
which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand
of the Egyptians.
18:10 And Jethro said, Blessed [be] the LORD,
who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the
hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from under the hand of the
Egyptians.
18:11 Now I know that the LORD [is] greater
than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly [he was]
above them.
18:12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a
burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the
elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.
18:13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that
Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the
morning unto the evening.
18:14 And when Moses' father in law saw all
that he did to the people, he said, What [is] this thing that you do to
the people? why sittest you thyself alone, and all the people stand by
you from morning unto even?
18:15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:
18:16 When they have a matter, they come unto
me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make [them] know the
statutes of God, and his laws.
18:17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that you do [is] not good.
18:18 you will surely wear away, both you, and
this people that [is] with you: for this thing [is] too heavy for you;
you are not able to perform it thyself alone.
18:19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give
you counsel, and God shall be with you: Be you for the people to
God-ward, that you may bring the causes unto God:
18:20 And you shall teach them ordinances and
laws, and shall shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work
that they must do.
18:21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the
people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness;
and place [such] over them, [to be] rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
18:22 And let them judge the people at all
seasons: and it shall be, [that] every great matter they shall bring
unto you, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier
for thyself, and they shall bear [the burden] with you.
18:23 If you shall do this thing, and God
command you [so,] then you shall be able to endure, and all this people
shall also go to their place in peace.
18:24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.
18:25 And Moses chose able men out of all
Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers
of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
18:26 And they judged the people at all
seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter
they judged themselves.
18:27 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.
19:1 In the third month, when the children of
Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they
[into] the wilderness of Sinai.
19:2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and
were come [to] the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness;
and there Israel camped before the mount.
19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD
called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shall you say to the
house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
19:4 You have seen what I did unto the
Egyptians, and [how] I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto
myself.
19:5 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice
indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto
me above all people: for all the earth [is] my:
19:6 And you shall be unto me a kingdom of
priests, and an holy nation. These [are] the words which you shall speak
unto the children of Israel.
19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders
of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the
LORD commanded him.
19:8 And all the people answered together, and
said, All that the LORD has spoken we will do. And Moses returned the
words of the people unto the LORD.
19:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come
unto you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with
you, and believe you forever. And Moses told the words of the people
unto the LORD.
19:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the
people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their
clothes,
19:11 And be ready against the third day: for
the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people
upon mount Sinai.
19:12 And you shall set bounds unto the people
round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, [that you] go [not] up
into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever touches the mount
shall be surely put to death:
19:13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he
shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether [it be] beast or man,
it shall not live: when the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to
the mount.
19:14 And Moses went down from the mount unto
the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
19:15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at [your] wives.
19:16 And it came to pass on the third day in
the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud
upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all
the people that [was] in the camp trembled.
19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of
the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the
mount.
19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a
smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof
ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded
long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by
a voice.
19:20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai,
on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses [up] to the top of
the mount; and Moses went up.
19:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down,
charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and
many of them perish.
19:22 And let the priests also, which come near
to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.
19:23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people
cannot come up to mount Sinai: for you chargedst us, saying, Set bounds
about the mount, and sanctify it.
19:24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get you
down, and you shall come up, you, and Aaron with you: but let not the
priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he
break forth upon them.
19:25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spoke unto them.
20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying,
20:2 I [am] the LORD thy God, which have
brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
20:3 you shall have no other gods before me.
20:4 you shall not make unto you any graven
image, or any likeness [of anything] that [is] in heaven above, or that
[is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:
20:5 you shall not bow down thyself to them,
nor serve them: for I the LORD your God [am] a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
[generation] of them that hate me;
20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
20:7 you shall not take the name of the LORD
thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his
name in vain.
20:8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
20:9 Six days shall you labour, and do all your work:
20:10 But the seventh day [is] the Sabbath of
the LORD your God: [in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son,
nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your
cattle, nor your stranger that [is] within thy gates:
20:11 For [in] six days the LORD made heaven
and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is,] and rested the seventh
day: why the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
20:12 Honour your father and your mother: that
your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.
20:13 you shall not kill.
20:14 you shall not commit adultery.
20:15 you shall not steal.
20:16 you shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
20:17 you shall not covet your neighbor's
house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor
his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that [is] thy
neighbor's.
20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings,
and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain
smoking: and when the people saw [it,] they removed, and stood afar off.
20:19 And they said unto Moses, Speak you with
us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
20:20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not:
for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your
faces, that you sin not.
20:21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God [was.]
20:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus you
shall say unto the children of Israel, You have seen that I have talked
with you from heaven.
20:23 You shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall you make unto you gods of gold.
20:24 An altar of earth you shall make unto me,
and shall sacrifice thereon your burnt offerings, and your peace
offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my
name I will come unto you, and I will bless you.
20:25 And if you will make me an altar of
stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone: for if you lift up your
tool upon it, you have polluted it.
20:26 Neither shall you go up by steps unto my altar, that your nakedness be not discovered thereon.
21:1 Now these [are] the judgments which you shall set before them.
21:2 If you buy an Hebrew servant, six years he
shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
21:3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out
by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
21:4 If his master have given him a wife, and
she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be
her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I
love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
21:6 Then his master shall bring him unto the
judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and
his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve
him forever.
21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
21:8 If she please not her master, who has
betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her
unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he has dealt
deceitfully with her.
21:9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
21:10 If he take him another [wife;] her food,
her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
21:11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
21:12 He that smites a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
21:13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God
deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint you a place where he
shall flee.
21:14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his
neighbor, to slay him with guile; you shall take him from my altar,
that he may die.
21:15 And he that smites his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
21:16 And he that steals a man, and sells him,
or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
21:17 And he that curses his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
21:18 And if men strive together, and one smite
another with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keeps
[his] bed:
21:19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon
his staff, then shall he that smote [him] be quit: only he shall pay
[for] the loss of his time, and shall cause [him] to be thoroughly
healed.
21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his
maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely
punished.
21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he [is] his money.
21:22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with
child, so that her fruit depart [from her,] and yet no mischief follow:
he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay
upon him; and he shall pay as the judges [determy. ]21:23 And if [any]
mischief follow, then you shall give life for life,
21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
21:25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
21:26 And if a man smite the eye of his
servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go
free for his eye's sake.
21:27 And if he smite out his manservant's
tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his
tooth's sake.
21:28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they
die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be
eaten; but the owner of the ox [shall be] quit.
21:29 But if the ox were wont to push with his
horn in time past, and it has been testified to his owner, and he has
not kept him in, but that he has killed a man or a woman; the ox shall
be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
21:30 If there be laid on him a sum of money,
then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon
him.
21:31 Whether he have gored a son, or have
gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
21:32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a
maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver,
and the ox shall be stoned.
21:33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a
man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
21:34 The owner of the pit shall make [it]
good, [and] give money unto the owner of them; and the dead [beast]
shall be his.
21:35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that
he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it;
and the dead [ox] also they shall divide.
21:36 Or if it be known that the ox has used to
push in time past, and his owner has not kept him in; he shall surely
pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
22:1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep,
and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four
sheep for a sheep.
22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be
smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.
22:3 If the sun be risen upon him, [there shall
be] blood [shed] for him; [for] he should make full restitution; if he
have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
22:4 If the theft be certainly found in his
hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
22:5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard
to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's
field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own
vineyard, shall he make restitution.
22:6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so
that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be
consumed [therewith;] he that kindled the fire shall surely make
restitution.
22:7 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, let him pay double.
22:8 If the thief be not found, then the master
of the house shall be brought unto the judges, [to see] whether he have
put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.
22:9 For all manner of trespass, [whether it
be] for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, [or] for any manner of lost
thing, which [another] challenges to be his, the cause of both parties
shall come before the judges; [and] whom the judges shall condemn, he
shall pay double unto his neighbor.
22:10 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: ]22:11 [Then] shall an oath of
the LORD be between them both, that he has not put his hand unto his
neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept [thereof,] and he
shall not make [it] good.
22:12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.
22:13 If it be torn in pieces, [then] let him
bring it [for] witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was
torn.
22:14 And if a man borrow [ought] of his
neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof [being] not with it,
he shall surely make [it] good.
22:15 [But] if the owner thereof [be] with it,
he shall not make [it] good: if it [be] an hired [thing,] it came for
his hire.
22:16 And if a man entice a maid that is not
betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
22:17 If her father utterly refuse to give her
unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
22:18 you shall not suffer a witch to live.
22:19 Whosoever lies with a beast shall surely be put to death.
22:20 He that sacrifices unto [any] god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
22:21 you shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
22:22 You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
22:23 If you afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
22:24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will
kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your
children fatherless.
22:25 If you lend money to [any of] my people
[that is] poor by you, you shall not be to him as an usurer, neither
shall you lay upon him usury.
22:26 If you at all take your neighbor's
raiment to pledge, you shall deliver it unto him by that the sun goes
down:
22:27 For that [is] his covering only, it [is]
his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to
pass, when he cries unto me, that I will hear; for I [am] gracious.
22:28 you shall not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
22:29 you shall not delay [to offer] the first
of your ripe fruits, and of your liquors: the firstborn of your sons
shall you give unto me.
22:30 Likewise shall you do with thine oxen,
[and] with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth
day you shall give it me.
22:31 And you shall be holy men unto me:
neither shall you eat [any] flesh [that is] torn of beasts in the field;
you shall cast it to the dogs.
23:1 you shall not raise a false report: put
not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
23:2 you shall not follow a multitude to [do]
evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest
[judgment:]
23:3 Neither shall you countenance a poor man in his cause.
23:4 If you meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
23:5 If you see the ass of him that hates you
lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, you shall
surely help with him.
23:6 you shall not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause.
23:7 Keep you far from a false matter; and the
innocent and righteous slay you not: for I will not justify the wicked.
23:8 And you shall take no gift: for the gift blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
23:9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for
you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land
of Egypt.
23:10 And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in the fruits thereof:
23:11 But the seventh [year] you shall let it
rest and lie still; that the poor of your people may eat: and what they
leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal
with thy vineyard, [and] with your oliveyard.
23:12 Six days you shall do thy work, and on
the seventh day you shall rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest,
and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
23:13 And in all [things] that I have said unto
you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods,
neither let it be heard out of your mouth.
23:14 Three times you shall keep a feast unto me in the year.
23:15 you shall keep the feast of unleavened
bread: (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you,
in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it you camest out from
Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
23:16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits
of your labours, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of
ingathering, [which is] in the end of the year, when you have gathered
in your labours out of the field.
23:17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
23:18 you shall not offer the blood of my
sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice
remain until the morning.
23:19 The first of the firstfruits of your land
you shall bring into the house of the LORD thy God. you shall not seese
a kid in his mother's milk.
23:20 Behold, I send an Angel before you, to
keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have
prepared.
23:21 Beware of him, and obey his voice,
provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name
[is] in him.
23:22 But if you shall indeed obey his voice,
and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and
an adversary unto thine adversaries.
23:23 For my Angel shall go before you, and
bring you in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites,
and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut
them off.
23:24 you shall not bow down to their gods, nor
serve them, nor do after their works: but you shall utterly overthrow
them, and quite break down their images.
23:25 And you shall serve the LORD your God,
and he shall bless your bread, and your water; and I will take sickness
away from the midst of you.
23:26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor
be barren, in thy land: the number of your days I will fulfil.
23:27 I will send my fear before you, and will
destroy all the people to whom you shall come, and I will make all thine
enemies turn their backs unto you.
23:28 And I will send hornets before you, which
shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before
you.
23:29 I will not drive them out from before you
in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field
multiply against you.
23:30 By little and little I will drive them
out from before you, until you be increased, and inherit the land.
23:31 And I will set your bounds from the Red
sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the
river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand;
and you shall drive them out before you.
23:32 you shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
23:33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest
they make you sin against me: for if you serve their gods, it will
surely be a snare unto you.
24:1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the
LORD, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel; and worship you afar off.
24:2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD:
but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
24:3 And Moses came and told the people all the
words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered
with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD has said will we
do.
24:4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD,
and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the hill,
and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
24:5 And he sent young men of the children of
Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of
oxen unto the LORD.
24:6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put
[it] in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
24:7 And he took the book of the covenant, and
read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD has
said will we do, and be obedient.
24:8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled
[it] on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which
the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.
24:9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
24:10 And they saw the God of Israel: and
[there was] under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone,
and as it were the body of heaven in [his] clearness.
24:11 And upon the nobles of the children of
Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
24:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to
me into the mount, and be there: and I will give you tables of stone,
and a law, and commandments which I have written; that you may teach
them.
24:13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
24:14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry you
here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur
[are] with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto
them.
24:15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
24:16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon
mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he
called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD
[was] like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the
children of Israel.
24:18 And Moses went into the midst of the
cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty
days and forty nights.
25:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that
they bring me an offering: of every man that gives it willingly with his
heart you shall take my offering.
25:3 And this [is] the offering which you shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
25:4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine linen, and goats [hair, ]25:5 And rams' skins dyed red, and
badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
25:6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
25:7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
25:9 According to all that I shew you, [after]
the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments
thereof, even so shall you make [it.]
25:10 And they shall make an ark [of] shittim
wood: two cubits and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit
and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height
thereof.
25:11 And you shall overlay it with pure gold,
within and without shall you overlay it, and shall make upon it a crown
of gold round about.
25:12 And you shall cast four rings of gold for
it, and put [them] in the four corners thereof; and two rings [shall
be] in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
25:13 And you shall make staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
25:14 And you shall put the staves into the
rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
25:15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
25:16 And you shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.
25:17 And you shall 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.
25:18 And you shall make two cherubims [of]
gold, [of] beaten work shall you make them, in the two ends of the mercy
seat.
25:19 And make one cherub on the one end, and
the other cherub on the other end: [even] of the mercy seat shall you
make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
25:20 And the cherubim shall stretch forth
[their] wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and
their faces [shall look] one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the
faces of the cherubims be.
25:21 And you shall put the mercy seat above
upon the ark; and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall
give you.
25:22 And there I will meet with you, and I
will commune with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two
cherubims which [are] upon the ark of the testimony, of all [things]
which I will give you in commandment unto the children of Israel.
25:23 you shall also make a table [of] shittim
wood: two cubits [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth
thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
25:24 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
25:25 And you shall make unto it a border of an
hand breadth round about, and you shall make a golden crown to the
border thereof round about.
25:26 And you shall make for it four rings of
gold, and put the rings in the four corners that [are] on the four feet
thereof.
25:27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
25:28 And you shall make the staves [of]
shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne
with them.
25:29 And you shall make the dishes thereof,
and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover
withal: [of] pure gold shall you make them.
25:30 And you shall set upon the table showbread before me alway.
25:31 And you shall make a candlestick [of]
pure gold: [of] beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft,
and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the
same.
25:32 And six branches shall come out of the
sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and
three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
25:33 Three bowls made like unto almonds,
[with] a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like
almonds in the other branch, [with] a knop and a flower: so in the six
branches that come out of the candlestick.
25:34 And in the candlestick [shall be] four
bowls made like unto almonds, [with] their knops and their flowers.
25:35 And [there shall be] a knop under two
branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a
knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that
proceed out of the candlestick.
25:36 Their knops and their branches shall be
of the same: all it [shall be] one beaten work [of] pure gold.
25:37 And you shall make the seven lamps
thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give
light over against it.
25:38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, [shall be of] pure gold.
25:39 [Of] a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
25:40 And look that you make [them] after their pattern, which was shewed you in the mount.
26:1 Moreover you shall make the tabernacle
[with] ten curtains [of] fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and
scarlet: [with] cherubims of cunning work shall you make them.
26:2 The length of one curtain [shall be] eight
and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and
every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
26:3 The five curtains shall be coupled
together one to another; and [other] five curtains [shall be] coupled
one to another.
26:4 And you shall make loops of blue upon the
edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise
shall you make in the uttermost edge of [another] curtain, in the
coupling of the second.
26:5 Fifty loops shall you make in the one
curtain, and fifty loops shall you make in the edge of the curtain that
is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of
another.
26:6 And you shall make fifty taches of gold,
and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one
tabernacle.
26:7 And you shall make curtains [of] goats'
[hair] to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shall you
make.
26:8 The length of one curtain [shall be]
thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the
eleven curtains [shall be all] of one measure.
26:9 And you shall couple five curtains by
themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double the sixth
curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
26:10 And you shall make fifty loops on the
edge of the one curtain [that is] outmost in the coupling, and fifty
loops in the edge of the curtain which couples the second.
26:11 And you shall make fifty taches of brass,
and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that
it may be one.
26:12 And the remnant that remains of the
curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the
backside of the tabernacle.
26:13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit
on the other side of that which remains in the length of the curtains of
the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side
and on that side, to cover it.
26:14 And you shall make a covering for the
tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above [of] badgers skins.
26:15 And you shall make boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim wood standing up.
26:16 Ten cubits [shall be] the length of a
board, and a cubit and a half [shall be] the breadth of one board.
26:17 Two tenons [shall there be] in one board,
set in order one against another: thus shall you make for all the
boards of the tabernacle.
26:18 And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
26:19 And you shall make forty sockets of
silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two
tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
26:20 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side [there shall be] twenty boards:
26:21 And their forty sockets [of] silver; two
sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
26:22 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.
26:23 And two boards shall you make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
26:24 And they shall be coupled together
beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto
one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two
corners.
26:25 And they shall be eight boards, and their
sockets [of] silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and
two sockets under another board.
26:26 And you shall make bars [of] shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
26:27 And five bars for the boards of the other
side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the
tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
26:28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.
26:29 And you shall overlay the boards with
gold, and make their rings [of] gold [for] places for the bars: and you
shall overlay the bars with gold.
26:30 And you shall rear up the tabernacle
according to the fashion thereof which was shewed you in the mount.
26:31 And you shall make a vail [of] blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with
cherubims shall it be made:
26:32 And you shall hang it upon four pillars
of shittim [wood] overlaid with gold: their hooks [shall be of] gold,
upon the four sockets of silver.
26:33 And you shall hang up the vail under the
taches, that you mayest bring in there within the vail the ark of the
testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy [place]
and the most holy.
26:34 And you shall put the mercy seat upon the
ark of the testimony in the most holy [place. ]26:35 And you shall set
the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table
on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and you shall put the
table on the north side.
26:36 And you shall make an hanging for the
door of the tent, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen, worked with needlework.
26:37 And you shall make for the hanging five
pillars [of] shittim [wood,] and overlay them with gold, [and] their
hooks [shall be of] gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for
them.
27:1 And you shall make an altar [of] shittim
wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be
foursquare: and the height thereof [shall be] three cubits.
27:2 And you shall make the horns of it upon
the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and you shall
overlay it with brass.
27:3 And you shall make his pans to receive his
ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his
firepans: all the vessels thereof you shall make [of] brass.
27:4 And you shall make for it a grate of
network [of] brass; and upon the net shall you make four brasen rings in
the four corners thereof.
27:5 And you shall put it under the compass of
the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
27:6 And you shall make staves for the altar, staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
27:7 And the staves shall be put into the
rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear
it.
27:8 Hollow with boards shall you make it: as it was shewed you in the mount, so shall they make [it.]
27:9 And you shall make the court of the
tabernacle: for the south side southward [there shall be] hangings for
the court [of] fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
27:10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their
twenty sockets [shall be of] brass; the hooks of the pillars and their
fillets [shall be of] silver.
27:11 And likewise for the north side in length
[there shall be] hangings of an hundred [cubits] long, and his twenty
pillars and their twenty sockets [of] brass; the hooks of the pillars
and their fillets [of] silver.
27:12 And [for] the breadth of the court on the
west side [shall be] hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and
their sockets ten.
27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward [shall be] fifty cubits.
27:14 The hangings of one side [of the gate
shall be] fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
27:15 And on the other side [shall be] hangings
fifteen [cubits:] their pillars three, and their sockets three.
27:16 And for the gate of the court [shall be]
an hanging of twenty cubits, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen, worked with needlework: [and] their pillars [shall
be] four, and their sockets four.
27:17 All the pillars round about the court
[shall be] filleted with silver; their hooks [shall be of] silver, and
their sockets of brass.
27:18 The length of the court [shall be] an
hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five
cubits [of] fine twined linen, and their sockets [of] brass.
27:19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all
the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the
court, [shall be of] brass.
27:20 And you shall command the children of
Israel, that they bring you pure oil olive beaten for the light, to
cause the lamp to burn always.
27:21 In the tabernacle of the congregation
without the vail, which [is] before the testimony, Aaron and his sons
shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: [it shall be] a
statute forever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of
Israel.
28:1 And take you unto you Aaron your 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.
28:2 And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother for glory and for beauty.
28:3 And you shall speak unto all [that are]
wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they
may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto
me in the priest's office.
28:4 And these [are] the garments which they
shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered
coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron
your brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the
priest's office.
28:5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
28:6 And they shall make the ephod [of] gold,
[of] blue, and [of] purple, [of] scarlet, and fine twined linen, with
cunning work.
28:7 It shall have the two shoulderpieces
thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and [so] it shall be joined
together.
28:8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which
[is] upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof;
[even of] gold, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen.
28:9 And you shall take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
28:10 Six of their names on one stone, and [the
other] six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their
birth.
28:11 With the work of an engraver in stone,
[like] the engravings of a signet, shall you engrave the two stones with
the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them to be set in
ouches of gold.
28:12 And you shall put the two stones upon the
shoulders of the ephod [for] stones of memorial unto the children of
Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two
shoulders for a memorial.
28:13 And you shall make ouches [of] gold;
28:14 And two chains [of] pure gold at the
ends; [of] wreathen work shall you make them, and fasten the wreathen
chains to the ouches.
28:15 And you shall make the breastplate of
judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod you shall make
it; [of] gold, [of] blue, and [of] purple, and [of] scarlet, and [of]
fine twined linen, shall you make it.
28:16 Foursquare it shall be [being] doubled; a
span [shall be] the length thereof, and a span [shall be] the breadth
thereof.
28:17 And you shall set in it settings of
stones, [even] four rows of stones: [the first] row [shall be] a
sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: [this shall be] the first row.
28:18 And the second row [shall be] an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
28:19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
28:20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx,
and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
28:21 And the stones shall be with the names of
the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, [like] the
engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according
to the twelve tribes.
28:22 And you shall make upon the breastplate chains at the ends [of] wreathen work [of] pure gold.
28:23 And you shall make upon the breastplate
two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the
breastplate.
28:24 And you shall put the two wreathen
[chains] of gold in the two rings [which are] on the ends of the
breastplate.
28:25 And [the other] two ends of the two
wreathen [chains] you shall fasten in the two ouches, and put [them] on
the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.
28:26 And you shall make two rings of gold, and
you shall put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border
thereof, which [is] in the side of the ephod inward.
28:27 And two [other] rings of gold you shall
make, and shall put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath,
toward the forepart thereof, over against the [other] coupling thereof,
above the curious girdle of the ephod.
28:28 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 above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the
breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
28:29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the
children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when
he goes in unto the holy [place,] for a memorial before the LORD
continually.
28:30 And you shall put in the breastplate of
judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart,
when he goes in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of
the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
28:31 And you shall make the robe of the ephod all [of] blue.
28:32 And there shall be an hole in the top of
it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round
about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be
not rent.
28:33 And [beneath] upon the hem of it you
shall make pomegranates [of] blue, and [of] purple, and [of] scarlet,
round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
28:34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden
bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
28:35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister:
and his sound shall be heard when he goes in unto the holy [place]
before the LORD, and when he comes out, that he die not.
28:36 And you shall make a plate [of] pure
gold, and grave upon it, [like] the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO
THE LORD.
28:37 And you shall put it on a blue lace, that
it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
28:38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead,
that Aaron may 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 the LORD.
28:39 And you shall embroider the coat of fine
linen, and you shall make the mitre [of] fine linen, and you shall make
the girdle [of] needlework.
28:40 And for Aaron's sons you shall make
coats, and you shall make for them girdles, and bonnets shall you make
for them, for glory and for beauty.
28:41 And you shall put them upon Aaron your
brother, and his sons with him; and shall anoint them, and consecrate
them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's
office.
28:42 And you shall make them linen breeches to
cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall
reach:
28:43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon
his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, 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 forever unto
him and his seed after him.
29:1 And this [is] the thing that you shall do
unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office:
Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
29:2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened
tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: [of]
wheaten flour shall you make them.
29:3 And you shall put them into one basket,
and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
29:4 And Aaron and his sons you shall bring
unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall wash them
with water.
29:5 And you shall 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 curious girdle of the ephod:
29:6 And you shall put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
29:7 Then shall you take the anointing oil, and pour [it] upon his head, and anoint him.
29:8 And you shall bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
29:9 And you shall gird them with girdles,
Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office
shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron
and his sons.
29:10 And you shall cause a bullock to be
brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his
sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.
29:11 And you shall kill the bullock before the
LORD, [by] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
29:12 And you shall take of the blood of the
bullock, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and
pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
29:13 And you shall take all the fat that
covers the inwards, and the caul [that is] above the liver, and the two
kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn [them] upon the altar.
29:14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his
skin, and his dung, shall you burn with fire without the camp: it [is] a
sin offering.
29:15 you shall also take one ram; and Aaron
and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
29:16 And you shall slay the ram, and you shall
take his blood, and sprinkle [it] round about upon the altar.
29:17 And you shall cut the ram in pieces, and
wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put [them] unto his pieces,
and unto his head.
29:18 And you shall burn the whole ram upon the
altar: it [is] a burnt offering unto the LORD: it [is] a sweet savor,
an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
29:19 And you shall take the other ram; and
Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
29:20 Then shall you kill the ram, and take of
his 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.
29:21 And you shall 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.
29:22 Also you shall take of the ram the fat
and the rump, and the fat that covers the inwards, and the [caul] above
the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon them, and the
right shoulder; for it [is] a ram of consecration:
29:23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of
oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread
that [is] before the LORD:
29:24 And you shall put all in the hands of
Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shall wave them [for] a wave
offering before the LORD.
29:25 And you shall receive them of their
hands, and burn [them] upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet
savor before the LORD: it [is] an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
29:26 And you shall take the breast of the ram
of Aaron's consecration, and wave it [for] a wave offering before the
LORD: and it shall be your part.
29:27 And you shall sanctify the breast of the
wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved,
and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, [even] of [that]
which [is] for Aaron, and of [that] which is for his sons:
29:28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a
statute forever from the children of Israel: for it [is] an heave
offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel
of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, [even] their heave offering
unto the LORD.
29:29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be
his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in
them.
29:30 [And] that son that is priest in his
stead shall put them on seven days, when he comes into the tabernacle of
the congregation to minister in the holy [place.]
29:31 And you shall take the ram of the consecration, and seese his flesh in the holy place.
29:32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the
flesh of the ram, and the bread that [is] in the basket, [by] the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation.
29:33 And they shall eat those things wherewith
the atonement was made, to consecrate [and] to sanctify them: but a
stranger shall not eat [thereof,] because they [are] holy.
29:34 And if ought of the flesh of the
consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then you shall
burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it [is]
holy.
29:35 And thus shall you do unto Aaron, and to
his sons, according to all [things] which I have commanded you: seven
days shall you consecrate them.
29:36 And you shall offer every day a bullock
[for] a sin offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar,
when you have made an atonement for it, and you shall anoint it, to
sanctify it.
29:37 Seven days you shall make an atonement
for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy:
whatsoever touches the altar shall be holy.
29:38 Now this [is that] which you shall offer
upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
29:39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at even:
29:40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of
flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the
fourth part of an hin of wine [for] a drink offering.
29:41 And the other lamb you shall offer at
even, and shall do thereto according to the meat offering of the
morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savor,
an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
29:42 [This shall be] a continual burnt
offering throughout your generations [at] the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there
unto you.
29:43 And there I will meet with the children
of Israel, and [the tabernacle] shall be sanctified by my glory.
29:44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the
congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his
sons, to minister to me in the priest's office.
29:45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
29:46 And they shall know that I [am] the LORD
their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may
dwell among them: I [am] the LORD their God.
30:1 And you shall make an altar to burn incense upon: [of] shittim wood shall you make it.
30:2 A cubit [shall be] the length thereof, and
a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits
[shall be] the height thereof: the horns thereof [shall be] of the same.
30:3 And you shall overlay it with pure gold,
the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns
thereof; and you shall make unto it a crown of gold round about.
30:4 And two golden rings shall you make to it
under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of
it shall you make [it;] and they shall be for places for the staves to
bear it withal.
30:5 And you shall make the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
30:6 And you shall put it before the vail that
[is] by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that [is] over
the testimony, where I will meet with you.
30:7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense
every morning: when he dresses the lamps, he shall burn incense upon
it.
30:8 And when Aaron lights the lamps at even,
he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD
throughout your generations.
30:9 You shall offer no strange incense
thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall you pour
drink offering thereon.
30:10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon
the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of
atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout
your generations: it [is] most holy unto the LORD.
30:11 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
30:12 When you takest the sum of the children
of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom
for his soul unto the LORD, when you numberest them; that there be no
plague among them, when [you] numberest them.
30:13 This they shall give, every one that
passes among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of
the sanctuary: (a shekel [is] twenty gerahs:) an half shekel [shall be]
the offering of the LORD.
30:14 Every one that passes among them that are
numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto
the LORD.
30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the
poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when [they] give an
offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
30:16 And you shall take the atonement money of
the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the
children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
30:17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
30:18 you shall also make a laver [of] brass,
and his foot [also of] brass, to wash [withal:] and you shall put it
between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and you shall
put water therein.
30:19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:
30:20 When they go into the tabernacle of the
congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when
they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire
unto the LORD:
30:21 So they shall wash their hands and their
feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute forever to them,
[even] to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
30:22 Moreover the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
30:23 Take you also unto you principal spices,
of pure myrrh five hundred [shekels,] and of sweet cinnamon half so
much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels,] and of sweet calamus two
hundred and fifty [shekels, ]30:24 And of cassia five hundred [shekels,]
after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
30:25 And you shall make it an oil of holy
ointment, an ointment compound after the are of the apothecary: it shall
be an holy anointing oil.
30:26 And you shall anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
30:27 And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,
30:28 And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.
30:29 And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever touches them shall be holy.
30:30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons,
and consecrate them, that [they] may minister unto me in the priest's
office.
30:31 And you shall speak unto the children of
Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout
your generations.
30:32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured,
neither shall you make [any other] like it, after the composition of it:
it [is] holy, [and] it shall be holy unto you.
30:33 Whosoever compounds [any] like it, or
whosoever puts [any] of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from
his people.
30:34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto
you sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; [these] sweet spices
with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like [weight: ]30:35
And you shall make it a perfume, a confection after the are of the
apothecary, tempered together, pure [and] holy:
30:36 And you shall beat [some] of it very
small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the
congregation, where I will meet with you: it shall be unto you most
holy.
30:37 And [as for] the perfume which you shall
make, you shall not make to yourselves according to the composition
thereof: it shall be unto you holy for the LORD.
30:38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
31:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
31:2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of
God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all
manner of workmanship,
31:4 To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
31:5 And in cutting of stones, to set [them,]
and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
31:6 And I, behold, I have given with him
Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of
all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all
that I have commanded you;
31:7 The tabernacle of the congregation, and
the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that [is] thereupon, and
all the furniture of the tabernacle,
31:8 And the table and his furniture, and the
pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,
31:9 And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,
31:10 And the cloths of service, and the holy
garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister
in the priest's office,
31:11 And the anointing oil, and sweet incense
for the holy [place:] according to all that I have commanded you shall
they do.
31:12 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
31:13 Speak you also unto the children of
Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign
between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I
[am] the LORD that doth sanctify you.
31:14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for
it [is] holy unto you: every one that defiles it shall surely be put to
death: for whosoever does [any] work therein, that soul shall be cut
off from among his people.
31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the
seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever does [any]
work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
31:16 Why the children of Israel shall keep the
Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, [for] a
perpetual covenant.
31:17 It [is] a sign between me and the
children of Israel forever: for [in] six days the LORD made heaven and
earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made
an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony,
tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed
to come down out of 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 wot not what is become of him.
32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the
golden earrings, which [are] in the ears of your wives, of your sons,
and of your daughters, and bring [them] unto me.
32:3 And all the people brake off the golden
earrings which [were] in their ears, and brought [them] unto Aaron.
32:4 And he received [them] at their hand, and
fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf:
and they said, These [be] your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out
of the land of Egypt.
32:5 And when Aaron saw [it,] he built an altar
before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, Tomorrow [is] a feast
to the LORD.
32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and
offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat
down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
32:7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get you
down; for thy people, which you brought out of the land of Egypt, have
corrupted [themselves: ]32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the
way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have
worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These [be] thy
gods, O Israel, which have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
32:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people:
32:10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath
may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make
of you a great nation.
32:11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and
said, LORD, why doth your wrath wax hot against your people, which you
have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a
mighty hand?
32:12 Why should the Egyptians speak, and say,
For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and
to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your fierce wrath,
and repent of this evil against your people.
32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy
servants, to whom you sworest 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]
forever.
32:14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
32:15 And Moses turned, and went down from the
mount, and the two tables of the testimony [were] in his hand: the
tables [were] written on both their sides; on the one side and on the
other [were] they written.
32:16 And the tables [were] the work of God,
and the writing [was] the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
32:17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the
people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, [There is] a noise of war in
the camp.
32:18 And he said, [It is] not the voice of
[them that] shout for mastery, neither [is it] the voice of [them that]
cry for being overcome: [but] the noise of [them that] sing do I hear.
32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came
nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses'
anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them
beneath the mount.
32:20 And he took the calf which they had made,
and burnt [it] in the fire, and ground [it] to powder, and strawed [it]
upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink [of it. ]32:21
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto you, that you have
brought so great a sin upon them?
32:22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my
lord wax hot: you know the people, that they are [set] on mischief.
32:23 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 wot not what is become of him.
32:24 And I said unto them, Whosoever has any
gold, let them break [it] off. So they gave [it] me: then I cast it into
the fire, and there came out this calf.
32:25 And when Moses saw that the people [were]
naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto [their] shame among their
enemies:)
32:26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp,
and said, Who [is] on the LORD'S side? [let him come] unto me. And all
the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
32:27 And he said unto them, Thus says the LORD
God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, [and] go in and out
from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother,
and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
32:28 And the children of Levi did according to
the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three
thousand men.
32:29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves
today to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother;
that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
32:30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that
Moses said unto the people, You have sinned a great sin: and now I will
go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your
sin.
32:31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and
said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods
of gold.
32:32 Yet now, if you will forgive their sin--;
and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have
written.
32:33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
32:34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto
[the place] of which I have spoken unto you: behold, my Angel shall go
before you: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin
upon them.
32:35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
33:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart,
[and] go up hence, you and the people which you have brought up out of
the land of Egypt, unto the land which I swore unto Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob, saying, Unto your seed will I give it:
33:2 And I will send an angel before you; and I
will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the
Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
33:3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey:
for I will not go up in the midst of you; for you [are] a stiffnecked
people: lest I consume you in the way.
33:4 And when the people heard these evil
tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
33:5 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto
the children of Israel, You [are] a stiffnecked people: I will come up
into the midst of you in a moment, and consume you: therefore now put
off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do unto you.
33:6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
33:7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched
it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the
Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, [that] every one
which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation,
which [was] without the camp.
33:8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out
unto the tabernacle, [that] all the people rose up, and stood every man
[at] his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the
tabernacle.
33:9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into
the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood [at] the door of
the tabernacle, and [the] LORD talked with Moses.
33:10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar
stand [at] the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and
worshipped, every man [in] his tent door.
33:11 And the LORD spoke unto Moses face to
face, as a man speaks unto his friend. And he turned again into the
camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not
out of the tabernacle.
33:12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, you
sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and you have not let me know whom
you will send with me. Yet you have said, I know you by name, and you
have also found grace in my sight.
33:13 Now therefore, I pray you, if I have
found grace in your sight, shew me now your way, that I may know you,
that I may find grace in your sight: and consider that this nation [is]
thy people.
33:14 And he said, My presence shall go [with you,] and I will give you rest.
33:15 And he said unto him, If your presence go not [with me,] carry us not up hence.
33:16 For wherein shall it be known here that I
and your people have found grace in your sight? [is it] not in that you
goes with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the
people that [are] upon the face of the earth.
33:17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do
this thing also that you have spoken: for you have found grace in my
sight, and I know you by name.
33:18 And he said, I beseech you, shew me your glory.
33:19 And he said, I will make all my goodness
pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you;
and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on
whom I will shew mercy.
33:20 And he said, you canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
33:21 And the LORD said, Behold, [there is] a place by me, and you shall stand upon a rock:
33:22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory
passes by, that I will put you in a clift of the rock, and will cover
you with my hand while I pass by:
33:23 And I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
34:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew you two
tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon [these]
tables the words that were in the first tables, which you brakest.
34:2 And be ready in the morning, and come up
in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the
top of the mount.
34:3 And no man shall come up with you, neither
let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks
nor herds feed before that mount.
34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto
the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto
mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two
tables of stone.
34:5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and
stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and
proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious,
longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
34:7 Keeping mercy 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, unto the third and to the fourth
[generation. ]34:8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the
earth, and worshipped.
34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in
your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray you, go among us; for it [is] a
stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for
thine inheritance.
34:10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant:
before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in
all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which you
[are] shall see the work of the LORD: for it [is] a terrible thing that I
will do with you.
34:11 Observe you that which I command you this
day: behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and
the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest you make a
covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you goes, lest it be for
a snare in the midst of you:
34:13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
34:14 For you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:
34:15 Lest you make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do
sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call you, and you eat of his
sacrifice;
34:16 And you take of their daughters unto your
sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make your
sons go a whoring after their gods.
34:17 you shall make you no molten gods.
34:18 The feast of unleavened bread shall you
keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in
the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib you camest out from
Egypt.
34:19 All that opens the matrix [is] my; and
every firstling among your cattle, [whether] ox or sheep, [that is male.
]34:20 But the firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb: and if
you redeem [him] not, then shall you break his neck. All the firstborn
of thy sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
34:21 Six days you shall work, but on the
seventh day you shall rest: in earing time and in harvest you shall
rest.
34:22 And you shall observe the feast of weeks,
of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at
the year's end.
34:23 Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
34:24 For I will cast out the nations before
you, and enlarge your borders: neither shall any man desire your land,
when you shall go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the
year.
34:25 you shall not offer the blood of my
sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the
passover be left unto the morning.
34:26 The first of the firstfruits of your land
you shall bring unto the house of the LORD your God. you shall not
seese a kid in his mother's milk.
34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write you
these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant
with you and with Israel.
34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days
and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he
wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
34:29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down
from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when
he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his
face shone while he talked with him.
34:30 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.
34:31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and
all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked
with them.
34:32 And afterward all the children of Israel
came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken
with him in mount Sinai.
34:33 And [till] Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
34:34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to
speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came
out, and spoke unto the children of Israel [that] which he was
commanded.
34:35 And the children of Israel saw the face
of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail
upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
35:1 And Moses gathered all the congregation of
the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These [are] the
words which the LORD has commanded, that [you] should do them.
35:2 Six days shall work be done, but on the
seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the
LORD: whosoever does work therein shall be put to death.
35:3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the Sabbath day.
35:4 And Moses spoke unto all the congregation
of the children of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD
commanded, saying,
35:5 Take you from among you an offering unto
the LORD: whosoever [is] of a willing heart, let him bring it, an
offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,
35:6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine linen, and goats' [hair, ]35:7 And rams' skins dyed red, and
badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
35:8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
35:9 And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
35:10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD has commanded;
35:11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his
covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his
sockets,
35:12 The ark, and the staves thereof, [with] the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
35:13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the showbread,
35:14 The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,
35:15 And the incense altar, and his staves,
and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the
door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
35:16 The altar of burnt offering, with his
brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
35:17 The hangings of the court, his pillars,
and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,
35:18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,
35:19 The cloths of service, to do service in
the holy [place,] the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the
garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.
35:20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
35:21 And they came, every one whose heart
stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, [and] they
brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
35:22 And they came, both men and women, as
many as were willing hearted, [and] brought bracelets, and earrings, and
rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered
[offered] an offering of gold unto the LORD.
35:23 And every man, with whom was found blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair,] and red
skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought [them. ]35:24 Every one that
did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD'S offering:
and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the
service, brought [it. ]35:25 And all the women that were wise hearted
did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, [both]
of blue, and of purple, [and] of scarlet, and of fine linen.
35:26 And all the women whose heart stirred
them up in wisdom spun goats' [hair. ]35:27 And the rulers brought onyx
stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
35:28 And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing
offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them
willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to
be made by the hand of Moses.
35:30 And Moses said unto the children of
Israel, See, the LORD has called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the
son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
35:31 And he has filled him with the spirit of
God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of
workmanship;
35:32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
35:33 And in the cutting of stones, to set
[them,] and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
35:34 And he has put in his heart that he may
teach, [both] he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of
Dan.
35:35 Them has he filled with wisdom of heart,
to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning 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 work, and of those
that devise cunning work.
36:1 Then worked Bezaleel and Aholiab, and
every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to
know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary,
according to all that the LORD had commanded.
36:2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and
every wise hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, [even]
every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
36:3 And they received of Moses all the
offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the
service of the sanctuary, to make it [withal.] And they brought yet unto
him free offerings every morning.
36:4 And all the wise men, that worked all the
work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
36:5 And they spoke unto Moses, saying, The
people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which
the LORD commanded to make.
36:6 And Moses gave commandment, and they
caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man
nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the
people were restrained from bringing.
36:7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
36:8 And every wise hearted man among them that
worked the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains [of] fine twined
linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: [with] cherubims of cunning
work made he them.
36:9 The length of one curtain [was] twenty and
eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains
[were] all of one size.
36:10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto
another: and [the other] five curtains he coupled one unto another.
36:11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of
one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the
uttermost side of [another] curtain, in the coupling of the second.
36:12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and
fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which [was] in the
coupling of the second: the loops held one [curtain] to another.
36:13 And he made fifty taches of gold, and
coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one
tabernacle.
36:14 And he made curtains [of] goats' [hair]
for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
36:15 The length of one curtain [was] thirty
cubits, and four cubits [was] the breadth of one curtain: the eleven
curtains [were] of one size.
36:16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
36:17 And he made fifty loops upon the
uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he
upon the edge of the curtain which couples the second.
36:18 And he made fifty taches [of] brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
36:19 And he made a covering for the tent [of]
rams' skins dyed red, and a covering [of] badgers' skins above [that.]
36:20 And he made boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim wood, standing up.
36:21 The length of a board [was] ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
36:22 One board had two tenons, equally distant
one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the
tabernacle.
36:23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
36:24 And forty sockets of silver he made under
the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and
two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
36:25 And for the other side of the tabernacle,
[which is] toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
36:26 And their forty sockets of silver; two
sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
36:27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
36:28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
36:29 And they were coupled beneath, and
coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both
of them in both the corners.
36:30 And there were eight boards; and their
sockets [were] sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
36:31 And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
36:32 And five bars for the boards of the other
side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle
for the sides westward.
36:33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
36:34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and
made their rings [of] gold [to be] places for the bars, and overlaid
the bars with gold.
36:35 And he made a vail [of] blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen: [with] cherubims made he it of
cunning work.
36:36 And he made thereunto four pillars [of]
shittim [wood,] and overlaid them with gold: their hooks [were of] gold;
and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
36:37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle
door [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of
needlework;
36:38 And the five pillars of it with their
hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but
their five sockets [were of] brass.
37:1 And Bezaleel made the ark [of] shittim
wood: two cubits and a half [was] the length of it, and a cubit and a
half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
37:2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
37:3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, [to
be set] by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of
it, and two rings upon the other side of it.
37:4 And he made staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
37:5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
37:6 And he made the mercy seat [of] pure gold:
two cubits and a half [was] the length thereof, and one cubit and a
half the breadth thereof.
37:7 And he made two cherubims [of] gold,
beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
37:8 One cherub on the end on this side, and
another cherub on the [other] end on that side: out of the mercy seat
made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
37:9 And the cherubims spread out [their] wings
on high, [and] covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their
faces one to another; [even ]to the mercy seatward were the faces of
the cherubims.
37:10 And he made the table of shittim wood:
two cubits [was] the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof,
and a cubit and a half the height thereof:
37:11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.
37:12 Also he made thereunto a border of an
handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof
round about.
37:13 And he cast for it four rings of gold,
and put the rings upon the four corners that [were] in the four feet
thereof.
37:14 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
37:15 And he made the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
37:16 And he made the vessels which [were] upon
the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to
cover withal, [of] pure gold.
37:17 And he made the candlestick [of] pure
gold: [of] beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his
branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:
37:18 And six branches going out of the sides
thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof,
and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:
37:19 Three bowls made after the fashion of
almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like
almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six
branches going out of the candlestick.
37:20 And in the candlestick [were] four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:
37:21 And a knop under two branches of the
same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two
branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.
37:22 Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it [was] one beaten work [of] pure gold.
37:23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, [of] pure gold.
37:24 [Of] a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
37:25 And he made the incense altar [of]
shittim wood: the length of it [was] a cubit, and the breadth of it a
cubit; it [was] foursquare; and two cubits [was] the height of it; the
horns thereof were of the same.
37:26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, [both]
the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it:
also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.
37:27 And he made two rings of gold for it
under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides
thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.
37:28 And he made the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
37:29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and
the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the
apothecary.
38:1 And he made the altar of burnt offering
[of] shittim wood: five cubits [was] the length thereof, and five cubits
the breadth thereof; [it was] foursquare; and three cubits the height
thereof.
38:2 And he made the horns thereof on the four
corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it
with brass.
38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar,
the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, [and] the fleshhooks, and the
firepans: all the vessels thereof made he [of] brass.
38:4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate
of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, [to be] places for the staves.
38:6 And he made the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
38:7 And he put the staves into the rings on
the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with
boards.
38:8 And he made the laver [of] brass, and the
foot of it [of] brass, of the lookingglasses of [the women] assembling,
which assembled [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
38:9 And he made the court: on the south side
southward the hangings of the court [were of] fine twined linen, an
hundred cubits:
38:10 Their pillars [were] twenty, and their
brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [were
of] silver.
38:11 And for the north side [the hangings
were] an hundred cubits, their pillars [were] twenty, and their sockets
of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver.
38:12 And for the west side [were] hangings of
fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the
pillars and their fillets [of] silver.
38:13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
38:14 The hangings of the one side [of the gate
were] fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
38:15 And for the other side of the court gate,
on this hand and that hand, [were] hangings of fifteen cubits; their
pillars three, and their sockets three.
38:16 All the hangings of the court round about [were] of fine twined linen.
38:17 And the sockets for the pillars [were of]
brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver; and the
overlaying of their chapiters [of] silver; and all the pillars of the
court [were] filleted with silver.
38:18 And the hanging for the gate of the court
[was] needlework, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen: and twenty cubits [was] the length, and the height in the breadth
[was] five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
38:19 And their pillars [were] four, and their
sockets [of] brass four; their hooks [of] silver, and the overlaying of
their chapiters and their fillets [of] silver.
38:20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, [were of] brass.
38:21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, [even]
of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the
commandment of Moses, [for] the service of the Levites, by the hand of
Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.
38:22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of
Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.
38:23 And with him [was] Aholiab, son of
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and
an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
38:24 All the gold that was occupied for the
work in all the work of the holy [place,] even the gold of the offering,
was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary.
38:25 And the silver of them that were numbered
of the congregation [was] an hundred talents, and a thousand seven
hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary:
38:26 A bekah forevery man, [that is,] half a
shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, forevery one that went to be
numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and
three thousand and five hundred and fifty [men. ]38:27 And of the
hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and
the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a
talent for a socket.
38:28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy
and five [shekels] he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their
chapiters, and filleted them.
38:29 And the brass of the offering [was] seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
38:30 And therewith he made the sockets to the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and
the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
38:31 And the sockets of the court round about,
and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle,
and all the pins of the court round about.
39:1 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet,
they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy [place,] and made
the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.
39:2 And he made the ephod [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
39:3 And they did beat the gold into thin
plates, and cut [it into] wires, to work [it] in the blue, and in the
purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, [with] cunning work.
39:4 They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple
[it] together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
39:5 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that
[was] upon it, [was] of the same, according to the work thereof; [of]
gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
39:6 And they worked onyx stones inclosed in
ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the
children of Israel.
39:7 And he put them on the shoulders of the
ephod, [that they should be] stones for a memorial to the children of
Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
39:8 And he made the breastplate [of] cunning
work, like the work of the ephod; [of] gold, blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen.
39:9 It was foursquare; they made the
breastplate double: a span [was] the length thereof, and a span the
breadth thereof, [being] doubled.
39:10 And they set in it four rows of stones:
[the first] row [was] a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this [was]
the first row.
39:11 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
39:12 And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
39:13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and
a jasper: [they were] inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
39:14 And the stones [were] according to the
names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names,
[like] the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to
the twelve tribes.
39:15 And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, [of] wreathen work [of] pure gold.
39:16 And they made two ouches [of] gold, and
two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the
breastplate.
39:17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.
39:18 And the two ends of the two wreathen
chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the
shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.
39:19 And they made two rings of gold, and put
[them] on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which
[was] on the side of the ephod inward.
39:20 And they made two [other] golden rings,
and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the
forepart of it, over against the [other] coupling thereof, above the
curious girdle of the ephod.
39:21 And they did bind the breastplate by his
rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be
above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might
not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
39:22 And he made the robe of the ephod [of] woven work, all [of] blue.
39:23 And [there was] an hole in the midst of
the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, [with] a band round about the
hole, that it should not rend.
39:24 And they made upon the hems of the robe
pomegranates [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, [and] twined [linen.
]39:25 And they made bells [of] pure gold, and put the bells between the
pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the
pomegranates;
39:26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a
pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister [in;] as the
LORD commanded Moses.
39:27 And they made coats [of] fine linen [of] woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,
39:28 And a mitre [of] fine linen, and goodly
bonnets [of] fine linen, and linen breeches [of] fine twined linen,
39:29 And a girdle [of] fine twined linen, and
blue, and purple, and scarlet, [of] needlework; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
39:30 And they made the plate of the holy crown
[of] pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, [like to] the engravings
of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
39:31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to
fasten [it] on high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
39:32 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle
of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did
according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
39:33 And they brought the tabernacle unto
Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his
bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,
39:34 And the covering of rams' skins dyed red,
and the covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering,
39:35 The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
39:36 The table, [and] all the vessels thereof, and the showbread,
39:37 The pure candlestick, [with] the lamps
thereof, [even with] the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels
thereof, and the oil for light,
39:38 And the golden altar, and the anointing
oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
39:39 The brasen altar, and his grate of brass,
his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
39:40 The hangings of the court, his pillars,
and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his
pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent
of the congregation,
39:41 The cloths of service to do service in
the holy [place,] and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his
sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office.
39:42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.
39:43 And Moses did look upon all the work,
and, behold, they have done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had
they done it: and Moses blessed them.
40:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
40:2 On the first day of the first month shall
you set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
40:3 And you shall put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.
40:4 And you shall bring in the table, and set
in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and you shall
bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
40:5 And you shall set the altar of gold for
the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the
door to the tabernacle.
40:6 And you shall set the altar of the burnt
offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the
congregation.
40:7 And you shall set the laver between the
tent of the congregation and the altar, and shall put water therein.
40:8 And you shall set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.
40:9 And you shall take the anointing oil, and
anoint the tabernacle, and all that [is] therein, and shall hallow it,
and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.
40:10 And you shall anoint the altar of the
burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it
shall be an altar most holy.
40:11 And you shall anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
40:12 And you shall bring Aaron and his sons
unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with
water.
40:13 And you shall put upon Aaron the holy
garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me
in the priest's office.
40:14 And you shall bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:
40:15 And you shall anoint them, as you didst
anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's
office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood
throughout their generations.
40:16 Thus did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he.
40:17 And it came to pass in the first month in
the second year, on the first [day] of the month, [that] the tabernacle
was reared up.
40:18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and
fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars
thereof, and reared up his pillars.
40:19 And he spread abroad the tent over the
tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
40:20 And he took and put the testimony into
the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above
upon the ark:
40:21 And he brought the ark into the
tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of
the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.
40:22 And he put the table in the tent of the
congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the
vail.
40:23 And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
40:24 And he put the candlestick in the tent of
the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle
southward.
40:25 And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
40:26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:
40:27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded Moses.
40:28 And he set up the hanging [at] the door of the tabernacle.
40:29 And he put the altar of burnt offering
[by] the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and
offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
40:30 And he set the laver between the tent of
the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash [withal.
]40:31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their
feet thereat:
40:32 When they went into the tent of the
congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as
the LORD commanded Moses.
40:33 And he reared up the court round about
the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate.
So Moses finished the work.
40:34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the
congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
40:35 And Moses was not able to enter into the
tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory
of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
40:36 And when the cloud was taken up from over
the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their
journeys:
40:37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.
40:38 For the cloud of the LORD [was] upon the
tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the
house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
The Third Book of Moses, called Leviticus
1:1 And the LORD called unto Moses, and spoke
unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
1:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, you shall
bring your offering of the cattle, [even] of the herd, and of the flock.
1:3 If his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of
the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his
own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
before the LORD.
1:4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of
the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement
for him.
1:5 And he shall kill the bullock before the
LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle
the blood round about upon the altar that [is by] the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
1:6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.
1:7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put
fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:
1:8 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay
the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that [is] on
the fire which [is] upon the altar:
1:9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash
in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, [to be] a burnt
sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD.
1:10 And if his offering [be] of the flocks,
[namely,] of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall
bring it a male without blemish.
1:11 And he shall kill it on the side of the
altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall
sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.
1:12 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with
his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood
that [is] on the fire which [is] upon the altar:
1:13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs
with water: and the priest shall bring [it] all, and burn [it] upon the
altar: it [is] a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savor unto the LORD.
1:14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his
offering to the LORD [be] of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of
turtledoves, or of young pigeons.
1:15 And the priest shall bring it unto the
altar, and wring off his head, and burn [it] on the altar; and the blood
thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
1:16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his
feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of
the ashes:
1:17 And he shall cleave it with 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 sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the
LORD.
2:1 And when any will offer a meat offering
unto the LORD, his offering shall be [of] fine flour; and he shall pour
oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:
2:2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the
priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof,
and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the
priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, [to be] an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD:
2:3 And the remnant of the meat offerings
[shall be] Aaron's and his sons': [it is] a thing most holy of the
offerings of the LORD made by fire.
2:4 And if you bring an oblation of a meat
offering baken in the oven, [it shall be] unleavened cakes of fine flour
mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
2:5 And if your oblation [be] a meat offering
[baken] in a pan, it shall be [of] fine flour unleavened, mingled with
oil.
2:6 you shall part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it [is] a meat offering.
2:7 And if your oblation [be] a meat offering
[baken] in the frying pan, it shall be made [of] fine flour with oil.
2:8 And you shall bring the meat offering that
is made of these things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the
priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.
2:9 And the priest shall take from the meat
offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn [it] upon the altar: [it is]
an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD.
2:10 And that which is left of the meat
offering [shall be] Aaron's and his sons': [it is] a thing most holy of
the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
2:11 No meat offering, which you shall bring
unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for you shall burn no leaven,
nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
2:12 As for the oblation of the firstfruits,
you shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the
altar for a sweet savor.
2:13 And every oblation of your meat offering
shall you season with salt; neither shall you suffer the salt of the
covenant of thy God to be lacking from your meat offering: with all
thine offerings you shall offer salt.
2:14 And if you offer a meat offering of thy
firstfruits unto the LORD, you shall offer for the meat offering of thy
firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, [even] corn beaten out
of full ears.
2:15 And you shall put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it [is] a meat offering.
2:16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of
it, [part] of the beaten corn thereof, and [part] of the oil thereof,
with all the frankincense thereof: [it is] an offering made by fire unto
the LORD.
3:1 And if his oblation [be] a sacrifice of
peace offering, if he offer [it] of the herd; whether [it be] a male or
female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.
3:2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of
his offering, and kill it [at] the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon
the altar round about.
3:3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the
peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that
covers the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,
3:4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is]
on them, which [is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with
the kidneys, it shall he take away.
3:5 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar
upon the burnt sacrifice, which [is] upon the wood that [is] on the
fire: [it is] an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD.
3:6 And if his offering for a sacrifice of
peace offering unto the LORD [be] of the flock; male or female, he shall
offer it without blemish.
3:7 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before the LORD.
3:8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of
his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and
Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the
altar.
3:9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the
peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof,
[and] the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the
fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the
inwards,
3:10 And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is]
upon them, which [is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with
the kidneys, it shall he take away.
3:11 And the priest shall burn it upon the
altar: [it is] the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
3:12 And if his offering [be] a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD.
3:13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of
it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons
of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
3:14 And he shall offer thereof his offering,
[even] an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covers the
inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,
3:15 And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is]
upon them, which [is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with
the kidneys, it shall he take away.
3:16 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] the LORD'S.
3:17 [It shall be] a perpetual statute for your
generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor
blood.
4:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
4:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of
the LORD [concerning things] which ought not to be done, and shall do
against any of them:
4:3 If the priest that is anointed do sin
according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin,
which he has sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a
sin offering.
4:4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall
lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the
LORD.
4:5 And the priest that is anointed shall take
of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the
congregation:
4:6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the
blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the
vail of the sanctuary.
4:7 And the priest shall put [some] of the
blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD,
which [is] in the tabernacle of the congregation: and shall pour all the
blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering,
which [is at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
4:8 And he shall take off from it all the fat
of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covers the inwards,
and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,
4:9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is]
upon them, which [is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with
the kidneys, it shall he take away,
4:10 As it was taken off from the bullock of
the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon
the altar of the burnt offering.
4:11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his
flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
4:12 Even the whole bullock shall he carry
forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured
out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out
shall he be burnt.
4:13 And if the whole congregation of Israel
sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the
assembly, and they have done [somewhat against] any of the commandments
of the LORD [concerning things] which should not be done, and are
guilty;
4:14 When the sin, which they have sinned
against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock
for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.
4:15 And the elders of the congregation shall
lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the
bullock shall be killed before the LORD.
4:16 And the priest that is anointed shall
bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:
4:17 And the priest shall dip his finger [in
some] of the blood, and sprinkle [it] seven times before the LORD,
[even] before the vail.
4:18 And he shall put [some] of the blood upon
the horns of the altar which [is] before the LORD, that [is] in the
tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the
bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which [is at] the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
4:19 And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn [it] upon the altar.
4:20 And he shall do with the bullock as he did
with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the
priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
4:21 And he shall carry forth the bullock
without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it [is] a
sin offering for the congregation.
4:22 When a ruler has sinned, and done
[somewhat] through ignorance [against] any of the commandments of the
LORD his God [concerning things] which should not be done, and is
guilty;
4:23 Or if his sin, wherein he has sinned, come
to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a
male without blemish:
4:24 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of
the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering
before the LORD: it [is] a sin offering.
4:25 And the priest shall take of the blood of
the sin offering with his finger, and put [it] upon the horns of the
altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of
the altar of burnt offering.
4:26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the
altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest
shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be
forgiven him.
4:27 And if any one of the common people sin
through ignorance, while he does [somewhat against] any of the
commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which ought not to be done,
and be guilty;
4:28 Or if his sin, which he has sinned, come
to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a
female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned.
4:29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of
the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt
offering.
4:30 And the priest shall take of the blood
thereof with his finger, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar of
burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom
of the altar.
4:31 And he shall take away all the fat
thereof, 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 the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and
it shall be forgiven him.
4:32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.
4:33 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of
the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where
they kill the burnt offering
4:34 And the priest shall take of the blood of
the sin offering with his finger, and put [it] upon the horns of the
altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the
bottom of the altar:
4:35 And he shall take away all the fat
thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the
peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar,
according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest
shall make an atonement for his sin that he has committed, and it shall
be forgiven him.
5:1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of
swearing, and [is] a witness, whether he has seen or known [of it;] if
he do not utter [it,] then he shall bear his iniquity.
5:2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing,
whether [it be] a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean
cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and [if] it be hidden
from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
5:3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man,
whatsoever uncleanness [it be] that a man shall be defiled withal, and
it be hid from him; when he knows [of it,] then he shall be guilty.
5:4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with [his]
lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever [it be] that a man shall
pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knows [of it,]
then he shall be guilty in one of these.
5:5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in
one of these [things,] that he shall confess that he has sinned in that
[thing: ]5:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for
his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid
of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement
for him concerning his sin.
5:7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then
he shall bring for his trespass, which he has committed, two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
5:8 And he shall bring them unto the priest,
who shall offer [that] which [is] for the sin offering first, and wring
off his head from his neck, but shall not divide [it] asunder:
5:9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the
sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall
be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it [is] a sin offering.
5:10 And he shall offer the second [for] a
burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an
atonement for him for his sin which he has sinned, and it shall be
forgiven him.
5:11 But if he be not able to bring two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for
his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin
offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put [any]
frankincense thereon: for it [is] a sin offering.
5:12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and
the priest shall take his handful of it, [even] a memorial thereof, and
burn [it] on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the
LORD: it [is] a sin offering.
5:13 And the priest shall make an atonement for
him as touching his sin that he has sinned in one of these, and it
shall be forgiven him: and [the remnant] shall be the priest's, as a
meat offering.
5:14 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
5:15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin
through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring
for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks,
with your estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the
sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
5:16 And he shall make amends for the harm that
he has done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto,
and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for
him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
5:17 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these
things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD;
though he wist [it] not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
5:18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish
out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the
priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his
ignorance wherein he erred and wist [it] not, and it shall be forgiven
him.
5:19 It [is] a trespass offering: he has certainly trespassed against the LORD.
6:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
6:2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass
against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbor in that which was delivered
him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or
has deceived his neighbor;
6:3 Or have found that which was lost, and lies
concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man
does, sinning therein:
6:4 Then it shall be, because he has sinned,
and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away,
or the thing which he has deceitfully gotten, or that which was
delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
6:5 Or all that about which he has sworn
falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the
fifth part more thereto, [and] give it unto him to whom it appertaineth,
in the day of his trespass offering.
6:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering
unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with your
estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
6:7 And the priest shall make an atonement for
him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for anything of all
that he has done in trespassing therein.
6:8 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
6:9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This
[is] the law of the burnt offering: It [is] the burnt offering, because
of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire
of the altar shall be burning in it.
6:10 And the priest shall put on his linen
garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up
the ashes which the fire has consumed with the burnt offering on the
altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
6:11 And he shall put off his garments, and put
on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a
clean place.
6:12 And the fire upon the altar shall be
burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood
on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he
shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.
6:13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.
6:14 And this [is] the law of the meat
offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the
altar.
6:15 And he shall take of it his handful, of
the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the
frankincense which [is] upon the meat offering, and shall burn [it] upon
the altar [for] a sweet savor, [even] the memorial of it, unto the
LORD.
6:16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and
his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place;
in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
6:17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have
given it [unto them for] their portion of my offerings made by fire; it
[is] most holy, as [is] the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
6:18 All the males among the children of Aaron
shall eat of it. [It shall be] a statute forever in your generations
concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that
touches them shall be holy.
6:19 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
6:20 This [is] the offering of Aaron and of his
sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is
anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering
perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
6:21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; [and
when it is] baken, you shall bring it in: [and] the baken pieces of the
meat offering shall you offer [for] a sweet savor unto the LORD.
6:22 And the priest of his sons that is
anointed in his stead shall offer it: [it is] a statute forever unto the
LORD, it shall be wholly burnt.
6:23 Forevery meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
6:24 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
6:25 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 the LORD: it
[is] most holy.
6:26 The priest that offers it for sin shall
eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
6:27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof
shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any
garment, you shall wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy
place.
6:28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is
sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be
both scoured, and rinsed in water.
6:29 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it [is] most holy.
6:30 And no sin offering, whereof [any] of the
blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile
[withal] in the holy [place,] shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the
fire.
7:1 Likewise this [is] the law of the trespass offering: it [is] most holy.
7:2 In the place where they kill the burnt
offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof
shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
7:3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covers the inwards,
7:4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is]
on them, which [is] by the flanks, and the caul [that is] above the
liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:
7:5 And the priest shall burn them upon the
altar [for] an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it [is] a trespass
offering.
7:6 Every male among the priests shall eat
thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it [is] most holy.
7:7 As the sin offering [is,] so [is] the
trespass offering: [there is] one law for them: the priest that makes
atonement therewith shall have [it. ]7:8 And the priest that offers any
man's burnt offering, [even] the priest shall have to himself the skin
of the burnt offering which he has offered.
7:9 And all the meat offering that is baken in
the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan,
shall be the priest's that offers it.
7:10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil,
and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one [as much] as another.
7:11 And this [is] the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
7:12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he
shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled
with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled
with oil, of fine flour, fried.
7:13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer [for]
his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his
peace offerings.
7:14 And of it he shall offer one out of the
whole oblation [for] an heave offering unto the LORD, [and] it shall be
the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
7:15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his
peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is
offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering [be] a
vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he
offers his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall
be eaten:
7:17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
7:18 And if [any] of the flesh of the sacrifice
of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not
be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offers it: it
shall be an abomination, and the soul that eats of it shall bear his
iniquity.
7:19 And the flesh that touches any unclean
[thing] shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the
flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.
7:20 But the soul that eats [of] the flesh of
the sacrifice of peace offerings, that [pertain] unto the LORD, having
his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his
people.
7:21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any
unclean [thing, as] the uncleanness of man, or [any] unclean beast, or
any abominable unclean [thing,] and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of
peace offerings, which [pertain] unto the LORD, even that soul shall be
cut off from his people.
7:22 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
7:23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
You shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
7:24 And the fat of the beast that dies of
itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in
any other use: but you shall in no wise eat of it.
7:25 For whosoever eats the fat of the beast,
of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul
that eats [it] shall be cut off from his people.
7:26 Moreover you shall eat no manner of blood,
[whether it be] of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
7:27 Whatsoever soul [it be] that eats any
manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
7:28 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
7:29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
He that offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall
bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings.
7:30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of
the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that
the breast may be waved [for] a wave offering before the LORD.
7:31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
7:32 And the right shoulder shall you give unto
the priest [for] an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace
offerings.
7:33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offers
the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right
shoulder for [his] part.
7:34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder
have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their
peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his
sons by a statute forever from among the children of Israel.
7:35 This [is the portion] of the anointing of
Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the
LORD made by fire, in the day [when] he presented them to minister unto
the LORD in the priest's office;
7:36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them
of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, [by] a
statute forever throughout their generations.
7:37 This [is] the law of the burnt offering,
of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass
offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace
offerings;
7:38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount
Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer
their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
8:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
8:2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the
garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and
two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;
8:3 And gather you all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8:4 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him;
and the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation.
8:5 And Moses said unto the congregation, This [is] the thing which the LORD commanded to be done.
8:6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
8:7 And he put upon him the 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 curious girdle of the ephod, and
bound [it] unto him therewith.
8:8 And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
8:9 And he put the mitre upon his head; also
upon the mitre, [even] upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate,
the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.
8:10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and
anointed the tabernacle and all that [was] therein, and sanctified them.
8:11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar
seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver
and his foot, to sanctify them.
8:12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
8:13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put
coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon
them; as the LORD commanded Moses.
8:14 And he brought the bullock for the sin
offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the
bullock for the sin offering.
8:15 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 the blood at the bottom of
the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
8:16 And he took all the fat that [was] upon
the inwards, and caul [above] the liver, and the two kidneys, and their
fat, and Moses burned [it] upon the altar.
8:17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh,
and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
8:18 And he brought the ram for the burnt
offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the
ram.
8:19 And he killed [it;] and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
8:20 And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
8:21 And he washed the inwards and the legs in
water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it [was] a burnt
sacrifice for a sweet savor, [and] an offering made by fire unto the
LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
8:22 And he brought the other ram, the ram of
consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of
the ram.
8:23 And he slew [it;] and Moses took of the
blood of it, and put [it] upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon
the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
8:24 And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put
of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of
their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and
Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
8:25 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all
the fat that [was] upon the inwards, and the caul [above] the liver,
and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:
8:26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread,
that [was] before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of
oiled bread, and one wafer, and put [them] on the fat, and upon the
right shoulder:
8:27 And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and
upon his sons' hands, and waved them [for] a wave offering before the
LORD.
8:28 And Moses took them from off their hands,
and burnt [them] on the altar upon the burnt offering: they [were]
consecrations for a sweet savor: it [is] an offering made by fire unto
the LORD.
8:29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it
[for] a wave offering before the LORD: [for] of the ram of consecration
it was Moses' part; as the LORD commanded Moses.
8:30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and
of the blood which [was] upon the altar, and sprinkled [it] upon Aaron,
[and] upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments
with him; and sanctified Aaron, [and] his garments, and his sons, and
his sons' garments with him.
8:31 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons,
Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and
there eat it with the bread that [is] in the basket of consecrations, as
I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
8:32 And that which remains of the flesh and of the bread shall you burn with fire.
8:33 And you shall not go out of the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation [in] seven days, until the days of
your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.
8:34 As he has done this day, [so] the LORD has commanded to do, to make an atonement for you.
8:35 Therefore shall you abide [at] the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep
the charge of the LORD, that you die not: for so I am commanded.
8:36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
9:1 And it came to pass on the eighth day,
[that] Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
9:2 And he said unto Aaron, Take you a young
calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without
blemish, and offer [them] before the LORD.
9:3 And unto the children of Israel you shall
speak, saying, Take you a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a
calf and a lamb, [both] of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt
offering;
9:4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace
offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled
with oil: for today the LORD will appear unto you.
9:5 And they brought [that] which Moses
commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the
congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.
9:6 And Moses said, This [is] the thing which
the LORD commanded that you should do: and the glory of the LORD shall
appear unto you.
9:7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the
altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make an
atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of
the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.
9:8 Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and
slew the calf of the sin offering, which [was] for himself.
9:9 And the sons of Aaron brought 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 bottom of the altar:
9:10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul
above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the
LORD commanded Moses.
9:11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp.
9:12 And he slew the burnt offering; and
Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round
about upon the altar.
9:13 And they presented the burnt offering unto
him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt [them] upon
the altar.
9:14 And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt [them] upon the burnt offering on the altar.
9:15 And he brought the people's offering, and
took the goat, which [was] the sin offering for the people, and slew it,
and offered it for sin, as the first.
9:16 And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner.
9:17 And he brought the meat offering, and took
an handful thereof, and burnt [it] upon the altar, beside the burnt
sacrifice of the morning.
9:18 He slew also the bullock and the ram [for]
a sacrifice of peace offerings, which [was] for the people: and Aaron's
sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar
round about,
9:19 And the fat of the bullock and of the ram,
the rump, and that which covers [the inwards,] and the kidneys, and the
caul [above] the liver:
9:20 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:
9:21 And the breasts and the right shoulder
Aaron waved [for] a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
9:22 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the
people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin
offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.
9:23 And Moses and Aaron went into the
tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people:
and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.
9:24 And there came a fire out from before the
LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat:
[which] when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron,
took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense
thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded
them not.
10:2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
10:3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This [is it]
that the LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh
me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his
peace.
10:4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the
sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry
your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
10:5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.
10:6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto
Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend
your clothes; lest you die, and lest wrath come upon all the people:
but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning
which the LORD has kindled.
10:7 And you shall not go out from the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die: for the anointing oil
of the LORD [is] upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
10:8 And the LORD spoke unto Aaron, saying,
10:9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, you,
nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of the
congregation, lest you die: [it shall be] a statute forever throughout
your generations:
10:10 And that you may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
10:11 And that you may teach the children of
Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken unto them by the hand
of Moses.
10:12 And Moses spoke unto Aaron, and unto
Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat
offering that remains of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat
it without leaven beside the altar: for it [is] most holy:
10:13 And you shall eat it in the holy place,
because it [is] your due, and your sons' due, of the sacrifices of the
LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.
10:14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder
shall you eat in a clean place; you, and your sons, and your daughters
with you: for [they be] your due, and thy sons' due, [which] are given
out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
10:15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast
shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave [it
for] a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and your
sons' with you, by a statute forever; as the LORD has commanded.
10:16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of
the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with
Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron [which were] left [alive,]
saying,
10:17 Why have you not eaten the sin offering
in the holy place, seeing it [is] most holy, and [God] has given it you
to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them
before the LORD?
10:18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought
in within the holy [place:] you should indeed have eaten it in the holy
[place,] as I commanded.
10:19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this
day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before
the LORD; and such things have befallen me: and [if] I had eaten the
sin offering today, should it have been accepted in the sight of the
LORD?
10:20 And when Moses heard [that,] he was content.
11:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
11:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
These [are] the beasts which you shall eat among all the beasts that
[are] on the earth.
11:3 Whatsoever parts the hoof, and is
clovenfooted, [and] chews the cud, among the beasts, that shall you eat.
11:4 Nevertheless these shall you not eat of
them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: [as] the camel,
because he chews the cud, but divides not the hoof; he is unclean unto
you.
11:5 And the coney, because he chews the cud, but divides not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you.
11:6 And the hare, because he chews the cud, but divides not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you.
11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof,
and be clovenfooted, yet he chews not the cud; he [is] unclean to you.
11:8 Of their flesh shall you not eat, and
their carcase shall you not touch; they [are] unclean to you.
11:9 These shall you eat of all that [are] in
the waters: whatsoever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas,
and in the rivers, them shall you eat.
11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in
the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any
living thing which [is] in the waters, they [shall be] an abomination
unto you:
11:11 They shall be even an abomination unto
you; you shall not eat of their flesh, but you shall have their
carcasses in abomination.
11:12 Whatsoever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that [shall be] an abomination unto you.
11:13 And these [are they which you] shall have
in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they [are] an
abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
11:14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
11:15 Every raven after his kind;
11:16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
11:17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
11:18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
11:19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
11:20 All fowls that creep, going upon [all] four, [shall be] an abomination unto you.
11:21 Yet these may you eat of every flying
creeping thing that goes upon [all] four, which have legs above their
feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
11:22 [Even] these of them you may eat; the
locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the
beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
11:23 But all [other] flying creeping things, which have four feet, [shall be] an abomination unto you.
11:24 And for these you shall be unclean:
whosoever touches the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
11:25 And whosoever bears [ought] of the
carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
11:26 [The carcasses] of every beast which
divides the hoof, and [is] not clovenfooted, nor chews the cud, [are]
unclean unto you: every one that touches them shall be unclean.
11:27 And whatsoever goes upon his paws, among
all manner of beasts that go on [all] four, those [are] unclean unto
you: whoso touches their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
11:28 And he that bears the carcase of them
shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they [are]
unclean unto you.
11:29 These also [shall be] unclean unto you
among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the
mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
11:30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
11:31 These [are] unclean to you among all that
creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean
until the even.
11:32 And upon whatsoever [any] of them, when
they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether [it be] any
vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel [it be,]
wherein [any] work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be
unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
11:33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto [any]
of them falls, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and you shall
break it.
11:34 Of all meat which may be eaten, [that] on
which [such] water comes shall be unclean: and all drink that may be
drunk in every [such] vessel shall be unclean.
11:35 And every [thing] whereupon [any part] of
their carcase falls shall be unclean; [whether it be] oven, or ranges
for pots, they shall be broken down: [for] they [are] unclean, and shall
be unclean unto you.
11:36 Nevertheless a fountain or pit, [wherein
there is] plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which touches their
carcase shall be unclean.
11:37 And if [any part] of their carcase fall
upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it [shall be] clean.
11:38 But if [any] water be put upon the seed,
and [any part] of their carcase fall thereon, it [shall be] unclean unto
you.
11:39 And if any beast, of which you may eat,
die; he that touches the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the
even.
11:40 And he that eats of the carcase of it
shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that
bears the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the
even.
11:41 And every creeping thing that creeps upon
the earth [shall be] an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
11:42 Whatsoever goes upon the belly, and
whatsoever goes upon [all] four, or whatsoever has more feet among all
creeping things that creep upon the earth, them you shall not eat; for
they [are] an abomination.
11:43 You shall not make yourselves abominable
with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves
unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.
11:44 For I [am] the LORD your God: you shall
therefore sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I [am] holy:
neither shall you defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing
that creeps upon the earth.
11:45 For I [am] the LORD that brings you up
out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: you shall therefore be holy,
for I [am] holy.
11:46 This [is] the law of the beasts, and of
the fowl, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of
every creature that creeps upon the earth:
11:47 To make a difference between the unclean
and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast
that may not be eaten.
12:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
12:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be
unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her
infirmity shall she be unclean.
12:3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
12:4 And she shall then 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.
12:5 But if she bear a maid child, then she
shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue
in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
12:6 And when the days of her purifying are
fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the
first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove,
for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
unto the priest:
12:7 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and
make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of
her blood. This [is] the law for her that has born a male or a female.
12:8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb,
then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the
burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall
make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
13:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron, saying,
13:2 When a man shall have in the skin of his
flesh a rising, a scab, or a bright spot, and it be in the skin of his
flesh [like] the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron
the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
13:3 And the priest shall look on the plague in
the skin of the flesh: and [when] the hair in the plague is turned
white, and the plague in sight [be] deeper than the skin of his flesh,
it [is] a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and
pronounce him unclean.
13:4 If the bright spot [be] white in the skin
of his flesh, and in sight [be] not deeper than the skin, and the hair
thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up [him that
has] the plague seven days:
13:5 And the priest shall look on him the
seventh day: and, behold, [if] the plague in his sight be at a stay,
[and] the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him
up seven days more:
13:6 And the priest shall look on him again the
seventh day: and, behold, [if] the plague [be] somewhat dark, [and] the
plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it
[is but] a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
13:7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the
skin, after that he has been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he
shall be seen of the priest again:
13:8 And [if] the priest see that, behold, the
scab spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean:
it [is] a leprosy.
13:9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;
13:10 And the priest shall see [him:] and,
behold, [if] the rising [be] white in the skin, and it have turned the
hair white, and [there be] quick raw flesh in the rising;
13:11 It [is] an old leprosy in the skin of his
flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut
him up: for he [is] unclean.
13:12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the
skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of [him that has] the plague
from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looks;
13:13 Then the priest shall consider: and,
behold, [if] the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce
[him] clean [that has] the plague: it is all turned white: he [is]
clean.
13:14 But when raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.
13:15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh,
and pronounce him to be unclean: [for] the raw flesh [is] unclean: it
[is] a leprosy.
13:16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;
13:17 And the priest shall see him: and,
behold, [if] the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall
pronounce [him] clean [that has] the plague: he [is] clean.
13:18 The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
13:19 And in the place of the boil there be a
white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be
shewed to the priest;
13:20 And if, when the priest sees it, behold,
it [be] in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned
white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a plague of
leprosy broken out of the boil.
13:21 But if the priest look on it, and,
behold, [there be] no white hairs therein, and [if] it [be] not lower
than the skin, but [be] somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up
seven days:
13:22 And if it spread much abroad in the skin,
then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a plague.
13:23 But if the bright spot stay in his place,
[and] spread not, it [is] a burning boil; and the priest shall
pronounce him clean.
13:24 Or if there be [any] flesh, in the skin
whereof [there is] a hot burning, and the quick [flesh] that burns have a
white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
13:25 Then the priest shall look upon it: and,
behold, [if] the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it [be in]
sight deeper than the skin; it [is] a leprosy broken out of the
burning: why the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] the plague
of leprosy.
13:26 But if the priest look on it, and,
behold, [there be] no white hair in the bright spot, and it [be] no
lower than the [other] skin, but [be] somewhat dark; then the priest
shall shut him up seven days:
13:27 And the priest shall look upon him the
seventh day: [and] if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] the plague of leprosy.
13:28 And if the bright spot stay in his place,
[and] spread not in the skin, but it [be] somewhat dark; it [is] a
rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it
[is] an inflammation of the burning.
13:29 If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
13:30 Then the priest shall see the plague:
and, behold, if it [be] in sight deeper than the skin; [and there be] in
it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it
[is] a dry scall, [even] a leprosy upon the head or beard.
13:31 And if the priest look on the plague of
the scall, and, behold, it [be] not in sight deeper than the skin, and
[that there is] no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up [him
that has] the plague of the scall seven days:
13:32 And in the seventh day the priest shall
look on the plague: and, behold, [if] the scall spread not, and there be
in it no yellow hair, and the scall [be] not in sight deeper than the
skin;
13:33 He shall be shaven, but the scall shall
he not shave; and the priest shall shut up [him that has] the scall
seven days more:
13:34 And in the seventh day the priest shall
look on the scall: and, behold, [if] the scall be not spread in the
skin, nor [be] in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall
pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
13:35 But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
13:36 Then the priest shall look on him: and,
behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek
for yellow hair; he [is] unclean.
13:37 But if the scall be in his sight at a
stay, and [that] there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is
healed, he [is] clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
13:38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, [even] white bright spots;
13:39 Then the priest shall look: and, behold,
[if] the bright spots in the skin of their flesh [be] darkish white; it
[is] a freckled spot [that] grows in the skin; he [is] clean.
13:40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he [is] bald; [yet is] he clean.
13:41 And he that has his hair fallen off from
the part of his head toward his face, he [is] forehead bald: [yet is] he
clean.
13:42 And if there be in the bald head, or bald
forehead, a white reddish sore; it [is] a leprosy sprung up in his bald
head, or his bald forehead.
13:43 Then the priest shall look upon it: and,
behold, [if] the rising of the sore [be] white reddish in his bald head,
or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appears in the skin of the
flesh;
13:44 He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean: the
priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague [is] in his
head.
13:45 And the leper in whom the plague [is,]
his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a
covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
13:46 All the days wherein the plague [shall
be] in him he shall be defiled; he [is] unclean: he shall dwell alone;
without the camp [shall] his habitation [be.]
13:47 The garment also that the plague of
leprosy is in, [whether it be] a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
13:48 Whether [it be] in the warp, or woof; of
linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin;
13:49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish
in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or
in anything of skin; it [is] a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed
unto the priest:
13:50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up [it that has] the plague seven days:
13:51 And he shall look on the plague on the
seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp,
or in the woof, or in a skin, [or] in any work that is made of skin;
the plague [is] a fretting leprosy; it [is] unclean.
13:52 He shall therefore burn that garment,
whether warp or 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.
13:53 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;
13:54 Then the priest shall command that they
wash [the thing] wherein the plague [is,] and he shall shut it up seven
days more:
13:55 And the priest shall look on the plague,
after that it is washed: and, behold, [if] the plague have not changed
his colour, and the plague be not spread; it [is] unclean; you shall
burn it in the fire; it [is] fret inward, [whether] it [be] bare within
or without.
13:56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the
plague [be] somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it
out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of
the woof:
13:57 And if it appear still in the garment,
either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; it [is] a
spreading [plague:] you shall burn that wherein the plague [is] with
fire.
13:58 And the garment, either warp, or woof, or
whatsoever thing of skin [it be,] which you shall wash, if the plague
be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and
shall be clean.
13:59 This [is] the law of the plague of
leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof,
or anything of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
14:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
14:2 This shall be the law of the leper in the
day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
14:3 And the priest shall go forth out of the
camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, [if] the plague of leprosy
be healed in the leper;
14:4 Then shall the priest command to take for
him that is to be cleansed two birds alive [and] clean, and cedar wood,
and scarlet, and hyssop:
14:5 And the priest shall command that one of
the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
14:6 As for the living bird, he shall take it,
and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them
and the living bird in the blood of the bird [that was] killed over the
running water:
14:7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to
be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean,
and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
14:8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash
his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that
he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall
tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
14:9 But 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,
also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
14:10 And on the eighth day he shall take two
he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without
blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour [for] a meat offering,
mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
14:11 And the priest that makes [him] clean
shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before
the LORD, [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
14:12 And the priest shall take one he lamb,
and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them
[for] a wave offering before the LORD:
14:13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place
where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy
place: for as the sin offering [is] the priest's, [so is] the trespass
offering: it [is] most holy:
14:14 And the priest shall take [some] 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:
14:15 And the priest shall take [some] of the
log of oil, and pour [it] into the palm of his own left hand:
14:16 And the priest shall dip his right finger
in the oil that [is] in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil
with his finger seven times before the LORD:
14:17 And of the rest of the oil that [is] in
his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that
is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
14:18 And the remnant of the oil that [is] in
the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be
cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the
LORD.
14:19 And the priest shall offer the sin
offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his
uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
14:20 And the priest shall offer the burnt
offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make
an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
14:21 And if he [be] poor, and cannot get so
much; then he shall take one lamb [for] a trespass offering to be waved,
to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
14:22 And two turtledoves, 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.
14:23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day
for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, before the LORD.
14:24 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 the LORD:
14:25 And he shall kill the lamb of the
trespass offering, and the priest shall take [some] 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:
14:26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:
14:27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his
right finger [some] of the oil that [is] in his left hand seven times
before the LORD:
14:28 And the priest shall put of the oil that
[is] in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be
cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe
of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
14:29 And the rest of the oil that [is] in the
priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed,
to make an atonement for him before the LORD.
14:30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;
14:31 [Even] such as he is able to get, the one
[for] a sin offering, and the other [for] a burnt offering, with the
meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to
be cleansed before the LORD.
14:32 This [is] the law [of him] in whom [is]
the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get [that which
pertaineth] to his cleansing.
14:33 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
14:34 When you be come into the land of Canaan,
which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy
in a house of the land of your possession;
14:35 And he that owns the house shall come and
tell the priest, saying, It seems to me [there is] as it were a plague
in the house:
14:36 Then the priest shall command that they
empty the house, before the priest go [into it] to see the plague, that
all that [is] in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest
shall go in to see the house:
14:37 And he shall look on the plague, and,
behold, [if] the plague [be] in the walls of the house with hollow
strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight [are] lower than the wall;
14:38 Then the priest shall go out of the house
to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:
14:39 And the priest shall come again the
seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, [if] the plague be spread in
the walls of the house;
14:40 Then the priest shall command that they
take away the stones in which the plague [is,] and they shall cast them
into an unclean place without the city:
14:41 And he shall cause the house to be
scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they
scrape off without the city into an unclean place:
14:42 And they shall take other stones, and put
[them] in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter,
and shall plaister the house.
14:43 And if the plague come again, and break
out in the house, after that he has taken away the stones, and after he
has scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
14:44 Then the priest shall come and look, and,
behold, [if] the plague be spread in the house, it [is] a fretting
leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
14:45 And he shall break down the house, the
stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house;
and he shall carry [them] forth out of the city into an unclean place.
14:46 Moreover he that goes into the house all
the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
14:47 And he that lies in the house shall wash
his clothes; and he that eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
14:48 And if the priest shall come in, and look
[upon it,] and, behold, the plague has not spread in the house, after
the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house
clean, because the plague is healed.
14:49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
14:50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
14:51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the
hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood
of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house
seven times:
14:52 And he shall cleanse the house with the
blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird,
and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
14:53 But he shall let go the living bird out
of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house:
and it shall be clean.
14:54 This [is] the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
14:55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
14:56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
14:57 To teach when [it is] unclean, and when [it is] clean: this [is] the law of leprosy.
15:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
15:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, When any man has a running issue out of his flesh, [because
of] his issue he [is] unclean.
15:3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his
issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped
from his issue, it [is] his uncleanness.
15:4 Every bed, whereon he lies that has the
issue, is unclean: and everything, whereon he sits, shall be unclean.
15:5 And whosoever touches his bed shall wash
his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the
even.
15:6 And he that sits on [any] thing whereon he
sat that has the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in
water, and be unclean until the even.
15:7 And he that touches the flesh of him that
has the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and
be unclean until the even.
15:8 And if he that has the issue spit upon him
that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in
water, and be unclean until the even.
15:9 And what saddle soever he rides upon that has the issue shall be unclean.
15:10 And whosoever touches anything that was
under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that bears [any of]
those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and
be unclean until the even.
15:11 And whomsoever he touches that has the
issue, and has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes,
and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:12 And the vessel of earth, that he touches
which has the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be
rinsed in water.
15:13 And when he that has an issue is cleansed
of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his
cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water,
and shall be clean.
15:14 And on the eighth day he shall take to
him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the
priest:
15:15 And the priest shall offer them, the one
[for] a sin offering, and the other [for] a burnt offering; and the
priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue.
15:16 And if any man's seed of copulation go
out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean
until the even.
15:17 And every garment, and every skin,
whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be
unclean until the even.
15:18 The woman also with whom man shall lie
[with] seed of copulation, they shall [both] bathe [themselves] in
water, and be unclean until the even.
15:19 And if a woman have an issue, [and] her
issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and
whosoever touches her shall be unclean until the even.
15:20 And everything that she lies upon in her
separation shall be unclean: everything also that she sits upon shall be
unclean.
15:21 And whosoever touches her bed shall wash
his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the
even.
15:22 And whosoever touches anything that she
sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be
unclean until the even.
15:23 And if it [be] on [her] bed, or on
anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until
the even.
15:24 And if any man lie with her at all, and
her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed
whereon he lies [shall be] unclean.
15:25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood
many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the
time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness
shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
15:26 Every bed whereon she lies all the days
of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and
whatsoever she sits upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her
separation.
15:27 And whosoever touches those things shall
be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water,
and be unclean until the even.
15:28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then
she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be
clean.
15:29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto
her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest,
to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
15:30 And the priest shall offer the one [for] a
sin offering, and the other [for] a burnt offering; and the priest
shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her
uncleanness.
15:31 Thus shall you separate the children of
Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness,
when they defile my tabernacle that [is] among them.
15:32 This [is] the law of him that has an
issue, and [of him] whose seed goes from him, and is defiled therewith;
15:33 And of her that is sick of her flowers,
and of him that has an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him
that lies with her that is unclean.
16:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses after the
death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and
died;
16:2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto
Aaron your brother, that he come not at all times into the holy [place]
within the vail before the mercy seat, which [is] upon the ark; that he
die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
16:3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy
[place:] with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt
offering.
16:4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and
he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded
with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these
[are] holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and
[so] put them on.
16:5 And he shall take of the congregation of
the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one
ram for a burnt offering.
16:6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the
sin offering, which [is] for himself, and make an atonement for himself,
and for his house.
16:7 And he shall take the two goats, and
present them before the LORD [at] the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two
goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
16:9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him [for] a sin offering.
16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be
the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an
atonement with him, [and] to let him go for a scapegoat into the
wilderness.
16:11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the
sin offering, which [is] for himself, and shall make an atonement for
himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin
offering which [is] for himself:
16:12 And he shall take a censer full of
burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands
full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring [it] within the vail:
16:13 And he shall put the incense upon the
fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy
seat that [is] upon the testimony, that he die not:
16:14 And he shall take of the blood of the
bullock, and sprinkle [it] with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward;
and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his
finger seven times.
16:15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin
offering, that [is] for the people, and bring his blood within the vail,
and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and
sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
16:16 And he shall make an atonement for the
holy [place,] because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and
because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do
for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remains among them in the
midst of their uncleanness.
16:17 And there shall be no man in the
tabernacle of the congregation when he goes in to make an atonement in
the holy [place,] until he come out, and have made an atonement for
himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.
16:18 And he shall go out unto the altar that
[is] before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of
the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put [it]
upon the horns of the altar round about.
16:19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon
it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the
uncleanness of the children of Israel.
16:20 And when he has made an end of
reconciling the holy [place,] and the tabernacle of the congregation,
and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:
16:21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon
the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of
the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins,
putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send [him] away by the
hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
16:22 And the goat shall bear upon him all
their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat
in the wilderness.
16:23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle
of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put
on when he went into the holy [place,] and shall leave them there:
16:24 And he shall wash his flesh with water in
the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his
burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an
atonement for himself, and for the people.
16:25 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
16:26 And he that let go the goat for the
scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward come into the camp.
16:27 And the bullock [for] the sin offering,
and the goat [for] the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make
atonement in the holy [place,] shall [one] carry forth without the camp;
and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their
dung.
16:28 And he that burns them shall wash his
clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into
the camp.
16:29 And [this] shall be a statute forever
unto you: [that] in the seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month,
you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, [whether it be] one
of your own country, or a stranger that sojourns among you:
16:30 For on that day shall [the priest] make
an atonement for you, to cleanse you, [that] you may be clean from all
your sins before the LORD.
16:31 It [shall be] a Sabbath of rest unto you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.
16:32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and
whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his
father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen
clothes, [even] the holy garments:
16:33 And he shall make an atonement for the
holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the
congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the
priests, and for all the people of the congregation.
16:34 And this shall be an everlasting statute
unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their
sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
17:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
17:2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and
unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This [is] the thing
which the LORD has commanded, saying,
17:3 What man soever [there be] of the house of
Israel, that kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that kills
[it] out of the camp,
17:4 And brings it not unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD
before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man;
he has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:
17:5 To the end that the children of Israel may
bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that
they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them [for] peace offerings
unto the LORD.
17:6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood
upon the altar of the LORD [at] the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savor unto the LORD.
17:7 And they shall no more offer their
sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall
be a statute forever unto them throughout their generations.
17:8 And you shall say unto them, Whatsoever
man [there be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn
among you, that offers a burnt offering of sacrifice,
17:9 And brings it not unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man
shall be cut off from among his people.
17:10 And whatsoever man [there be] of the
house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eats
any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eats
blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
17:11 For the life of the flesh [is] in the
blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement
for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] makes an atonement for the
soul.
17:12 Therefore I said unto the children of
Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that
sojourns among you eat blood.
17:13 And whatsoever man [there be] of the
children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which
hunts and catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even
pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
17:14 For [it is] the life of all flesh; the
blood of it [is] for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the
children of Israel, You shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for
the life of all flesh [is] the blood thereof: whosoever eats it shall be
cut off.
17:15 And every soul that eats that which died
[of itself,] or that which was torn [with beasts, whether it be] one of
your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and
bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he
be clean.
17:16 But if he wash [them] not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
18:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
18:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.
18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt,
wherein you dwelt, shall you not do: and after the doings of the land of
Canaan, where I bring you, shall you not do: neither shall you walk in
their ordinances.
18:4 You shall do my judgments, and keep my ordinances, to walk therein: I [am] the LORD your God.
18:5 You shall therefore keep my statutes, and
my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I [am] the LORD.
18:6 None of you shall approach to any that is
near of kin to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I [am] the LORD.
18:7 The nakedness of thy father, or the
nakedness of your mother, shall you not uncover: she is your mother; you
shall not uncover her nakedness.
18:8 The nakedness of your father's wife shall you not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
18:9 The nakedness of your sister, the daughter
of thy father, or daughter of your mother, [whether she be] born at
home, or born abroad, [even] their nakedness you shall not uncover.
18:10 The nakedness of your son's daughter, or
of your daughter's daughter, [even] their nakedness you shall not
uncover: for theirs [is] thine own nakedness.
18:11 The nakedness of your father's wife's
daughter, begotten of your father, she [is] your sister, you shall not
uncover her nakedness.
18:12 you shall not uncover the nakedness of
your father's sister: she [is] your father's near kinswoman.
18:13 you shall not uncover the nakedness of
your mother's sister: for she [is] your mother's near kinswoman.
18:14 you shall not uncover the nakedness of
thy father's brother, you shall not approach to his wife: she [is] thine
aunt.
18:15 you shall not uncover the nakedness of
your daughter in law: she [is] your son's wife; you shall not uncover
her nakedness.
18:16 you shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it [is] your brother's nakedness.
18:17 you shall not uncover the nakedness of a
woman and her daughter, neither shall you take her son's daughter, or
her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; [for] they [are] her
near kinswomen: it [is] wickedness.
18:18 Neither shall you take a wife to her
sister, to vex [her,] to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her
life [time. ]18:19 Also you shall not approach unto a woman to uncover
her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
18:20 Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.
18:21 And you shall not let any of your seed
pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shall you profane the name of
your God: I [am] the LORD.
18:22 you shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.
18:23 Neither shall you lie with any beast to
defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast
to lie down thereto: it [is] confusion.
18:24 Defile not you yourselves in any of these
things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out
before you:
18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do
visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomits out her
inhabitants.
18:26 You shall therefore keep my statutes and
my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations;
[neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourns among
you:
18:27 (For all these abominations have the men
of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)
18:28 That the land spue not you out also, when
you defile it, as it spued out the nations that [were] before you.
18:29 For whosoever shall commit any of these
abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall be cut off from
among their people.
18:30 Therefore shall you keep my ordinance,
that [you] commit not [any one] of these abominable customs, which were
committed before you, and that you defile not yourselves therein: I [am]
the LORD your God.
19:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
19:2 Speak unto all the congregation of the
children of Israel, and say unto them, You shall be holy: for I the LORD
your God [am] holy.
19:3 You shall fear every man his mother, and
his father, and keep my Sabbaths: I [am] the LORD your God.
19:4 Turn you not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I [am] the LORD your God.
19:5 And if you offer a sacrifice of peace
offerings unto the LORD, you shall offer it at your own will.
19:6 It shall be eaten the same day you offer
it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall
be burnt in the fire.
19:7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it [is] abominable; it shall not be accepted.
19:8 Therefore [every one] that eats it shall
bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the hallowed thing of the
LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
19:9 And when you reap the harvest of your
land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall
you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
19:10 And you shall not glean thy vineyard,
neither shall you gather [every] grape of your vineyard; you shall leave
them for the poor and stranger: I [am] the LORD your God.
19:11 You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
19:12 And you shall not swear by my name
falsely, neither shall you profane the name of your God: I [am] the
LORD.
19:13 you shall not defraud your neighbor,
neither rob [him:] the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with
you all night until the morning.
19:14 you shall not curse the deaf, nor put a
stumblingblock before the blind, but shall fear your God: I [am] the
LORD.
19:15 You shall do no unrighteousness in
judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the
person of the mighty: [but] in righteousness shall you judge your
neighbor.
19:16 you shall not go up and down [as] a
talebearer among thy people: neither shall you stand against the blood
of your neighbor: I [am] the LORD.
19:17 you shall not hate your brother in thine
heart: you shall in any wise rebuke your neighbor, and not suffer sin
upon him.
19:18 you shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge
against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor
as thyself: I [am] the LORD.
19:19 You shall keep my statutes. you shall not
let your cattle gender with a diverse kind: you shall not sow your
field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and
woollen come upon you.
19:20 And whosoever lies carnally with a woman,
that [is] a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed,
nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to
death, because she was not free.
19:21 And he shall bring his trespass offering
unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
[even] a ram for a trespass offering.
19:22 And the priest shall make an atonement
for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his
sin which he has done: and the sin which he has done shall be forgiven
him.
19:23 And when you shall come into the land,
and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then you shall
count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as
uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
19:24 But in the fourth year all the fruit
thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD [withal. ]19:25 And in the
fifth year shall you eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto
you the increase thereof: I [am] the LORD your God.
19:26 You shall not eat [anything] with the
blood: neither shall you use enchantment, nor observe times.
19:27 You shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall you mar the corners of your beard.
19:28 You shall not make any cuttings in your
flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.
19:29 Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause
her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become
full of wickedness.
19:30 You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.
19:31 Regard not them that have familiar
spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the
LORD your God.
19:32 you shall rise up before the hoary head,
and honour the face of the old man, and fear your God: I [am] the LORD.
19:33 And if a stranger sojourn with you in your land, you shall not vex him.
19:34 [But] the stranger that dwells with you
shall be unto you as one born among you, and you shall love him as
thyself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD
your God.
19:35 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just
ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I [am] the LORD your God, which
brought you out of the land of Egypt.
19:37 Therefore shall you observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I [am] the LORD.
20:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
20:2 Again, you shall say to the children of
Israel, Whosoever [he be] of the children of Israel, or of the strangers
that sojourn in Israel, that gives [any] of his seed unto Molech; he
shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him
with stones.
20:3 And I will set my face against that man,
and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given of his
seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
20:4 And if the people of the land do any ways
hide their eyes from the man, when he gives of his seed unto Molech, and
kill him not:
20:5 Then I will set my face against that man,
and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring
after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
20:6 And the soul that turns after such as have
familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will
even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his
people.
20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be you holy: for I [am] the LORD your God.
20:8 And you shall keep my statutes, and do them: I [am] the LORD which sanctify you.
20:9 Forevery one that curses his father or his
mother shall be surely put to death: he has cursed his father or his
mother; his blood [shall be] upon him.
20:10 And the man that commits adultery with
[another] man's wife, [even he] that commits adultery with his
neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to
death.
20:11 And the man that lies with his father's
wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be
put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.
20:12 And if a man lie with his daughter in
law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have worked
confusion; their blood [shall be] upon them.
20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he
lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they
shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.
20:14 And if a man take a wife and her mother,
it [is] wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they;
that there be no wickedness among you.
20:15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and you shall slay the beast.
20:16 And if a woman approach unto any beast,
and lie down thereto, you shall kill the woman, and the beast: they
shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.
20:17 And if a man shall take his sister, his
father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and
she see his nakedness; it [is] a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off
in the sight of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness;
he shall bear his iniquity.
20:18 And if a man shall lie with a woman
having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he has discovered
her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both
of them shall be cut off from among their people.
20:19 And you shall not uncover the nakedness
of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister: for he uncovers
his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
20:20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's
wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin;
they shall die childless.
20:21 And if a man shall take his brother's
wife, it [is] an unclean thing: he has uncovered his brother's
nakedness; they shall be childless.
20:22 You shall therefore keep all my statutes,
and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, where I bring you to
dwell therein, spue you not out.
20:23 And you shall not walk in the manners of
the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these
things, and therefore I abhorred them.
20:24 But I have said unto you, You shall
inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land
that flows with milk and honey: I [am] the LORD your God, which have
separated you from [other] people.
20:25 You shall therefore put difference
between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean:
and you shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by
any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have
separated from you as unclean.
20:26 And you shall be holy unto me: for I the
LORD [am] holy, and have severed you from [other] people, that you
should be my.
20:27 A man also or woman that has a familiar
spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall
stone them with stones: their blood [shall be] upon them.
21:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto
the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be
defiled for the dead among his people:
21:2 But for his kin, that is near unto him,
[that is,] for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for
his daughter, and for his brother,
21:3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh
unto him, which has had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
21:4 [But] he shall not defile himself, [being] a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
21:5 They shall not make baldness upon their
head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make
any cuttings in their flesh.
21:6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not
profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by
fire, [and] the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall
be holy.
21:7 They shall not take a wife [that is] a
whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her
husband: for he [is] holy unto his God.
21:8 you shall sanctify him therefore; for he
offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy unto you: for I the LORD,
which sanctify you, [am] holy.
21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she
profane herself by playing the whore, she profanes her father: she shall
be burnt with fire.
21:10 And [he that is] the high priest among
his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is
consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend
his clothes;
21:11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
21:12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary,
nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing
oil of his God [is] upon him: I [am] the LORD.
21:13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
21:14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane,
[or] an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of
his own people to wife.
21:15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
21:16 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
21:17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever [he
be] of your seed in their generations that has [any] blemish, let him
not approach to offer the bread of his God.
21:18 For whatsoever man [he be] that has a
blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that has a
flat nose, or anything superfluous,
21:19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
21:20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that has a
blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or has his stones broken;
21:21 No man that has a blemish of the seed of
Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made
by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of
his God.
21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, [both] of the most holy, and of the holy.
21:23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail,
nor come nigh unto the altar, because he has a blemish; that he profane
not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
21:24 And Moses told [it] unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
22:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
22:2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that
they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel,
and that they profane not my holy name [in those things] which they
hallow unto me: I [am] the LORD.
22:3 Say unto them, Whosoever [he be] of all
your seed among your generations, that goes unto the holy things, which
the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon
him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I [am] the LORD.
22:4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron [is] a
leper, or has a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things,
until he be clean. And whoso touches anything [that is] unclean [by] the
dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;
22:5 Or whosoever touches any creeping thing,
whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take
uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he has;
22:6 The soul which has touched any such shall
be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he
wash his flesh with water.
22:7 And when the sun is down, he shall be
clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it [is] his
food.
22:8 That which dies of itself, or is torn
[with beasts,] he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I [am] the
LORD.
22:9 They shall therefore keep my ordinance,
lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the
LORD do sanctify them.
22:10 There shall no stranger eat [of] the holy
thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat
[of] the holy thing.
22:11 But if the priest buy [any] soul with his
money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall
eat of his meat.
22:12 If the priest's daughter also be
[married] unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy
things.
22:13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow,
or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house,
as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no
stranger eat thereof.
22:14 And if a man eat [of] the holy thing
unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth [part] thereof unto it, and
shall give [it] unto the priest with the holy thing.
22:15 And they shall not profane the holy
things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
22:16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of
trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify
them.
22:17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
22:18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and
unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever [he be]
of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer
his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which
they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;
22:19 [You shall offer] at your own will a male
without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
22:20 [But] whatsoever has a blemish, [that]
shall you not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
22:21 And whosoever offers a sacrifice of peace
offerings unto the LORD to accomplish [his] vow, or a freewill offering
in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be
no blemish therein.
22:22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a
wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, you shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor
make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
22:23 Either a bullock or a lamb that has
anything superfluous or lacking in his parts, that may you offer [for] a
freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
22:24 You shall not offer unto the LORD that
which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall you make
[any offering thereof] in your land.
22:25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall you
offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption
[is] in them, [and] blemishes [be] in them: they shall not be accepted
for you.
22:26 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
22:27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is
brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the
eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by
fire unto the LORD.
22:28 And [whether it be] cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and her young both in one day.
22:29 And when you will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer [it] at your own will.
22:30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; you
shall leave none of it until the morrow: I [am] the LORD.
22:31 Therefore shall you keep my commandments, and do them: I [am] the LORD.
22:32 Neither shall you profane my holy name;
but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I [am] the LORD
which hallow you,
22:33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I [am] the LORD.
23:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
23:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, [Concerning] the feasts of the LORD, which you shall
proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts.
23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the
seventh day [is] the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; you shall do
no work [therein:] it [is] the Sabbath of the LORD in all your
dwellings.
23:4 These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even]
holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their seasons.
23:5 In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD'S passover.
23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month
[is] the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days you must
eat unleavened bread.
23:7 In the first day you shall have an holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein.
23:8 But you shall offer an offering made by
fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day [is] an holy
convocation: you shall do no servile work [therein.]
23:9 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them, When you be come into the land which I give unto you, and
shall reap the harvest thereof, then you shall bring a sheaf of the
firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
23:11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the
LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest
shall wave it.
23:12 And you shall offer that day when you
wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt
offering unto the LORD.
23:13 And the meat offering thereof [shall be]
two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire
unto the LORD [for] a sweet savor: and the drink offering thereof
[shall be] of wine, the fourth [part] of an hin.
23:14 And you shall eat neither bread, nor
parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that you have
brought an offering unto your God: [it shall be] a statute forever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
23:15 And you shall count unto you from the
morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the
wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete:
23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh
Sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meat
offering unto the LORD.
23:17 You shall bring out of your habitations
two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they
shall be baken with leaven; [they are] the firstfruits unto the LORD.
23:18 And you shall offer with the bread seven
lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two
rams: they shall be [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their
meat offering, and their drink offerings, [even] an offering made by
fire, of sweet savor unto the LORD.
23:19 Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the
goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a
sacrifice of peace offerings.
23:20 And the priest shall wave them with the
bread of the first fruits [for] a wave offering before the LORD, with
the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
23:21 And you shall proclaim on the selfsame
day, [that] it may be an holy convocation unto you: you shall do no
servile work [therein: it shall be] a statute forever in all your
dwellings throughout your generations.
23:22 And when you reap the harvest of your
land, you shall not make clean riddance of the corners of your field
when you reapest, neither shall you gather any gleaning of your harvest:
you shall leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I [am] the
LORD your God.
23:23 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, In the seventh month, in the first [day] of the month, shall you
have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
23:25 You shall do no servile work [therein:]
but you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
23:26 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
23:27 Also on the tenth [day] of this seventh
month [there shall be] a day of atonement: it shall be an holy
convocation unto you; and you shall afflict your souls, and offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
23:28 And you shall do no work in that same
day: for it [is] a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before
the LORD your God.
23:29 For whatsoever soul [it be] that shall
not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his
people.
23:30 And whatsoever soul [it be] that does any
work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his
people.
23:31 You shall do no manner of work: [it shall
be] a statute forever throughout your generations in all your
dwellings.
23:32 It [shall be] unto you a Sabbath of rest,
and you shall afflict your souls: in the ninth [day] of the month at
even, from even unto even, shall you celebrate your Sabbath.
23:33 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month [shall be] the feast of
tabernacles [for] seven days unto the LORD.
23:35 On the first day [shall be] an holy
convocation: you shall do no servile work [therein. ]23:36 Seven days
you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth
day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and you shall offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD: it [is] a solemn assembly; [and]
you shall do no servile work [therein. ]23:37 These [are] the feasts of
the LORD, which you shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, to offer
an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat
offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, everything upon his day:
23:38 Beside the Sabbaths of the LORD, and
beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your
freewill offerings, which you give unto the LORD.
23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh
month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep a
feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day [shall be] a Sabbath,
and on the eighth day [shall be] a Sabbath.
23:40 And you shall take you on the first day
the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of
thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the
LORD your God seven days.
23:41 And you shall keep it a feast unto the
LORD seven days in the year. [It shall be] a statute forever in your
generations: you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
23:42 You shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
23:43 That your generations may know that I
made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out
of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.
23:44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
24:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
24:2 Command the children of Israel, that they
bring unto you pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps
to burn continually.
24:3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the
tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening
unto the morning before the LORD continually: [it shall be] a statute
forever in your generations.
24:4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
24:5 And you shall take fine flour, and bake
twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
24:6 And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
24:7 And you shall put pure frankincense upon
[each] row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, [even] an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
24:8 Every Sabbath he shall set it in order
before the LORD continually, [being taken] from the children of Israel
by an everlasting covenant.
24:9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and
they shall eat it in the holy place: for it [is] most holy unto him of
the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
24:10 And the son of an Israelitish woman,
whose father [was] an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel:
and this son of the Israelitish [woman] and a man of Israel strove
together in the camp;
24:11 And the Israelitish woman's son
blasphemed the name [of the LORD,] and cursed. And they brought him unto
Moses: (and his mother's name [was] Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri,
of the tribe of Dan:)
24:12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
24:13 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
24:14 Bring forth him that has cursed without
the camp; and let all that heard [him] lay their hands upon his head,
and let all the congregation stone him.
24:15 And you shall speak unto the children of
Israel, saying, Whosoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the
LORD, he shall surely be put to death, [and] all the congregation shall
certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the
land, when he blasphemeth the name [of the LORD,] shall be put to death.
24:17 And he that kills any man shall surely be put to death.
24:18 And he that kills a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
24:19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him;
24:20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for
tooth: as he has caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him
[again. ]24:21 And he that kills a beast, he shall restore it: and he
that kills a man, he shall be put to death.
24:22 You shall have one manner of law, as well
for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I [am] the LORD
your God.
24:23 And Moses spoke to the children of
Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the
camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the
LORD commanded Moses.
25:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the
land keep a Sabbath unto the LORD.
25:3 Six years you shall sow your field, and
six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in the fruit
thereof;
25:4 But in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath
of rest unto the land, a Sabbath for the LORD: you shall neither sow
your field, nor prune your vineyard.
25:5 That which grows of its own accord of your
harvest you shall not reap, neither gather the grapes of your vine
undressed: [for] it is a year of rest unto the land.
25:6 And the Sabbath of the land shall be meat
for you; for you, and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your
hired servant, and for your stranger that sojourns with you,
25:7 And for your cattle, and for the beast
that [are] in your land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
25:8 And you shall number seven Sabbaths of
years unto you, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven
Sabbaths of years shall be unto you forty and nine years.
25:9 Then shall you cause the trumpet of the
jubile to sound on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of
atonement shall you make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
25:10 And you shall hallow the fiftieth year,
and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and you shall return every man
unto his possession, and you shall return every man unto his family.
25:11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto
you: you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it,
nor gather [the grapes] in it of your vine undressed.
25:12 For it [is] the jubile; it shall be holy
unto you: you shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
25:13 In the year of this jubile you shall return every man unto his possession.
25:14 And if you sell [ought] unto thy
neighbor, or buyest ought of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress
one another:
25:15 According to the number of years after
the jubile you shall buy of your neighbor, [and] according unto the
number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto you:
25:16 According to the multitude of years you
shall increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years
you shall diminish the price of it: for [according] to the number [of
the years] of the fruits doth he sell unto you.
25:17 You shall not therefore oppress one
another; but you shall fear your God: for I [am] the LORD your God.
25:18 Why you shall do my statutes, and keep my
judgments, and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
25:19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
25:20 And if you shall say, What shall we eat
the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
25:21 Then I will command my blessing upon you
in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
25:22 And you shall sow the eighth year, and
eat [yet] of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in
you shall eat [of] the old [store.]
25:23 The land shall not be sold forever: for
the land [is] my; for you [are] strangers and sojourners with me.
25:24 And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
25:25 If your brother be waxen poor, and has
sold away [some] of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem
it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
25:26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
25:27 Then let him count the years of the sale
thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that
he may return unto his possession.
25:28 But if he be not able to restore [it] to
him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that has
bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out,
and he shall return unto his possession.
25:29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a
walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold;
[within] a full year may he redeem it.
25:30 And if it be not redeemed within the
space of a full year, then the house that [is] in the walled city shall
be established forever to him that bought it throughout his generations:
it shall not go out in the jubile.
25:31 But the houses of the villages which have
no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country:
they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
25:32 Notwithstanding the cities of the
Levites, [and] the houses of the cities of their possession, may the
Levites redeem at any time.
25:33 And if a man purchase of the Levites,
then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go
out in [the year of] jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites
[are] their possession among the children of Israel.
25:34 But the field of the suburbs of their
cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
25:35 And if your brother be waxen poor, and
fallen in decay with you; then you shall relieve him: [yea, though he
be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.
25:36 Take you no usury of him, or increase: but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.
25:37 you shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your victuals for increase.
25:38 I [am] the LORD your God, which brought
you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan,
[and] to be your God.
25:39 And if your brother [that dwells] by you
be waxen poor, and be sold unto you; you shall not compel him to serve
as a bondservant:
25:40 [But] as an hired servant, [and] as a
sojourner, he shall be with you, [and] shall serve you unto the year of
jubile:
25:41 And [then] shall he depart from you,
[both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own
family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
25:42 For they [are] my servants, which I
brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as
bondmen.
25:43 you shall not rule over him with rigour; but shall fear your God.
25:44 Both your bondmen, and thy bondmaids,
which you shall have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about
you; of them shall you buy bondmen and bondmaids.
25:45 Moreover of the children of the strangers
that do sojourn among you, of them shall you buy, and of their families
that [are] with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be
your possession.
25:46 And you shall take them as an inheritance
for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession; they
shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of
Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigour.
25:47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich
by you, and thy brother [that dwells] by him wax poor, and sell himself
unto the stranger [or] sojourner by you, or to the stock of the
stranger's family:
25:48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
25:49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may
redeem him, or [any] that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may
redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
25:50 And he shall reckon with him that bought
him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and
the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years,
according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
25:51 If [there be] yet many years [behind,]
according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out
of the money that he was bought for.
25:52 And if there remain but few years unto
the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, [and] according unto
his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
25:53 [And] as a yearly hired servant shall he
be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy
sight.
25:54 And if he be not redeemed in these
[years,] then he shall go out in the year of jubile, [both] he, and his
children with him.
25:55 For unto me the children of Israel [are]
servants; they [are] my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of
Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.
26:1 You shall make you no idols nor graven
image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall you set up
[any] image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I [am] the
LORD your God.
26:2 You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.
26:3 If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
26:4 Then I will give you rain in due season,
and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall
yield their fruit.
26:5 And your threshing shall reach unto the
vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall
eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
26:6 And I will give peace in the land, and you
shall lie down, and none shall make [you] afraid: and I will rid evil
beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
26:7 And you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
26:8 And five of you shall chase an hundred,
and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies
shall fall before you by the sword.
26:9 For I will have respect unto you, and make
you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
26:10 And you shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
26:11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
26:12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
26:13 I [am] the LORD your God, which brought
you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their
bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go
upright.
26:14 But if you will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
26:15 And if you shall despise my statutes, or
if your soul abhor my judgments, so that you will not do all my
commandments, [but] that you break my covenant:
26:16 I also will do this unto you; I will even
appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall
consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed
in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
26:17 And I will set my face against you, and
you shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign
over you; and you shall flee when none pursueth you.
26:18 And if you will not yet for all this
hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
26:19 And I will break the pride of your power;
and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
26:20 And your strength shall be spent in vain:
for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of
the land yield their fruits.
26:21 And if you walk contrary unto me, and
will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you
according to your sins.
26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you,
which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make
you few in number; and your [high] ways shall be desolate.
26:23 And if you will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
26:24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
26:25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that
shall avenge the quarrel of [my] covenant: and when you are gathered
together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and
you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26:26 [And] when I have broken the staff of
your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall
deliver [you] your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be
satisfied.
26:27 And if you will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
26:28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also
in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
26:29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.
26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and
cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your
idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
26:31 And I will make your cities weree, and
bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor
of your sweet odours.
26:32 And I will bring the land into
desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at
it.
26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen,
and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate,
and your cities weree.
26:34 Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbaths,
as long as it lies desolate, and you be in your enemies' land; [even]
then shall the land rest, and enjoy her Sabbaths.
26:35 As long as it lies desolate it shall
rest; because it did not rest in your Sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it.
26:36 And upon them that are left [alive] of
you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their
enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall
flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
26:37 And they shall fall one upon another, as
it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and you shall have no power
to stand before your enemies.
26:38 And you shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
26:39 And they that are left of you shall pine
away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the
iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and
the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they
trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
26:41 And [that] I also have walked contrary
unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then
their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the
punishment of their iniquity:
26:42 Then will I remember my covenant with
Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with
Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
26:43 The land also shall be left of them, and
shall enjoy her Sabbaths, while she lies desolate without them: and they
shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because
they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my
statutes.
26:44 And yet for all that, when they be in the
land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor
them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I
[am] the LORD their God.
26:45 But I will for their sakes remember the
covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of
Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I [am] the
LORD.
26:46 These [are] the statutes and judgments
and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in
mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
27:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
27:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons [shall be]
for the LORD by your estimation.
27:3 And thy estimation shall be of the male
from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even your estimation
shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
27:4 And if it [be] a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
27:5 And if [it be] from five years old even
unto twenty years old, then your estimation shall be of the male twenty
shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
27:6 And if [it be] from a month old even unto
five years old, then your estimation shall be of the male five shekels
of silver, and for the female thy estimation [shall be] three shekels of
silver.
27:7 And if [it be] from sixty years old and
above; if [it be] a male, then your estimation shall be fifteen shekels,
and for the female ten shekels.
27:8 But if he be poorer than your estimation,
then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall
value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value
him.
27:9 And if [it be] a beast, whereof men bring
an offering unto the LORD, all that [any man] gives of such unto the
LORD shall be holy.
27:10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a
good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast
for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
27:11 And if [it be] any unclean beast, of
which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present
the beast before the priest:
27:12 And the priest shall value it, whether it
be good or bad: as you valuest it, [who are] the priest, so shall it
be.
27:13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth [part] thereof unto your estimation.
27:14 And when a man shall sanctify his house
[to be] holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether
it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
27:15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem
his house, then he shall add the fifth [part] of the money of your
estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
27:16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD
[some part] of a field of his possession, then your estimation shall be
according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed [shall be
valued] at fifty shekels of silver.
27:17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to your estimation it shall stand.
27:18 But if he sanctify his field after the
jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the
years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be
abated from your estimation.
27:19 And if he that sanctified the field will
in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth [part] of the money
of your estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
27:20 And if he will not redeem the field, or
if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any
more.
27:21 But the field, when it goes out in the
jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession
thereof shall be the priest's.
27:22 And if [a man] sanctify unto the LORD a
field which he has bought, which [is] not of the fields of his
possession;
27:23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the
worth of thy estimation, [even] unto the year of the jubile: and he
shall give thine estimation in that day, [as] a holy thing unto the
LORD.
27:24 In the year of the jubile the field shall
return unto him of whom it was bought, [even] to him to whom the
possession of the land [did belong. ]27:25 And all your estimations
shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall
be the shekel.
27:26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which
should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether [it
be] ox, or sheep: it [is] the LORD'S.
27:27 And if [it be] of an unclean beast, then
he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth
[part] of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold
according to your estimation.
27:28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a
man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he has, [both] of man and
beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed:
every devoted thing [is] most holy unto the LORD.
27:29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of
men, shall be redeemed; [but] shall surely be put to death.
27:30 And all the tithe of the land, [whether]
of the seed of the land, [or] of the fruit of the tree, [is] the LORD'S:
[it is] holy unto the LORD.
27:31 And if a man will at all redeem [ought]
of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth [part] thereof.
27:32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or
of the flock, [even] of whatsoever passes under the rod, the tenth shall
be holy unto the LORD.
27:33 He shall not search whether it be good or
bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both
it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
27:34 These [are] the commandments, which the
LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
The Fourth Book of Moses, called Numbers
1:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the
wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first
[day] of the second month, in the second year after they were come out
of the land of Egypt, saying,
1:2 Take you the sum of all the congregation of
the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, with the number of [their] names, every male by their polls;
1:3 From twenty years old and upward, all that
are able to go forth to war in Israel: you and Aaron shall number them
by their armies.
1:4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
1:5 And these [are] the names of the men that
shall stand with you: of [the tribe of] Reuben; Elizur the son of
Shedeur.
1:6 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
1:7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
1:8 Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
1:9 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
1:10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim;
Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
1:11 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.
1:12 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
1:13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
1:14 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
1:15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
1:16 These [were] the renowned of the
congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands
in Israel.
1:17 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by [their] names:
1:18 And they assembled all the congregation
together on the first [day] of the second month, and they declared their
pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
by their polls.
1:19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
1:20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's
eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of
their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls,
every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war;
1:21 Those that were numbered of them, [even]
of the tribe of Reuben, [were] forty and six thousand and five hundred.
1:22 Of the children of Simeon, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those
that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by
their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were
able to go forth to war;
1:23 Those that were numbered of them, [even]
of the tribe of Simeon, [were] fifty and nine thousand and three
hundred.
1:24 Of the children of Gad, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war;
1:25 Those that were numbered of them, [even]
of the tribe of Gad, [were] forty and five thousand six hundred and
fifty.
1:26 Of the children of Judah, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war;
1:27 Those that were numbered of them, [even]
of the tribe of Judah, [were] threescore and fourteen thousand and six
hundred.
1:28 Of the children of Issachar, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war;
1:29 Those that were numbered of them, [even]
of the tribe of Issachar, [were] fifty and four thousand and four
hundred.
1:30 Of the children of Zebulun, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war;
1:31 Those that were numbered of them, [even]
of the tribe of Zebulun, [were] fifty and seven thousand and four
hundred.
1:32 Of the children of Joseph, [namely,] of
the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by
the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
1:33 Those that were numbered of them, [even]
of the tribe of Ephraim, [were] forty thousand and five hundred.
1:34 Of the children of Manasseh, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war;
1:35 Those that were numbered of them, [even]
of the tribe of Manasseh, [were] thirty and two thousand and two
hundred.
1:36 Of the children of Benjamin, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war;
1:37 Those that were numbered of them, [even]
of the tribe of Benjamin, [were] thirty and five thousand and four
hundred.
1:38 Of the children of Dan, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war;
1:39 Those that were numbered of them, [even]
of the tribe of Dan, [were] threescore and two thousand and seven
hundred.
1:40 Of the children of Asher, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war;
1:41 Those that were numbered of them, [even]
of the tribe of Asher, [were] forty and one thousand and five hundred.
1:42 Of the children of Naphtali, throughout
their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war;
1:43 Those that were numbered of them, [even]
of the tribe of Naphtali, [were] fifty and three thousand and four
hundred.
1:44 These [are] those that were numbered,
which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, [being]
twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.
1:45 So were all those that were numbered of
the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years
old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
1:46 Even all they that were numbered were six
hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
1:47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
1:48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
1:49 Only you shall not number the tribe of
Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
1:50 But you shall appoint the Levites over the
tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all
things that [belong] to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the
vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp
round about the tabernacle.
1:51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward,
the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be
pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that comes nigh
shall be put to death.
1:52 And the children of Israel shall pitch
their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own
standard, throughout their hosts.
1:53 But the Levites shall pitch round about
the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the
congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the
charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
1:54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
2:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2:2 Every man of the children of Israel shall
pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far
off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
2:3 And on the east side toward the rising of
the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout
their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab [shall be] captain of
the children of Judah.
2:4 And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, [were] threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
2:5 And those that do pitch next unto him
[shall be] the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar [shall
be] captain of the children of Issachar.
2:6 And his host, and those that were numbered
thereof, [were] fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
2:7 [Then] the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the
son of Helon [shall be] captain of the children of Zebulun.
2:8 And his host, and those that were numbered
thereof, [were] fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
2:9 All that were numbered in the camp of Judah
[were] an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and
four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
2:10 On the south side [shall be] the standard
of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the
children of Reuben [shall be] Elizur the son of Shedeur.
2:11 And his host, and those that were numbered
thereof, [were] forty and six thousand and five hundred.
2:12 And those which pitch by him [shall be]
the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon [shall
be] Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
2:13 And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, [were] fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
2:14 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad [shall be] Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
2:15 And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, [were] forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
2:16 All that were numbered in the camp of
Reuben [were] an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four
hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in
the second rank.
2:17 Then the tabernacle of the congregation
shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp:
as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by
their standards.
2:18 On the west side [shall be] the standard
of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the
sons of Ephraim [shall be] Elishama the son of Ammihud.
2:19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] forty thousand and five hundred.
2:20 And by him [shall be] the tribe of
Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh [shall be]
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
2:21 And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, [were] thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
2:22 Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the
captain of the sons of Benjamin [shall be] Abidan the son of Gideoni.
2:23 And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, [were] thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
2:24 All that were numbered of the camp of
Ephraim [were] an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred,
throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.
2:25 The standard of the camp of Dan [shall be]
on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of
Dan [shall be] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
2:26 And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, [were] threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
2:27 And those that encamp by him [shall be]
the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher [shall be]
Pagiel the son of Ocran.
2:28 And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, [were] forty and one thousand and five hundred.
2:29 Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the
captain of the children of Naphtali [shall be] Ahira the son of Enan.
2:30 And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, [were] fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
2:31 All they that were numbered in the camp of
Dan [were] an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six
hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
2:32 These [are] those which were numbered of
the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that
were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts [were] six hundred
thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
2:34 And the children of Israel did according
to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their
standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families,
according to the house of their fathers.
3:1 These also [are] the generations of Aaron
and Moses in the day [that] the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.
3:2 And these [are] the names of the sons of
Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
3:3 These [are] the names of the sons of Aaron,
the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the
priest's office.
3:4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD,
when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of
Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in
the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
3:5 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
3:6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present
them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
3:7 And they shall keep his charge, and the
charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the
congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.
3:8 And they shall keep all the instruments of
the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of
Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
3:9 And you shall give the Levites unto Aaron
and to his sons: they [are] wholly given unto him out of the children of
Israel.
3:10 And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons,
and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that
comes nigh shall be put to death.
3:11 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
3:12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites
from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that
opens the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites
shall be my;
3:13 Because all the firstborn [are] my; [for]
on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I
hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: my
shall they be: I [am] the LORD.
3:14 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
3:15 Number the children of Levi after the
house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old
and upward shall you number them.
3:16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
3:17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
3:18 And these [are] the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.
3:19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
3:20 And the sons of Merari by their families;
Mahli, and Mushi. These [are] the families of the Levites according to
the house of their fathers.
3:21 Of Gershon [was] the family of the
Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these [are] the families of
the Gershonites.
3:22 Those that were numbered of them,
according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward,
[even] those that were numbered of them [were] seven thousand and five
hundred.
3:23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
3:24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites [shall be] Eliasaph the son of Lael.
3:25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in
the tabernacle of the congregation [shall be] the tabernacle, and the
tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation,
3:26 And the hangings of the court, and the
curtain for the door of the court, which [is] by the tabernacle, and by
the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
3:27 And of Kohath [was] the family of the
Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the
Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these [are] the families
of the Kohathites.
3:28 In the number of all the males, from a
month old and upward, [were] eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the
charge of the sanctuary.
3:29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
3:30 And the chief of the house of the father
of the families of the Kohathites [shall be] Elizaphan the son of
Uzziel.
3:31 And their charge [shall be] the ark, and
the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the
sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service
thereof.
3:32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest
[shall be] chief over the chief of the Levites, [and have] the oversight
of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
3:33 Of Merari [was] the family of the
Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these [are] the families of
Merari.
3:34 And those that were numbered of them,
according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward,
[were] six thousand and two hundred.
3:35 And the chief of the house of the father
of the families of Merari [was] Zuriel the son of Abihail: [these] shall
pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.
3:36 And [under] the custody and charge of the
sons of Merari [shall be] the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars
thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the
vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,
3:37 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
3:38 But those that encamp before the
tabernacle toward the east, [even] before the tabernacle of the
congregation eastward, [shall be] Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping
the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel;
and the stranger that comes nigh shall be put to death.
3:39 All that were numbered of the Levites,
which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD,
throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward,
[were] twenty and two thousand.
3:40 And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all
the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old
and upward, and take the number of their names.
3:41 And you shall take the Levites for me (I
[am] the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of
Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings
among the cattle of the children of Israel.
3:42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
3:43 And all the firstborn males by the number
of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of
them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and
thirteen.
3:44 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
3:45 Take the Levites instead of all the
firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites
instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be my: I [am] the LORD.
3:46 And for those that are to be redeemed of
the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the
children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;
3:47 you shall even take five shekels apiece by
the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shall you take [them:] (the
shekel [is] twenty gerahs:)
3:48 And you shall give the money, wherewith
the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
3:49 And Moses took the redemption money of
them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
3:50 Of the firstborn of the children of Israel
took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five
[shekels,] after the shekel of the sanctuary:
3:51 And Moses gave the money of them that were
redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD,
as the LORD commanded Moses.
4:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
4:2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from
among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their
fathers,
4:3 From thirty years old and upward even until
fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
4:4 This [shall be] the service of the sons of
Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, [about] the most holy
things:
4:5 And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron
shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail,
and cover the ark of testimony with it:
4:6 And shall put thereon the covering of
badgers' skins, and shall spread over [it] a cloth wholly of blue, and
shall put in the staves thereof.
4:7 And upon the table of showbread they shall
spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and
the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be
thereon:
4:8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of
scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall
put in the staves thereof.
4:9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and
cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and
his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they
minister unto it:
4:10 And they shall put it and all the vessels
thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put [it] upon a
bar.
4:11 And upon the golden altar they shall
spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins,
and shall put to the staves thereof:
4:12 And they shall take all the instruments of
ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put [them] in a
cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and
shall put [them] on a bar:
4:13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:
4:14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels
thereof, wherewith they minister about it, [even] the censers, the
fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the
altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers skins, and
put to the staves of it.
4:15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an
end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as
the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to
bear [it:] but they shall not touch [any] holy thing, lest they die.
These [things are] the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of
the congregation.
4:16 And to the office of Eleazar the son of
Aaron the priest [pertaineth] the oil for the light, and the sweet
incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, [and] the
oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein [is,] in the
sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
4:17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
4:18 Cut you not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
4:19 But thus do unto them, that they may live,
and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and
his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to
his burden:
4:20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
4:21 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
4:22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon,
throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;
4:23 From thirty years old and upward until
fifty years old shall you number them; all that enter in to perform the
service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
4:24 This [is] the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:
4:25 And they shall bear the curtains of the
tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and
the covering of the badgers' skins that [is] above upon it, and the
hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
4:26 And the hangings of the court, and the
hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which [is] by the
tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the
instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall
they serve.
4:27 At the appointment of Aaron and his sons
shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their
burdens, and in all their service: and you shall appoint unto them in
charge all their burdens.
4:28 This is the service of the families of the
sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge
[shall be] under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
4:29 As for the sons of Merari, you shall
number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;
4:30 From thirty years old and upward even unto
fifty years old shall you number them, every one that entereth into the
service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
4:31 And this [is] the charge of their burden,
according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation;
the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars
thereof, and sockets thereof,
4:32 And the pillars of the court round about,
and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their
instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall reckon
the instruments of the charge of their burden.
4:33 This [is] the service of the families of
the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of
the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the
priest.
4:34 And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the
congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families,
and after the house of their fathers,
4:35 From thirty years old and upward even unto
fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work
in the tabernacle of the congregation:
4:36 And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
4:37 These [were] they that were numbered of
the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the
tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number
according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
4:38 And those that were numbered of the sons
of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their
fathers,
4:39 From thirty years old and upward even unto
fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work
in the tabernacle of the congregation,
4:40 Even those that were numbered of them,
throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two
thousand and six hundred and thirty.
4:41 These [are] they that were numbered of the
families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the
tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number
according to the commandment of the LORD.
4:42 And those that were numbered of the
families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house
of their fathers,
4:43 From thirty years old and upward even unto
fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work
in the tabernacle of the congregation,
4:44 Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
4:45 These [be] those that were numbered of the
families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according
to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
4:46 All those that were numbered of the
Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after
their families, and after the house of their fathers,
4:47 From thirty years old and upward even unto
fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry,
and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,
4:48 Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.
4:49 According to the commandment of the LORD
they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his
service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as
the LORD commanded Moses.
5:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
5:2 Command the children of Israel, that they
put out of the camp every leper, and every one that has an issue, and
whosoever is defiled by the dead:
5:3 Both male and female shall you put out,
without the camp shall you put them; that they defile not their camps,
in the midst whereof I dwell.
5:4 And the children of Israel did so, and put
them out without the camp: as the LORD spoke unto Moses, so did the
children of Israel.
5:5 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
5:6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a
man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass
against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
5:7 Then they shall confess their sin which
they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal
thereof, and add unto it the fifth [part] thereof, and give [it] unto
[him] against whom he has trespassed.
5:8 But if the man have no kinsman to
recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the
LORD, [even] to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an
atonement shall be made for him.
5:9 And every offering of all the holy things
of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be
his.
5:10 And every man's hallowed things shall be
his: whatsoever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.
5:11 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
5:12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against
him,
5:13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be
hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be
defiled, and [there be] no witness against her, neither she be taken
[with the manner; ]5:14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he
be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of
jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not
defiled:
5:15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the
priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth [part] of an
ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put
frankincense thereon; for it [is] an offering of jealousy, an offering
of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
5:16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
5:17 And the priest shall take holy water in an
earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle
the priest shall take, and put [it] into the water:
5:18 And the priest shall set the woman before
the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial
in her hands, which [is] the jealousy offering: and the priest shall
have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
5:19 And the priest shall charge her by an
oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with you, and if you
have not gone aside to uncleanness [with another] instead of your
husband, be you free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
5:20 But if you have gone aside [to another]
instead of thy husband, and if you be defiled, and some man have lain
with you beside thine husband:
5:21 Then the priest shall charge the woman
with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The
LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD doth
make your thigh to rot, and your belly to swell;
5:22 And this water that causeth the curse
shall go into your bowels, to make [thy] belly to swell, and [thy] thigh
to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
5:23 And the priest shall write these curses in
a book, and he shall blot [them] out with the bitter water:
5:24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the
bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the
curse shall enter into her, [and become] bitter.
5:25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy
offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the
LORD, and offer it upon the altar:
5:26 And the priest shall take an handful of
the offering, [even] the memorial thereof, and burn [it] upon the altar,
and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
5:27 And when he has made her to drink the
water, then it shall come to pass, [that,] if she be defiled, and have
done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse
shall enter into her, [and become] bitter, and her belly shall swell,
and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her
people.
5:28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
5:29 This [is] the law of jealousies, when a
wife goes aside [to another] instead of her husband, and is defiled;
5:30 Or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon
him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the
LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
5:31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
6:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
6:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, When either man or woman shall separate [themselves] to vow a
vow of a Nazarite, to separate [themselves] unto the LORD:
6:3 He shall separate [himself] from wine and
strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong
drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist
grapes, or dried.
6:4 All the days of his separation shall he eat
nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the
husk.
6:5 All the days of the vow of his separation
there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in
the which he separateth [himself] unto the LORD, he shall be holy,
[and] shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
6:6 All the days that he separateth [himself] unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.
6:7 He shall not make himself unclean for his
father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they
die: because the consecration of his God [is] upon his head.
6:8 All the days of his separation he [is] holy unto the LORD.
6:9 And if any man die very suddenly by him,
and he has defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his
head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
6:10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two
turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation:
6:11 And the priest shall offer the one for a
sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement
for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that
same day.
6:12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the
days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a
trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because
his separation was defiled.
6:13 And this [is] the law of the Nazarite,
when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
6:14 And he shall offer his offering unto the
LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt
offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin
offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
6:15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of
fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed
with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
6:16 And the priest shall bring [them] before
the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
6:17 And he shall offer the ram [for] a
sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of
unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his
drink offering.
6:18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of
his separation [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and
shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put [it] in the
fire which [is] under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
6:19 And the priest shall take the sodden
shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one
unleavened wafer, and shall put [them] upon the hands of the Nazarite,
after [the hair of] his separation is shaven:
6:20 And the priest shall wave them [for] a
wave offering before the LORD: this [is] holy for the priest, with the
wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink
wine.
6:21 This [is] the law of the Nazarite who has
vowed, [and of] his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside
that [that] his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so
he must do after the law of his separation.
6:22 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
6:23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons,
saying, On this wise you shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto
them,
6:24 The LORD bless you, and keep you:
6:25 The LORD make his face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you:
6:26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
6:27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.
7:1 And it came to pass on the day that Moses
had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it,
and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels
thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
7:2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the
house of their fathers, who [were] the princes of the tribes, and were
over them that were numbered, offered:
7:3 And they brought their offering before the
LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the
princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the
tabernacle.
7:4 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
7:5 Take [it] of them, that they may be to do
the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and you shall give
them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.
7:6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
7:7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:
7:8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto
the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of
Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
7:9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none:
because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them [was that] they
should bear upon their shoulders.
7:10 And the princes offered for dedicating of
the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered
their offering before the altar.
7:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall
offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the
altar.
7:12 And he that offered his offering the first
day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
7:13 And his offering [was] one silver charger,
the weight thereof [was] an hundred and thirty [shekels,] one silver
bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
[were] full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
7:14 One spoon of ten [shekels] of gold, full of incense:
7:15 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
7:16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
7:17 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
[was] the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
7:18 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:
7:19 He offered [for] his offering one silver
charger, the weight whereof [was] an hundred and thirty [shekels,] one
silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both
of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
7:20 One spoon of gold of ten [shekels,] full of incense:
7:21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
7:22 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
7:23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
[was] the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
7:24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon,
prince of the children of Zebulun, [did offer: ]7:25 His offering [was]
one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] an hundred and thirty
[shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering:
7:26 One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense:
7:27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
7:28 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
7:29 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
[was] the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
7:30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of
Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, [did offer: ]7:31 His
offering [was] one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty
[shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering:
7:32 One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense:
7:33 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
7:34 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
7:35 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
[was] the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, [did offer: ]7:37 His
offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] an hundred
and thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering:
7:38 One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense:
7:39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
7:40 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
7:41 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
[was] the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
7:42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of
Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, [offered: ]7:43 His offering [was]
one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty [shekels,] a
silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both
of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
7:44 One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense:
7:45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
7:46 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
7:47 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
[was] the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
7:48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of
Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, [offered: ]7:49 His offering
[was] one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] an hundred and
thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meat offering:
7:50 One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense:
7:51 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
7:52 one kid of the goats for a sin offering:
7:53 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
[was] the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
7:54 On the eighth day [offered] Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:
7:55 His offering [was] one silver charger of
the weight of an hundred and thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
7:56 One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense:
7:57 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
7:58 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
7:59 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
[was] the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
7:60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of
Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, [offered: ]7:61 His
offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] an hundred
and thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering:
7:62 One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense:
7:63 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
7:64 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
7:65 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
[was] the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
7:66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, [offered: ]7:67 His offering
[was] one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] an hundred and
thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meat offering:
7:68 One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense:
7:69 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
7:70 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
7:71 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
[was] the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of
Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, [offered: ]7:73 His offering
[was] one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] an hundred and thirty
[shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering:
7:74 One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense:
7:75 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
7:76 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
7:77 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
[was] the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan,
prince of the children of Naphtali, [offered: ]7:79 His offering [was]
one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] an hundred and thirty
[shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering:
7:80 One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense:
7:81 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
7:82 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
7:83 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
[was] the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
7:84 This [was] the dedication of the altar, in
the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers
of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
7:85 Each charger of silver [weighing] an
hundred and thirty [shekels,] each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels
[weighed] two thousand and four hundred [shekels,] after the shekel of
the sanctuary:
7:86 The golden spoons [were] twelve, full of
incense, [weighing] ten [shekels] apiece, after the shekel of the
sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons [was] an hundred and twenty
[shekels. ]7:87 All the oxen for the burnt offering [were] twelve
bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with
their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.
7:88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the
peace offerings [were] twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he
goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This [was] the
dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.
7:89 And when Moses was gone into the
tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the
voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that [was] upon
the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spoke unto
him.
8:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
8:2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When
you lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against
the candlestick.
8:3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps
thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
8:4 And this work of the candlestick [was of]
beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, [was]
beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses,
so he made the candlestick.
8:5 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
8:6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
8:7 And thus shall you do unto them, to cleanse
them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all
their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and [so] make themselves
clean.
8:8 Then let them take a young bullock with his
meat offering, [even] fine flour mingled with oil, and another young
bullock shall you take for a sin offering.
8:9 And you shall bring the Levites before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and you shall gather the whole assembly
of the children of Israel together:
8:10 And you shall bring the Levites before the
LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the
Levites:
8:11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before
the LORD [for] an offering of the children of Israel, that they may
execute the service of the LORD.
8:12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon
the heads of the bullocks: and you shall offer the one [for] a sin
offering, and the other [for] a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make
an atonement for the Levites.
8:13 And you shall set the Levites before
Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them [for] an offering unto the
LORD.
8:14 Thus shall you separate the Levites from
among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be my.
8:15 And after that shall the Levites go in to
do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and you shall
cleanse them, and offer them [for] an offering.
8:16 For they [are] wholly given unto me from
among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, [even
instead of] the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken
them unto me.
8:17 For all the firstborn of the children of
Israel [are] my, [both] man and beast: on the day that I smote every
firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
8:18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
8:19 And I have given the Levites [as] a gift
to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the
service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation,
and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no
plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come
nigh unto the sanctuary.
8:20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the
congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according
unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did
the children of Israel unto them.
8:21 And the Levites were purified, and they
washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them [as] an offering before the
LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
8:22 And after that went the Levites in to do
their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and
before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites,
so did they unto them.
8:23 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
8:24 This [is it] that [belongs] unto the
Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to
wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
8:25 And from the age of fifty years they shall
cease waiting upon the service [thereof,] and shall serve no more:
8:26 But shall minister with their brethren in
the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no
service. Thus shall you do unto the Levites touching their charge.
9:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the
wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they
were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
9:2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at
even, you shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the
rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall you keep
it.
9:4 And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
9:5 And they kept the passover on the
fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai:
according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of
Israel.
9:6 And there were certain men, who were
defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover
on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
9:7 And those men said unto him, We [are]
defiled by the dead body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not
offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the
children of Israel?
9:8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.
9:9 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
9:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a
dead body, or [be] in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover
unto the LORD.
9:11 The fourteenth day of the second month at
even they shall keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter
[herbs. ]9:12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break
any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they
shall keep it.
9:13 But the man that [is] clean, and is not in
a journey, and forbears to keep the passover, even the same soul shall
be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of
the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
9:14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you,
and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of
the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: you
shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was
born in the land.
9:15 And on the day that the tabernacle was
reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, [namely,] the tent of the
testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the
appearance of fire, until the morning.
9:16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it [by day,] and the appearance of fire by night.
9:17 And when the cloud was taken up from the
tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the
place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their
tents.
9:18 At the commandment of the LORD the
children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they
pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in
their tents.
9:19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the
tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the
LORD, and journeyed not.
9:20 And [so] it was, when the cloud was a few
days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they
abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they
journeyed.
9:21 And [so] it was, when the cloud abode from
even unto the morning, and [that] the cloud was taken up in the
morning, then they journeyed: whether [it was] by day or by night that
the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
9:22 Or [whether it were] two days, or a month,
or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining
thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not:
but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
9:23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested
in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they
kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand
of Moses.
10:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
10:2 Make you two trumpets of silver; of a
whole piece shall you make them: that you mayest use them for the
calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.
10:3 And when they shall blow with them, all
the assembly shall assemble themselves to you at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
10:4 And if they blow [but] with one [trumpet,]
then the princes, [which are] heads of the thousands of Israel, shall
gather themselves unto you.
10:5 When you blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
10:6 When you blow an alarm the second time,
then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they
shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
10:7 But when the congregation is to be
gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall
blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance
forever throughout your generations.
10:9 And if you go to war in your land against
the enemy that oppresseth you, then you shall blow an alarm with the
trumpets; and you shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and you
shall be saved from your enemies.
10:10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in
your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow
with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of
your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your
God: I [am] the LORD your God.
10:11 And it came to pass on the twentieth
[day] of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken
up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
10:12 And the children of Israel took their
journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the
wilderness of Paran.
10:13 And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
10:14 In the first [place] went the standard of
the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over
his host [was] Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
10:15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar [was] Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
10:16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun [was] Eliab the son of Helon.
10:17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and
the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the
tabernacle.
10:18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben
set forward according to their armies: and over his host [was] Elizur
the son of Shedeur.
10:19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
10:20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
10:21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing
the sanctuary: and [the other] did set up the tabernacle against they
came.
10:22 And the standard of the camp of the
children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his
host [was] Elishama the son of Ammihud.
10:23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh [was] Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
10:24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin [was] Abidan the son of Gideoni.
10:25 And the standard of the camp of the
children of Dan set forward, [which was] the rereward of all the camps
throughout their hosts: and over his host [was] Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai.
10:26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher [was] Pagiel the son of Ocran.
10:27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali [was] Ahira the son of Enan.
10:28 Thus [were] the journeyings of the
children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.
10:29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of
Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the
place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come you with us, and
we will do you good: for the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel.
10:30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my kindred.
10:31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray you;
forasmuch as you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you
may be to us instead of eyes.
10:32 And it shall be, if you go with us, yea,
it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will
we do unto you.
10:33 And they departed from the mount of the
LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went
before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place
for them.
10:34 And the cloud of the LORD [was] upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.
10:35 And it came to pass, when the ark set
forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be
scattered; and let them that hate you flee before you.
10:36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.
11:1 And [when] the people complained, it
displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard [it;] and his anger was kindled;
and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed [them that
were] in the uttermost parts of the camp.
11:2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.
11:3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
11:4 And the mixt multitude that [was] among
them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and
said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in
Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the
onions, and the garlick:
11:6 But now our soul [is] dried away: [there is] nothing at all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes.
11:7 And the manna [was] as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
11:8 [And] the people went about, and gathered
[it,] and ground [it] in mills, or beat [it] in a mortar, and baked [it]
in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of
fresh oil.
11:9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
11:10 Then Moses heard the people weep
throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the
anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
11:11 And Moses said unto the LORD, Why have
you afflicted your servant? and why have I not found favor in your
sight, that you lay the burden of all this people upon me?
11:12 Have I conceived all this people? have I
begotten them, that you should say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a
nursing father bears the sucking child, unto the land which you sworest
unto their fathers?
11:13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto
all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we
may eat.
11:14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because [it is] too heavy for me.
11:15 And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I
pray you, out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me
not see my wretchedness.
11:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto
me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders
of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the
tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with you.
11:17 And I will come down and talk with you
there: and I will take of the spirit which [is] upon you, and will put
[it] upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you,
that you bear it not thyself alone.
11:18 And say you unto the people, Sanctify
yourselves against tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh: for you have wept
in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for [it
was] well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and
you shall eat.
11:19 You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
11:20 [But] even a whole month, until it come
out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that you
have despised the LORD which [is] among you, and have wept before him,
saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
11:21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I
[am, are] six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give
them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
11:22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain
for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered
together for them, to suffice them?
11:23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the
LORD'S hand waxed short? you shall see now whether my word shall come to
pass unto you or not.
11:24 And Moses went out, and told the people
the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the
people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
11:25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and
spoke unto him, and took of the spirit that [was] upon him, and gave
[it] unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, [that,] when the
spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
11:26 But there remained two [of the] men in
the camp, the name of the one [was] Eldad, and the name of the other
Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they [were] of them that
were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied
in the camp.
11:27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
11:28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of
Moses, [one] of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid
them.
11:29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest you for
my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, [and] that
the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
11:30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
11:31 And there went forth a wind from the
LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let [them] fall by the camp,
as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey
on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits
[high] upon the face of the earth.
11:32 And the people stood up all that day, and
all [that] night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails:
he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread [them] all
abroad for themselves round about the camp.
11:33 And while the flesh [was] yet between
their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled
against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great
plague.
11:34 And he called the name of that place
Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
11:35 [And] the people journeyed from Kibroth- hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
12:1 And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses
because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married
an Ethiopian woman.
12:2 And they said, Has the LORD indeed spoken
only by Moses? has he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard [it.
]12:3 (Now the man Moses [was] very meek, above all the men which [were]
upon the face of the earth.)
12:4 And the LORD spoke suddenly unto Moses,
and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out you three unto the tabernacle
of the congregation. And they three came out.
12:5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of
the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and
Miriam: and they both came forth.
12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there
be a prophet among you, [I] the LORD will make myself known unto him in a
vision, [and] will speak unto him in a dream.
12:7 My servant Moses [is] not so, who [is] faithful in all my house.
12:8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even
apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD
shall he behold: why then were you not afraid to speak against my
servant Moses?
12:9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.
12:10 And the cloud departed from off the
tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam [became] leprous, [white] as snow: and
Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, [she was] leprous.
12:11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord,
I beseech you, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly,
and wherein we have sinned.
12:12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the
flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.
12:13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech you.
12:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her
father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days?
let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be
received in [again. ]12:15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven
days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in [again.
]12:16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in
the wilderness of Paran.
13:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
13:2 Send you men, that they may search the
land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe
of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a ruler among them.
13:3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD
sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men [were] heads of
the children of Israel.
13:4 And these [were] their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
13:5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
13:6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
13:9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
13:12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
13:15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
13:16 These [are] the names of the men which
Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun
Jehoshua.
13:17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land
of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this [way] southward, and go
up into the mountain:
13:18 And see the land, what it [is;] and the
people that dwells therein, whether they [be] strong or weak, few or
many;
13:19 And what the land [is] that they dwell
in, whether it [be] good or bad; and what cities [they be] that they
dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;
13:20 And what the land [is,] whether it [be]
fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be you of good
courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time [was] the time
of the firstripe grapes.
13:21 So they went up, and searched the land
from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
13:22 And they ascended by the south, and came
unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak,
[were.] (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
13:23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol,
and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they
bare it between two upon a staff; and [they brought] of the
pomegranates, and of the figs.
13:24 The place was called the brook Eshcol,
because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down
from thence.
13:25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
13:26 And they went and came to Moses, and to
Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the
wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and
unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
13:27 And they told him, and said, We came unto
the land where you sentest us, and surely it flows with milk and honey;
and this [is] the fruit of it.
13:28 Nevertheless the people [be] strong that
dwell in the land, and the cities [are] walled, [and] very great: and
moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
13:29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the
south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in
the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of
Jordan.
13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before
Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well
able to overcome it.
13:31 But the men that went up with him said,
We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than
we.
13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the
land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The
land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eats up
the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it [are] men
of a great stature.
13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of
Anak, [which come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
14:2 And all the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto
them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we
had died in this wilderness!
14:3 And why has the LORD brought us unto this
land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a
prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
14:4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces
before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the
son of Jephunneh, [which were] of them that searched the land, rent
their clothes:
14:7 And they spoke unto all the company of the
children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search
it, [is] an exceeding good land.
14:8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will
bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk
and honey.
14:9 Only rebel not you against the LORD,
neither fear you the people of the land; for they [are] bread for us:
their defence is departed from them, and the LORD [is] with us: fear
them not.
14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them
with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the
congregation before all the children of Israel.
14:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long
will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe
me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence,
and disinherit them, and will make of you a greater nation and mightier
than they.
14:13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the
Egyptians shall hear [it,] (for you brought up this people in your might
from among them;)
14:14 And they will tell [it] to the
inhabitants of this land: [for] they have heard that you LORD [are]
among this people, that you LORD are seen face to face, and [that] your
cloud stands over them, and [that] you goes before them, by daytime in a
pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
14:15 Now [if] you shall kill [all] this people
as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will
speak, saying,
14:16 Because the LORD was not able to bring
this people into the land which he swore unto them, therefore he has
slain them in the wilderness.
14:17 And now, I beseech you, let the power of my Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
14:18 The LORD [is] longsuffering, and of great
mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing
[the guilty,] visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth [generation. ]14:19 Pardon, I beseech you, the
iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of your mercy, and
as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
14:20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to your word:
14:21 But [as] truly [as] I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
14:22 Because all those men which have seen my
glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and
have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
14:23 Surely they shall not see the land which I
swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me
see it:
14:24 But my servant Caleb, because he had
another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring
into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites
dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness
by the way of the Red sea.
14:26 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
14:27 How long [shall I bear with] this evil
congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of
the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
14:28 Say unto them, [As truly as] I live, says
the LORD, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
14:29 Your carcasses shall fall in this
wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole
number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against
me,
14:30 Doubtless you shall not come into the
land, [concerning] which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb
the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
14:31 But your little ones, which you said
should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land
which you have despised.
14:32 But [as for] you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.
14:33 And your children shall wander in the
wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be
wereed in the wilderness.
14:34 After the number of the days in which you
searched the land, [even] forty days, each day for a year, shall you
bear your iniquities, [even] forty years, and you shall know my breach
of promise.
14:35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it
unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me:
in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
14:36 And the men, which Moses sent to search
the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against
him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
14:37 Even those men that did bring up the evil
report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the
son of Jephunneh, [which were] of the men that went to search the land,
lived [still. ]14:39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children
of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
14:40 And they rose up early in the morning,
and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we [be here,]
and will go up unto the place which the LORD has promised: for we have
sinned.
14:41 And Moses said, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
14:42 Go not up, for the LORD [is] not among you; that you be not smitten before your enemies.
14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites
[are] there before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are
turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
14:44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill
top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses,
departed not out of the camp.
14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the
Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited
them, [even] unto Hormah.
15:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
15:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, When you be come into the land of your habitations, which I
give unto you,
15:3 And will make an offering by fire unto the
LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a
freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savor unto
the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:
15:4 Then shall he that offers his offering
unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled
with the fourth [part] of an hin of oil.
15:5 And the fourth [part] of an hin of wine
for a drink offering shall you prepare with the burnt offering or
sacrifice, for one lamb.
15:6 Or for a ram, you shall prepare [for] a
meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third [part] of
an hin of oil.
15:7 And for a drink offering you shall offer
the third [part] of an hin of wine, [for] a sweet savor unto the LORD.
15:8 And when you prepare a bullock [for] a
burnt offering, or [for] a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace
offerings unto the LORD:
15:9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat
offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
15:10 And you shall bring for a drink offering
half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto
the LORD.
15:11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.
15:12 According to the number that you shall
prepare, so shall you do to every one according to their number.
15:13 All that are born of the country shall do
these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savor unto the LORD.
15:14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or
whosoever [be] among you in your generations, and will offer an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD; as you do, so he shall
do.
15:15 One ordinance [shall be both] for you of
the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourns [with you,] an
ordinance forever in your generations: as you [are,] so shall the
stranger be before the LORD.
15:16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourns with you.
15:17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
15:18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them, When you come into the land where I bring you,
15:19 Then it shall be, that, when you eat of
the bread of the land, you shall offer up an heave offering unto the
LORD.
15:20 You shall offer up a cake of the first of
your dough [for] an heave offering: as [you do] the heave offering of
the threshingfloor, so shall you heave it.
15:21 Of the first of your dough you shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
15:22 And if you have erred, and not observed
all these commandments, which the LORD has spoken unto Moses,
15:23 [Even all] that the LORD has commanded
you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded [Moses,]
and henceforward among your generations;
15:24 Then it shall be, if [ought] be committed
by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the
congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a
sweet savor unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink
offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin
offering.
15:25 And the priest shall make an atonement
for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be
forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering,
a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before
the LORD, for their ignorance:
15:26 And it shall be forgiven all the
congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourns
among them; seeing all the people [were] in ignorance.
15:27 And if any soul sin through ignorance,
then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
15:28 And the priest shall make an atonement
for the soul that sins ignorantly, when he sins by ignorance before the
LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
15:29 You shall have one law for him that sins
through ignorance, [both for] him that is born among the children of
Israel, and for the stranger that sojourns among them.
15:30 But the soul that does [ought]
presumptuously, [whether he be] born in the land, or a stranger, the
same reproaches the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his
people.
15:31 Because he has despised the word of the
LORD, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut
off; his iniquity [shall be] upon him.
15:32 And while the children of Israel were in
the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath
day.
15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks
brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
15:34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
15:35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man
shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with
stones without the camp.
15:36 And all the congregation brought him
without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
15:37 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
15:38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments
throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the
borders a ribband of blue:
15:39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe,
that you may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the
LORD, and do them; and that you seek not after your own heart and your
own eyes, after which you use to go a whoring:
15:40 That you may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
15:41 I [am] the LORD your God, which brought
you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I [am] the LORD your God.
16:1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of
Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and
On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men: ]16:2 And they rose up
before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and
fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of
renown:
16:3 And they gathered themselves together
against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, [You take] too much
upon you, seeing all the congregation [are] holy, every one of them,
and the LORD [is] among them: why then lift you up yourselves above the
congregation of the LORD?
16:4 And when Moses heard [it,] he fell upon his face:
16:5 And he spoke unto Korah and unto all his
company, saying, Even tomorrow the LORD will shew who [are] his, and
[who is] holy; and will cause [him] to come near unto him: even [him]
whom he has chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
16:6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
16:7 And put fire therein, and put incense in
them before the LORD tomorrow: and it shall be [that] the man whom the
LORD doth choose, he [shall be] holy: [you take] too much upon you, you
sons of Levi.
16:8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, you sons of Levi:
16:9 [seems it but] a small thing unto you,
that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of
Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle
of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto
them?
16:10 And he has brought you near [to him,] and
all your brethren the sons of Levi with you: and seek you the
priesthood also?
16:11 For which cause [both] you and all your
company [are] gathered together against the LORD: and what [is] Aaron,
that you murmur against him?
16:12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
16:13 [Is it] a small thing that you have
brought us up out of a land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us
in the wilderness, except you make thyself altogether a prince over us?
16:14 Moreover you have not brought us into a
land that flows with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields
and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? we will not come
up.
16:15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto
the LORD, Respect not you their offering: I have not taken one ass from
them, neither have I hurt one of them.
16:16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be you and all
your company before the LORD, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow:
16:17 And take every man his censer, and put
incense in them, and bring you before the LORD every man his censer, two
hundred and fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each [of you] his
censer.
16:18 And they took every man his censer, and
put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
16:19 And Korah gathered all the congregation
against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and
the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.
16:20 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
16:21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
16:22 And they fell upon their faces, and said,
O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will
you be wroth with all the congregation?
16:23 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
16:24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get
you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
16:25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
16:26 And he spoke unto the congregation,
saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and
touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins.
16:27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of
Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came
out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their
sons, and their little children.
16:28 And Moses said, Hereby you shall know
that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done
them] of my own mind.
16:29 If these men die the common death of all
men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; [then] the
LORD has not sent me.
16:30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the
earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that [appertain]
unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then you shall
understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
16:31 And it came to pass, as he had made an
end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that
[was] under them:
16:32 And the earth opened her mouth, and
swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that [appertained]
unto Korah, and all [their] goods.
16:33 They, and all that [appertained] to them,
went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they
perished from among the congregation.
16:34 And all Israel that [were] round about
them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us
up [also. ]16:35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed
the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
16:36 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
16:37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter you
the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
16:38 The censers of these sinners against
their own souls, let them make them broad plates [for] a covering of the
altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are
hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
16:39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen
censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made
broad [plates for] a covering of the altar:
16:40 [To be] a memorial unto the children of
Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near
to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his
company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
16:41 But on the morrow all the congregation of
the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron,
saying, You have killed the people of the LORD.
16:42 And it came to pass, when the
congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they
looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud
covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
16:43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
16:44 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
16:45 Get you up from among this congregation,
that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
16:46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer,
and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go
quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there
is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
16:47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and
ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was
begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for
the people.
16:48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
16:49 Now they that died in the plague were
fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the
matter of Korah.
16:50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
17:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
17:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
take of every one of them a rod according to the house of [their]
fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers
twelve rods: write you every man's name upon his rod.
17:3 And you shall write Aaron's name upon the
rod of Levi: for one rod [shall be] for the head of the house of their
fathers.
17:4 And you shall lay them up in the
tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet
with you.
17:5 And it shall come to pass, [that] the
man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease
from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur
against you.
17:6 And Moses spoke unto the children of
Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each
prince one, according to their fathers' houses, [even] twelve rods: and
the rod of Aaron [was] among their rods.
17:7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.
17:8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow
Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron
for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed
blossoms, and yielded almonds.
17:9 And Moses brought out all the rods from
before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and
took every man his rod.
17:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring
Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against
the rebels; and you shall quite take away their murmurings from me, that
they die not.
17:11 And Moses did [so:] as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
17:12 And the children of Israel spoke unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
17:13 Whosoever comes anything near unto the
tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
18:1 And the LORD said unto Aaron, you and your
sons and thy father's house with you shall bear the iniquity of the
sanctuary: and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of
your priesthood.
18:2 And your brethren also of the tribe of
Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring you with you, that they may be
joined unto you, and minister unto you: but you and your sons with you
[shall minister] before the tabernacle of witness.
18:3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the
charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels
of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor you also, die.
18:4 And they shall be joined unto you, and
keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the
service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
18:5 And you shall keep the charge of the
sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more
upon the children of Israel.
18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren
the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you [they are] given
[as] a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
18:7 Therefore you and your sons with you shall
keep your priest's office foreverything of the altar, and within the
vail; and you shall serve: I have given your priest's office [unto you
as] a service of gift: and the stranger that comes nigh shall be put to
death.
18:8 And the LORD spoke unto Aaron, Behold, I
also have given you the charge of my heave offerings of all the hallowed
things of the children of Israel; unto you have I given them by reason
of the anointing, and to your sons, by an ordinance forever.
18:9 This shall be thine of the most holy
things, [reserved] from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat
offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass
offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, [shall be] most
holy for you and for your sons.
18:10 In the most holy [place] shall you eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto you.
18:11 And this [is] thine; the heave offering
of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I
have given them unto you, and to your sons and to thy daughters with
you, by a statute forever: every one that is clean in your house shall
eat of it.
18:12 All the best of the oil, and all the best
of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall
offer unto the LORD, them have I given you.
18:13 [And] whatsoever is first ripe in the
land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one
that is clean in thine house shall eat [of] it.
18:14 Everything devoted in Israel shall be thine.
18:15 Everything that opens the matrix in all
flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, [whether it be] of men or beasts,
shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely
redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shall you redeem.
18:16 And those that are to be redeemed from a
month old shall you redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money
of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which [is] twenty
gerahs.
18:17 But the firstling of a cow, or the
firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you shall not redeem;
they [are] holy: you shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and
shall burn their fat [for] an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor
unto the LORD.
18:18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
18:19 All the heave offerings of the holy
things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given
you, and your sons and thy daughters with you, by a statute forever: it
is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD unto you and to your seed
with you.
18:20 And the LORD spoke unto Aaron, you shall
have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any part among
them: I [am] your part and thine inheritance among the children of
Israel.
18:21 And, behold, I have given the children of
Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service
which they serve, [even] the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
18:22 Neither must the children of Israel
henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear
sin, and die.
18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of
the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity:
[it shall be] a statute forever throughout your generations, that among
the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
18:24 But the tithes of the children of Israel,
which they offer [as] an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to
the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the
children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
18:25 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
18:26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto
them, When you take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have
given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up an
heave offering of it for the LORD, [even] a tenth [part] of the tithe.
18:27 And [this] your heave offering shall be
reckoned unto you, as though [it were] the corn of the threshingfloor,
and as the fulness of the winepress.
18:28 Thus you also shall offer an heave
offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which you receive of the
children of Israel; and you shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering
to Aaron the priest.
18:29 Out of all your gifts you shall offer
every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, [even] the
hallowed part thereof out of it.
18:30 Therefore you shall say unto them, When
you have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto
the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase
of the winepress.
18:31 And you shall eat it in every place, you
and your households: for it [is] your reward for your service in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
18:32 And you shall bear no sin by reason of
it, when you have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall you
pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest you die.
19:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
19:2 This [is] the ordinance of the law which
the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that
they bring you a red heifer without spot, wherein [is] no blemish, [and]
upon which never came yoke:
19:3 And you shall give her unto Eleazar the
priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and [one] shall
slay her before his face:
19:4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her
blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the
tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
19:5 And [one] shall burn the heifer in his
sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he
burn:
19:6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and
hyssop, and scarlet, and cast [it] into the midst of the burning of the
heifer.
19:7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes,
and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into
the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
19:8 And he that burns her shall wash his
clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean
until the even.
19:9 And a man [that is] clean shall gather up
the ashes of the heifer, and lay [them] up without the camp in a clean
place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of
Israel for a water of separation: it [is] a purification for sin.
19:10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the
heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it
shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that
sojourns among them, for a statute forever.
19:11 He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
19:12 He shall purify himself with it on the
third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify
not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
19:13 Whosoever touches the dead body of any
man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defiles the tabernacle of
the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water
of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his
uncleanness [is] yet upon him.
19:14 This [is] the law, when a man dies in a
tent: all that come into the tent, and all that [is] in the tent, shall
be unclean seven days.
19:15 And every open vessel, which has no covering bound upon it, [is] unclean.
19:16 And whosoever touches one that is slain
with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a
grave, shall be unclean seven days.
19:17 And for an unclean [person] they shall
take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and
running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
19:18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and
dip [it] in the water, and sprinkle [it] upon the tent, and upon all
the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that
touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
19:19 And the clean [person] shall sprinkle
upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the
seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
19:20 But the man that shall be unclean, and
shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the
congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the
water of separation has not been sprinkled upon him; he [is] unclean.
19:21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto
them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his
clothes; and he that touches the water of separation shall be unclean
until even.
19:22 And whatsoever the unclean [person]
touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches [it] shall be
unclean until even.
20:1 Then came the children of Israel, [even]
the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and
the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
20:2 And there was no water for the
congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and
against Aaron.
20:3 And the people chode with Moses, and
spoke, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before
the LORD!
20:4 And why have you brought up the
congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle
should die there?
20:5 And why have you made us to come up out of
Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it [is] no place of seed,
or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither [is] there any
water to drink.
20:6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence
of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto
them.
20:7 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
20:8 Take the rod, and gather you the assembly
together, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak you unto the rock
before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and you shall
bring forth to them water out of the rock: so you shall give the
congregation and their beasts drink.
20:9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
20:10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the
congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now,
you rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with
his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and
the congregation drank, and their beasts [also.]
20:12 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron,
Because you believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children
of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land
which I have given them.
20:13 This [is] the water of Meribah; because
the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in
them.
20:14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh
unto the king of Edom, Thus says your brother Israel, you know all the
travail that has befallen us:
20:15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and
we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our
fathers:
20:16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard
our voice, and sent an angel, and has brought us forth out of Egypt:
and, behold, we [are] in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border:
20:17 Let us pass, I pray you, through your
country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards,
neither will we drink [of] the water of the wells: we will go by the
king's [high] way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left,
until we have passed your borders.
20:18 And Edom said unto him, you shall not pass by me, lest I come out against you with the sword.
20:19 And the children of Israel said unto him,
We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of your water,
then I will pay for it: I will only, without [doing] anything [else,]
go through on my feet.
20:20 And he said, you shall not go through.
And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: why Israel turned away from him.
20:22 And the children of Israel, [even] the
whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
20:23 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
20:24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people:
for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the
children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the water of
Meribah.
20:25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:
20:26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put
them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered [unto his
people,] and shall die there.
20:27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and
they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
20:28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments,
and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of
the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
20:29 And when all the congregation saw that
Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, [even] all the house
of Israel.
21:1 And [when] king Arad the Canaanite, which
dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies;
then he fought against Israel, and took [some] of them prisoners.
21:2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and
said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will
utterly destroy their cities.
21:3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of
Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them
and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the
way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the
people was much discouraged because of the way.
21:5 And the people spoke against God, and
against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the
wilderness? for [there is] no bread, neither [is there any] water; and
our soul loatheth this light bread.
21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the
people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and
said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against
you; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And
Moses prayed for the people.
21:8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make you a
fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that
every one that is bitten, when he looks upon it, shall live.
21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put
it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any
man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
21:10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
21:11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and
pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which [is] before Moab, toward
the sunrising.
21:12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
21:13 From thence they removed, and pitched on
the other side of Arnon, which [is] in the wilderness that comes out of
the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon [is] the border of Moab, between
Moab and the Amorites.
21:14 Why it is said in the book of the wars of
the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
21:15 And at the stream of the brooks that goes
down to the dwelling of Ar, and lies upon the border of Moab.
21:16 And from thence [they went] to Beer: that
[is] the well whereof the LORD spoke unto Moses, Gather the people
together, and I will give them water.
21:17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing you unto it:
21:18 The princes digged the well, the nobles
of the people digged it, by [the direction of] the lawgiver, with their
staves. And from the wilderness [they went] to Mattanah:
21:19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
21:20 And from Bamoth [in] the valley, that
[is] in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks toward
Jeshimon.
21:21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
21:22 Let me pass through your land: we will
not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink [of]
the waters of the well: [but] we will go along by the king's [high] way,
until we be past thy borders.
21:23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass
through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and
went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and
fought against Israel.
21:24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the
sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the
children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon [was] strong.
21:25 And Israel took all these cities: and
Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all
the villages thereof.
21:26 For Heshbon [was] the city of Sihon the
king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab,
and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
21:27 Why they that speak in proverbs say, Come
into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
21:28 For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a
flame from the city of Sihon: it has consumed Ar of Moab, [and] the
lords of the high places of Arnon.
21:29 Woe to you, Moab! you are undone, O
people of Chemosh: he has given his sons that escaped, and his
daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
21:30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished
even unto Dibon, and we have laid them weree even unto Nophah, which
[reacheth] unto Medeba.
21:31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
21:32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and
they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that [were]
there.
21:33 And they turned and went up by the way of
Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all
his people, to the battle at Edrei.
21:34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him
not: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and
his land; and you shall do to him as you didst unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
21:35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all
his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his
land.
22:1 And the children of Israel set forward,
and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan [by] Jericho.
22:2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
22:3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people,
because they [were] many: and Moab was distressed because of the
children of Israel.
22:4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian,
Now shall this company lick up all [that are] round about us, as the ox
licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor [was]
king of the Moabites at that time.
22:5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam
the son of Beor to Pethor, which [is] by the river of the land of the
children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people
come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they
abide over against me:
22:6 Come now therefore, I pray you, curse me
this people; for they [are] too mighty for me: peradventure I shall
prevail, [that] we may smite them, and [that] I may drive them out of
the land: for I wot that he whom you blessest [is] blessed, and he whom
you cursest is cursed.
22:7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of
Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they
came unto Balaam, and spoke unto him the words of Balak.
22:8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this
night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me:
and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
22:9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men [are] these with you?
22:10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son
of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent unto me, [saying, ]22:11 Behold,
[there is] a people come out of Egypt, which covers the face of the
earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome
them, and drive them out.
22:12 And God said unto Balaam, you shall not
go with them; you shall not curse the people: for they [are] blessed.
22:13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and
said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD
refuses to give me leave to go with you.
22:14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they
went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuses to come with us.
22:15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.
22:16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him,
Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray you, hinder you
from coming unto me:
22:17 For I will promote you unto very great
honour, and I will do whatsoever you sayest unto me: come therefore, I
pray you, curse me this people.
22:18 And Balaam answered and said unto the
servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and
gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or
more.
22:19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry you also
here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
22:20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and
said unto him, If the men come to call you, rise up, [and] go with them;
but yet the word which I shall say unto you, that shall you do.
22:21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
22:22 And God's anger was kindled because he
went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary
against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants [were]
with him.
22:23 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD
standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned
aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the
ass, to turn her into the way.
22:24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path
of the vineyards, a wall [being] on this side, and a wall on that side.
22:25 And when the ass saw the angel of the
LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot
against the wall: and he smote her again.
22:26 And the angel of the LORD went further,
and stood in a narrow place, where [was] no way to turn either to the
right hand or to the left.
22:27 And when the ass saw the angel of the
LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he
smote the ass with a staff.
22:28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass,
and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto you, that you have
smitten me these three times?
22:29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because you
have mocked me: I would there were a sword in my hand, for now would I
kill you.
22:30 And the ass said unto Balaam, [Am] not I
thine ass, upon which you have ridden ever since [I was] thine unto this
day? was I ever wont to do so unto you? And he said, No.
22:31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam,
and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword
drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his
face.
22:32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him,
Why have you smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to
withstand you, because [thy] way is perverse before me:
22:33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me
these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had
slain you, and saved her alive.
22:34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the
LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that you stoodest in the way against
me: now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again.
22:35 And the angel of the LORD said unto
Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto you,
that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
22:36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was
come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which [is] in the
border of Arnon, which [is] in the utmost coast.
22:37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not
earnestly send unto you to call you? why camest you not unto me? am I
not able indeed to promote you to honour?
22:38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come
unto you: have I now any power at all to say anything? the word that
God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.
22:39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjath-huzoth.
22:40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that [were] with him.
22:41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that
Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that
thence he might see the utmost [part] of the people.
23:1 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here
seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
23:2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and
Balak and Balaam offered on [every] altar a bullock and a ram.
23:3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy
burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet
me: and whatsoever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to an high
place.
23:4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I
have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon [every] altar a
bullock and a ram.
23:5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus you shall speak.
23:6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he
stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
23:7 And he took up his parable, and said,
Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of
the east, [saying,] Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
23:8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? or how shall I defy, [whom] the LORD has not defied?
23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him,
and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and
shall not be reckoned among the nations.
23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the
number of the fourth [part] of Israel? Let me die the death of the
righteous, and let my last end be like his!
23:11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What have you
done unto me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have
blessed [them] altogether.
23:12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD has put in my mouth?
23:13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray
you, with me unto another place, from whence you may see them: you shall
see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse
me them from thence.
23:14 And he brought him into the field of
Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a
bullock and a ram on [every] altar.
23:15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [the LORD] yonder.
23:16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word
in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
23:17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood
by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said
unto him, What has the LORD spoken?
23:18 And he took up his parable, and said,
Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, you son of Zippor:
23:19 God [is] not a man, that he should lie;
neither the son of man, that he should repent: has he said, and shall he
not do [it?] or has he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
23:20 Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: and he has blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
23:21 He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob,
neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God [is] with
him, and the shout of a king [is] among them.
23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of an unicorn.
23:23 Surely [there is] no enchantment against
Jacob, neither [is there] any divination against Israel: according to
this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God worked!
23:24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a
great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down
until he eat [of] the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
23:25 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
23:26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak,
Told not I you, saying, All that the LORD speaks, that I must do?
23:27 And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray
you, I will bring you unto another place; peradventure it will please
God that you mayest curse me them from thence.
23:28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looks toward Jeshimon.
23:29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here
seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
23:30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on [every] altar.
24:1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the
LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for
enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
24:2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw
Israel abiding [in his tents] according to their tribes; and the spirit
of God came upon him.
24:3 And he took up his parable, and said,
Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has
said:
24:4 He has said, which heard the words of God,
which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling [into a trance,] but
having his eyes open:
24:5 How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, [and] thy tabernacles, O Israel!
24:6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as
gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD
has planted, [and] as cedar trees beside the waters.
24:7 He shall pour the water out of his
buckets, and his seed [shall be] in many waters, and his king shall be
higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
24:8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he has
as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his
enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce [them] through with his
arrows.
24:9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a
great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed [is] he that blesses you,
and cursed is he that curses you.
24:10 And Balak's anger was kindled against
Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I
called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed
[them] these three times.
24:11 Therefore now flee you to your place: I
thought to promote you unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD has kept you
back from honour.
24:12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spoke I not also to thy messengers which you sentest unto me, saying,
24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of
silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do
[either] good or bad of my own mind; [but] what the LORD says, that will
I speak?
24:14 And now, behold, I go unto my people:
come [therefore, and] I will advertise you what this people shall do to
your people in the latter days.
24:15 And he took up his parable, and said,
Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has
said:
24:16 He has said, which heard the words of
God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, [which] saw the vision of
the Almighty, falling [into a trance,] but having his eyes open:
24:17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall
behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a
Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab,
and destroy all the children of Sheth.
24:18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also
shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
24:19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall
have dominion, and shall destroy him that remains of the city.
24:20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up
his parable, and said, Amalek [was] the first of the nations; but his
latter end [shall be] that he perish forever.
24:21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up
his parable, and said, Strong is your dwellingplace, and you puttest
your nest in a rock.
24:22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wereed, until Asshur shall carry you away captive.
24:23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this!
24:24 And ships [shall come] from the coast of
Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also
shall perish forever.
24:25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.
25:1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
25:2 And they called the people unto the
sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to
their gods.
25:3 And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
25:4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the
heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun,
that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
25:5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel,
Slay you every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.
25:6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel
came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of
Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, who [were] weeping [before] the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
25:7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the
son of Aaron the priest, saw [it,] he rose up from among the
congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
25:8 And he went after the man of Israel into
the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the
woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of
Israel.
25:9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
25:10 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
25:11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of
Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel,
while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the
children of Israel in my jealousy.
25:12 Why say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
25:13 And he shall have it, and his seed after
him, [even] the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was
zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
25:14 Now the name of the Israelite that was
slain, [even] that was slain with the Midianitish woman, [was] Zimri,
the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
25:15 And the name of the Midianitish woman
that was slain [was] Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he [was] head over a
people, [and] of a chief house in Midian.
25:16 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
25:17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
25:18 For they vex you with their wiles,
wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the
matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which
was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
26:1 And it came to pass after the plague, that
the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest,
saying,
26:2 Take the sum of all the congregation of
the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout
their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
26:3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke
with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying,
26:4 [Take the sum of the people,] from twenty
years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of
Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
26:5 Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the
children of Reuben; Hanoch, [of whom comes] the family of the
Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
26:6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
26:7 These [are] the families of the
Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three
thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
26:8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
26:9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan,
and Abiram. This [is that] Dathan and Abiram, [which were] famous in
the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the
company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
26:10 And the earth opened her mouth, and
swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time
the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
26:11 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
26:12 The sons of Simeon after their families:
of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the
Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:
26:13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
26:14 These [are] the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
26:15 The children of Gad after their families:
of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the
Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:
26:16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:
26:17 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
26:18 These [are] the families of the children
of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and
five hundred.
26:19 The sons of Judah [were] Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
26:20 And the sons of Judah after their
families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the
family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
26:21 And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron,
the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
26:22 These [are] the families of Judah
according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen
thousand and five hundred.
26:23 [Of] the sons of Issachar after their
families: [of] Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of
the Punites:
26:24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
26:25 These [are] the families of Issachar
according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four
thousand and three hundred.
26:26 [Of] the sons of Zebulun after their
families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of
the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
26:27 These [are] the families of the
Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore
thousand and five hundred.
26:28 The sons of Joseph after their families [were] Manasseh and Ephraim.
26:29 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the
family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead [come] the
family of the Gileadites.
26:30 These [are] the sons of Gilead: [of]
Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the
Helekites:
26:31 And [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
26:32 And [of] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and [of] Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
26:33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no
sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad [were]
Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
26:34 These [are] the families of Manasseh, and
those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven
hundred.
26:35 These [are] the sons of Ephraim after
their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher,
the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
26:36 And these [are] the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
26:37 These [are] the families of the sons of
Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two
thousand and five hundred. These [are] the sons of Joseph after their
families.
26:38 The sons of Benjamin after their
families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of
the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
26:39 Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
26:40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman:
[of Ard,] the family of the Ardites: [and] of Naaman, the family of the
Naamites.
26:41 These [are] the sons of Benjamin after
their families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and
five thousand and six hundred.
26:42 These [are] the sons of Dan after their
families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These [are] the
families of Dan after their families.
26:43 All the families of the Shuhamites,
according to those that were numbered of them, [were] threescore and
four thousand and four hundred.
26:44 [Of] the children of Asher after their
families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of
the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the
family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
26:46 And the name of the daughter of Asher [was] Sarah.
26:47 These [are] the families of the sons of
Asher according to those that were numbered of them; [who were] fifty
and three thousand and four hundred.
26:48 [Of] the sons of Naphtali after their
families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family
of the Gunites:
26:49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
26:50 These [are] the families of Naphtali
according to their families: and they that were numbered of them [were]
forty and five thousand and four hundred.
26:51 These [were] the numbered of the children
of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and
thirty.
26:52 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
26:53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
26:54 To many you shall give the more
inheritance, and to few you shall give the less inheritance: to every
one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered
of him.
26:55 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided
by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they
shall inherit.
26:56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.
26:57 And these [are] they that were numbered
of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the
Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the
family of the Merarites.
26:58 These [are] the families of the Levites:
the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of
the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites.
And Kohath begat Amram.
26:59 And the name of Amram's wife [was]
Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom [her mother] bare to Levi in Egypt:
and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
26:60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
26:61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
26:62 And those that were numbered of them were
twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for
they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was
no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
26:63 These [are] they that were numbered by
Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the
plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.
26:64 But among these there was not a man of
them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the
children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
26:65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall
surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them,
save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
27:1 Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the
son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are
the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and
Tirzah.
27:2 And they stood before Moses, and before
Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation,
[by] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
27:3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he
was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against
the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no
sons.
27:4 Why should the name of our father be done
away from among his family, because he has no son? Give unto us
[therefore] a possession among the brethren of our father.
27:5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
27:6 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
27:7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right:
you shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their
father's brethren; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father
to pass unto them.
27:8 And you shall speak unto the children of
Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then you shall cause his
inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
27:9 And if he have no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
27:10 And if he have no brethren, then you shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.
27:11 And if his father have no brethren, then
you shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of
his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children
of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
27:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Get you up
into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the
children of Israel.
27:13 And when you have seen it, you also shall
be gathered unto your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered.
27:14 For you rebelled against my commandment
in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me
at the water before their eyes: that [is] the water of Meribah in Kadesh
in the wilderness of Zin.
27:15 And Moses spoke unto the LORD, saying,
27:16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
27:17 Which may go out before them, and which
may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring
them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no
shepherd.
27:18 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take you
Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom [is] the spirit, and lay thine hand
upon him;
27:19 And set him before Eleazar the priest,
and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
27:20 And you shall put some of thine honour
upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be
obedient.
27:21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the
priest, who shall ask [counsel] for him after the judgment of Urim
before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they
shall come in, [both] he, and all the children of Israel with him, even
all the congregation.
27:22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him:
and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before
all the congregation:
27:23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave
him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
28:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
28:2 Command the children of Israel, and say
unto them, My offering, [and] my bread for my sacrifices made by fire,
[for] a sweet savor unto me, shall you observe to offer unto me in their
due season.
28:3 And you shall say unto them, This is the
offering made by fire which you shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of
the first year without spot day by day, [for] a continual burnt
offering.
28:4 The one lamb shall you offer in the morning, and the other lamb shall you offer at even;
28:5 And a tenth [part] of an ephah of flour
for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth [part] of an hin of beaten
oil.
28:6 [It is] a continual burnt offering, which
was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire
unto the LORD.
28:7 And the drink offering thereof [shall be]
the fourth [part] of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy [place] shall
you cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD [for] a drink
offering.
28:8 And the other lamb shall you offer at
even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering
thereof, you shall offer [it,] a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet
savor unto the LORD.
28:9 And on the Sabbath day two lambs of the
first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour [for] a meat
offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
28:10 [This is] the burnt offering of every
Sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
28:11 And in the beginnings of your months you
shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one
ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
28:12 And three tenth deals of flour [for] a
meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of
flour [for] a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;
28:13 And a several tenth deal of flour mingled
with oil [for] a meat offering unto one lamb; [for] a burnt offering of
a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
28:14 And their drink offerings shall be half
an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third [part] of an hin unto a
ram, and a fourth [part] of an hin unto a lamb: this [is] the burnt
offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
28:15 And one kid of the goats for a sin
offering unto the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt
offering, and his drink offering.
28:16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month [is] the passover of the LORD.
28:17 And in the fifteenth day of this month
[is] the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
28:18 In the first day [shall be] an holy
convocation; you shall do no manner of servile work [therein: ]28:19 But
you shall offer a sacrifice made by fire [for] a burnt offering unto
the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first
year: they shall be unto you without blemish:
28:20 And their meat offering [shall be of]
flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall you offer for a bullock,
and two tenth deals for a ram;
28:21 A several tenth deal shall you offer forevery lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
28:22 And one goat [for] a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
28:23 You shall offer these beside the burnt
offering in the morning, which [is] for a continual burnt offering.
28:24 After this manner you shall offer daily,
throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a
sweet savor unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual
burnt offering, and his drink offering.
28:25 And on the seventh day you shall have an holy convocation; you shall do no servile work.
28:26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when
you bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks [be out,]
you shall have an holy convocation; you shall do no servile work:
28:27 But you shall offer the burnt offering
for a sweet savor unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven
lambs of the first year;
28:28 And their meat offering of flour mingled
with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one
ram,
28:29 A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;
28:30 [And] one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.
28:31 You shall offer [them] beside the
continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you
without blemish) and their drink offerings.
29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first
[day] of the month, you shall have an holy convocation; you shall do no
servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
29:2 And you shall offer a burnt offering for a
sweet savor unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, [and] seven
lambs of the first year without blemish:
29:3 And their meat offering [shall be of]
flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, [and] two tenth
deals for a ram,
29:4 And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
29:5 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:
29:6 Beside the burnt offering of the month,
and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat
offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a
sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
29:7 And you shall have on the tenth [day] of
this seventh month an holy convocation; and you shall afflict your
souls: you shall not do any work [therein: ]29:8 But you shall offer a
burnt offering unto the LORD [for] a sweet savor; one young bullock, one
ram, [and] seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you
without blemish:
29:9 And their meat offering [shall be of]
flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, [and] two tenth
deals to one ram,
29:10 A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
29:11 One kid of the goats [for] a sin
offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt
offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.
29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh
month you shall have an holy convocation; you shall do no servile work,
and you shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
29:13 And you shall offer a burnt offering, a
sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD; thirteen young
bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall
be without blemish:
29:14 And their meat offering [shall be of]
flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the
thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,
29:15 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
29:16 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin
offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and
his drink offering.
29:17 And on the second day [you shall offer]
twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year
without spot:
29:18 And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be]
according to their number, after the manner:
29:19 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin
offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering
thereof, and their drink offerings.
29:20 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;
29:21 And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be]
according to their number, after the manner:
29:22 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside
the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
29:23 And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two
rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
29:24 Their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be]
according to their number, after the manner:
29:25 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin
offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and
his drink offering.
29:26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two
rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
29:27 And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be]
according to their number, after the manner:
29:28 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside
the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
29:29 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two
rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
29:30 And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be]
according to their number, after the manner:
29:31 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside
the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
29:32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks,
two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
29:33 And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be]
according to their number, after the manner:
29:34 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside
the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
29:35 On the eighth day you shall have a solemn
assembly: you shall do no servile work [therein: ]29:36 But you shall
offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor unto
the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without
blemish:
29:37 Their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, [shall be]
according to their number, after the manner:
29:38 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside
the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
29:39 These [things] you shall do unto the LORD
in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for
your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink
offerings, and for your peace offerings.
29:40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.
30:1 And Moses spoke unto the heads of the
tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing
which the LORD has commanded.
30:2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear
an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he
shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
30:3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD,
and bind [herself] by a bond, [being] in her father's house in her
youth;
30:4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond
wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at
her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she has
bound her soul shall stand.
30:5 But if her father disallow her in the day
that he hears; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she has
bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her
father disallowed her.
30:6 And if she had at all an husband, when she
vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
30:7 And her husband heard [it,] and held his
peace at her in the day that he heard [it:] then her vows shall stand,
and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
30:8 But if her husband disallowed her on the
day that he heard [it;] then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and
that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of
none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
30:9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that
is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against
her.
30:10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
30:11 And her husband heard [it,] and held his
peace at her, [and] disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand,
and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
30:12 But if her husband has utterly made them
void on the day he heard [them; then] whatsoever proceeded out of her
lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not
stand: her husband has made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
30:13 Every vow, and every binding oath to
afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make
it void.
30:14 But if her husband altogether hold his
peace at her from day today; then he establisheth all her vows, or all
her bonds, which [are] upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his
peace at her in the day that he heard [them. ]30:15 But if he shall any
ways make them void after that he has heard [them;] then he shall bear
her iniquity.
30:16 These [are] the statutes, which the LORD
commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his
daughter, [being yet] in her youth in her father's house.
31:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
31:2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shall you be gathered unto your people.
31:3 And Moses spoke unto the people, saying,
Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the
Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
31:4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you send to the war.
31:5 So there were delivered out of the
thousands of Israel, a thousand of [every] tribe, twelve thousand armed
for war.
31:6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand
of [every] tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to
the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his
hand.
31:7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
31:8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside
the rest of them that were slain; [namely,] Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and
Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they
slew with the sword.
31:9 And the children of Israel took [all] the
women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of
all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
31:10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
31:11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, [both] of men and of beasts.
31:12 And they brought the captives, and the
prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the
congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of
Moab, which [are] by Jordan [near] Jericho.
31:13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and
all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the
camp.
31:14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of
the host, [with] the captains over thousands, and captains over
hundreds, which came from the battle.
31:15 And Moses said unto them, Have you saved all the women alive?
31:16 Behold, these caused the children of
Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the
LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the
congregation of the LORD.
31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the
little ones, and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him.
31:18 But all the women children, that have not
known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
31:19 And do you abide without the camp seven
days: whosoever has killed any person, and whosoever has touched any
slain, purify [both] yourselves and your captives on the third day, and
on the seventh day.
31:20 And purify all [your] raiment, and all
that is made of skins, and all work of goats' [hair,] and all things
made of wood.
31:21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men
of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which
the LORD commanded Moses;
31:22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
31:23 Everything that may abide the fire, you
shall make [it] go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless
it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth
not the fire you shall make go through the water.
31:24 And you shall wash your clothes on the
seventh day, and you shall be clean, and afterward you shall come into
the camp.
31:25 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
31:26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken,
[both] of man and of beast, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief
fathers of the congregation:
31:27 And divide the prey into two parts;
between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and
between all the congregation:
31:28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the
men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of
the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
31:29 Take [it] of their half, and give [it]
unto Eleazar the priest, [for] an heave offering of the LORD.
31:30 And of the children of Israel's half, you
shall take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the
asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto
the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
31:31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
31:32 And the booty, [being] the rest of the
prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and
seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
31:33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
31:34 And threescore and one thousand asses,
31:35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
31:36 And the half, [which was] the portion of
them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and
seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
31:37 And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
31:38 And the beeves [were] thirty and six
thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute [was] threescore and twelve.
31:39 And the asses [were] thirty thousand and
five hundred; of which the LORD'S tribute [was] threescore and one.
31:40 And the persons [were] sixteen thousand;
of which the LORD'S tribute [was] thirty and two persons.
31:41 And Moses gave the tribute, [which was]
the LORD'S heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD
commanded Moses.
31:42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
31:43 (Now the half [that pertained unto] the
congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand [and] seven
thousand and five hundred sheep,
31:44 And thirty and six thousand beeves,
31:45 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
31:46 And sixteen thousand persons;)
31:47 Even of the children of Israel's half,
Moses took one portion of fifty, [both] of man and of beast, and gave
them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the
LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
31:48 And the officers which [were] over
thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of
hundreds, came near unto Moses:
31:49 And they said unto Moses, your servants
have taken the sum of the men of war which [are] under our charge, and
there lacketh not one man of us.
31:50 We have therefore brought an oblation for
the LORD, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and
bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our
souls before the LORD.
31:51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, [even] all worked jewels.
31:52 And all the gold of the offering that
they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the
captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty
shekels.
31:53 ([For] the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
31:54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the
gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into
the tabernacle of the congregation, [for] a memorial for the children of
Israel before the LORD.
32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw
the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place [was]
a place for cattle;
32:2 The children of Gad and the children of
Reuben came and spoke unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto
the princes of the congregation, saying,
32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah,
and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
32:4 [Even] the country which the LORD smote
before the congregation of Israel, [is] a land for cattle, and your
servants have cattle:
32:5 Why, said they, if we have found grace in
your sight, let this land be given unto your servants for a possession,
[and] bring us not over Jordan.
32:6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad
and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall
you sit here?
32:7 And why discourage you the heart of the
children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has
given them?
32:8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
32:9 For when they went up unto the valley of
Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of
Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given
them.
32:10 And the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he swore, saying,
32:11 Surely none of the men that came up out
of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I
swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not
wholly followed me:
32:12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the
Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the
LORD.
32:13 And the LORD'S anger was kindled against
Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all
the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was
consumed.
32:14 And, behold, you are risen up in your
fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce
anger of the LORD toward Israel.
32:15 For if you turn away from after him, he
will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you shall destroy all
this people.
32:16 And they came near unto him, and said, We
will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little
ones:
32:17 But we ourselves will go ready armed
before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their
place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of
the inhabitants of the land.
32:18 We will not return unto our houses, until
the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
32:19 For we will not inherit with them on
yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us
on this side Jordan eastward.
32:20 And Moses said unto them, If you will do this thing, if you will go armed before the LORD to war,
32:21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan
before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,
32:22 And the land be subdued before the LORD:
then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and
before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.
32:23 But if you will not do so, behold, you
have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
32:24 Build you cities for your little ones,
and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your
mouth.
32:25 And the children of Gad and the children
of Reuben spoke unto Moses, saying, your servants will do as my lord
commandeth.
32:26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks,
and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
32:27 But thy servants will pass over, every
man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord says.
32:28 So concerning them Moses commanded
Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of
the tribes of the children of Israel:
32:29 And Moses said unto them, If the children
of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every
man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued
before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a
possession:
32:30 But if they will not pass over with you
armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
32:31 And the children of Gad and the children
of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD has said unto your servants, so
will we do.
32:32 We will pass over armed before the LORD
into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this
side Jordan [may be] ours.
32:33 And Moses gave unto them, [even] to the
children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe
of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the
Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the
cities thereof in the coasts, [even] the cities of the country round
about.
32:34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
32:35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
32:36 And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
32:37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
32:38 And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names
being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which
they built.
32:39 And the children of Machir the son of
Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which
[was] in it.
32:40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
32:41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair.
32:42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the
villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
33:1 These [are] the journeys of the children
of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies
under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
33:2 And Moses wrote their goings out according
to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these [are] their
journeys according to their goings out.
33:3 And they departed from Rameses in the
first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow
after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in
the sight of all the Egyptians.
33:4 For the Egyptians buried all [their]
firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also
the LORD executed judgments.
33:5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
33:6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which [is] in the edge of the wilderness.
33:7 And they removed from Etham, and turned
again unto Pi-hahiroth, which [is] before Baal- zephon: and they pitched
before Migdol.
33:8 And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth,
and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went
three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
33:9 And they removed from Marah, and came unto
Elim: and in Elim [were] twelve fountains of water, and threescore and
ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
33:10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
33:11 And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
33:12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
33:13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
33:14 And they removed from Alush, and encamped
at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
33:15 And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
33:16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah.
33:17 And they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
33:18 And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
33:19 And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon-parez.
33:20 And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and pitched in Libnah.
33:21 And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
33:22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
33:23 And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
33:24 And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.
33:25 And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.
33:26 And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
33:27 And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.
33:28 And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
33:29 And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
33:30 And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
33:31 And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene-jaakan.
33:32 And they removed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad.
33:33 And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.
33:34 And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
33:35 And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber.
33:36 And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which [is] Kadesh.
33:37 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
33:38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount
Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year
after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the
first [day] of the fifth month.
33:39 And Aaron [was] an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.
33:40 And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt
in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children
of Israel.
33:41 And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
33:42 And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
33:43 And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
33:44 And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab.
33:45 And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon-gad.
33:46 And they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.
33:47 And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
33:48 And they departed from the mountains of
Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.
33:49 And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth- jesimoth [even] unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
33:50 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying,
33:51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them, When you are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
33:52 Then you shall drive out all the
inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures,
and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their
high places:
33:53 And you shall dispossess [the
inhabitants] of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the
land to possess it.
33:54 And you shall divide the land by lot for
an inheritance among your families: [and] to the more you shall give the
more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance:
every man's [inheritance] shall be in the place where his lot falls;
according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.
33:55 But if you will not drive out the
inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass,
that those which you let remain of them [shall be] pricks in your eyes,
and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein you
dwell.
33:56 Moreover it shall come to pass, [that] I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
34:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
34:2 Command the children of Israel, and say
unto them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that
shall fall unto you for an inheritance, [even] the land of Canaan with
the coasts thereof:)
34:3 Then your south quarter shall be from the
wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border
shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
34:4 And your border shall turn from the south
to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth
thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to
Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon:
34:5 And the border shall fetch a compass from
Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the
sea.
34:6 And [as for] the western border, you shall
even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
34:7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall point out for you mount Hor:
34:8 From mount Hor you shall point out [your
border] unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border
shall be to Zedad:
34:9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and
the goings out of it shall be at Hazar- enan: this shall be your north
border.
34:10 And you shall point out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:
34:11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham
to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and
shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
34:12 And the border shall go down to Jordan,
and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your
land with the coasts thereof round about.
34:13 And Moses commanded the children of
Israel, saying, This [is] the land which you shall inherit by lot, which
the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
34:14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben
according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children
of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received [their
inheritance;] and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their
inheritance:
34:15 The two tribes and the half tribe have
received their inheritance on this side Jordan [near] Jericho eastward,
toward the sunrising.
34:16 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
34:17 These [are] the names of the men which
shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son
of Nun.
34:18 And you shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.
34:19 And the names of the men [are] these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
34:20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
34:22 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
34:23 The prince of the children of Joseph, for
the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
34:24 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
34:25 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
34:26 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
34:27 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
34:28 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
34:29 These [are they] whom the LORD commanded
to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of
Canaan.
35:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying,
35:2 Command the children of Israel, that they
give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to
dwell in; and you shall give [also] unto the Levites suburbs for the
cities round about them.
35:3 And the cities shall they have to dwell
in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their
goods, and for all their beasts.
35:4 And the suburbs of the cities, which you
shall give unto the Levites, [shall reach] from the wall of the city and
outward a thousand cubits round about.
35:5 And you shall measure from without the
city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two
thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the
north side two thousand cubits and the city [shall be] in the midst:
this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
35:6 And among the cities which you shall give
unto the Levites [there shall be] six cities for refuge, which you shall
appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee there: and to them you
shall add forty and two cities.
35:7 [So] all the cities which you shall give
to the Levites [shall be] forty and eight cities: them [shall you give]
with their suburbs.
35:8 And the cities which you shall give [shall
be] of the possession of the children of Israel: from [them that have]
many you shall give many; but from [them that have] few you shall give
few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to
his inheritance which he inheriteth.
35:9 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
35:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them, When you be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
35:11 Then you shall appoint you cities to be
cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee there, which kills
any person at unawares.
35:12 And they shall be unto you cities for
refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand
before the congregation in judgment.
35:13 And of these cities which you shall give six cities shall you have for refuge.
35:14 You shall give three cities on this side
Jordan, and three cities shall you give in the land of Canaan, [which]
shall be cities of refuge.
35:15 These six cities shall be a refuge,
[both] for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the
sojourner among them: that every one that kills any person unawares may
flee there.
35:16 And if he smite him with an instrument of
iron, so that he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be
put to death.
35:17 And if he smite him with throwing a
stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer
shall surely be put to death.
35:18 Or [if] he smite him with an hand weapon
of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he [is] a murderer: the
murderer shall surely be put to death.
35:19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
35:20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;
35:21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand,
that he die: he that smote [him] shall surely be put to death; [for] he
[is] a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he
meeteth him.
35:22 But if he thrust him suddenly without
enmity, or have cast upon him anything without laying of wait,
35:23 Or with any stone, wherewith a man may
die, seeing [him] not, and cast [it] upon him, that he die, and [was]
not his enemy, neither sought his harm:
35:24 Then the congregation shall judge between
the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
35:25 And the congregation shall deliver the
slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation
shall restore him to the city of his refuge, where he was fled: and he
shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed
with the holy oil.
35:26 But if the slayer shall at any time come
without the border of the city of his refuge, where he was fled;
35:27 And the revenger of blood find him
without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood
kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
35:28 Because he should have remained in the
city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the
death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his
possession.
35:29 So these [things] shall be for a statute
of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
35:30 Whoso kills any person, the murderer
shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall
not testify against any person [to cause him] to die.
35:31 Moreover you shall take no satisfaction
for the life of a murderer, which [is] guilty of death: but he shall be
surely put to death.
35:32 And you shall take no satisfaction for
him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to
dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
35:33 So you shall not pollute the land wherein
you [are:] for blood it defiles the land: and the land cannot be
cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that
shed it.
35:34 Defile not therefore the land which you
shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children
of Israel.
36:1 And the chief fathers of the families of
the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and
before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:
36:2 And they said, The LORD commanded my lord
to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel:
and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of
Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
36:3 And if they be married to any of the sons
of the [other] tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their
inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be
put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so
shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
36:4 And when the jubile of the children of
Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the
inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their
inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our
fathers.
36:5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel
according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of
Joseph has said well.
36:6 This is the thing which the LORD doth
command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry
to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father
shall they marry.
36:7 So shall not the inheritance of the
children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: forevery one of the
children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of
his fathers.
36:8 And every daughter, that possesseth an
inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto
one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of
Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
36:9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from
[one] tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the
children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
36:10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
36:11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and
Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their
father's brothers' sons:
36:12 [And] they were married into the families
of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance
remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
36:13 These [are] the commandments and the
judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the
children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.
The Fifth Book of Moses, called Deuteronomy
1:1 These [be] the words which Moses spoke unto
all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over
against the Red [sea,] between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and
Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
1:2 ([There are] eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.)
1:3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year,
in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, [that] Moses
spoke unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had
given him in commandment unto them;
1:4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the
Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt
at Astaroth in Edrei:
1:5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
1:6 The LORD our God spoke unto us in Horeb, saying, You have dwelt long enough in this mount:
1:7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to
the mount of the Amorites, and unto all [the places] nigh thereunto, in
the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the
sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the
great river, the river Euphrates.
1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go
in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
1:9 And I spoke unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
1:10 The LORD your God has multiplied you, and,
behold, you [are] this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
1:11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a
thousand times so many more as you [are,] and bless you, as he has
promised you!)
1:12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
1:13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and
known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
1:14 And you answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do.
1:15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise
men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands,
and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over
tens, and officers among your tribes.
1:16 And I charged your judges at that time,
saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously
between [every] man and his brother, and the stranger [that is] with
him.
1:17 You shall not respect persons in judgment;
[but ]you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be
afraid of the face of man; for the judgment [is ]God's: and the cause
that is too hard for you, bring [it ]unto me, and I will hear it.
1:18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
1:19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went
through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw by the way
of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and
we came to Kadesh-barnea.
1:20 And I said unto you, You are come unto the
mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
1:21 Behold, the LORD your God has set the land
before you: go up [and] possess [it,] as the LORD God of your fathers
has said unto you; fear not, neither be discouraged.
1:22 And you came near unto me every one of
you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out
the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into
what cities we shall come.
1:23 and the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
1:24 And they turned and went up into the
mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
1:25 And they took of the fruit of the land in
their hands, and brought [it] down unto us, and brought us word again,
and said, [It is] a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
1:26 Notwithstanding you would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
1:27 And you murmured in your tents, and said,
Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of
Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
1:28 Where shall we go up? our brethren have
discouraged our heart, saying, The people [is] greater and taller than
we; the cities [are] great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have
seen the sons of the Anakims there.
1:29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
1:30 The LORD your God which goes before you,
he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt
before your eyes;
1:31 And in the wilderness, where you have seen
how that the LORD your God bare you, as a man doth bear his son, in all
the way that you went, until you came into this place.
1:32 Yet in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God,
1:33 Who went in the way before you, to search
you out a place to pitch your tents [in,] in fire by night, to shew you
by what way you should go, and in a cloud by day.
1:34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying,
1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of
this evil generation see that good land, which I swore to give unto
your fathers,
1:36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall
see it, and to him will I give the land that he has trodden upon, and to
his children, because he has wholly followed the LORD.
1:37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, you also shall not go in there.
1:38 [But] Joshua the son of Nun, which stands
before you, he shall go in there: encourage him: for he shall cause
Israel to inherit it.
1:39 Moreover your little ones, which you said
should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge
between good and evil, they shall go in there, and unto them will I give
it, and they shall possess it.
1:40 But [as for] you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
1:41 Then you answered and said unto me, We
have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all
that the LORD our God commanded us. And when you had girded on every man
his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the hill.
1:42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them,
Go not up, neither fight; for I [am] not among you; lest you be smitten
before your enemies.
1:43 So I spoke unto you; and you would not
hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went
presumptuously up into the hill.
1:44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that
mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and
destroyed you in Seir, [even] unto Hormah.
1:45 And you returned and wept before the LORD;
but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
1:46 So you abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that you abode [there.]
2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into
the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spoke unto me: and
we compassed mount Seir many days.
2:2 And the LORD spoke unto me, saying,
2:3 You have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
2:4 And command you the people, saying, You
[are] to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau,
which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take you good heed
unto yourselves therefore:
2:5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give
you of their land, no, not so much as a footbreadth; because I have
given mount Seir unto Esau [for] a possession.
2:6 You shall buy meat of them for money, that
you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you
may drink.
2:7 For the LORD your God has blessed you in
all the works of thy hand: he knows your walking through this great
wilderness: these forty years the LORD your God [has been] with you; you
have lacked nothing.
2:8 And when we passed by from our brethren the
children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain
from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the
wilderness of Moab.
2:9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the
Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give you
of their land [for] a possession; because I have given Ar unto the
children of Lot [for] a possession.
2:10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
2:11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
2:12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime;
but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them
from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land
of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
2:13 Now rise up, [said I,] and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
2:14 And the space in which we came from
Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, [was] thirty and
eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wereed out
from among the host, as the LORD swore unto them.
2:15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was
against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were
consumed.
2:16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
2:17 That the LORD spoke unto me, saying,
2:18 you are to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
2:19 And [when] you come nigh over against the
children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will
not give you of the land of the children of Ammon [any] possession;
because I have given it unto the children of Lot [for] a possession.
2:20 (That also was accounted a land of giants:
giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them
Zamzummims;
2:21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the
Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded
them, and dwelt in their stead:
2:22 As he did to the children of Esau, which
dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they
succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
2:23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim,
[even] unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor,
destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
2:24 Rise you up, take your journey, and pass
over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the
Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess [it,] and
contend with him in battle.
2:25 This day will I begin to put the dread of
you and the fear of you upon the nations [that are] under the whole
heaven, who shall hear report of you, and shall tremble, and be in
anguish because of you.
2:26 And I sent messengers out of the
wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace,
saying,
2:27 Let me pass through your land: I will go
along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to
the left.
2:28 you shall sell me meat for money, that I
may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass
through on my feet;
2:29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in
Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall
pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us.
2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us
pass by him: for the LORD your God hardened his spirit, and made his
heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as [appears]
this day.
2:31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have
begun to give Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you
mayest inherit his land.
2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
2:33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
2:34 And we took all his cities at that time,
and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of
every city, we left none to remain:
2:35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
2:36 From Aroer, which [is] by the brink of the
river of Arnon, and [from] the city that [is] by the river, even unto
Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God
delivered all unto us:
2:37 Only unto the land of the children of
Ammon you camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, [nor] unto
the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God
forbad us.
3:1 Then we turned, and went up the way to
Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his
people, to battle at Edrei.
3:2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not:
for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into your
hand; and you shall do unto him as you didst unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
3:3 So the LORD our God delivered into our
hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him
until none was left to him remaining.
3:4 And we took all his cities at that time,
there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all
the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
3:5 All these cities [were] fenced with high
walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
3:6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did
unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and
children, of every city.
3:7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
3:8 And we took at that time out of the hand of
the two kings of the Amorites the land that [was] on this side Jordan,
from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
3:9 ([Which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
3:10 All the cities of the plain, and all
Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of
Og in Bashan.
3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the
remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; is it
not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length
thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
3:12 And this land, [which] we possessed at
that time, from Aroer, which [is] by the river Arnon, and half mount
Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the
Gadites.
3:13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan,
[being] the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all
the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of
giants.
3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the
country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called
them after his own name, Bashan- havoth-jair, unto this day.
3:15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
3:16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the
Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley,
and the border even unto the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of the
children of Ammon;
3:17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast
[thereof,] from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, [even] the
salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.
3:18 And I commanded you at that time, saying,
The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass
over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all [that are]
meet for the war.
3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and
your cattle, ([for] I know that you have much cattle,) shall abide in
your cities which I have given you;
3:20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your
brethren, as well as unto you, and [until] they also possess the land
which the LORD your God has given them beyond Jordan: and [then] shall
you return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
3:21 And I commanded Joshua at that time,
saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done unto
these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms where you
passest.
3:22 You shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
3:23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
3:24 O Lord GOD, you have begun to shew your
servant your greatness, and your mighty hand: for what God [is there] in
heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according
to your might?
3:25 I pray you, let me go over, and see the
good land that [is] beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
3:26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your
sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice
you; speak no more unto me of this matter.
3:27 Get you up into the top of Pisgah, and
lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward,
and behold [it] with thine eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan.
3:28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and
strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall
cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.
3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth- peor.
4:1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the
statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do [them,]
that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of
your fathers gives you.
4:2 You shall not add unto the word which I
command you, neither shall you diminish [ought] from it, that you may
keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
4:3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did
because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD
your God has destroyed them from among you.
4:4 But you that did cleave unto the LORD your God [are] alive every one of you this day.
4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and
judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so
in the land where you go to possess it.
4:6 Keep therefore and do [them;] for this [is]
your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which
shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation [is] a
wise and understanding people.
4:7 For what nation [is there so] great, who
[has] God [so] nigh unto them, as the LORD our God [is] in all [things
that] we call upon him [for? ]4:8 And what nation [is there so] great,
that has statutes and judgments [so] righteous as all this law, which I
set before you this day?
4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep your
soul diligently, lest you forget the things which thine eyes have seen,
and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of your life: but teach
them your sons, and thy sons' sons;
4:10 [Specially] the day that you stoodest
before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me
the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may
learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and
[that] they may teach their children.
4:11 And you came near and stood under the
mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven,
with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
4:12 And the LORD spoke unto you out of the
midst of the fire: you heard the voice of the words, but saw no
similitude; only [you heard] a voice.
4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant,
which he commanded you to perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote
them upon two tables of stone.
4:14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to
teach you statutes and judgments, that you might do them in the land
where you go over to possess it.
4:15 Take you therefore good heed unto
yourselves; for you saw no manner of similitude on the day [that] the
LORD spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
4:16 Lest you corrupt [yourselves,] and make
you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male
or female,
4:17 The likeness of any beast that [is] on the
earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flies in the air,
4:18 The likeness of anything that creeps on
the ground, the likeness of any fish that [is] in the waters beneath the
earth:
4:19 And lest you lift up thine eyes unto
heaven, and when you seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even]
all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve
them, which the LORD your God has divided unto all nations under the
whole heaven.
4:20 But the LORD has taken you, and brought
you forth out of the iron furnace, [even] out of Egypt, to be unto him a
people of inheritance, as [you are] this day.
4:21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for
your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I
should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God gives you
[for] an inheritance:
4:22 But I must die in this land, I must not go
over Jordan: but you shall go over, and possess that good land.
4:23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest you forget
the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you
a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing,] which the LORD your
God has forbidden you.
4:24 For the LORD your God [is] a consuming fire, [even] a jealous God.
4:25 When you shall beget children, and
children's children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and
shall corrupt [yourselves,] and make a graven image, [or] the likeness
of any [thing,] and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to
provoke him to anger:
4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against
you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land
whereunto you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong [your]
days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
4:27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the
nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where
the LORD shall lead you.
4:28 And there you shall serve gods, the work
of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat,
nor smell.
4:29 But if from thence you shall seek the LORD
your God, you shall find [him,] if you seek him with all thy heart and
with all your soul.
4:30 When you are in tribulation, and all these
things are come upon you, [even] in the latter days, if you turn to the
LORD your God, and shall be obedient unto his voice;
4:31 (For the LORD your God [is] a merciful
God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the
covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them.
4:32 For ask now of the days that are past,
which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the
earth, and [ask] from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether
there has been [any such thing] as this great thing [is,] or has been
heard like it?
4:33 Did [ever] people hear the voice of God
speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
4:34 Or has God assayed to go [and] take him a
nation from the midst of another [nation,] by temptations, by signs, and
by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out
arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did
for you in Egypt before your eyes?
4:35 Unto you it was shewed, that you might
know that the LORD he [is] God; [there is] none else beside him.
4:36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his
voice, that he might instruct you: and upon earth he shewed you his
great fire; and you heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
4:37 And because he loved your fathers,
therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out in his
sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
4:38 To drive out nations from before you
greater and mightier than you [are,] to bring you in, to give you their
land [for] an inheritance, as [it is] this day.
4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider [it]
in thine heart, that the LORD he [is] God in heaven above, and upon the
earth beneath: [there is] none else.
4:40 you shall keep therefore his statutes, and
his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well
with you, and with your children after you, and that you mayest prolong
[thy] days upon the earth, which the LORD your God gives you, forever.
4:41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
4:42 That the slayer might flee there, which
should kill his neighbor unawares, and hated him not in times past; and
that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
4:43 [Namely,] Bezer in the wilderness, in the
plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites;
and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
4:44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
4:45 These [are] the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spoke unto the children of
Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
4:46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over
against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt
at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were
come forth out of Egypt:
4:47 And they possessed his land, and the land
of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which [were] on this
side Jordan toward the sunrising;
4:48 From Aroer, which [is] by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which [is] Hermon,
4:49 And all the plain on this side Jordan
eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto
them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your
ears this day, that you may learn them, and keep, and do them.
5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
5:3 The LORD made not this covenant with our
fathers, but with us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here alive this
day.
5:4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
5:5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that
time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for you were afraid by reason of
the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
5:6 I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
5:7 you shall have none other gods before me.
5:8 you shall not make you [any] graven image,
[or] any likeness [of anything] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is]
in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the waters beneath the earth:
5:9 you shall not bow down thyself unto them,
nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
[generation] of them that hate me,
5:10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
5:11 you shall not take the name of the LORD
thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold [him] guiltless that takes
his name in vain.
5:12 Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
5:13 Six days you shall labour, and do all your work:
5:14 But the seventh day [is] the Sabbath of
the LORD your God: [in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son,
nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor thine
ox, nor thine ass, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger that [is]
within your gates; that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as
well as you.
5:15 And remember that you were a servant in
the land of Egypt, and [that] the LORD your God brought you out thence
through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD
your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
5:16 Honour your father and your mother, as the
LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and
that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives
you.
5:17 you shall not kill.
5:18 Neither shall you commit adultery.
5:19 Neither shall you steal.
5:20 Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.
5:21 Neither shall you desire your neighbor's
wife, neither shall you covet your neighbor's house, his field, or his
manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that
[is] your neighbor's.
5:22 These words the LORD spoke unto all your
assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of
the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he
wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
5:23 And it came to pass, when you heard the
voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with
fire,) that you came near unto me, [even] all the heads of your tribes,
and your elders;
5:24 And you said, Behold, the LORD our God has
shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out
of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with
man, and he lives.
5:25 Now therefore why should we die? for this
great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any
more, then we shall die.
5:26 For who [is there of] all flesh, that has
heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire,
as we [have,] and lived?
5:27 Go you near, and hear all that the LORD
our God shall say: and speak you unto us all that the LORD our God shall
speak unto you; and we will hear [it,] and do [it. ]5:28 And the LORD
heard the voice of your words, when you spoke unto me; and the LORD said
unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they
have spoken unto you: they have well said all that they have spoken.
5:29 O that there were such an heart in them,
that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it
might be well with them, and with their children forever!
5:30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
5:31 But as for you, stand you here by me, and I
will speak unto you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which you shall teach them, that they may do [them] in the
land which I give them to possess it.
5:32 You shall observe to do therefore as the
LORD your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right
hand or to the left.
5:33 You shall walk in all the ways which the
LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and [that it may be]
well with you, and [that] you may prolong [your] days in the land which
you shall possess.
6:1 Now these [are] the commandments, the
statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach
you, that you might do [them] in the land where you go to possess it:
6:2 That you might fear the LORD your God, to
keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you,
and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that
your days may be prolonged.
6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do
[it;] that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily,
as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, in the land that
flows with milk and honey.
6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:
6:5 And you shall love the LORD your God with
all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all your might.
6:6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in thine heart:
6:7 And you shall teach them diligently unto
your children, and shall talk of them when you sittest in thine house,
and when you walkest by the way, and when you liest down, and when you
risest up.
6:8 And you shall bind them for a sign upon
thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
6:9 And you shall write them upon the posts of thy house, and on your gates.
6:10 And it shall be, when the LORD your God
shall have brought you into the land which he swore unto your fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and goodly cities,
which you builtst not,
6:11 And houses full of all good [things,]
which you filledst not, and wells digged, which you diggedst not,
vineyards and olive trees, which you plantedst not; when you shall have
eaten and be full;
6:12 [Then] beware lest you forget the LORD,
which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage.
6:13 you shall fear the LORD your God, and serve him, and shall swear by his name.
6:14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which [are] round about you;
6:15 (For the LORD your God [is] a jealous God
among you) lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you,
and destroy you from off the face of the earth.
6:16 You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted [him] in Massah.
6:17 You shall diligently keep the commandments
of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he
has commanded you.
6:18 And you shall do [that which is] right and
good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with you, and that
you mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore unto thy
fathers,
6:19 To cast out all thine enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.
6:20 [And] when your son asks you in time to
come, saying, What [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you?
6:21 Then you shall say unto your son, We were
Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a
mighty hand:
6:22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders,
great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household,
before our eyes:
6:23 And he brought us out from thence, that he
might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore unto our fathers.
6:24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these
statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might
preserve us alive, as [it is] at this day.
6:25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we
observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has
commanded us.
7:1 When the LORD your God shall bring you into
the land where you goes to possess it, and has cast out many nations
before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the
Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
seven nations greater and mightier than you;
7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver
them before you; you shall smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; you
shall make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
7:3 Neither shall you make marriages with them;
thy daughter you shall not give unto his son, nor his daughter shall
you take unto your son.
7:4 For they will turn away your son from
following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the
LORD be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.
7:5 But thus shall you deal with them; you
shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down
their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
7:6 For you [are] an holy people unto the LORD
your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people unto
himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the earth.
7:7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor
choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you
[were] the fewest of all people:
7:8 But because the LORD loved you, and because
he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, has the
LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the
house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he
[is] God, the faithful God, which keeps covenant and mercy with them
that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
7:10 And repayeth them that hate him to their
face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hates him, he
will repay him to his face.
7:11 you shall therefore keep the commandments,
and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command you this day, to
do them.
7:12 Why it shall come to pass, if you hearken
to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD your God shall
keep unto you the covenant and the mercy which he swore unto your
fathers:
7:13 And he will love you, and bless you, and
multiply you: he will also bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit
of your land, your corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of
your kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he swore unto
your fathers to give you.
7:14 you shall be blessed above all people:
there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your
cattle.
7:15 And the LORD will take away from you all
sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you
know, upon you; but will lay them upon all [them] that hate you.
7:16 And you shall consume all the people which
the LORD your God shall deliver you; thine eye shall have no pity upon
them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare
unto you.
7:17 If you shall say in thine heart, These nations [are] more than I; how can I dispossess them?
7:18 you shall not be afraid of them: [but]
shall well remember what the LORD your God did unto Pharaoh, and unto
all Egypt;
7:19 The great temptations which thine eyes
saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the
stretched out arm, whereby the LORD your God brought you out: so shall
the LORD your God do unto all the people of whom you are afraid.
7:20 Moreover the LORD your God will send the
hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from
you, be destroyed.
7:21 you shall not be affrighted at them: for
the LORD thy God [is] among you, a mighty God and terrible.
7:22 And the LORD thy God will put out those
nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at
once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you.
7:23 But the LORD your God shall deliver them
unto you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they
be destroyed.
7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into
thine hand, and you shall destroy their name from under heaven: there
shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
7:25 The graven images of their gods shall you
burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold [that is] on
them, nor take [it] unto you, lest you be snared therein: for it [is] an
abomination to the LORD thy God.
7:26 Neither shall you bring an abomination
into thine house, lest you be a cursed thing like it: [but] you shall
utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it [is] a cursed
thing.
8:1 All the commandments which I command you
this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and
go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers.
8:2 And you shall remember all the way which
the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble
you, [and] to prove you, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether you
wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
8:3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to
hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knewest not, neither did your
fathers know; that he might make you know that man doth not live by
bread only, but by every [word] that proceeds out of the mouth of the
LORD doth man live.
8:4 your raiment waxed not old upon you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
8:5 you shall also consider in thine heart,
that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD your God chasteneth
you.
8:6 Therefore you shall keep the commandments
of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
8:7 For the LORD your God brings you into a
good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that
spring out of valleys and hills;
8:8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and
fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
8:9 A land wherein you shall eat bread without
scarceness, you shall not lack any [thing] in it; a land whose stones
are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig brass.
8:10 When you have eaten and are full, then you
shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.
8:11 Beware that you forget not the LORD your
God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his
statutes, which I command you this day:
8:12 Lest [when] you have eaten and are full,
and have built goodly houses, and dwelt [therein; ]8:13 And [when] your
herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is
multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
8:14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and you
forget the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage;
8:15 Who led you through that great and
terrible wilderness, [wherein were] fiery serpents, and scorpions, and
drought, where [there was] no water; who brought you forth water out of
the rock of flint;
8:16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna,
which your fathers knew not, that he might humble you, and that he might
prove you, to do you good at your latter end;
8:17 And you say in thine heart, My power and the might of [my] hand has gotten me this wealth.
8:18 But you shall remember the LORD your God:
for [it is] he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish
his covenant which he swore unto your fathers, as [it is] this day.
8:19 And it shall be, if you do at all forget
the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship
them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
8:20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth
before your face, so shall you perish; because you would not be obedient
unto the voice of the LORD your God.
9:1 Hear, O Israel: you [are] to pass over
Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than
thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
9:2 A people great and tall, the children of
the Anakims, whom you know, and [of whom] you have heard [say,] Who can
stand before the children of Anak!
9:3 Understand therefore this day, that the
LORD your God [is] he which goes over before you; [as] a consuming fire
he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face: so
shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has
said unto you.
9:4 Speak not you in thine heart, after that
the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my
righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but for
the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before
you.
9:5 Not for your righteousness, or for the
uprightness of thine heart, dost you go to possess their land: but for
the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God doth drive them out
from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore
unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
9:6 Understand therefore, that the LORD your
God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness;
for you [are] a stiffnecked people.
9:7 Remember, [and] forget not, how you
provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day
that you didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until you came unto this
place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
9:8 Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to
wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to
receive the tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant which the
LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty
nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
9:10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables
of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written]
according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount
out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
9:11 And it came to pass at the end of forty
days and forty nights, [that] the LORD gave me the two tables of stone,
[even] the tables of the covenant.
9:12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get you
down quickly from hence; for your people which you have brought forth
out of Egypt have corrupted [themselves;] they are quickly turned aside
out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten
image.
9:13 Furthermore the LORD spoke unto me,
saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked
people:
9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and
blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of you a nation
mightier and greater than they.
9:15 So I turned and came down from the mount,
and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant
[were] in my two hands.
9:16 And I looked, and, behold, you had sinned
against the LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten calf: you had
turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
9:17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
9:18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the
first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink
water, because of all your sins which you sinned, in doing wickedly in
the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot
displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you.
But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
9:20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to
have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
9:21 And I took your sin, the calf which you
had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very
small, [even] until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust
thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
9:22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.
9:23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from
Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given
you; then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and
you believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
9:24 You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
9:25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty
days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first;] because the LORD
had said he would destroy you.
9:26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and
said, O Lord GOD, destroy not your people and thine inheritance, which
you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought forth
out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
9:27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their
wickedness, nor to their sin:
9:28 Lest the land whence you brought us out
say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he
promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to
slay them in the wilderness.
9:29 Yet they [are] your people and thine
inheritance, which you brought out by your mighty power and by your
stretched out arm.
10:1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew
you two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into
the mount, and make you an ark of wood.
10:2 And I will write on the tables the words
that were in the first tables which you brakest, and you shall put them
in the ark.
10:3 And I made an ark [of] shittim wood, and
hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the
mount, having the two tables in my hand.
10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to
the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke unto you
in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly:
and the LORD gave them unto me.
10:5 And I turned myself and came down from the
mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they
be, as the LORD commanded me.
10:6 And the children of Israel took their
journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron
died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the
priest's office in his stead.
10:7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah;
and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
10:8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe
of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before
the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
10:9 Why Levi has no part nor inheritance with
his brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD your
God promised him.
10:10 And I stayed in the mount, according to
the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto
me at that time also, [and] the LORD would not destroy you.
10:11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take
[thy] journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the
land, which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them.
10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD your
God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his
ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your
heart and with all your soul,
10:13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and
his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?
10:14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of
heavens [is] the LORD'S your God, the earth [also,] with all that
therein [is. ]10:15 Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love
them, and he chose their seed after them, [even] you above all people,
as [it is] this day.
10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
10:17 For the LORD your God [is] God of gods,
and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which
regardeth not persons, nor takes reward:
10:18 He doth execute the judgment of the
fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and
raiment.
10:19 Love you therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
10:20 you shall fear the LORD your God; him
shall you serve, and to him shall you cleave, and swear by his name.
10:21 He [is] your praise, and he [is] your
God, that has done for you these great and terrible things, which thine
eyes have seen.
10:22 your fathers went down into Egypt with
threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as
the stars of heaven for multitude.
11:1 Therefore you shall love the LORD your
God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his
commandments, alway.
11:2 And know you this day: for [I speak] not
with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the
chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and
his stretched out arm,
11:3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he
did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all
his land;
11:4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt,
unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the
Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and [how] the LORD
has destroyed them unto this day;
11:5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until you came into this place;
11:6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram,
the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth,
and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all
the substance that [was] in their possession, in the midst of all
Israel:
11:7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
11:8 Therefore shall you keep all the
commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and
go in and possess the land, where you go to possess it;
11:9 And that you may prolong [your] days in
the land, which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give unto them and
to their seed, a land that flows with milk and honey.
11:10 For the land, where you goes in to
possess it, [is] not as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out,
where you sowedst thy seed, and wateredst [it] with your foot, as a
garden of herbs:
11:11 But the land, where you go to possess it,
[is] a land of hills [and] valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of
heaven:
11:12 A land which the LORD your God careth
for: the eyes of the LORD your God [are] always upon it, from the
beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
11:13 And it shall come to pass, if you shall
hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to
love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with
all your soul,
11:14 That I will give [you] the rain of your
land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that you may
gather in thy corn, and your wine, and thine oil.
11:15 And I will send grass in thy fields for your cattle, that you may eat and be full.
11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart
be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship
them;
11:17 And [then] the LORD'S wrath be kindled
against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that
the land yield not her fruit; and [lest] you perish quickly from off the
good land which the LORD gives you.
11:18 Therefore shall you lay up these my words
in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your
hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
11:19 And you shall teach them your children,
speaking of them when you sittest in thine house, and when you walkest
by the way, when you liest down, and when you risest up.
11:20 And you shall write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon your gates:
11:21 That your days may be multiplied, and the
days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore unto your
fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
11:22 For if you shall diligently keep all
these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD
your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
11:23 Then will the LORD drive out all these
nations from before you, and you shall possess greater nations and
mightier than yourselves.
11:24 Every place whereon the soles of your
feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from
the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your
coast be.
11:25 There shall no man be able to stand
before you: [for] the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the
dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he has said
unto you.
11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
11:27 A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
11:28 And a curse, if you will not obey the
commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I
command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
11:29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD
your God has brought you in unto the land where you goes to possess it,
that you shall put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon
mount Ebal.
11:30 [Are] they not on the other side Jordan,
by the way where the sun goes down, in the land of the Canaanites, which
dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
11:31 For you shall pass over Jordan to go in
to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall
possess it, and dwell therein.
11:32 And you shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.
12:1 These [are] the statutes and judgments,
which you shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of your
fathers gives you to possess it, all the days that you live upon the
earth.
12:2 You shall utterly destroy all the places,
wherein the nations which you shall possess served their gods, upon the
high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
12:3 And you shall overthrow their altars, and
break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall hew
down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out
of that place.
12:4 You shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
12:5 But unto the place which the LORD your God
shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, [even] unto
his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come:
12:6 And there you shall bring your burnt
offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of
your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the
firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
12:7 And there you shall eat before the LORD
your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand unto, you
and your households, wherein the LORD your God has blessed you.
12:8 You shall not do after all [the things]
that we do here this day, every man whatsoever [is] right in his own
eyes.
12:9 For you are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God gives you.
12:10 But [when] you go over Jordan, and dwell
in the land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, and [when] he
gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in
safety;
12:11 Then there shall be a place which the
LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; there shall
you bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all
your choice vows which you vow unto the LORD:
12:12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD
your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants,
and your maidservants, and the Levite that [is] within your gates;
forasmuch as he has no part nor inheritance with you.
12:13 Take heed to thyself that you offer not your burnt offerings in every place that you seest:
12:14 But in the place which the LORD shall
choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt
offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
12:15 Notwithstanding you may kill and eat
flesh in all your gates, whatsoever your soul lusteth after, according
to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean
and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
12:16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.
12:17 you may not eat within your gates the
tithe of your corn, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstlings
of your herds or of thy flock, nor any of your vows which you vowest,
nor your freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
12:18 But you must eat them before the LORD
your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you, and
your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and thy maidservant,
and the Levite that [is] within your gates: and you shall rejoice before
the LORD your God in all that you puttest thine hands unto.
12:19 Take heed to thyself that you forsake not the Levite as long as you livest upon the earth.
12:20 When the LORD your God shall enlarge your
border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh,
because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatsoever your
soul lusteth after.
12:21 If the place which the LORD your God has
chosen to put his name there be too far from you, then you shall kill of
thy herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have
commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatsoever your soul
lusteth after.
12:22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is
eaten, so you shall eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat [of]
them alike.
12:23 Only be sure that you eat not the blood:
for the blood [is] the life; and you may not eat the life with the
flesh.
12:24 you shall not eat it; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.
12:25 you shall not eat it; that it may go well
with you, and with thy children after you, when you shall do [that
which is] right in the sight of the LORD.
12:26 Only your holy things which you have, and
your vows, you shall take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall
choose:
12:27 And you shall offer your burnt offerings,
the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD your God: and the
blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD
thy God, and you shall eat the flesh.
12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I
command you, that it may go well with you, and with thy children after
you forever, when you do [that which is] good and right in the sight of
the LORD your God.
12:29 When the LORD your God shall cut off the
nations from before you, where you goes to possess them, and you
succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
12:30 Take heed to thyself that you be not
snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before you;
and that you enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations
serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
12:31 you shall not do so unto the LORD your
God: forevery abomination to the LORD, which he hates, have they done
unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt
in the fire to their gods.
12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe
to do it: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder,
13:2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass,
whereof he spoke unto you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you
have not known, and let us serve them;
13:3 you shall not hearken unto the words of
that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth
you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and
with all your soul.
13:4 You shall walk after the LORD your God,
and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you
shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of
dreams, shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn [you] away
from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and
redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust you out of the way
which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put the
evil away from the midst of you.
13:6 If your brother, the son of your mother,
or your son, or thy daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend,
which [is] as thine own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go
and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
13:7 [Namely,] of the gods of the people which
[are] round about you, nigh unto you, or far off from you, from the
[one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth;
13:8 you shall not consent unto him, nor
hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shall you
spare, neither shall you conceal him:
13:9 But you shall surely kill him; thine hand
shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of
all the people.
13:10 And you shall stone him with stones, that
he die; because he has sought to thrust you away from the LORD your
God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage.
13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and
shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
13:12 If you shall hear [say] in one of your
cities, which the LORD your God has given you to dwell there, saying,
13:13 [Certain] men, the children of Belial,
are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their
city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;
13:14 Then shall you enquire, and make search,
and ask diligently; and, behold, [if it be] truth, [and] the thing
certain, [that] such abomination is worked among you;
13:15 you shall surely smite the inhabitants of
that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all
that [is] therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
13:16 And you shall gather all the spoil of it
into the midst of the street thereof, and shall burn with fire the city,
and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD your God: and it
shall be an heap forever; it shall not be built again.
13:17 And there shall cleave nought of the
cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness
of his anger, and shew you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and
multiply you, as he has sworn unto your fathers;
13:18 When you shall hearken to the voice of
the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this
day, to do [that which is] right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
14:1 You [are] the children of the LORD your
God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your
eyes for the dead.
14:2 for you [are] an holy people unto the LORD
your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people unto
himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth.
14:3 you shall not eat any abominable thing.
14:4 These [are] the beasts which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow
deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the
chamois.
14:6 And every beast that parts the hoof, and
cleaveth the cleft into two claws, [and] chews the cud among the beasts,
that you shall eat.
14:7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of
them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; [as] the
camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide
not the hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean unto you.
14:8 And the swine, because it divides the
hoof, yet chews not the cud, it is unclean unto you: you shall not eat
of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
14:9 These you shall eat of all that [are] in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall you eat:
14:10 And whatsoever has not fins and scales you may not eat; it [is] unclean unto you.
14:11 [Of] all clean birds you shall eat.
14:12 But these [are they] of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and ossifrage, and the ospray,
14:13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
14:14 And every raven after his kind,
14:15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
14:16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
14:17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
14:18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
14:19 And every creeping thing that flies [is] unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
14:20 [But of] all clean fowls you may eat.
14:21 You shall not eat [of] anything that dies
of itself: you shall give it unto the stranger that [is] in your gates,
that he may eat it; or you may sell it unto an alien: for you [are] an
holy people unto the LORD your God. you shall not seese a kid in his
mother's milk.
14:22 you shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year.
14:23 And you shall eat before the LORD your
God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the
tithe of your corn, of your wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings
of your herds and of your flocks; that you mayest learn to fear the LORD
your God always.
14:24 And if the way be too long for you, so
that you are not able to carry it; [or] if the place be too far from
you, which the LORD your God shall choose to set his name there, when
the LORD your God has blessed you:
14:25 Then shall you turn [it] into money, and
bind up the money in thine hand, and shall go unto the place which the
LORD your God shall choose:
14:26 And you shall bestow that money for
whatsoever your soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine,
or for strong drink, or for whatsoever your soul desires: and you shall
eat there before the LORD thy God, and you shall rejoice, you, and
thine household,
14:27 And the Levite that [is] within your
gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance
with you.
14:28 At the end of three years you shall bring
forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shall lay [it]
up within thy gates:
14:29 And the Levite, (because he has no part
nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the
widow, which [are] within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be
satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of thine
hand which you do.
15:1 At the end of [every] seven years you shall make a release.
15:2 And this [is] the manner of the release:
Every creditor that lendeth [ought] unto his neighbor shall release
[it;] he shall not exact [it] of his neighbor, or of his brother;
because it is called the LORD'S release.
15:3 Of a foreigner you may exact [it again:]
but [that] which is thine with your brother thine hand shall release;
15:4 Save when there shall be no poor among
you; for the LORD shall greatly bless you in the land which the LORD
your God gives you [for] an inheritance to possess it:
15:5 Only if you carefully hearken unto the
voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all these commandments
which I command you this day.
15:6 For the LORD your God blesses you, as he
promised you: and you shall lend unto many nations, but you shall not
borrow; and you shall reign over many nations,but they shall not reign
over you.
15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of
your brethren within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your
God gives you, you shall not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand
from your poor brother:
15:8 But you shall open thine hand wide unto
him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which
he wanteth.
15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in your
wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at
hand; and thine eye be evil against your poor brother, and you givest
him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against you, and it be sin unto
you.
15:10 you shall surely give him, and thine
heart shall not be grieved when you givest unto him: because that for
this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in
all that you puttest thine hand unto.
15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the
land: therefore I command you, saying, you shall open thine hand wide
unto your brother, to thy poor, and to your needy, in your land.
15:12 [And] if your brother, an Hebrew man, or
an Hebrew woman, be sold unto you, and serve you six years; then in the
seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
15:13 And when you sendest him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty:
15:14 you shall furnish him liberally out of
your flock, and out of your floor, and out of your winepress: [of that]
wherewith the LORD your God has blessed you you shall give unto him.
15:15 And you shall remember that you were a
bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you:
therefore I command you this thing today.
15:16 And it shall be, if he say unto you, I
will not go away from you; because he loves you and thine house, because
he is well with you;
15:17 Then you shall take an aul, and thrust
[it] through his ear unto the door, and he shall be your servant
forever. And also unto your maidservant you shall do likewise.
15:18 It shall not seem hard unto you, when you
sendest him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired
servant [to you,] in serving you six years: and the LORD thy God shall
bless you in all that you do.
15:19 All the firstling males that come of your
herd and of thy flock you shall sanctify unto the LORD your God: you
shall do no work with the firstling of your bullock, nor shear the
firstling of thy sheep.
15:20 you shall eat [it] before the LORD your
God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your
household.
15:21 And if there be [any] blemish therein,
[as if it be] lame, or blind, [or have] any ill blemish, you shall not
sacrifice it unto the LORD your God.
15:22 you shall eat it within your gates: the
unclean and the clean [person shall eat it] alike, as the roebuck, and
as the hart.
15:23 Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.
16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the
passover unto the LORD your God: for in the month of Abib the LORD your
God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
16:2 you shall therefore sacrifice the passover
unto the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which
the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
16:3 you shall eat no leavened bread with it;
seven days shall you eat unleavened bread therewith, [even] the bread of
affliction; for you camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste:
that you may remember the day when you camest forth out of the land of
Egypt all the days of thy life.
16:4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen
with you in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there [anything] of
the flesh, which you sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all
night until the morning.
16:5 you may not sacrifice the passover within any of your gates, which the LORD your God gives you:
16:6 But at the place which the LORD your God
shall choose to place his name in, there you shall sacrifice the
passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you
camest forth out of Egypt.
16:7 And you shall roast and eat [it] in the
place which the LORD your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the
morning, and go unto your tents.
16:8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread:
and on the seventh day [shall be] a solemn assembly to the LORD your
God: you shall do no work [therein.]
16:9 Seven weeks shall you number unto you:
begin to number the seven weeks from [such time as] you beginnest [to
put] the sickle to the corn.
16:10 And you shall keep the feast of weeks
unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine
hand, which you shall give [unto the LORD your God,] according as the
LORD your God has blessed you:
16:11 And you shall rejoice before the LORD
your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and
thy maidservant, and the Levite that [is] within your gates, and the
stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that [are] among you, in
the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place his name there.
16:12 And you shall remember that you were a
bondman in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.
16:13 you shall observe the feast of
tabernacles seven days, after that you have gathered in your corn and
your wine:
16:14 And you shall rejoice in your feast, you,
and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your
maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the
widow, that [are] within your gates.
16:15 Seven days shall you keep a solemn feast
unto the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because
the LORD your God shall bless you in all thine increase, and in all the
works of thine hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice.
16:16 Three times in a year shall all your
males appear before the LORD your God in the place which he shall
choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and
in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD
empty:
16:17 Every man [shall give] as he is able,
according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given
you.
16:18 Judges and officers shall you make you in
all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your
tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
16:19 you shall not wrest judgment; you shall
not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes
of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
16:20 That which is altogether just shall you
follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God
gives you.
16:21 you shall not plant you a grove of any
trees near unto the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make
you.
16:22 Neither shall you set you up [any] image; which the LORD your God hates.
17:1 you shall not sacrifice unto the LORD your
God [any] bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, [or] any
evilfavoredness: for that [is] an abomination unto the LORD your God.
17:2 If there be found among you, within any of
your gates which the LORD your God gives you, man or woman, that has
worked wickedness in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing
his covenant,
17:3 And has gone and served other gods, and
worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven,
which I have not commanded;
17:4 And it be told you, and you have heard [of
it,] and enquired diligently, and, behold, [it be] true, [and] the
thing certain, [that] such abomination is worked in Israel:
17:5 Then shall you bring forth that man or
that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto your gates,
[even] that man or that woman, and shall stone them with stones, till
they die.
17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three
witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; [but] at
the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
17:7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first
upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people.
So you shall put the evil away from among you.
17:8 If there arise a matter too hard for you
in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between
stroke and stroke, [being] matters of controversy within your gates:
then shall you arise, and get you up into the place which the LORD your
God shall choose;
17:9 And you shall come unto the priests the
Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire;
and they shall shew you the sentence of judgment:
17:10 And you shall do according to the
sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall
shew you; and you shall observe to do according to all that they inform
you:
17:11 According to the sentence of the law
which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they
shall tell you, you shall do: you shall not decline from the sentence
which they shall shew you, [to] the right hand, nor [to] the left.
17:12 And the man that will do presumptuously,
and will not hearken unto the priest that stands to minister there
before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and
you shall put away the evil from Israel.
17:13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
17:14 When you are come unto the land which the
LORD your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein,
and shall say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that
[are] about me;
17:15 you shall in any wise set [him] king over
you, whom the LORD your God shall choose: [one] from among your
brethren shall you set king over you: you may not set a stranger over
you, which [is] not your brother.
17:16 But he shall not multiply horses to
himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he
should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD has said unto you, You
shall henceforth return no more that way.
17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to
himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply
to himself silver and gold.
17:18 And it shall be, when he sits upon the
throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a
book out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites:
17:19 And it shall be with him, and he shall
read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the
LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to
do them:
17:20 That his heart be not lifted up above his
brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, [to] the
right hand, or [to] the left: to the end that he may prolong [his] days
in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
18:1 The priests the Levites, [and] all the
tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they
shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
18:2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance
among their brethren: the LORD [is] their inheritance, as he has said
unto them.
18:3 And this shall be the priest's due from
the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether [it be] ox or
sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two
cheeks, and the maw.
18:4 The firstfruit [also] of your corn, of
your wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep,
shall you give him.
18:5 For the LORD your God has chosen him out
of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him
and his sons forever.
18:6 And if a Levite come from any of your
gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the
desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;
18:7 Then he shall minister in the name of the
LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites [do,] which stand there
before the LORD.
18:8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.
18:9 When you are come into the land which the
LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the
abominations of those nations.
18:10 There shall not be found among you [any
one] that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or
that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a
witch,
18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
18:12 For all that do these things [are] an
abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD
thy God doth drive them out from before you.
18:13 you shall be perfect with the LORD your God.
18:14 For these nations, which you shall
possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as
for you, the LORD your God has not suffered you so [to do.]
18:15 The LORD your God will raise up unto you a
Prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, like unto me; unto him
you shall hearken;
18:16 According to all that you desiredst of
the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not
hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great
fire any more, that I die not.
18:17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well [spoken that] which they have spoken.
18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among
their brethren, like unto you, and will put my words in his mouth; and
he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
18:19 And it shall come to pass, [that]
whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my
name, I will require [it] of him.
18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to
speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or
that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
18:21 And if you say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?
18:22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the
LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing
which the LORD has not spoken, [but] the prophet has spoken it
presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.
19:1 When the LORD your God has cut off the
nations, whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeedest
them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
19:2 you shall separate three cities for you in
the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess
it.
19:3 you shall prepare you a way, and divide
the coasts of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to inherit,
into three parts, that every slayer may flee there.
19:4 And this [is] the case of the slayer,
which shall flee there, that he may live: Whoso kills his neighbor
ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
19:5 As when a man goes into the wood with his
neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut
down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lights upon
his neighbor, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and
live:
19:6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the
slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is
long, and slay him; whereas he [was] not worthy of death, inasmuch as he
hated him not in time past.
19:7 Why I command you, saying, you shall separate three cities for you.
19:8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge your
coast, as he has sworn unto your fathers, and give you all the land
which he promised to give unto your fathers;
19:9 If you shall keep all these commandments
to do them, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and
to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you,
beside these three:
19:10 That innocent blood be not shed in your
land, which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance, and [so]
blood be upon you.
19:11 But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie
in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that
he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
19:12 Then the elders of his city shall send
and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of
blood, that he may die.
19:13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but you
shall put away [the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it may go
well with you.
19:14 you shall not remove your neighbor's
landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which
you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to
possess it.
19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a
man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the
mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the
matter be established.
19:16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him [that which is] wrong;
19:17 Then both the men, between whom the
controversy [is,] shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and
the judges, which shall be in those days;
19:18 And the judges shall make diligent
inquisition: and, behold, [if] the witness [be] a false witness, [and]
has testified falsely against his brother;
19:19 Then shall you do unto him, as he had
thought to have done unto his brother: so shall you put the evil away
from among you.
19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and
fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
19:21 And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life
[shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot
for foot.
20:1 When you goes out to battle against thine
enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than you,
be not afraid of them: for the LORD your God [is] with you, which
brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
20:2 And it shall be, when you are come nigh
unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the
people,
20:3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel,
you approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your
hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be you terrified
because of them;
20:4 For the LORD your God [is] he that goes
with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
20:5 And the officers shall speak unto the
people, saying, What man [is there] that has built a new house, and has
not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man dedicate it.
20:6 And what man [is he] that has planted a
vineyard, and has not [yet] eaten of it? let him [also] go and return
unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
20:7 And what man [is there] that has betrothed
a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return unto his house,
lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
20:8 And the officers shall speak further unto
the people, and they shall say, What man [is there that is] fearful and
fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's
heart faint as well as his heart.
20:9 And it shall be, when the officers have
made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains
of the armies to lead the people.
20:10 When you come nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
20:11 And it shall be, if it make you answer of
peace, and open unto you, then it shall be, [that] all the people [that
is] found therein shall be tributaries unto you, and they shall serve
you.
20:12 And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:
20:13 And when the LORD your God has delivered
it into thine hands, you shall smite every male thereof with the edge of
the sword:
20:14 But the women, and the little ones, and
the cattle, and all that is in the city, [even] all the spoil thereof,
shall you take unto thyself; and you shall eat the spoil of thine
enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.
20:15 Thus shall you do unto all the cities
[which are] very far off from you, which [are] not of the cities of
these nations.
20:16 But of the cities of these people, which
the LORD your God doth give you [for] an inheritance, you shall save
alive nothing that breatheth:
20:17 But you shall utterly destroy them;
[namely,] the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the
Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has
commanded you:
20:18 That they teach you not to do after all
their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should you
sin against the LORD your God.
20:19 When you shall besiege a city a long
time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the
trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for you may eat of them,
and you shall not cut them down (for the tree of the field [is] man's
[life]) to employ [them] in the siege:
20:20 Only the trees which you know that they
[be] not trees for meat, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you
shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it
be subdued.
21:1 If [one] be found slain in the land which
the LORD your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it
be not known who has slain him:
21:2 Then your elders and your judges shall
come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which [are] round
about him that is slain:
21:3 And it shall be, [that] the city [which
is] next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an
heifer, which has not been worked with, [and] which has not drawn in the
yoke;
21:4 And the elders of that city shall bring
down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown,
and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:
21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall
come near; for them the LORD your God has chosen to minister unto him,
and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every
controversy and every stroke be [tried: ]21:6 And all the elders of that
city, [that are] next unto the slain [man,] shall wash their hands over
the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
21:7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands
have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen [it. ]21:8 Be
merciful, O LORD, unto your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and
lay not innocent blood unto your people of Israel's charge. And the
blood shall be forgiven them.
21:9 So shall you put away the [guilt of]
innocent blood from among you, when you shall do [that which is] right
in the sight of the LORD.
21:10 When you goes forth to war against thine
enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into thine hands, and
you have taken them captive,
21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful
woman, and have a desire unto her, that you wouldest have her to your
wife;
21:12 Then you shall bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
21:13 And she shall put the raiment of her
captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her
father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in unto
her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
21:14 And it shall be, if you have no delight
in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell
her at all for money, you shall not make merchandise of her, because
you have humbled her.
21:15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and
another hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and
the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
21:16 Then it shall be, when he makes his sons
to inherit [that] which he has, [that] he may not make the son of the
beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, [which is indeed] the
firstborn:
21:17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the
hated [for] the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he
has: for he [is] the beginning of his strength; the right of the
firstborn [is] his.
21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious
son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his
mother, and [that,] when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto
them:
21:19 Then shall his father and his mother lay
hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the
gate of his place;
21:20 And they shall say unto the elders of his
city, This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our
voice; [he is] a glutton, and a drunkard.
21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone
him with stones, that he die: so shall you put evil away from among you;
and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy
of death, and he be to be put to death, and you hang him on a tree:
21:23 His body shall not remain all night upon
the tree, but you shall in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is
hanged [is] accursed of God;) that your land be not defiled, which the
LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance.
22:1 you shall not see the brother's ox or his
sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: you shall in any case bring
them again unto your brother.
22:2 And if your brother [be] not nigh unto
you, or if you know him not, then you shall bring it unto thine own
house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and
you shall restore it to him again.
22:3 In like manner shall you do with his ass;
and so shall you do with his raiment; and with all lost things of your
brother's, which he has lost, and you have found, shall you do likewise:
you may not hide thyself.
22:4 you shall not see your brother's ass or
his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: you shall
surely help him to lift [them] up again.
22:5 The woman shall not wear that which
pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for
all that do so [are] abomination unto the LORD your God.
22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before you
in the way in any tree, or on the ground, [whether they be] young ones,
or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, you shall
not take the dam with the young:
22:7 [But] you shall in any wise let the dam
go, and take the young to you; that it may be well with you, and [that]
you may prolong [thy] days.
22:8 When you buildest a new house, then you
shall make a battlement for your roof, that you bring not blood upon
thine house, if any man fall from thence.
22:9 you shall not sow your vineyard with
divers seeds: lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the
fruit of your vineyard, be defiled.
22:10 you shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.
22:11 you shall not wear a garment of divers sorts, [as] of woollen and linen together.
22:12 you shall make you fringes upon the four
quarters of thy vesture, wherewith you coverest [thyself.]
22:13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
22:14 And give occasions of speech against her,
and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and
when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
22:15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and
her mother, take and bring forth [the tokens of] the damsel's virginity
unto the elders of the city in the gate:
22:16 And the damsel's father shall say unto
the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hates her;
22:17 And, lo, he has given occasions of speech
[against her,] saying, I found not your daughter a maid; and yet these
[are the tokens of] my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the
cloth before the elders of the city.
22:18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
22:19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred
[shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father of the damsel,
because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she
shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
22:20 But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel:
22:21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to
the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her
with stones that she die: because she has worked folly in Israel, to
play the whore in her father's house: so shall you put evil away from
among you.
22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman
married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, [both] the man
that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away evil from
Israel.
22:23 If a damsel [that is] a virgin be
betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with
her;
22:24 Then you shall bring them both out unto
the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones that they
die; the damsel, because she cried not, [being] in the city; and the
man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away
evil from among you.
22:25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in
the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only
that lay with her shall die:
22:26 But unto the damsel you shall do nothing;
[there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death: for as when a man
riseth against his neighbor, and slays him, even so [is] this matter:
22:27 For he found her in the field, [and] the
betrothed damsel cried, and [there was] none to save her.
22:28 If a man find a damsel [that is] a
virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her,
and they be found;
22:29 Then the man that lay with her shall give
unto the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be
his wife; because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his
days.
22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or has
his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the
LORD.
23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the
congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not
enter into the congregation of the LORD.
23:3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter
into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall
they not enter into the congregation of the LORD forever:
23:4 Because they met you not with bread and
with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt; and because
they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia,
to curse you.
23:5 Nevertheless the LORD your God would not
hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a
blessing unto you, because the LORD your God loved you.
23:6 you shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
23:7 you shall not abhor an Edomite; for he
[is] your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian; because you were a
stranger in his land.
23:8 The children that are begotten of them
shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
23:9 When the host goes forth against thine enemies, then keep you from every wicked thing.
23:10 If there be among you any man, that is
not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then
shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
23:11 But it shall be, when evening comes on,
he shall wash [himself] with water: and when the sun is down, he shall
come into the camp [again.]
23:12 you shall have a place also without the camp, where you shall go forth abroad:
23:13 And you shall have a paddle upon thy
weapon; and it shall be, when you will ease thyself abroad, you shall
dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you:
23:14 For the LORD your God walks in the midst
of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up thine enemies before you;
therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in you,
and turn away from you.
23:15 you shall not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto you:
23:16 He shall dwell with you, [even] among
you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it
liketh him best: you shall not oppress him.
23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
23:18 you shall not bring the hire of a whore,
or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow:
for even both these [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.
23:19 you shall not lend upon usury to your
brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is
lent upon usury:
23:20 Unto a stranger you may lend upon usury;
but unto thy brother you shall not lend upon usury: that the LORD your
God may bless you in all that you settest thine hand to in the land
where you goes to possess it.
23:21 When you shall vow a vow unto the LORD
your God, you shall not slack to pay it: for the LORD your God will
surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
23:22 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
23:23 That which is gone out of thy lips you
shall keep and perform; [even] a freewill offering, according as you
have vowed unto the LORD your God, which you have promised with thy
mouth.
23:24 When you come into your neighbor's
vineyard, then you mayest eat grapes your fill at thine own pleasure;
but you shall not put [any] in your vessel.
23:25 When you come into the standing corn of
your neighbor, then you may pluck the ears with thine hand; but you
shall not move a sickle unto your neighbor's standing corn.
24:1 When a man has taken a wife, and married
her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he
has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of
divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.
24:2 And when she is departed out of his house,
she may go and be another man's [wife. ]24:3 And [if] the latter
husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and gives [it] in
her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband
die, which took her to [be] his wife;
24:4 Her former husband, which sent her away,
may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for
that [is] abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land
to sin, which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance.
24:5 When a man has taken a new wife, he shall
not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: [but]
he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he
has taken.
24:6 No man shall take the nether or the upper
millstone to pledge: for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.
24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his
brethren of the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or
sells him; then that thief shall die; and you shall put evil away from
among you.
24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that
you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the
Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to
do.
24:9 Remember what the LORD your God did unto
Miriam by the way, after that you were come forth out of Egypt.
24:10 When you dost lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
24:11 you shall stand abroad, and the man to
whom you dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto you.
24:12 And if the man [be] poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:
24:13 In any case you shall deliver him the
pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own
raiment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness unto you before
the LORD thy God.
24:14 you shall not oppress an hired servant
[that is] poor and needy, [whether he be] of your brethren, or of your
strangers that [are] in your land within your gates:
24:15 At his day you shall give [him] his hire,
neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he [is] poor, and setteth
his heart upon it: lest he cry against you unto the LORD, and it be sin
unto you.
24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for
the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the
fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
24:17 you shall not pervert the judgment of the
stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to
pledge:
24:18 But you shall remember that you were a
bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed you thence: therefore I
command you to do this thing.
24:19 When you cuttest down thine harvest in
your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again
to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for
the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of thine
hands.
24:20 When you beatest thine olive tree, you
shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for
the fatherless, and for the widow.
24:21 When you gatherest the grapes of your
vineyard, you shall not glean [it] afterward: it shall be for the
stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
24:22 And you shall remember that you were a
bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and
they come unto judgment, that [the judges] may judge them; then they
shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
25:2 And it shall be, if the wicked man [be]
worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to
be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not
exceed: lest, [if] he should exceed, and beat him above these with many
stripes, then your brother should seem vile unto you.
25:4 you shall not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn.]
25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of
them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry
without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and
take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother
unto her.
25:6 And it shall be, [that] the firstborn
which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother [which is]
dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
25:7 And if the man like not to take his
brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the
elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up unto his
brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's
brother.
25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call
him, and speak unto him: and [if] he stand [to it,] and say, I like not
to take her;
25:9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto
him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot,
and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done
unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.
25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has his shoe loosed.
25:11 When men strive together one with
another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband
out of the hand of him that smites him, and puts forth her hand, and
takes him by the secrets:
25:12 Then you shall cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity [her.]
25:13 you shall not have in your bag divers weights, a great and a small.
25:14 you shall not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
25:15 [But] you shall have a perfect and just
weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be
lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
25:16 For all that do such things, [and] all
that do unrighteously, [are] an abomination unto the LORD your God.
25:17 Remember what Amalek did unto you by the way, when you were come forth out of Egypt;
25:18 How he met you by the way, and smote the
hindmost of you, [even] all [that were] feeble behind you, when you
[were] faint and weary; and he feared not God.
25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your
God has given you rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land
which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance to possess it,
[that] you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven;
you shall not forget [it.]
26:1 And it shall be, when you [are] come in
unto the land which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance,
and possessest it, and dwellest therein;
26:2 That you shall take of the first of all
the fruit of the earth, which you shall bring of your land that the LORD
your God gives you, and shall put [it] in a basket, and shall go unto
the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place his name there.
26:3 And you shall go unto the priest that
shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the
LORD your God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD swore unto
our fathers for to give us.
26:4 And the priest shall take the basket out
of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.
26:5 And you shall speak and say before the
LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went
down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a
nation, great, mighty, and populous:
26:6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
26:7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our
fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and
our labour, and our oppression:
26:8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt
with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great
terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:
26:9 And he has brought us into this place, and
has given us this land, [even] a land that flows with milk and honey.
26:10 And now, behold, I have brought the
firstfruits of the land, which you, O LORD, have given me. And you shall
set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God:
26:11 And you shall rejoice in every good
[thing] which the LORD your God has given unto you, and unto thine
house, you, and the Levite, and the stranger that [is] among you.
26:12 When you have made an end of tithing all
the tithes of thine increase the third year, [which is] the year of
tithing, and have given [it] unto the Levite, the stranger, the
fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be
filled;
26:13 Then you shall say before the LORD your
God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of [my] house, and also
have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the
fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandments which
you have commanded me: I have not transgressed your commandments,
neither have I forgotten [them: ]26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my
mourning, neither have I taken away [ought] thereof for [any] unclean
[use,] nor given [ought] thereof for the dead: [but] I have hearkened to
the voice of the LORD my God, [and] have done according to all that you
have commanded me.
26:15 Look down from your holy habitation, from
heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land which you have given
us, as you sworest unto our fathers, a land that flows with milk and
honey.
26:16 This day the LORD your God has commanded
you to do these statutes and judgments: you shall therefore keep and do
them with all thine heart, and with all your soul.
26:17 you have avouched the LORD this day to be
your God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his
commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
26:18 And the LORD has avouched you this day to
be his peculiar people, as he has promised you, and that [you] should
keep all his commandments;
26:19 And to make you high above all nations
which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that you
may be an holy people unto the LORD your God, as he has spoken.
27:1 And Moses with the elders of Israel
commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command
you this day.
27:2 And it shall be on the day when you shall
pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD your God gives you, that
you shall set you up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:
27:3 And you shall write upon them all the
words of this law, when you are passed over, that you may go in unto the
land which the LORD your God gives you, a land that flows with milk and
honey; as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you.
27:4 Therefore it shall be when you be gone
over Jordan, [that] you shall set up these stones, which I command you
this day, in mount Ebal, and you shall plaister them with plaister.
27:5 And there shall you build an altar unto
the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up [any] iron
[tool] upon them.
27:6 you shall build the altar of the LORD your
God of whole stones: and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon unto
the LORD your God:
27:7 And you shall offer peace offerings, and shall eat there, and rejoice before the LORD your God.
27:8 And you shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.
27:9 And Moses and the priests the Levites
spoke unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this
day you are become the people of the LORD your God.
27:10 you shall therefore obey the voice of the
LORD your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I
command you this day.
27:11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
27:12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to
bless the people, when you are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and
Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:
27:13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to
curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
27:14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
27:15 Cursed [be] the man that makes [any]
graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the
hands of the craftsman, and puts [it] in [a] secret [place.] And all the
people shall answer and say, Amen.
27:16 Cursed [be] he that setteth light by his
father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:17 Cursed [be] he that removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:18 Cursed [be] he that makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:19 Cursed [be] he that perverts the judgment
of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say,
Amen.
27:20 Cursed [be] he that lies with his
father's wife; because he uncovers his father's skirt. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
27:21 Cursed [be] he that lies with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:22 Cursed [be] he that lies with his sister,
the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
27:23 Cursed [be] he that lies with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:24 Cursed [be] he that smites his neighbor secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:25 Cursed [be] he that takes reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:26 Cursed [be] he that confirmeth not [all]
the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
28:1 And it shall come to pass, if you shall
hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD your God, to observe [and]
to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that the LORD
your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth:
28:2 And all these blessings shall come on you,
and overtake you, if you shall hearken unto the voice of the LORD your
God.
28:3 Blessed [shall] you [be] in the city, and blessed [shall] you [be] in the field.
28:4 Blessed [shall be] the fruit of your body,
and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your cattle, the
increase of your kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
28:5 Blessed [shall be] your basket and your store.
28:6 Blessed [shall] you [be] when you come in, and blessed [shall] you [be] when you goes out.
28:7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that
rise up against you to be smitten before your face: they shall come out
against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.
28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon
you in your storehouses, and in all that you settest thine hand unto;
and he shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
28:9 The LORD shall establish you an holy
people unto himself, as he has sworn unto you, if you shall keep the
commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways.
28:10 And all people of the earth shall see
that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of
you.
28:11 And the LORD shall make you plenteous in
goods, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and
in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD swore unto your
fathers to give you.
28:12 The LORD shall open unto you his good
treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto your land in his season, and
to bless all the work of thine hand: and you shall lend unto many
nations, and you shall not borrow.
28:13 And the LORD shall make you the head, and
not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be
beneath; if that you hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God,
which I command you this day, to observe and to do [them: ]28:14 And
you shall not go aside from any of the words which I command you this
day, to the right hand, or [to] the left, to go after other gods to
serve them.
28:15 But it shall come to pass, if you will
not hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all
his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day; that all
these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you:
28:16 Cursed [shall] you [be] in the city, and cursed [shall] you [be] in the field.
28:17 Cursed [shall be] your basket and your store.
28:18 Cursed [shall be] the fruit of your body,
and the fruit of your land, the increase of your kine, and the flocks
of your sheep.
28:19 Cursed [shall] you [be] when you come in, and cursed [shall] you [be] when you goes out.
28:20 The LORD shall send upon you cursing,
vexation, and rebuke, in all that you settest thine hand unto for to do,
until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the
wickedness of your doings, whereby you have forsaken me.
28:21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave
unto you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you goes
to possess it.
28:22 The LORD shall smite you with a
consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an
extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew;
and they shall pursue you until you perish.
28:23 And thy heaven that [is] over your head
shall be brass, and the earth that is under you [shall be] iron.
28:24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land
powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon you, until you be
destroyed.
28:25 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten
before thine enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee
seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of
the earth.
28:26 And your carcase shall be meat unto all
fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall
fray [them] away.
28:27 The LORD will smite you with the botch of
Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch,
whereof you canst not be healed.
28:28 The LORD shall smite you with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
28:29 And you shall grope at noonday, as the
blind gropeth in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and
you shall be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save
[you. ]28:30 you shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with
her: you shall build an house, and you shall not dwell therein: you
shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.
28:31 Thine ox [shall be] slain before thine
eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: thine ass [shall be] violently
taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your
sheep [shall be] given unto thine enemies, and you shall have none to
rescue [them. ]28:32 your sons and thy daughters [shall be] given unto
another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail [with longing] for
them all the day long: and [there shall be] no might in thine hand.
28:33 The fruit of your land, and all your
labours, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only
oppressed and crushed alway:
28:34 So that you shall be mad for the sight of thine eyes which you shall see.
28:35 The LORD shall smite you in the knees,
and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole
of your foot unto the top of thy head.
28:36 The LORD shall bring you, and your king
which you shall set over you, unto a nation which neither you nor your
fathers have known; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and
stone.
28:37 And you shall become an astonishment, a
proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.
28:38 you shall carry much seed out into the
field, and shall gather [but] little in; for the locust shall consume
it.
28:39 you shall plant vineyards, and dress
[them,] but shall neither drink [of] the wine, nor gather [the grapes;]
for the worms shall eat them.
28:40 you shall have olive trees throughout all
your coasts, but you shall not anoint [thyself] with the oil; for thine
olive shall cast [his fruit. ]28:41 you shall beget sons and daughters,
but you shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
28:42 All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume.
28:43 The stranger that [is] within you shall
get up above you very high; and you shall come down very low.
28:44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not
lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
28:45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon
you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, till you be destroyed;
because you hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD your God, to keep
his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:
28:46 And they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and upon your seed forever.
28:47 Because you servedst not the LORD your
God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of
all [things; ]28:48 Therefore shall you serve thine enemies which the
LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness,
and in want of all [things:] and he shall put a yoke of iron upon your
neck, until he have destroyed you.
28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against you
from far, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flies; a
nation whose tongue you shall not understand;
28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which
shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favor to the young:
28:51 And he shall eat the fruit of your
cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you be destroyed: which [also]
shall not leave you [either] corn, wine, or oil, [or] the increase of
your kine, or flocks of your sheep, until he have destroyed you.
28:52 And he shall besiege you in all thy
gates, until your high and fenced walls come down, wherein you
trustedst, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all thy
gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.
28:53 And you shall eat the fruit of thine own
body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the LORD your
God has given you, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine
enemies shall distress you:
28:54 [So that] the man [that is] tender among
you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and
toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children
which he shall leave:
28:55 So that he will not give to any of them
of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing
left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies
shall distress you in all your gates.
28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you,
which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground
for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the
husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
28:57 And toward her young one that comes out
from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for
she shall eat them for want of all [things] secretly in the siege and
straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress you in your gates.
28:58 If you will not observe to do all the
words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this
glorious and fearful name, THE LORD your GOD;
28:59 Then the LORD will make your plagues
wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, [even] great plagues, and of
long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
28:60 Moreover he will bring upon you all the
diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave unto
you.
28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague,
which [is] not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring
upon you, until you be destroyed.
28:62 And you shall be left few in number,
whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you
wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
28:63 And it shall come to pass, [that] as the
LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD
will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and
you shall be plucked from off the land where you goes to possess it.
28:64 And the LORD shall scatter you among all
people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you
shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known,
[even] wood and stone.
28:65 And among these nations shall you find no
ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall
give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of
mind:
28:66 And your life shall hang in doubt before
you; and you shall fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of
your life:
28:67 In the morning you shall say, Would God
it were even! and at even you shall say, Would God it were morning! for
the fear of thine heart wherewith you shall fear, and for the sight of
thine eyes which you shall see.
28:68 And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt
again with ships, by the way whereof I spoke unto you, you shall see it
no more again: and there you shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen
and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [you.]
29:1 These [are] the words of the covenant,
which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in
the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
29:2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said
unto them, You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the
land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his
land;
29:3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
29:4 Yet the LORD has not given you an heart to
perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
29:5 And I have led you forty years in the
wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and your shoe is
not waxen old upon your foot.
29:6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you
drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I [am] the LORD
your God.
29:7 And when you came unto this place, Sihon
the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto
battle, and we smote them:
29:8 And we took their land, and gave it for an
inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half
tribe of Manasseh.
29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
29:10 You stand this day all of you before the
LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your
officers, [with] all the men of Israel,
29:11 Your little ones, your wives, and your
stranger that [is] in your camp, from the hewer of your wood unto the
drawer of thy water:
29:12 That you should enter into covenant with
the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with
you this day:
29:13 That he may establish you today for a
people unto himself, and [that] he may be unto you a God, as he has said
unto you, and as he has sworn unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob.
29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
29:15 But with [him] that stands here with us
this day before the LORD our God, and also with [him] that [is] not here
with us this day:
29:16 (For you know how we have dwelt in the
land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which you passed by;
29:17 And you have seen their abominations, and
their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them:)
29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or
woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the
LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there
should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
29:19 And it come to pass, when he hears the
words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall
have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add
drunkenness to thirst:
29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the
anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and
all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the
LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
29:21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil
out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the
covenant that are written in this book of the law:
29:22 So that the generation to come of your
children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come
from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and
the sicknesses which the LORD has laid upon it;
29:23 [And that] the whole land thereof [is]
brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears,
nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah,
Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his
wrath:
29:24 Even all nations shall say, Why has the
LORD done thus unto this land? what [meaneth] the heat of this great
anger?
29:25 Then men shall say, Because they have
forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made
with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
29:26 For they went and served other gods, and
worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and [whom] he had not given
unto them:
29:27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled
against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in
this book:
29:28 And the LORD rooted them out of their
land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them
into another land, as [it is] this day.
29:29 The secret [things belong] unto the LORD
our God: but [those things which] are revealed [belong] unto us and to
our children forever, that [we] may do all the words of this law.
30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these
things are come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set
before you, and you shall call [them] to mind among all the nations,
where the LORD your God has driven you,
30:2 And shall return unto the LORD thy God,
and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day,
you and your children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
30:3 That then the LORD your God will turn your
captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you
from all the nations, where the LORD your God has scattered you.
30:4 If [any] of thine be driven out unto the
outmost [parts] of heaven, from thence will the LORD your God gather
you, and from thence will he fetch you:
30:5 And the LORD your God will bring you into
the land which thy fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he
will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
30:6 And the LORD your God will circumcise
thine heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD thy God with
all thine heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
30:7 And the LORD your God will put all these
curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate you, which persecuted
you.
30:8 And you shall return and obey the voice of
the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.
30:9 And the LORD your God will make you
plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in
the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, for good: for
the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your
fathers:
30:10 If you shall hearken unto the voice of
the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are
written in this book of the law, [and] if you turn unto the LORD thy God
with all thine heart, and with all your soul.
30:11 For this commandment which I command you
this day, it [is] not hidden from you, neither [is] it far off.
30:12 It [is] not in heaven, that you should
say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may
hear it, and do it?
30:13 Neither [is] it beyond the sea, that you
should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that
we may hear it, and do it?
30:14 But the word [is] very nigh unto you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.
30:15 See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;
30:16 In that I command you this day to love
the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and
his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the
LORD your God shall bless you in the land where you goes to possess it.
30:17 But if thine heart turn away, so that you
will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and
serve them;
30:18 I denounce unto you this day, that you
shall surely perish, [and that] you shall not prolong [your] days upon
the land, where you passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this
day against you, [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing
and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may
live:
30:20 That you may love the LORD your God,
[and] that you may obey his voice, and that you may cleave unto him: for
he [is] your life, and the length of your days: that you mayest dwell
in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
31:1 And Moses went and spoke these words unto all Israel.
31:2 And he said unto them, I [am] an hundred
and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also
the LORD has said unto me, you shall not go over this Jordan.
31:3 The LORD your God, he will go over before
you, [and] he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall
possess them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before you, as the LORD has
said.
31:4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did
to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them,
whom he destroyed.
31:5 And the LORD shall give them up before
your face, that you may do unto them according unto all the commandments
which I have commanded you.
31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not,
nor be afraid of them: for the LORD your God, he [it is] that doth go
with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.
31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said
unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage:
for you must go with this people unto the land which the LORD has sworn
unto their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
31:8 And the LORD, he [it is] that doth go
before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake
you: fear not, neither be dismayed.
31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it
unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant
of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.
31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the
end of [every] seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in
the feast of tabernacles,
31:11 When all Israel is come to appear before
the LORD your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read
this law before all Israel in their hearing.
31:12 Gather the people together, men, and
women, and children, and thy stranger that [is] within your gates, that
they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and
observe to do all the words of this law:
31:13 And [that] their children, which have not
known [anything,] may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as
long as you live in the land where you go over Jordan to possess it.
31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold,
your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present
yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a
charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
31:15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle
in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door
of the tabernacle.
31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, you
shall sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a
whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, where they go [to
be] among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have
made with them.
31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against
them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from
them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall
befall them; so that they will say in that day. Are not these evils come
upon us, because our God [is] not among us?
31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that
day for all the evils which they shall have worked, in that they are
turned unto other gods.
31:19 Now therefore write you this song for
you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that
this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
31:20 For when I shall have brought them into
the land which I swore unto their fathers, that flows with milk and
honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat;
then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and
break my covenant.
31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many
evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify
against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the
mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about,
even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
31:22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a
charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for you shall bring
the children of Israel into the land which I swore unto them: and I will
be with you.
31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made
an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were
finished,
31:25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it in
the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be
there for a witness against you.
31:27 For I know your rebellion, and thy stiff
neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been
rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
31:28 Gather unto me all the elders of your
tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears,
and call heaven and earth to record against them.
31:29 For I know that after my death you will
utterly corrupt [yourselves,] and turn aside from the way which I have
commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because you
will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through
the work of your hands.
31:30 And Moses spoke in the ears of all the
congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
32:1 Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my
speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb,