# introductions

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<h2> Introduction to the Christian Letters </h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> After you know about who Jesus was in the first four books and have followed an example of how to become a Christian in Acts, then comes the remainder of the New Testament. A collection of letters written <i>to Christians</i>, helping them to know how to live their lives for Christ Jesus after they are saved from their sins. They were not arranged in chronological order so to read and learn from them as God intended, it is better to follow the order of the Simple Reading Schedule. This way each letter will build upon each other. You will also have some preparation before you read Romans, a very intense letter. Each letter deals with specific issues and problems that different groups of Christians were struggling with at the time of the writing. The most common problem was that Jewish false teachers were binding the Gentile Christians under the Law. However, up front, the Law, spoken of in the letters is in a very generalized way as “Law” vs. “the Law” most often. It is the old covenant of God, the Old Testament from Genesis through Malachi.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> The first nine letters are written by the apostle Paul to specific congregations of the Lord’s body in various cities and are named for the area in which those Christians lived. The next four letters are written by Paul to specific Christian individuals who were working with congregations.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> The letter to the Hebrews was written to help Jewish Christians understand that the Old Testament had fulfilled its purpose in pointing people to something much better: Christ Jesus.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> The letters of James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2, and 3 John, and Jude were all written to Christians in various areas, and the letters are named after the writer.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> The book of Revelation is a combination of letters from Christ Jesus to specific congregations, and a prophecy given as a reminder to Christians to stay faithful even in persecution because God is the one ultimately in control.</p> <br/> <h2> Introduction to Romans 58 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> The Romans had their problems with Jewish Christian false teachers also. But he first addressed homosexuality which was a common practice in Rome at the time. Caesar Nero was a classic example. Paul puts it in blunt terms in <a href='B:530 6:9'>1 Cor. 6:9</a>, ‘they will not inherit the kingdom of God.’ In the next few chapters, Paul deals with: various quotes of the O.T., why they are not the ‘faith of Abraham,’ and that Christ was the fulfilment of that promise to Abraham, long before the O.T. was written. In chapter <a href='B:520 6:1'>6</a>, Paul gives us one more aspect about immersion, the death burial, and resurrection, same as our Lord. Chapter <a href='B:520 7:1'>7</a> shows the contrast of a married couple and remarriage, but the whole point is you cannot keep the Old Covenant of God and be married to the New Covenant of Jesus or else God calls you an adulteress. Paul speaks of his (and our) war between what we want to do vs. what we are to do in Christ and how nothing but ourselves can ever keep us the love of God. Chapter <a href='B:520 9:1'>9</a> goes back to the argument against the Jewish false teachers. In 10, the same problem with the Israel of then and many false religious groups of today, ‘a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.’ Then Paul speaks of the declarations/report from the apostles that brought them to Christ. In 11, Paul speaks that is was always God’s plan to have the Gentiles and Jews under one covenant. In Chapters 12-14, instructions on how to live as a Christian, and governments in Chapter <a href='B:520 13:1'>13</a>. In Chapter<a href='B:520 15:1'>15</a> back to more about the Law of Moses vs. the Law of Christ. Ending with Paul’s typical farewells.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to 1 Corinthians 56-58 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> If you could find a place where sin was rampant, it was Corinth. Then what was worse is the attitude common to today of ‘it really doesn’t matter.’ The more garbage you take in, the more chance of it influencing you! Then the congregation in Corinth seems to take everything to the extreme.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> They were not unified in much of anything and filled full of splits, and the ‘anything goes’ policy so common to many religious groups of today. ‘In the same...’ ‘be mindful of the same...’ is a common commandment throughout all the letters; but not in this congregation. Paul’s use of sarcasm is superior throughout both Corinthian letters, ‘Christ sent me not to immerse, but to proclaim the good-news’ actually both are commands of the Lord written at the ends of the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, witnessed in <a href='B:510 2:38'>Acts 2:38</a> ‘to be saved.’ Man’s foolishness is used by God to promote His purpose. <a href='B:530 4:10'>4:10</a>, apostles are foolish, but they (the Corinthians) are wise, and many more places.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> Then in chapter <a href='B:530 2:1'>2</a>, Paul goes from foolishness of man to wisdom of man vs. God’s wisdom, which progresses onward to the spiritual things. Chapter <a href='B:530 3:1'>3</a>, Paul calls them babies and fleshly. Then he talks about the foundation (Jesus) that he and Apollos built that they should make sure they build properly on it. Because even if Paul’s work fails at judgment day (the Corinthians); Paul is still saved as though he walked through the fire. In chapter <a href='B:530 4:1'>4</a> &amp; 9, Paul calls them arrogant, they are judging him. They have everything, even reigning like kings; they do not need Paul. In chapter <a href='B:530 5:1'>5</a>, a man is fornicating with his stepmother. Instead of disciplining him, so he would not spend eternity away from them; they just do not care. This ‘leavening’ could ruin the batch of them, and they just do not get it. Then they have lawsuits against each other. Paul finally lists all of their past sins (possibly current ones) and tells them no one who practices them will inherit heaven. The Corinthians thought you could be like the world and still be in the Lord’s body at the same time. Chapter <a href='B:530 7:1'>7</a> deals with marriage and the unmarried. Then in Chapters 8, 10, they add idolatry to the list. Also in Chapters 10, 11 it was pointed out how they are abusing the Lord’s Supper and the love feast versus how it should be respected. We know from <a href='B:510 20:7'>Acts 20:7</a>, this is one of the reasons the congregations come together every Sunday. Chapters 12, 13, 14 talks about the spiritual gifts Christians had during the first century used to evangelize the world (<a href='B:480 16:15-20'>Mark 16:15-20</a>). In 13:10, he tells them the completed word will stop all of this, so put love higher on the list, it never fails. Once again, the Corinthians took this to extremes as about everything else they did. In 15, Adam and Jesus are compared, and the last part talks about the time when Jesus will come back where ‘in the blink of an eye’ we will inherit our heavenly bodies. In 16, he concludes with his typical greetings and encouragements.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to 2 Corinthians 58-59 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> Paul continues his battle with those who think of themselves too highly and states he did not come to them right then to spare them. He was giving them a chance to repent. About three chapters are spent showing his authority from Jesus, and how good they had life in comparison to the apostles’ ‘verdict’ of death. In chapter <a href='B:540 6:1'>6</a> and 11, he talks about how bad the people who had ministered to the Corinthians had it, but all of it was for the sake of the Corinthians and others. He gave various encouragements: all in life is temporary; hope for a new body in heaven; in salvation, a new creation; you* are in our hearts, etc. ‘You* are not distressed by us, but you* are distressed by your* own affections’ in 6:11 sums it up for them.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> Then Paul describes a relief that many of the congregations had put together for the poor holy-ones (<a href='B:540 10:1'>10:1</a>) in Jerusalem, one of many mentioned in the New Testament. Many were assigned and cooperated due to the high possibility of robbers (food during a drought is more valuable than gold). Then in chapter <a href='B:540 10:1'>10</a>, he redirects his letter to rebuke one or many who claim that ‘they walk according to the flesh.’ He tells the Corinthians they should have already done it in 10:2. In 11, he talks to the Corinthians as he did to the Galatians about anyone adding in another good-news or teaching not in the bible is a false teacher. Adding in ‘it doesn’t say not to’ is just as bad as excluding parts. Paul continues his sarcasm in 12 and then his rebuke in 13 ‘not sparing’ them when he comes.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to Galatians 55-58 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> The letter is addressed to Christians as is all ‘letters' and this time multiple congregations all located in Galatia. Paul wastes no time getting right to the point that there is only ‘one good-news of Jesus' and obeying any other is a curse. Apparently, some previously converted Jew(s) were teaching the previously converted Gentile Christians that they had to be circumcised and keep the Old Covenant Laws. A wonderful comparison of the ‘promise to’ and the ‘faith of Abraham’ and ‘the faith of Christ.’ The real purpose of God was always to bring Christ into the world. However, Paul with various arguments pretty much put it in the context in 5:1-6. Circumcision is not profitable, but if you keep any of the Law (Old Testament), then you have to practice all of it. However, in Christ, all are free from the Old Testament Law and Christians are not a slave to it. Then the typical ‘slap on the face' from Paul ‘you* who are made righteous by the law; you* have fallen from the grace of God.'</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> Therefore, if you are keeping tithing, then you have to keep the Sabbath (Saturday) and about 630 more laws. Then once again ‘who hindered you* not to obey the truth’' I wish-that those who are unsettling you* will even castrate themselves. No doubt, we know Paul’s (God’s) opinion of false teachers who lead Christians away from the truth by making them keep Old Testament Law. For* all the Law is fulfilled in one word, in this: ‘You will love* your neighbor like yourself’ <a href='B:550 5:14'>5:14</a>.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to Ephesians 62-64 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> By the time, Paul wrote to the Ephesian congregation, they seem to have few problems, which were so common to the other congregations of the Lord in his letters, or they had already learned the truth from them. Paul is still in prison and sends others in his place to help and encourage them. The introduction in the first chapter and second about God’s favor; his original plan for our salvation, all we have to do it obey it. Eph. contains the most misquoted verse in the Bible by Christians, completely out of context, <a href='B:560 2:8'>2:8</a>. God made a plan for us to be saved from our sins and showed us many examples in Acts. Once saved from your past sins, Christians have the letters to guide them on how to stay in God’s grace and receive further forgiveness of sin for us as the ‘new creation.’ So many miss this fact. In chapter <a href='B:560 3:1'>3</a>, he describes God’s plan, a mystery hidden until this age when the Gentile and the Jew would be together in one body, the congregation of believers. The absolute best description of what the body of Christ is supposed to be and follow in Chapter 4:1-6, 11-16. We pray that all ‘achieve to the unity of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son.’ In Chapter <a href='B:560 5:1'>5</a>, Paul uses an example of a husband and wife to describe Jesus’ love for the congregation. In Chapter <a href='B:560 6:1'>6</a>, Paul tells us the devil is the real enemy, and only the knowledge of God’s word can defeat him and his schemes.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to Philippians 62-64 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> Paul, still in prison, writes a long, encouraging letter that has very few sentences dealing with problems or possible problems, one is two women who are making some kind of disturbance. Paul tells them to be of the same mind a commandment he tells all the Christians in all his letters. All Christians should strive to be the congregation, which obeys the commands of Jesus and not the traditions of men, fulfill Jesus’ prayer for unity, (<a href='B:500 17:1'>Joh 17</a>). He speaks about his evangelism of all the palace guard. You might say he had a ‘captive audience’ with ‘the whole palace guard and to all the rest.’ You get to see a lot of Paul’s human side, his emotions, and concern for all the congregations and his desire to make sure someone is sent to them in his place. Paul does a rebuke to the ‘mutilation,’ i.e., the Jewish Christian false teachers in chapter <a href='B:570 3:1'>3</a>. Some of the best advice that could be given to a Christian, ‘forgetting the things which are behind me and stretching forth to the things which are before me.’ He ends with the usual greeting and encouragements.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to Colossians 62-64 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> The Colossians had a ‘pastor’ problem, a one-man self-righteous false teacher, most likely a Jewish Christian with ‘persuasive speech’ who wanted the congregation to follow his teachings and not the teachings of the Christ given to them by Paul. There are reasons, as shown here, why God did not establish a democracy or a dictatorship in the congregation, but multiple shepherds (overseers, elders, etc. <a href='B:570 1:2'>Philippians 1:2</a>, Tim. 3, <a href='B:630 1:1'>Titus 1</a>). An inspired description of this man, without naming him and strong rebuke in Chapter 2:8-23. In this a teaching that immersion cleaned away their sins, trespasses, and killed the Old Testament Law ‘having nailed it to the cross.’ He uses the same type of example here as he did in <a href='B:520 6:1'>Rom 6</a>. In Chapter <a href='B:580 3:1'>3</a>, now that you have been raised up from the dead do away with old sinful things and replace them with holy things. Do all in the name of Jesus; (do only what is authorized). A short encouragement to the married, children, bondservants (workers), and employers. Some simple instruction to them and the plans to send others in his place to continue to help them grow.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> We can learn a valuable lesson from this letter to never exalt or follow any man, as well as how to live as a Christian. Hero worship has no place with Christians and should be condemned by all.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to 1 &amp; 2 Thessalonians 52-53 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> The letter sent to a congregation in Thessalonica apparently who had problems with the teachings previously given to them, which deals with what is typical, called the ‘Second Coming.’ They believed (wrongly) that Jesus was coming back ‘like right now.’ One thing that false religious groups and ‘self-proclaimed’ (false) prophets have taught us in the past 100 years or so is that no one knows when Jesus is coming back. Jesus did not even know. A very vivid picture is given of how the judgment, revelation of the Lord, Jesus’ coming and the end occurs. Jesus and the messengers of God would come with a sound of a trumpet (common in Greek history as a call to battle, that everyone could hear it) in flaming fire. Christians will meet Jesus in the air <a href='B:590 4:16-17'>1Thessalonians 4:16-17</a>, ‘those who are not obeying...the sentence of everlasting utter-destruction’ in 2Thessalonians 1:7-9. The warning that the ‘man of sin’ would come first, <a href='B:590 2:1'>1Thessalonians 2</a>, Caesar Nero, (called 666 by John in <a href='B:730 13:18'>Revelation 13:18</a>) was a time that Christians would start suffering persecution from the hands of the Roman government. A quick ‘to the point’ conclusion in 2Thessalonians 3 and a commandment to stay away from those who do not teach ‘the tradition received from us.’ A commandment we hope all Christians will obey by not following the ‘traditions of men’ and so save themselves from the ‘fire.’</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to 1 Timothy 63-64 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> This was written after Paul was released from his first two-year imprisonment in Rome, which is mentioned in <a href='B:510 28:30'>Acts 28:30</a>, <a href='B:510 28:31'>31</a>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Paul wants the reader to gain knowledge about God’s instructions to preachers, prayer, the role of women, qualifications of elders and deacons, proper treatment of various categories of people, the importance of the right example and more. Timothy receives this letter from Paul and Paul took Timothy with him on other journeys (<a href='B:510 16:3-5'>Acts 16:3-5</a>). However, the writing is to give instructions and encouragement to Timothy and all other men who would preach the Good-news and to stress the necessity of preaching and teaching the sound doctrine (i.e., the Good-news of Christ, without adding to or taking away from it). To identify the need to wage the good spiritual warfare against Satan, including resisting and rebuking those who teach false doctrine. Paul addresses prayer, submission of women, qualifications of the men for the eldership or servants such as deacons. We also see instructions on the proper treatment of older and younger men and women, including widows and elders. Instruction and strong warning and exhortation to those who desire to be rich and to those who actually are rich in this world’s goods.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to 2 Timothy 65 AD</h2> <p style="text-align: justify"> Paul wrote this Letter to Timothy (<a href='B:620 1:2'>1:2</a>) and taught Timothy the Good-news, and they did a great deal of work together preaching the Good-news. To give instructions and encouragement to Timothy and all future preachers and teachers of not being ashamed of God’s word, and to hold fast to the pattern of sound words delivered by Paul and other apostles and prophets. Being strong and endure hardship and suffering as a good soldier of Christ and willing to endure all things for the chosen, that they may obtain the salvation which is in Christ. Being a diligent worker, rightly dividing the word of truth, carefully following sound doctrine and continuing to live in it. Being watchful, endure affliction and do the work of an evangelist and beware of false teachers because false doctrine spreads and kills like cancer, undermining the work of faithful preachers, but most of all, fighting the good fight, keep the faith and finish the race in Christ looking forward to the crown of righteousness.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to Titus 63-64 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> This letter was written after Paul was released from his first two-year imprisonment in Rome (<a href='B:510 28:30'>Acts 28:30</a>, <a href='B:510 28:31'>31</a>). It was written to provide instructions and encouragement to Titus and to all men who preach the Good-news and to set in order things that are lacking in any congregation of Christ as well as to give some qualifications of elders (<a href='B:610 3:1'>1Tim. 3</a> also). He also points out the importance of exhorting and convicting false teachers. He is stressing the necessity of teaching and preaching sound doctrine as well as to bring to mind the kindness, love, mercy, and grace of God focusing on blessings of being saved from sin, justified, redeemed, purified, God’s own special people and heirs of God so the Christian can have hope. No wonder Paul described Titus as his partner and fellow worker!}</p> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> {Paul’s second imprisonment. Autumn 65 AD. Rome. Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy was written.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to Philemon 62-64 AD</h2> <p style="text-align: justify"> Paul writes the letter, not to a congregation(s) in an area but Philemon, the owner of a runaway bondservant, Onesimus. The non- Christian bondservant met Paul in Rome who taught him the truth, and he became a Christian and good friend of Paul. Paul was sending Onesimus back to Philemon, but he wants Philemon to treat this bondservant now like a brother in Christ. Paul even says he personally will compensate if need be. However, it is doubtful Philemon ever asked for it considering he was also taught the truth by Paul and, as you will see Paul being Paul in this short letter.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to Hebrews 65-66 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> The book of Hebrew gives direction to the Jewish Christians; building on their common knowledge of Jewish Law and traditions, the book furthers their comprehension of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Using the Law as a shadow of the things that have happened in their sight.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> It is important to realize how difficult it was for "Children of Abraham" to shove aside generations of teachings and the marvelous acts of God recorded in their history. The miraculous confirmations happening among them got their attention, but they must understand all the fulfilling of recorded prophecies.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> The author would have referred to the destruction of Jerusalem had it been written after AD 70, also references in the present tense is used when speaking of worship in the Temple. (5.3, 10.1) It probably was written after the first generation of Christians. (<a href='B:650 2:3'>2.3</a>) “having received it in the beginning when spoken through the Lord, which was confirmed to us by those who heard it?” We lean toward the idea that Paul actually wrote Hebrews and it would have been about 65-66 AD, right before his death. There have been many speculations on the authorship, all the way from Paul, Luke, Barnabas, Clement of Rome, Apollos, and Silvanus. However, what was seen in the early writings has Paul as the author. We can understand at this point in life not to have his name inside. However, more importantly, God is the final authority over His Written Word.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> Hebrews is a book of encouragement, exhortation, but contains strong warnings. Powerful beginning, “God, who long-ago spoke, in many parts and in many manners, in the prophets to the fathers, has in the end of these days, spoken to us in his Son.“</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> Hebrews shows the proper relationship between the Old and New Testaments and explains clearly the Old Testament passages and ideas. It also demonstrates the superiority of the Good-news of Jesus’. It was written to prevent apostasy from Christianity back into Judaism by showing the Good-news is superior to Judaism (a God-given religion) and by showing perfection and finality of Christ’s priesthood. Hebrews also shows how Jesus was the Christ to the non-believer and as the fulfillment of many Old Testament prophecies. It was a final attempt for the Jews to be saved before their massacre in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD and the end of the now false Jewish religion.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to James 50-52 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> This letter was most likely written about the same time the letter in <a href='B:510 15:1'>Acts 15</a> was sent to all the congregations from the apostles in Jerusalem. That letter told the Gentile Christians and the Jewish Christians that only four things from the Law (Old Testament) were to be obeyed. Jews who had known the Law all of their lives could not keep it, no way Gentiles could either and neither has to obey it under the New Testament.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> So James is fast paced written to an overall Christian audience and encourages all to not have a ‘faith only,’ or a ‘works can save you’ type attitude but to have both. James has more commandments (short and simple) per page than does any other letter: Do not be a hearer only but be a doer. To believe (have faith) is to have works. Do not blame God for your lack of control. Listen. Practice mercy. Do not be prejudice. Do not ignore the poor, etc. The classic ‘faith only’ can never save you rebuke because even ‘demons believe’ is in 2:19. James tells us how to live as Christians. He tells us ‘like it is.’</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to 1 Peter 64-65 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> Peter shows us the blessings of Christianity, Christian suffering and service, our relationships in the congregation and world, Christian attributes and how to grow in them, what to expect from false teachers, and the second coming of Christ. Many times, it is back and forth, commands ‘do this’ and ‘don’t do this’ or ‘be this’ and ‘do not be this.’ This is a letter of hope in the midst of suffering persecution from the Jews, and the Roman government under Nero and the intended readers are primarily Gentile Christians. It was written from Babylon. This letter, like much of the teaching of the congregations at that time, was very much concerned with the second coming of Christ. The believers needed to be assured they were right in Christ and no other.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to 2 Peter 65-67 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> The emphasis is on false teachers and false teaching. It is a letter of warning, and Peter’s cure for false teaching is true spiritual knowledge. As Jesus showed us in Mat, it has been written... This letter is most likely a follow-up letter to his previous one to the same group of people.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> It was written in Peter’s mature years. He is one of the elders. It stirs up readers to grow in Christian character and encourage them into a patient expectation of the Lord’s return also warning them against being ‘led away in the error of the immoral.' As translators, do not be lead away by those Bibles who would change Chapter <a href='B:680 3:10'>3:10</a> at the end to anything but ‘will be burned up.’ Peter wants them to grow in ‘the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.’</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to 1 John 67-70 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> The writer does not name himself but speaks as an eyewitness and as if his information was first-hand. See ‘Introduction to John’ for more information.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> 1-3 John should be taken as a whole, so you understand all three and were probably written very close together.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> He writes in categorical, almost dogmatic, terms. There is no disputing the truth of what he says. He condemns error in no uncertain terms! With the rising interest in a merging of Christianity with the higher forms of paganism, there was a pressing need for the presentation of adequate Christian knowledge to combat the danger. Nowhere else in the New Testament is the combination of faith, love, and obedience so clearly brought out. The letter was written to a group of people, with whom the author was personally acquainted and who were threatened with the same infiltration of false teachings. The writing is from Ephesus. Major themes in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd John are the assurance of salvation. One of John’s main purposes in 1 John is to give believers assurance (<a href='B:690 5:13'>1 John 5:13</a>), and the need for assurance is needed by all Christians, especially true for new converts. The Bible rejects the false teaching of ‘ once saved always saved,’ but it does not reject the biblical doctrine of assurance.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to 2 John 67-70 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> The author describes himself as ‘the elder.’ Maybe to describe his age or his position as part of the congregation’s leadership. The false teachers in verse 7 are the same as those referred to in 1 John. John wants to forewarn his readers against the infiltration of error, and the apostle wants his readers to have Christian hospitality. However, John still must warn against receiving and aiding any false teacher (<a href='B:700 1:1'>2 John 10</a>, <a href='B:700 11:1'>11</a>). Do not even greet them.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to 3 John 67-70 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> John starts with a long encouragement to the believing at the congregation. Then he names Diotrephes as a false teacher who practices evil against John and others. Then gives a great testimony about Demetrius who probably stood up against Diotrephes.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to Jude 60-67 AD</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> The brother of James is the author’s identification of himself. This means that he is also a half-brother of Jesus and was the youngest or next to youngest (<a href='B:470 13:55'>Matthew 13:55</a>; <a href='B:480 6:3'>Mark 6:3</a>). Following the example of James, he simply refers to himself as a ‘Servant of Jesus Christ.’ He claims no special privilege because of his fleshly relationship to Jesus. False teachers needed to be rebuked, and Jude is going to address the sins of the people who thought they could sin with the body, and their physical sin had nothing to do with their spiritual well-being. This same false teaching in common within the Calvinism of today. James would go on to talk about those and their denial of the deity of Jesus.</p> <br/>


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<h2> Introduction to Revelation 64-66 AD.</h2> <br/> <p style="text-align: justify"> The book of Revelation was written before 66 AD, the start of the invasion by Vespasian and his son Titus toward Jerusalem. If it had been written after the destruction of Jerusalem, that would have been mentioned in the book since that was God’s Judgment Day upon the Jews and a great example about what happens to false teachers or religious bodies who claim to be 'God's people'.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> The book was written during the time when Christians were not only being persecuted by the Jews but also from the Roman government by one of the vilest men to walk on this earth, Nero Caesar. The entire book is written in extremely symbolic language, and O.T. like arrangement (not chronological). This was like a code that the Christians would understand, but the Jews and Romans would never see God’s judgment on the Jewish nation coming. This would keep them safe and give them hope during this extreme time of Nero (the man 666) and while seeing the deadly advance of Roman armies destined to put an end to the various Jewish rebellions which had plagued Roman for over a decade, once and for all. </p> <p style="text-align: justify"> Through the symbolic language, you have a historical ‘play by play’ of what is going to take place with the eventual fall of Jerusalem, which took <a href='B:730 3:5'>3.5</a> years. It even prophesies of the stopping of the advance also foretold in <a href='B:490 21:1'>Luke 21</a>, so no single Christian lost their life in the 3.5-year massacre (Josephus) and the final destruction of the Jewish temple and all its records, thus fulfilling every unfulfilled prophecy of the Old and New Testament. The armies were led by the soon to be Caesar Vespasian and then his son Titus after apostle Paul’s execution by Nero and then Nero’s death in June 68 AD. Even though Revelation is a symbolically written history book from 1:1 to 20:11, it still gives every Christian hope because we know that God always wins!</p> <p style="text-align: justify"> Revelation contains the chapter (<a href='B:730 20:1-5'>20:1-5</a>) most often mistranslated to meet certain beliefs more than any other place in the Bible, (the 'abolish' in <a href='B:470 5:17'>Mat 5:17</a> is second). If you have to change what the Word of God says to promote your doctrine, then your doctrine cannot possibly be God’s doctrine. The final warning from God, ‘do not add to or take away from’ God’s word in 22:19. People who ‘add’ or ‘remove’ things to worship or the Word of God as it is preached, should take-heed and know they are taking a chance with their souls and need to repent.</p> <br/>


# verses

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And the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God fluttered upon the face of the waters.


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And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.


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<pb/>And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters.


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And God made the expanse and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse. And it was so.


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<pb/>And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place and let the dry land appear. And it was so.


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And God called the dry land Earth and he called the gathering together of the waters Seas. And God saw that it was good.


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<pb/>And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, <i>and</i> fruit trees bearing fruit (which <i>has</i> seed in it) according to their kind upon the earth. And it was so.


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<pb/>And the earth brought out grass, herbs yielding seed according to their kind and trees bearing fruit (which <i>has</i> seed in it), according to their kind. And God saw that it was good.


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<pb/>And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.


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<pb/>And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night and also the stars.


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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.


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<pb/>And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of heaven.


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And God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought out abundantly, according to their kind and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.


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<pb/>And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let birds multiply on the earth.


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<pb/>And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kind. And it was so.


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<pb/>And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kind and the cattle according to their kind and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.


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<pb/>And God said, Let Us make man in our image — after our likeness — and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the cattle, and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.


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And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; he created them male and female.


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<pb/>And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and have power over it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.


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<pb/>And God said, Behold, I have given you* every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed. To you* it will be for food,


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and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps upon the earth in which there is life <i>and to you</i>* every green herb, for food. And it was so.


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<pb/>And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.


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And God finished his work by the seventh day which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.


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And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which God had created and made.


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<pb/>These are the genealogies of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.


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And no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up, because Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth. And there was not a man to work the ground,


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<pb/>And Jehovah God formed man <i>out</i> of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.


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<pb/>And out of the ground Jehovah God made to grow every tree that is desirable to the sight and good for food; also in the midst of the garden the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.


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<pb/>And a river went out of Eden to water the garden and from there it was divided and became four chief <i>rivers</i>.


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The name of the first is Pishon. It is that <i>river</i> which encompasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.


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And the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium   <n>{sweat smelling gum resin or its plant}</n>   and the onyx stone <i>too</i>.


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And the name of the third river is Hiddekel   <n>{Tigris}</n>. It is that <i>river</i> which goes east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.


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but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you will not eat from it. For in the day that you eat from it, you will surely die.


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<pb/>And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, I will make a helper for him.


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And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought <i>them</i> to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was the name of it.


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And the man gave names to all the cattle and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field, but for man there was not found a helper for him.


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<pb/>And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man and he slept. And <i>God</i> took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh under it.


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And <i>from</i> the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, he made a woman and brought her to the man.


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<pb/>And the man said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.


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Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cling to his wife and the two will be one flesh.


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<pb/>Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Yes, because God has said, You will not eat of any tree of the garden?


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but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You will not eat of it, nor will you* touch it, lest you* die.


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For God knows that in the day you* eat of it, then your* eyes will be opened and you* will be like God, knowing good and evil.


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<pb/>And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make <i>one</i> wise, she took from its fruit and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her and he ate.


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And the eyes of them were both opened and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.


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<pb/>And they heard the sound of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God among the trees of the garden.


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<pb/>And he said, I heard your sound in the garden and I was afraid, because I was naked. And I hid myself.


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<pb/>And he said, Who told you that you <i>were</i> naked? Have you eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you that you should not eat?


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<pb/>And the man said, The woman whom you gave <i>to be</i> with me, she gave me of the tree and I ate.


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<pb/>And Jehovah God said to the woman, What is this <i>that</i> you have done? <pb/>And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate.


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<pb/>And Jehovah God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, cursed <i>are</i> you above all cattle and above every beast of the field. Upon your belly you will go and dust you will eat all the days of your life.


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And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise your head and you will bruise his heel.


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<pb/>He said to the woman, I will greatly multiply your pain and your childbearing, in pain you will bring forth children. And your desire will be to your husband and he will rule over you.


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<pb/>And to Adam he said, Because you have obeyed the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You will not eat of it, cursed is the ground for your sake. You will eat of it in toil all the days of your life.


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You will eat bread by the sweat of your face, till you return to the ground, because out of it you were taken. For you <i>are</i> dust and you will return to dust.


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<pb/>And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man has become as one of Us, to know good and evil and now, lest he put forth his hand and also take of the tree of life and eat and live everlasting–


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therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to work the ground from where he was taken.


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<pb/>So he drove out the man. And he placed the cherubim and the flame of a sword which turned every way at the east of the garden of Eden to guard the way of the tree of life.


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<pb/>And the man knew Eve his wife and she conceived and bore Cain and said, I have gotten a man with <i>the help of</i> Jehovah.


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<pb/>And it happened in process of time, that Cain brought an offering to Jehovah of the fruit of the ground.


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And Abel, he also brought of the first-offspring of his flock and of the fat of it. And Jehovah had respect to Abel and to his offering,


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but he did not have respect to Cain and to his offering. And Cain was furious and his countenance fell.


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If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire will be for you and you should rule over it.


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<pb/>And Cain told Abel his brother. And it happened, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.


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And Jehovah said to Cain, Where <i>is</i> Abel your brother? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?


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<pb/>And he said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.


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And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.


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When you till the ground, it will not again yield to you its strength. You will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.


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Behold, you have driven me out this day from the face of the ground and I will be hid from your face and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer in the earth. And it will happen, <i>that</i> whoever finds me will kill me.


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And Jehovah said to him, Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold. And Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone who found him should not kill* him.


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<pb/>And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.


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And Cain knew his wife and she conceived and bore Enoch. And <i>Cain</i> built a city and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.


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<pb/>And Irad was born to Enoch and Irad fathered Mehujael and Mehujael fathered Methushael and Methushael fathered Lamech.


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<pb/>And Lamech took to him two wives. The name of the one <i>was</i> Adah and the name of the other <i>was</i> Zillah.


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And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, <i>the</i> forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain <i>was</i> Naamah.


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<pb/>And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, you*, <i>the</i> wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have killed a man for wounding me and a young man for bruising me.


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<pb/>And Adam knew his wife again and she bore a son and called his name Seth. For, <i>she said</i>, God has appointed for me another seed instead of Abel, because Cain killed him.


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And to Seth, to him there was also born a son and he called his name Enosh. Then <i>men</i> began to call upon the name of Jehovah.


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<pb/>  <n>{The Genealogy: Adam to Noah's sons. Gen_5:1-32, 1Ch_1:1-4 &Luk_3:36-38.}</n>   <pb/>This <i>is</i> the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God,


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he created them male and female and blessed them and in the day when they were created <i>he</i> called their name Man.


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<pb/>And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and fathered <i>a son</i> in his own likeness, according to his image and called his name Seth.


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And the days of Adam were eight hundred years after he fathered Seth. And he fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after he fathered Enosh and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after he fathered Kenan and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after he fathered Mahalalel and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after he fathered Jared and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Jared lived eight hundred years after he fathered Enoch and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he fathered Methuselah and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he fathered Lamech and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And he called his name Noah, saying, This <i>one</i> will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.


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And Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after he fathered Noah and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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<pb/>And it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground and daughters were born to them,


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that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. And they took to them wives of all that they chose.


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And Jehovah said, My Spirit will not strive in man everlasting, he is flesh in their erring. Yet his days will be a hundred and twenty years.


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<pb/>The giants were on the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men and they bore <i>sons</i> to them, they were the mighty <i>men</i> who <i>were</i> of old, the men of renown.


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<pb/>And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man <i>was</i> great on the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart <i>was</i> only continually evil.


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And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground, from man to beast, to creeping things and birds of the heavens, because I regret that I have made them.


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> the genealogies of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.


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And God saw the earth and behold, it was corrupt, because all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.


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<pb/>And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before me, because the earth is filled with violence through them and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.


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<pb/>Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. You will make rooms in the ark and will pitch it inside and outside with pitch.


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And this <i>is</i> how you will make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits and the height of it thirty cubits.


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You will make a door for the ark and you will finish it to a cubit upward. And you will set the door of the ark in the side of it and you will make it with lower, second and third stories.


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<pb/>And I, behold, I bring the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, in which <i>is</i> the breath of life, from under heaven. Everything that <i>is</i> on the earth will die.


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<pb/>But I will establish my covenant with you. And you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.


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<pb/>And from every living thing of all flesh, you will bring into the ark two of every <i>sort</i>, to keep <i>them</i> alive with you. They will be male and female.


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Of the birds according to their kind and of the cattle according to their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. Two of every <i>sort</i> will come to you, to keep <i>them</i> alive.


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<pb/>And you take to you of all food that is eaten and gather <i>it</i> to yourself and it will be for food for you and for them.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Noah, Come, you and all your house into the ark, because I have seen you <i>to be</i> righteous before me in this generation.


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You will take to you the male and his female of every clean beast by sevens. And two of the beasts that <i>are</i> not clean, male and his female.


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Also of the birds of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.


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<pb/>For after seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights and I will blot from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.


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<pb/>And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went in with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.


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Of clean beasts and of beasts that <i>are</i> not clean and of birds and of everything that creeps upon the ground,


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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened.


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<pb/>In the same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark,


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they and every beast according to its kind and all the cattle according to their kind and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every wing.


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<pb/>And they went in, to Noah <i>and</i> into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.


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And those that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.


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<pb/>And the flood was forty days upon the earth. And the waters increased and bore up the ark and it was lifted up above the earth.


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And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth and the ark went upon the face of the waters.


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And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth and all the high mountains that <i>were</i> under the whole heaven were covered,


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<pb/>And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, from birds, to cattle, to beasts and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and all mankind.


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All died in whose nostrils <i>was</i> the breath of the spirit of life, of all that <i>was</i> on the dry land.


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And every living thing was destroyed that <i>was</i> upon the face of the ground, from man, to cattle, to creeping things and birds of the heavens and they were destroyed from the earth. And only Noah was left and those who <i>were</i> with him in the ark.


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<pb/>And God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that <i>were</i> with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth and the waters subsided.


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Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped and the rain from heaven was restrained.


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And the waters returned from the earth, going and returning. And after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.


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<pb/>And the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month.


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And the waters decreased, going and returning until the tenth month. In the tenth <i>month</i>, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.


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<pb/>And it happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.


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And he sent out a raven. And it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from the earth.


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But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. And she returned to him to the ark, because the waters <i>were</i> on the face of the whole earth. And he put out his hand and took her and brought her in, to him <i>and</i> into the ark.


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And the dove came in, in the evening to him. And behold, in her mouth an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.


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<pb/>And he stayed yet seven other days and sent forth the dove. And she did not return again to him any more.


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And it happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first <i>month of the year and</i> the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And behold, the face of the ground was <i>nearly</i> dried.


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Bring forth with you every living thing that <i>is</i> with you, of all flesh, both birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.


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Every beast, every creeping thing and every bird, whatever moves upon the earth, according to their families, went forth out of the ark.


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<pb/>And Noah built an altar to Jehovah and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.


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And Jehovah smelled the sweet aroma. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for the sake of man, because the imagination of man's heart <i>is</i> evil from his youth. I will not again kill* everything living, as I have done.


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While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night will not cease.


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<pb/>And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.


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And the fear of you* and the dread of you* will be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, with all that creeps on the ground and all the fishes of the sea. They are delivered into your* hand.


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<pb/>And surely I will require your* blood, <i>the blood</i> of your* lives. I will require it at the hand of every beast. And I will require the life of man at the hand of man, <i>even</i> at the hand of every man's brother.


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and with every living creature that <i>is</i> with you*, the birds, the cattle and every beast of the earth with you*, of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.


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And I will establish my covenant with you*. Neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, nor will there be a flood any more to destroy the earth.


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<pb/>And God said, This <i>is</i> the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you* and every living creature that <i>is</i> with you*, everlasting.


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And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you* and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.


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And the bow will 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 <i>is</i> upon the earth.


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And God said to Noah, This <i>is</i> the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that <i>is</i> upon the earth.


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<pb/>And the sons of Noah, who went forth from the ark, were Shem and Ham and Japheth. And Ham <i>is</i> the father of Canaan.


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<pb/>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 did not see their father's nakedness.


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<pb/>  <n>{The Descendants of Noah's Sons. 1Ch_1:5-8, Gen_10:1-7.}</n>   <pb/>Now these <i>are</i> the genealogies of the sons of Noah, of Shem, Ham and Japheth. And <i>the</i> sons <i>who</i> were born to them after the flood.


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<pb/>The sons of Japheth <i>were</i>: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.


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<pb/>From these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, every man according to his tongue, according to their families, in their nations.


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<pb/>And the sons of Ham <i>were</i>: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. <pb/>  <n>{Gen_10:7-20; 1 Ch_1:9-16}</n>


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<pb/>And the sons of Cush <i>were</i>: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca   <n>{Sabtechah}</n>. And the sons of Raamah <i>were</i>: Sheba and Dedan.


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He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah. Therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah.


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and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite. And afterward the Canaanite family were spread abroad.


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And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza, as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, to Lasha.


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, in their nations. <pb/>  <n>{Gen_10:21-30; 1Ch_1:17-23}</n>


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<pb/>And to Shem, the father of all the sons of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were also born to him.


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<pb/>And to Eber were born two sons. The name of the one <i>was</i> Peleg. For in his days the earth was divided. And his brother's name <i>was</i> Joktan.


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.


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<pb/>These <i>are</i> the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.


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And it happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they dwelt there.


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And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick and burn <i>them</i> thoroughly. And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar.


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And they said, Come, let us build a city for us and a tower and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we are scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people and they have all one language and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing will be withheld from them, which they propose to do.


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Come, let Us go down there and confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.


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<pb/>So Jehovah scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth and they left off building the city.


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Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Jehovah confounded the language of all the earth there and Jehovah scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth from there. <pb/>  <n>{From Shem to Abraham. 1Ch_1:24-27, Gen_11:10-26 & Luk_3:34-36.}</n>


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<pb/>These are the genealogies of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.


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And Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arpachshad and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he had fathered Shelah and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Eber and he fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he fathered Peleg and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he fathered Reu and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he fathered Serug and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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And Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years after he fathered Terah and fathered <i>more</i> sons and daughters.


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<pb/>Now these are the genealogies of Terah <i>were</i>: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran fathered Lot.


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<pb/>And Abram and Nahor took wives to themselves. 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.


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<pb/>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 Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and dwelt there.


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<pb/>Now Jehovah said to Abram, Go out of your country and from your kindred and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.


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And I will make of you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great and you <i>will</i> be a blessing.


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And I will bless those who bless you and he who curses you I will curse. And all the families of the earth will be blessed in you.


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<pb/>So Abram went as Jehovah had spoken to him and Lot went with him. And Abram <i>was</i> a son of seventy-five years when he departed out of Haran.


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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 they came into the land of Canaan.


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And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite <i>was</i> in the land then.


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<pb/>And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said, I will give this land to your seed. And there he built an altar to Jehovah, who appeared to him.


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And he moved from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, <i>having</i> Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to Jehovah and called upon the name of Jehovah.


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<pb/>And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to journey there, because the famine <i>was</i> severe in the land.


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And it happened, when he came near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold, I beseech you, I know that you <i>are</i> a fair woman to look upon.


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And it will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, This <i>is</i> his wife. And they will kill me, but they will let you live.


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I beseech you, say <i>that</i> you <i>are</i> my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake and that my soul may live because of you.


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<pb/>And it happened, that, when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she <i>was</i> very fair.


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And the princes of Pharaoh saw her and praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken <i>into</i> Pharaoh's house.


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And he dealt well with Abram for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and male-donkeys and men-servants and maid-servants and female-donkeys and camels.


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And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What <i>is</i> this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she <i>is</i> your wife?


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Why did you say, She <i>is</i> my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore behold your wife. Take her and go your way.


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And Pharaoh commanded <i>his</i> men concerning him. And they brought him on the way and his wife and all that he had.


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<pb/>And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had and Lot with him, into the South.


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And Abram <i>was</i> very heavy <i>in riches</i>, in cattle, in silver and in gold.   <n>{Coins did not exist at the time.}</n>


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And he went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,


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to the place of the altar, which he had made there at first. And Abram called on the name of Jehovah there.


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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.


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And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt in the land then.


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<pb/>And Abram said to Lot, I beseech you, let there be no strife between me and you and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, <i>in</i> that <i>we are</i> men<i>–</i> brothers.


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<i>Is</i> not the whole land before you? I beseech you, separate yourself from me. If <i>you go to</i> the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if <i>you go to</i> the right hand, then I will go to the left.


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<pb/>And Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it <i>was</i> well watered everywhere (<i>this was</i> before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.


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<pb/>So Lot chose for himself all the Plain of the Jordan. And Lot traveled east and they separated themselves the one from the other.


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Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan. And Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain and moved his tent as far as Sodom.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, Lift up your eyes now and look from the place where you <i>are</i>, northward and southward and eastward and westward.


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And I will make your seed like the dust of the earth. So that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may your seed also be numbered.


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Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it, because I will give it to you.


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<pb/>And Abram moved <i>his</i> tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which <i>are</i> in Hebron and built an altar there to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And it happened in the days of Amraphel King of Shinar, Arioch King of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer King of Elam and Tidal King of Goiim,


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<i>that</i> they made war with Bera King of Sodom and with Birsha King of Gomorrah, <i>with</i> Shinab King of Admah and <i>with</i> Shemeber King of Zeboiim and the King of Bela (which <i>is</i> Zoar).


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And in the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer came and the kings that <i>were</i> with him and killed* the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim and the Zuzim in Ham and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim


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And they returned and came to En-mishpat (which <i>is</i> Kadesh) and killed* all the country of the Amalekites and also the Amorites, who dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.


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<pb/>And there the King of Sodom went out and the King of Gomorrah and the King of Admah and the King of Zeboiim and the King of Bela (which <i>is</i> Zoar) and they arranged for battle against them in the valley of Siddim,


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against Chedorlaomer King of Elam and Tidal King of Goiim and Amraphel King of Shinar and Arioch King of Ellasar; four kings against the five <i>kings</i>.


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<pb/>Now the valley of Siddim <i>was</i> full of tar pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and they fell there. And those who remained fled to the mountain.


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<pb/>And some man came who had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. And these <i>were</i> allies with Abram.


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<pb/>And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen <i>of them</i> and pursued as far as Dan.


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And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants and killed* them and pursued them to Hobah, which <i>is</i> on the left hand of Damascus.


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And he brought back all the goods and also brought back his brother Lot and his goods and also the women and the people.


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<pb/>And the King of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that <i>were</i> with him, at the valley of Shaveh (what <i>is</i> the King's Valley).


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And he blessed him and said, Abram <i>be</i> blessed from God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.


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And praise God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And <i>Abram</i> gave him a tenth of all.


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And Abram said to the King of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,


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that I <i>will not</i> take a thread nor a shoe latchet nor anything that <i>is</i> yours, lest you should say, I have made Abram rich,


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except only what the young men have eaten and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol and Mamre. Let them take their portion.


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<pb/>After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram. I <i>am</i> your shield, your exceedingly great reward.


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<pb/>And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what will you give me, since I go childless. And he who will be possessor of my house <i>is</i> Eliezer of Damascus?


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And Abram said, Behold, you have given no seed to me. And behold, a man born in my house is my heir.


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<pb/>And behold, the word of Jehovah <i>came</i> to him, saying, This <i>man</i> will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own guts will be your heir.


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<pb/>And he brought him outside and said, Look now toward heaven and number the stars, if you are able to number them. And he said to him, So your seed will be.


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<pb/>And he said to him, I <i>am</i> Jehovah who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.


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And he said to him, Take a heifer three years old for me and a female-goat three years old and a ram three years old and a turtle dove and a young pigeon.


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<pb/>And he took all these for him and divided them in the midst and laid each half opposite the other. But he did not divide the birds.


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And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram. And behold, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.


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<pb/>And <i>God</i> said to Abram, Know of a certainty that your seed will be travelers in a land that is not theirs. And <i>your seed</i> will serve them and they will afflict them <i>for</i> four hundred years.


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And I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve and afterward they will come out with great substance.


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And they will come here again in the fourth generation, because the iniquity of the Amorite <i>is</i> not yet full.


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<pb/>And it happened, that, when the sun went down and it was dark, behold, <i>there appeared</i> a smoking furnace and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.


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<pb/>In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:


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<pb/>Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no <i>children</i>. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name <i>was</i> Hagar.


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And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah has restrained me from bearing <i>children</i>. I beseech you, go in to my handmaid. Perhaps I will be built up from her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.


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And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid and gave her to Abram, her husband, to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan <i>for</i> ten years<i>.</i>


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<pb/>And he went in to Hagar and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.


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And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong <i>be</i> upon you. I gave my handmaid into your bosom and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and you.


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But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, your maid <i>is</i> in your hand, do to her what is good in your eyes. And Sarai dealt harshly with her and she fled from her face.


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<pb/>And the messenger of Jehovah found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way <i>to</i> Shur.


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And he said, Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, from where have you come? And where are you going? <pb/>And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.


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<pb/>And the messenger of Jehovah said to her, Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her hands.


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And the messenger of Jehovah said to her, I will greatly multiply your seed, that it will not be numbered for multitude.


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<pb/>And the messenger of Jehovah said to her, Behold, you <i>are</i> with child and will bear a son and you will call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah has heard your affliction.


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And he will be a wild donkey among men, his hand against every man and every man's hand against him and he will dwell in the presence of all his brothers.


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<pb/>And she called the name of Jehovah who spoke to her, You <i>are</i> a God who sees, because she said, Have I even looked behind him, who sees me here?


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Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi   <n>{The Living One Who Sees Me}</n>. Behold, <i>it is</i> between Kadesh and Bered.


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<pb/>And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am God Almighty, walk before me and you <i>will</i> be perfect.


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Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, because I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.


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And I will make you exceedingly fruitful. And I will make nations of you and kings will come out of you.


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<pb/>And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.


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And I will give to you and to your seed after you, the land of your travels, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession and I will be their God.


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<pb/>And God said to Abraham, And as for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.


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This is my covenant, which you* will keep, between me and you* and your seed after you; every male among you* will be circumcised.


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And you* will be circumcised in the flesh of your* foreskin and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and you*.


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<pb/>And he who is eight days old will be circumcised among you*, every male throughout your* generations: he who is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner that is not of your seed.


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He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. And my covenant will be in your* flesh for an everlasting covenant.


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And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.


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<pb/>And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you will not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.


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And I will bless her. And moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her and she will be <i>a mother of</i> nations; kings of peoples will be by her.


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<pb/>Then Abraham fell upon his face and laughed and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?


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<pb/>And God said, No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son and you will call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.


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And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He will father twelve princes and I will make him a great nation.


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But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year.


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<pb/>And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.


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And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.


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<pb/>And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.


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And <i>he</i> lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood by him. And when he saw <i>them</i>, <i>he</i> ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed himself to the earth


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and said, My Lord, if I have now found favor in your sight, I beseech you, do not pass away from your servant.


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And I will fetch a morsel of bread and strengthen your* heart. After that, you* will pass on, <i>now that</i> you* came to your* servant. And they said, Do so, as you have said.


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<pb/>And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah and said, Quickly, <i>prepare</i> three measures of fine meal, knead it and make cakes.


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And Abraham ran to the herd and fetched a calf, tender and good and gave <i>it</i> to the servant. And he hastened to dress it.


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And he took butter and milk and the calf which he had dressed and set <i>it</i> before them. And he stood by them under the tree and they ate.


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And he said, I will certainly return to you when the season comes round, and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which <i>was</i> behind him.


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<pb/>Now Abraham and Sarah <i>were</i> old <i>and</i> well stricken in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.


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And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I have become old shall I have pleasure <i>from</i> my lord who is also old?


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I who am old certainly bear <i>a child</i>?


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Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round and Sarah will have a son.


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<pb/>Then Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh, becauses he was afraid. <pb/>And he said, No, but you did laugh.


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<pb/>And the men rose up from there and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.


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since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?


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For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what he has spoken of him.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is very grievous,


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I will go down now and see whether they have done according to the cry which comes to me. And if not, I will know.


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Perhaps there are fifty righteous <i>men</i> within the city. Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous <i>men</i> that <i>are</i> in it?


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Far be it from you to do such a thing, to kill a righteous <i>man</i> with a wicked <i>man</i>, that so the righteous <i>man</i> should be as the wicked man. Far be it from you. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?


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<pb/>And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous <i>men</i> within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.


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And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken <i>it</i> upon me to speak to the Lord, <i>who am</i> I <i>but</i> dust and ashes.


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<pb/>Perhaps there will lack five <i>of</i> the fifty righteous <i>men</i>. Will you destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy <i>it</i>, if I find forty-five there.


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<pb/>And he spoke to him yet again and said, Perhaps there will be forty found there. And he said, I will not do <i>it</i> for the forty's sake.


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<pb/>And he said, Oh let the Lord not be furious and I will speak. Perhaps there will be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do <i>it</i>, if I find thirty there.


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<pb/>And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord. Perhaps there will be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy <i>it</i> for the twenty's sake.


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<pb/>And he said, Oh let the Lord not be furious and I will speak yet but this once. Perhaps ten will be found there. And he said, I will not destroy <i>it</i> for the ten's sake.


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And Jehovah went his way as soon as he had left off speaking with Abraham and Abraham returned to his place.


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<pb/>And the two messengers came to Sodom in the evening and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw <i>them</i> and rose up to meet them. And he bowed himself <i>with his</i> face to the earth


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and he said, Behold now, my lords, I beseech you*, turn aside into your* servant's house and abide all night and wash your* feet and you* will rise up early and go on your* way. And they said, No, but we will abide in the street all night.


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<pb/>And he urged them greatly. And they turned aside to him and entered into his house. And he made a feast for them and baked unleavened <i>bread</i> and they ate.


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<pb/>But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, encompassed <i>themselves</i> around the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.


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And they called to Lot and said to him, Where <i>are</i> the men who came to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.


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Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man. I beseech you*, let me bring them out to you* and you* do to them as <i>is</i> good in your* eyes. Only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shadow of my roof.


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<pb/>And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one came in to journey and he will be a judge? Now we will deal worse with you, than with them. And they pressed greatly upon the man, <i>against</i> Lot and drew near to break the door.


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And they struck the men who <i>were</i> at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied <i>themselves</i> <i>trying</i> to find the door.


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<pb/>And the men said to Lot, Have you any here <i>in Sodom</i> besides <i>those in the house</i>? <i>Take your</i> son-in-law and your sons and your daughters and whomever you have in the city <i>and</i> bring <i>them</i> out of the place.


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For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them has been great <i>before</i> Jehovah. And Jehovah has sent us to destroy it.


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<pb/>And Lot went out and spoke to his sons in-law, who married his daughters and said, Up, you* get out of this place, because Jehovah will destroy the city. But he seemed as a <i>man</i> jesting, to his sons-in-law.


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<pb/>And when the morning arose, then the messengers hurried Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who <i>are</i> found <i>here</i>, lest you are consumed in the iniquity of the city.


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But he lingered. And the men laid hold upon his hand and upon the hand of his wife and upon the hand of his two daughters, <i>because</i> Jehovah <i>was</i> being merciful to him and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.


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<pb/>And it happened, when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for your life. Do not look behind you, neither will you stay in all the Plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you are consumed.


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Behold now, your servant has found favor in your sight and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me and I die.


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Behold now, this city <i>is</i> near to flee to and it <i>is</i> a little one. Oh let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul will live.


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<pb/>And he said to him, Behold, I have lifted up you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city <i>of</i> which you have spoken.


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You hasten, escape there, because I cannot do anything till you have come there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.


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And he overthrew those cities and all the Plain and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew upon the ground.


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<pb/>And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood <i>before</i> the face of Jehovah.


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And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the Plain and saw <i>it</i>. And behold, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.


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<pb/>And it happened, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham and <i>that he</i> sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.


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And Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountain and his two daughters with him, because he feared to dwell in Zoar. And he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.


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<pb/>And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father <i>is</i> old and <i>there is</i> not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.


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Come, let us make our father drink wine and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed by our father.


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And they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. And he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.


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<pb/>And it happened on the day after, that the firstborn said to the younger, Behold, I lay with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine this night also and you go in <i>and</i> lie with him, that we may preserve seed by our father.


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And they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him. And he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.


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And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab. He <i>is</i> the father of the Moabites to this day.


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And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi. The same <i>is</i> the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.


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<pb/>And Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur. And he traveled in Gerar.


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And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She <i>is</i> my sister. And Abimelech King of Gerar sent and took Sarah.


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But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night and said to him, Behold, you <i>are but</i> a dead man, over the woman whom you have taken; she is a man's wife.


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Did he not himself say to me, She <i>is</i> my sister? And she, even she herself said, He <i>is</i> my brother. In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.


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<pb/>And God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this. And I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her.


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Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he <i>is</i> a prophet and he will pray for you and you will live. And if you do not restore <i>her</i>, you <i>will</i> know that you will surely die, you and all who <i>are</i> yours.


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<pb/>Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What have you done to us? And in what <i>way</i> have I sinned against you, that you have brought <i>such</i> a great sin on me and on my kingdom? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.


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<pb/>And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God <i>is</i> not in this place and they will kill me because of my wife.


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And moreover <i>she is</i> indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother and she became my wife.


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And it happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This <i>is</i> your kindness which you will show to me. At every place where we will come, say of me, He <i>is</i> my brother.


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<pb/>And Abimelech took sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants and gave <i>them</i> to Abraham and restored to him Sarah his wife.


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And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given your brother a thousand <i>pieces</i> of silver. Behold, it <i>is</i> for you a covering of the eyes to all who <i>are</i> with you. And you are correct in regard to all <i>this</i>.


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<pb/>And Abraham prayed to God and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maid-servants. And they bore <i>children</i>.


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For Jehovah had closed up fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.


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And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.


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And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah should nurse sons? For I have borne him a son in his old age. <pb/>  <n>{Gen_21:8-23:20; Gen_11:32; Gen_24:1-67}</n>


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<pb/>And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.


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Therefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, <i>that is</i> with Isaac.


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<pb/>And God said to Abraham, Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the lad and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For in Isaac will your seed be called.


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<pb/>And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin-container of water and gave <i>them</i> to Hagar, putting <i>them</i> on her shoulder and the child and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.


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And she went and sat herself down opposite <i>him</i> a good way off, as <i>if</i> it was a bowshot <i>away</i>. For she said, Do not let me look upon the death of the child. And she sat opposite <i>him</i> and lifted up her voice and wept.


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<pb/>And God heard the voice of the lad. And the messenger of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Do not fear, God has heard the voice of the lad where he <i>is</i>.


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And God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin-container <i>with</i> water and gave the lad a drink.


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<pb/>And God was with the lad and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness and became an archer as he grew up.


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And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife out of the land of Egypt for him.


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<pb/>And it happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, God <i>is</i> with you in all that you do.


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Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. <i>But</i> according to the kindness that I have done to you, you will do to me and to the land in which you have traveled.


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<pb/>And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.


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And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing, neither did you tell me, nor yet did I hear <i>of it</i>, except today.


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And Abimelech said to Abraham, What <i>do</i> these seven ewe-lambs mean which you have set by themselves?


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And he said, For <i>these</i> seven ewe-lambs you will take from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.


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<pb/>So they cut a covenant at Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose up and Phicol the captain of his army and they returned into the land of the Philistines.


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And <i>Abraham</i> planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba and called on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God, there.


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<pb/>And it happened after these things, that God proved Abraham and said to him, Abraham. And he said, Behold, <i>here</i> I <i>am</i>.


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And he said, Take your son now, your only <i>son</i>, Isaac, whom you love and go into the land of Moriah. And offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell you of.


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<pb/>And Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two <i>of</i> his young men with him and Isaac his son. And he split the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went to the place of which God had told him.


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And Abraham said to his young men, You* abide here with the donkey and I and the lad will go over there and we will worship and come <i>back</i> again to you*.


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<pb/>And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son. And he took the fire and the knife in his hand. And both of them went together.


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<pb/>And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, My father. <pb/>And he said, Behold, <i>here</i> I <i>am</i>, my son. <pb/>And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood, but where <i>is</i> the lamb for a burnt offering?


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And Abraham said, God himself will see <i>to</i> the lamb for a burnt offering, my son. So they went both of them together.


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<pb/>And they came to the place which God had told him of. And Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.


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<pb/>And the messenger of Jehovah called to him out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham. <pb/>And he said, Behold, <i>here</i> I <i>am</i>.


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<pb/>And he said, Do not lay your hand upon the lad, neither do you anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.


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<pb/>And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind <i>him</i> a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.


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And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh   <n>{Jehovah Sees}</n>. As it is said to this day, It will be provided in the mountain of Jehovah.


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and said, I have sworn by myself, says Jehovah, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,


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that in blessing I will bless you and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which <i>is</i> upon the sea _shore and your seed will possess the gate of his enemies


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and in your seed will all the nations of the earth <i>will</i> be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.


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<pb/>So Abraham returned to his young men. And they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.


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And it happened after these things, that it was told <i>to</i> Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:


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And his concubine, whose name <i>was</i> Reumah, she also bore Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.


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<pb/>And the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.


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And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba   <n>{The City of Arba}</n>   (what <i>is</i> Hebron), in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.


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I am a stranger and a traveler with you*. Give me a burial possession with you*, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.


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Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in our choice sepulchers. None of us will withhold his sepulcher from you, but <i>so</i> that you may bury your dead.


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<pb/>And Abraham rose up and bowed himself to the people of the land, <i>and</i> to the sons of Heth.


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And he spoke with them, saying, If it is your* mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,


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that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. Let him give it to me for the full price for a burial possession in the midst of you*.


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<pb/>Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the sons of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,


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No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field. And the cave that is in it, I give it to you. I give it to you in the presence of the sons of my people. Bury your dead.


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And he spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But, I beseech you, if you would hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me and I will bury my dead there.


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My lord, listen to me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.


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So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field and the cave which was in it and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border of it all around, were made sure


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to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.


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<pb/>And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (what is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.


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And the field and the cave that is in it, were made sure to Abraham for a burial possession by the sons of Heth.


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And Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, I beseech you, put your hand under my thigh.


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And I will make you swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.


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<pb/>And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I bring your son again to the land from where you came?


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Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my nativity and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land. He will send his messenger before you and you will take a wife for my son from there.


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<pb/>And if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be clear from this my oath. Only you will not bring my son there again.


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And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.


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<pb/>And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master and departed, having all good things of his master's in his hand. And he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.


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And he made the camels to kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.


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<pb/>And he said, O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, I beseech you, cause <i>her</i> to meet before me this day and show kindness to my master Abraham.


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Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water. And the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.


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And let it happen, that the maiden to whom I will say, I beseech you, let down your pitcher, that I may drink. <pb/>And she will say, Drink and I will also give your camels drink. Let it be her, the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. And I will know that you have shown kindness to my master by this.


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<pb/>And it happened, before he was done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.


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And the maiden was very fair to look upon, a virgin, no man had known her. And she went down to the fountain and filled her pitcher and came up.


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<pb/>And the servant ran to meet her and said, I beseech you, give me a little water to drink from your pitcher.


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<pb/>And she said, Drink, my lord. And she hurried and let down her pitcher upon her hand and gave him drink.


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And when she had finished giving him drink, she said, I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking.


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And she hurried and emptied her pitcher into the trough and ran again to the well to draw and drew for all his camels.


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<pb/>And the man looked steadfastly on her, keeping silent, to know whether Jehovah had made his journey prosperous or not.


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and said, Whose daughter are you? Tell me, I beseech you. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?


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And he said, Praise Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master, I <i>being</i> in the way, Jehovah has led me to the house of my master's brothers.


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And it happened, when he saw the ring and the bracelets upon his sister's hands and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spoke the man to me, that he came to the man. And behold, he was standing by the camels at the fountain.


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And he said, Come in, you blessed of Jehovah. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house and room for the camels.


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<pb/>And the man came into the house and he ungirded the camels. And he gave straw and fodder for the camels and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.


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And there was <i>food</i> set before him to eat. But he said, I will not eat until I have told <i>of</i> my errand. And he said, Speak on.


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And Jehovah has blessed my master greatly and he has become great. And he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold and men-servants and maid-servants and camels and donkeys.


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And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old. And to him he has he given all that he has.


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<pb/>And my master made me swear, saying, You will not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,


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<pb/>And he said to me, Jehovah, before whom I walk, will send his messenger with you and prosper your way. And you will take a wife for my son of my kindred and of my father's house.


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Then you will be clear from my oath, when you come to my kindred. And if they do not give her to you, you will be clear from my oath.


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<pb/>And I came this day to the fountain and said, O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, I pray, if you will, prosper the way on which I am now going,


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and she will say to me, Both drink you and I will also draw for your camels, let her be the woman whom Jehovah has appointed for my master's son.


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<pb/>And before I was done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went down to the fountain and drew. And I said to her, Let me drink, I beseech you.


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And she made haste and let down her pitcher from her shoulder and said, Drink and I will also give your camels drink. So I drank and she also made the camels drink.


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<pb/>And I asked her and said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him. And I put the ring upon her nose and the bracelets upon her hands.


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And I bowed my head and worshiped Jehovah and blessed Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.


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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.


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<pb/>Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from Jehovah; we cannot speak to you bad or good.


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Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her and go and let her be your master's son's wife, as Jehovah has spoken.


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<pb/>And it happened, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Jehovah.


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And the servant brought out jewels of silver and jewels of gold and garments and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.


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And they ate and drank, he and the men who were with him and stayed all night. And they rose up in the morning and he said, Send me away to my master.


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<pb/>And her brother and her mother said, Let the maiden abide with us <i>a few</i> days, <i>for</i> at the least ten. After that she will go.


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<pb/>And he said to them, Do not hinder me, since Jehovah has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.


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And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, Our sister, you <i>will</i> be <i>the mother</i> of thousands of ten thousands and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them.


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And Rebekah arose and her maidens and they rode upon the camels and followed the man. And the servant took Rebekah and went his way.


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<pb/>And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi   <n>{Well of the Living One, My Beholder}</n>, and he dwelt in the land of the South.


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And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there were camels coming.


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And she said to the servant, What man is this who walks in the field to meet us? And the servant said, It is my master. And she took her veil and covered herself.


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But to the sons of the concubines that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. And he sent them away eastward from Isaac his son, while he yet lived to the east country.


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<pb/>And these <i>are</i> the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred seventy-five years.


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And Abraham gave up the spirit and died in a good old age, an old man and full <i>of years</i> and was gathered to his people.


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the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried and Sarah his wife.


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<pb/>And it happened after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi   <n>{Well of the Living One, my Beholder}</n>. <pb/>  <n>{1Ch_1:28-31, Gen_25:12-17. Ishmael}</n>


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<pb/>Now these <i>are</i> the genealogies of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.


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These <i>are</i> the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their nations.


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<pb/>And these <i>are</i> the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty-seven years. And he gave up the spirit and died and was gathered to his people.


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And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur which is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He abode opposite all his brothers.


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And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to be his wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.


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And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren. And Jehovah was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.


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<pb/>And the children struggled together within her. And she said, If <i>it is</i> so, why <i>am</i> I this <i>way</i>? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in your womb and two peoples will be separated from your guts. And the <i>one</i> people will be stronger than the <i>other</i> people. And the elder will serve the younger.


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<pb/>And the boys grew. And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. And Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.


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And Esau said to Jacob, I beseech you, feed me with that same red <i>pottage</i>, because I <i>am</i> faint. Therefore his name was called Edom.


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And Esau said, Behold, I <i>am</i> about to die and what <i>profit</i> will the birthright do to me?


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And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. And he ate and drank and rose up and went his way. So Esau despised <i>his</i> birthright.


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<pb/>And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech King of the Philistines, to Gerar.


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And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Do not go down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I will tell you of.


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Travel in this land and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and to your seed, I will give all these lands and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.


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And I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and will give to your seed all these lands and in your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed,


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And the men of the place asked him of his wife. And he said, She is my sister. For he feared to say, My wife. Lest, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she was fair to look upon.


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And it happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech King of the Philistines looked out at a window and saw; and behold, Isaac was playing with Rebekah his wife.


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And Abimelech said, What <i>is</i> this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife and you would have brought guilt upon us.


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And Abimelech ordered all the people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.


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<pb/>And Isaac sowed in that land and found a hundredfold in the same year. And Jehovah blessed him.


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And he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great household. And the Philistines envied him.


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<pb/>Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped and filled with soil.


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<pb/>And Isaac again dug the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. And he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.


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<pb/>And the herdsmen of Gerar contended with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Esek   <n>{Contention}</n>, because they contended with him.


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<pb/>And he moved from there and dug another well and they did not contend for that. And he called the name of it Rehoboth   <n>{Wide Places}</n>. And he said, For now Jehovah has made room for us and we will be fruitful in the land.


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And he built an altar there and called upon the name of Jehovah and pitched his tent there. And Isaac's servants dug a well there.


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<pb/>Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar and Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol the captain of his army.


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that you will do us no evil, as we have not touched you and as we have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You now are the blessed of Jehovah.


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And they rose up promptly in the morning and swore one to another. And Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace.


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<pb/>And it happened <i>in</i> the same day, that Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had dug and said to him, We have found water.


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<pb/>And when Esau was forty years old he took a wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.


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<pb/>And it happened, that when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son and said to him, My son. And he said to him, <i>Here</i> I <i>am</i>.


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And make savory food for me, what I love and bring it to me, that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.


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<pb/>And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for game and to bring <i>it home</i>.


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Bring game for me and make savory food for me, that I may eat and bless you before Jehovah before my death.


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Go now to the flock and fetch me two good kids of the goats from there. And I will make them savory food for your father, what he loves.


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My father will perhaps feel me and I will seem to him as a deceiver. And I will bring a curse upon me and not a blessing.


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And his mother said to him, Upon me be your curse, my son. Only obey my voice and go fetch <i>them</i> for me.


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<pb/>And he went and fetched and brought <i>them</i> to his mother. And his mother made savory food, what his father loved.


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And Rebekah took the desirable garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house and put them upon Jacob her younger son.


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<pb/>And he came to his father and said, My father. And he said, Here I <i>am</i>. Who <i>are</i> you, my son?


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And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you commanded me. I beseech you, arise, sit and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.


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And Isaac said to his son, How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah your God brought it before me.


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<pb/>And Isaac said to Jacob, I beseech you, come near that I may feel you, my son, whether you <i>are</i> my very son Esau or not.


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And Jacob went near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, The voice <i>is</i> Jacob's voice, but the hands <i>are</i> the hands of Esau.


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And he did not discern him, because his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.


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And he said, Bring <i>it</i> near to me and I will eat of my son's game, that my soul may bless you. And he brought <i>it</i> near to him and he ate. And he brought wine to him and he drank.


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And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that Jehovah has blessed.


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And God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and new wine.


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Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers and let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed <i>is</i> he who curses you and blessed <i>is</i> he who graces you.


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<pb/>And it happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob and Jacob was yet scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.


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And he also made savory food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that your soul may bless me.


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<pb/>And Isaac his father said to him, Who <i>are</i> you? And he said, I <i>am</i> your son, your firstborn, Esau.


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And Isaac trembled very exceedingly and said, Who then is he who has taken game and brought it to me and I have eaten of all before you came and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.


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When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, Bless me, <i>even</i> me also, O my father.


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<pb/>And he said, Is he not 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?


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<pb/>And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have made him your lord and all his brothers I have given to him for servants and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. And what then shall I do for you, my son?


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<pb/>And Esau said to his father, Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, <i>even</i> me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.


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And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling and of the dew of heaven from above.


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And you will live by your sword and you will serve your brother. And it will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from your neck.


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<pb/>And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.


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And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself concerning you, to kill you.


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until your brother's anger turns away from you and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and fetch you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you* both <i>in</i> one day?


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<pb/>And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, those like these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?


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<pb/>And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and ordered him and said to him, You will not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.


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Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father and take a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.


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And God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,


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and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land of your travels, which God gave to Abraham.


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<pb/>And Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.


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<pb/>Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take for him a wife from there <i>and that</i> as he blessed him he gave him an order, saying, You will not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,


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And Esau went to Ishmael and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.


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And he fell   <n>{came}</n>   upon a <i>certain</i> place and stayed there all night, because the sun was set. And he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.


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And he dreamed and behold, a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the messengers of God ascending and descending on it.


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<pb/>And behold, Jehovah stood above it and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, to you I will give it and to your seed.


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And your seed will be as the dust of the earth and you will spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed in you and in your seed.


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And behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done what I have spoken to you.


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<pb/>And Jacob awoke out of his sleep and he said, Surely Jehovah is in this place and I did not know <i>it</i>.


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And he was afraid and said, How awesome <i>is</i> this place! This is none other than the house of God and this is the gate of heaven.


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And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it.


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And he called the name of that place Bethel   <n>{House of God}</n>, but the name of the city was Luz at first.


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<pb/>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 garments to put on,


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then this stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be God's house. And of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you.


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And he looked, and behold, a well in the field. And behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there by it, because they watered the flocks out of that well. And the stone upon the well's mouth was great.


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And all the flocks were gathered there. And they rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the sheep and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place.


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And he said to them, Is it well with him? And they said, It is well. And behold, Rachel his daughter comes with the sheep.


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<pb/>And he said, Behold, it <i>is</i> yet high day, it is not time that the cattle should be gathered together. Water the sheep and go and feed them.


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And they said, We cannot until all the flocks be gathered together and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.


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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.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Laban heard the news 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.


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And Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.


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<pb/>And Laban said to Jacob, Because you <i>are</i> my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what <i>will</i> your wages <i>be</i>?


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And Laban said, <i>It is</i> better that I give her to you, <i>than</i> that I should give her to another man. Abide with me.


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<pb/>And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him <i>but</i> a few days in the love he had for her.


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And Jacob said to Laban, Give <i>me</i> my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.


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And it happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him. And he went in to her.


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<pb/>And it happened in the morning that, behold, it <i>was</i> Leah. And he said to Laban, What <i>is</i> this you have done to me? <i>Did</i> I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?


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Fulfill the week of this one and we will also give you the other for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.


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And he also went in to Rachel and also he loved Rachel more than Leah and served with him yet seven other years. <pb/>  <n>{Gen_29:31-30:24, Gen_35:16-18, 1Ch_2:1-2.}</n>


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And Leah conceived and bore a son and she called his name Reuben. For she said, Because Jehovah has looked upon my affliction, because now my husband will love me.


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<pb/>And she conceived again and bore a son and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this <i>son</i> also. And she called his name Simeon.


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<pb/>And she conceived again and bore a son and said, Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore his name was called Levi.


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<pb/>And she conceived again and bore a son. And she said, This time I will praise Jehovah. Therefore she called his name Judah. And she left off bearing.


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<pb/>And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no sons, Rachel envied her sister and she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I die.


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<pb/>And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel and he said, Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?


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<pb/>And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees and I also may obtain sons by her.


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And Rachel said, God has judged me and has also heard my voice and has given me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan.


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And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister and I have indeed prevailed. And she called his name Naphtali.


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<pb/>When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid and gave her to Jacob as a wife.


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And Leah said, I am fortunate! For the daughters will call me fortunate. And she called his name Asher.


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<pb/>And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found love-apples in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, I beseech you, give me from your son's love-apples.


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<pb/>And she said to her, <i>Is it</i> a small matter that you have taken away my husband? And would you take away my son's love-apples also? <pb/>And Rachel said, Therefore he may lie with you tonight for your son's love-apples.


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<pb/>And Jacob came from the field in the evening and Leah went out to meet him and said, You must come in to me, because I have surely hired you with my son's love-apples. And he lay with her that night.


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And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.


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And Leah said, God has endowed me <i>with</i> a good endowment. Now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my country.


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Give <i>me</i> my wives and my children <i>for</i> whom I have served you and let me go, because you know my service with which I have served you.


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<pb/>And Laban said to him, If now I have found favor in your eyes, <i>stay here, because</i> I have learned by experience that Jehovah has blessed me for your sake.


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<pb/>And he said to him, You yourself know how I have served you and how your cattle have fared with me.


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For <i>it was</i> little which you had before I <i>came</i> and it has increased to a multitude and Jehovah has blessed you wherever I turned. And now when shall I also provide for my own house?


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<pb/>And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You will not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.


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I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one and every black one among the sheep and the spotted and speckled among the goats and <i>these</i> will be my hire.


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<pb/>So will my righteousness answer for me after this, when you will come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that <i>is</i> not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the sheep, that <i>is</i> with me, will be considered stolen.


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And he removed that day the male-goats that were striped and spotted and all the female-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it and all the black ones among the sheep and gave <i>them</i> into the hand of his sons.


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<pb/>And Jacob took for him rods of fresh poplar and of the almond and of the plane tree and peeled white streaks in them and made the white which <i>was</i> in the rods appear.


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And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. And they conceived when they came to drink.


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<pb/>And the flocks conceived before the rods and the flocks brought out striped, speckled and spotted.


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And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. And he put his own herds apart and did not put them near Laban's flock.


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<pb/>And it happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods,


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but when the flock were weak, he did not put <i>them</i> in. So the weaker were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's.


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<pb/>And the man increased exceedingly and had large flocks and maid-servants and men-servants and camels and donkeys.


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<pb/>And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's and he has gotten all this glory of what was our father's.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred and I will be with you.


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and said to them, I see your* father's countenance, that it is not toward me as formerly, but the God of my father has been with me.


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<pb/>And your* father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.


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If he said thus, The speckled will be your wages, then all the flock bore speckled and if he said thus, The striped will be your wages, then all the flock bore striped.


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<pb/>And it happened at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the male-goats which leaped upon the flock were striped, speckled and grayed.


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<pb/>And he said, Lift up now your eyes and see, all the male-goats which leap upon the flock are striped, speckled and grayed, because I have seen all that Laban does to you.


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I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land and return to the land of your nativity.


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<pb/>And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?


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For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.


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And he carried away all his cattle and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his spoil, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.


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<pb/>Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep and Rachel stole the household-idol that was her father's.


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So he fled with all that he had. And he rose up and passed over the River and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.


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And he took his brothers with him and pursued after him seven days' journey and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.


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And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night and said to him, Take heed to yourself that you not speak to Jacob either good or bad.


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<pb/>And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain. And Laban encamped with his brothers in the mountain of Gilead.


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And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done, that you have stolen away my heart and carried away my daughters as captives of the sword?


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Why did you flee secretly and creep away from me and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with gladness and with songs, with tambourine and with harp,


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<pb/>It is in the power of my hand to do you* harm, but the God of your* father spoke to me last night, saying, Take heed to yourself that you not speak to Jacob either good or bad.


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And now, <i>though</i> you have certainly gone, because you have been very desirous for your father's house, <i>yet</i> why have you stolen my gods?


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<pb/>And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, because I said, Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.


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With whomever you find your gods, he will not live, before our brothers. Discern with me what is yours and take it to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.


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<pb/>And Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two maidservants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent and entered into Rachel's tent.


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Now Rachel had taken the household-idol and put them in the camel's saddle and sat upon them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find them.


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And she said to her father, Do not let my lord be furious that I cannot rise up before you, because the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but did not find the household-idol.


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<pb/>And Jacob was furious and contended with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin that you have hotly-pursued after me?


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Since you have felt around all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, that they may judge between us two.


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<pb/>These twenty years I have been with you, your ewe-lambs and your female-goats have not cast their young and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.


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I did not bring to you what was torn by beasts; I bore the loss of it, you required it of my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.


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<pb/>Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me and the frost by night and my sleep fled from my eyes.


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<pb/>These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock. And you have changed my wages ten times.


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Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.


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<pb/>And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters and the sons are my sons and the flocks are my flocks and all that you see is mine. And what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their sons whom they have borne?


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And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones and they took stones and made a heap. And they ate there by the heap.


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And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha   <n>{Aramaic: Heap of the Testimony}</n>, but Jacob called it Galeed   <n>{Hebrew: Heap of the Testimony}</n>.


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<pb/>And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and you this day. Therefore the name of it was called Galeed,


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if you will afflict my daughters and if you will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us, see, God is witness between me and you.


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<pb/>And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap and behold the pillar, which I have set between me and you.


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This heap is witness and the pillar is witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar for harm to me.


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The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.


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<pb/>And Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain.


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And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. And Laban departed and returned to his place.


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<pb/>And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.


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And he commanded them, saying, Thus you* will say to my lord Esau, Thus says your servant Jacob, I have traveled with Laban and stayed until now.


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And I have oxen and donkeys, flocks and men-servants and maid-servants. And I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.


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<pb/>And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau and moreover he comes to meet you and four hundred men with him.


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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the people that were with him and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies.


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And he said, If Esau comes to the one company and slays it, then the company which is left will escape.


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<pb/>And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who said to me, Return to your country and to your kindred and I will do good <i>things</i> with you,


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I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant, because with my staff I passed over this Jordan and now I have become two companies.


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<pb/>I beseech you, deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, lest he comes and slays me, the mother with the sons.


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And you said, I will surely do you good and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.


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<pb/>And he lodged there that night and took of what he had with him a present for Esau his brother:


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<pb/>And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every herd by itself and said to his servants, Pass over before me and put a space between herd and herd.


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And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, Whose are you? And where do you go? And whose are these before you?


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Then you will say, Your servant Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.


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<pb/>And he commanded also the second and the third and all who followed the herds, saying, On this manner will you* speak to Esau when you* find him,


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and you* will say, 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. Perhaps he will accept me.


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<pb/>And he rose up that night and took his two wives and his two handmaids and his eleven sons and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.


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And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained as he wrestled with him.


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<pb/>And he said, Let me go, because the day breaks. And he said, I will not let you go unless you bless me.


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And he said, Your name will be called Jacob no more, but Israel, because you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.


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<pb/>And Jacob asked him and said, I beseech you, tell me your name. <pb/>And he said, Why is it that you ask for my name? And he blessed him there.


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<pb/>And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel   <n>{Face of God}</n>, for, I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved.


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<pb/>And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel   <n>{Face of God}</n>   and he limped upon his thigh.


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Therefore the sons of Israel do not eat the muscle of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the muscle of the hip.


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<pb/>And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming and four hundred men with him. And he divided the children to Leah and to Rachel and to the two handmaids.


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And he put the handmaids and their children foremost and Leah and her children after and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.


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And he himself passed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.


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And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God has graciously given your servant.


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And Leah also and her children came near and bowed themselves. And afterward Joseph came near and Rachel and they bowed themselves.


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<pb/>And he said, What do you mean by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord.


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<pb/>And Jacob said, No, I beseech you, if now I have found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, inasmuch as I have seen your face, as any man would see the face of God and you were pleased with me.


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I beseech you, take my gift 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.


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And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender and that the flocks and herds with me have their young and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.


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I beseech you,let my lord pass over before his servant and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.


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<pb/>And Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the folks that are with me. And he said, What need is it? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.


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<pb/>And Jacob traveled to Succoth and built for him a house and made booths for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.


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And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram and encamped before the city.


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And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred lambs.


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<pb/>And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.


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And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. And he took her and lay with her and humbled her.


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And his soul clung to Dinah the daughter of Jacob and he loved the maiden and spoke kindly to the maiden.


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<pb/>Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. And his sons were with his cattle in the field and Jacob held his peace until they came.


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And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were grieved and they were furious, because he had done senselessness in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.


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<pb/>And Hamor spoke with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longs for your* daughter. I beseech you*, give her to him as a wife.


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And you* will dwell with us and the land will be before you*. Dwell and trade you* in it and get possessions for you* in it.


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<pb/>And Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, Let me find favor in your* eyes and what you* will say to me I will give.


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<pb/>And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,


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and said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, because that is a reproach to us.


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<pb/>Only on this condition will we consent to you*, if you* will be as we are, that every male of you* be circumcised.


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Then we will give our daughters to you* and we will take your* daughters to us. And we will dwell with you* and we will become one people.


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But if you* will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter and we will be gone.


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And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was honored above all the house of his father.


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These men are peaceable with us, therefore let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for, behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives and let us give them our daughters.


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<pb/>Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.


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Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? Only let us consent to them and they will dwell with us.


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<pb/>And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to Shechem his son and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.


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<pb/>And it happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took each man his sword and came upon the city unawares and killed all the males.


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And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem's house and went forth.


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<pb/>The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.


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and all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, they took captive and made a prey, even all that was in the house.


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<pb/>And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You* have troubled me, to make me stink to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and kill* me and I will be destroyed, I and my house.


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<pb/>And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.


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<pb/>Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you* and purify yourselves and change your* garments.


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And let us arise and go up to Bethel and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me on the way which I went.


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And they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand and the rings which were in their ears. And Jacob hid them under the oak that was by Shechem.


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<pb/>And they traveled and a terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.


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<pb/>So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (what is Bethel), he and all the people that were with him.


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And he built there an altar and called the place El-bethel, because God was revealed to him there, when he fled from the face of his brother.


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<pb/>And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died and she was buried below Bethel under the oak. And the name of it was called Allon-bacuth   <n>{Oak of Weeping}</n>.


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And God said to him, Your name is Jacob. Your name will not be called any more Jacob, but Israel will be your name. And he called his name Israel.


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And God said to him, I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be of you and kings will come out of your loins.


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And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you and I will give the land to your seed after you.


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And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. And he poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.


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<pb/>And they traveled from Bethel. And there was still some distance to come to Ephrath and Rachel travailed and she had hard labor.


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And it happened, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Do not fear, now you will have another son.


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And it happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni   <n>{Son of Sorrow}</n>, but his father called him Benjamin   <n>{Son of the Right}</n>.


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And it happened, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine and Israel heard of it. <pb/>Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.


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The sons of Leah <i>were</i>: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun.


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And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid <i>were</i>: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.


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<pb/>And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (what is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac traveled. <pb/>  <n>{Gen_35:28-29, 40:1-23, 41:1-57}</n>


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And Isaac gave up the spirit and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.


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<pb/>  <n>{Gen_36:1-19, 1Ch_1:35:27}</n>   <pb/>Now these are the genealogies of Esau (what is Edom).


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Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,


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and Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jalam and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.


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<pb/>And Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the souls of his house and his cattle and all his beasts and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.


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For their substance was too great for them to dwell together and the land of their travels could not bear them because of their cattle.


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These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.


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And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son and she bore to Eliphaz: Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.


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And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah, these were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.


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And these were the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bore to Esau Jeush and Jalam and Korah.


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<pb/>These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau <i>were</i>: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,


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chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs that came by Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Adah.


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And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs that came by Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.


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And these are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah. These are the chiefs that came by Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.


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<pb/>These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah,


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and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan. These are the chiefs that came of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.


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And these are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.


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<pb/>These are the chiefs that came from the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,


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chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan. These are the chiefs that came from the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir. <pb/>  <n>{Gen_36:31-43, 1Ch_1:43-2:2}</n>


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<pb/>And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the sons of Israel.


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And Husham died and Hadad the son of Bedad, who killed* Midian in the field of Moab, reigned instead of him. And the name of his city was Avith.


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And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died and Hadar reigned instead of him. And the name of his city was Pau and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.


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<pb/>And these are the names of the chiefs that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names: chief Timnah, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,


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chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.


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<pb/>These are the genealogies of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives and Joseph brought the evil report of them to their father.


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<pb/>Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made for him a coat of many colors.


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And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers. And they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.


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For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And behold, your* sheaves came all around and bowed-down to my sheaf.


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<pb/>And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words.


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<pb/>And he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers. And said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream again. And behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing-down to me.


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<pb/>And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow-down ourselves to you to the earth?


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And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come and I will send you to them. <pb/>And he said to him, Here I am.


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<pb/>And he said to him, Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers and well with the flock and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron and he came to Shechem.


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<pb/>And a certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, What do you seek?


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<pb/>And the man said, They have departed from here, because I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.


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<pb/>And they saw him afar off. And before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.


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Come now therefore and let us kill him and cast him into one of the pits. And we will say, An evil beast has devoured him. And we will see what will become of his dreams.


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And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood. Cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him, that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him,


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<pb/>And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.


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<pb/>And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?


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Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and do not let our hand be upon him, because he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers listened to him.


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<pb/>And there passed by Midianites, merchants and they drew and lifted Joseph up out of the pit and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.


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<pb/>And Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he tore his clothes,


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And they sent the coat of many colors and they brought it to their father and said, We have found this. Know now whether it is your son's coat or not.


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<pb/>And he recognized it and said, It is my son's coat. An evil beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.


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And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.


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<pb/>And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.


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<pb/>  <n>{Gen_38:1-30, 1Ch_2:3-6, 8}</n>   <pb/>  <n>{Rth_4:18-22, Mat_1:3-6, Luk_3:31-33, 1Ch_2:5-14.}</n>   <pb/>And it happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.


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And Judah saw a daughter of a certain Canaanite there whose name was Shua. And he took her and went in to her.


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And Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her and raise up seed to your brother.


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<pb/>And Onan knew that the seed would not be his. And it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.


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<pb/>Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in law, Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up, because he said, Lest he also die, like his brothers. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.


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And Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died in process of time. And Judah was comforted and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.


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<pb/>And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, your father-in-law goes up to Timnah to shear his sheep.


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And she put the garments of her widowhood off from her and covered herself with her veil and wrapped herself and sat in the gateway of two-springs <i>Enaim</i>, which is by the way to Timnah, becauses he saw that Shelah was grown up and she was not given to him as a wife.


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And he turned to her by the way and said, I beseech you, come let me come in to you, because he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. <pb/>And she said, What will you give me, that you may come in to me?


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<pb/>And he said, I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock. <pb/>And she said, Will you give me a pledge, till you send it?


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<pb/>And he said, What pledge shall I give you? <pb/>And she said, Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand. And he gave them to her and came in to her and she conceived by him.


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<pb/>And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he did not find her.


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Then he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the prostitute, who was at two-springs <i>Enaim</i> by the wayside? <pb/>And they said, There has been no prostitute here.


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<pb/>And he returned to Judah and said, I have not found her and also the men of the place said, There has been no prostitute here.


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<pb/>And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we are put to shame. Behold, I sent this kid and you have not found her.


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<pb/>And it happened about three months after, that it was told to Judah, saying, Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the prostitute and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution. <pb/>And Judah said, Bring her forth and let her be burnt.


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<pb/>When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, whose these are, I am with child. And she said, I beseech you, discern whose these are, the signet and the cords and the staff.


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And Judah acknowledged them and said, She is more righteous than I, inasmuch as I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.


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And it happened, when she travailed, that one put out a hand. And the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.


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<pb/>And it happened, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out. And she said, Why have you made a breach for yourself? Therefore his name was called Perez.


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And afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread upon his hand. And his name was called Zerah.


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<pb/>And Joseph was brought down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites, who had brought him down there.


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And Jehovah was with Joseph. And he was a man who succeeds. And he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.


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<pb/>And his master saw that Jehovah was with him and that Jehovah made all that he did to prosper in his hand.


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And Joseph found favor in his sight and he ministered to him. And he made him overseer over his house and all that he had, he put into his hand.


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<pb/>And it happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake. And the blessing of Jehovah was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field.


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And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand and he knew nothing <i>that was</i> with him, save the bread which he ate. And Joseph was handsome and fine-looking.


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<pb/>And it happened, after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and she said, Lie with me.


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But he refused and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master does not know what is in the house with me and he has put all that he has into my hand.


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He is not greater in this house than I, nor 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?


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<pb/>And it happened, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not listen to her, to lie by her, <i>or</i> to be with her.


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<pb/>And it happened, about this time, that he went into the house to do his work and there was none of the men of the house there inside.


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And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me. And he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out.


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that she called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying, See, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me and I cried with a loud voice.


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And it happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me and fled and got out.


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And she spoke to him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me.


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<pb/>And it happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, After this manner, your servant did <i>this</i> to me, <i>so</i> that his wrath was kindled.


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And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound. And he was there in the prison.


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<pb/>But Jehovah was with Joseph and showed kindness to him and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.


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And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. And whatever they did there, he was the doer of it.


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<pb/>  <n>{Gen_35:28-29, 40:1-23, 41:1-57}</n>   <pb/>And it happened after these things, that the cupbearer of the King of Egypt and his baker, offended their lord the King of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh was angry against his two officers, against the chief of the cupbearers and against the chief of the bakers.


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And he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.


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And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them and he ministered to them. And they continued a season in confinement.


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<pb/>And they dreamed a dream both of them in one night, each man his dream, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the King of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.


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And he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in confinement in his master's house, saying, Why do you* look so sad today?


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<pb/>And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream and there is no man who can interpret it. <pb/>And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell it to me, I beseech you*.


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<pb/>And the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me.


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And three tendrils were in the vine. And it was as though it budded, <i>and</i> its blossoms shot forth, <i>and</i> the clusters of it brought out ripe grapes.


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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.


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within yet three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office. And you will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when you was his cupbearer.


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<pb/>But have me in your remembrance when it will be well with you and I beseech you, show kindness to me and make mention of me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this house.


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<pb/>When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.


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And there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh in the uppermost basket and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head.


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<pb/>And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation of it: the three baskets are three days;


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within yet three days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree and the birds will eat your flesh from you.


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<pb/>And it happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast to all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.


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<pb/>And it happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed. And behold, he stood by the river.


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And behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, fine-looking and fattened and they fed in the reed grass.


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And behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed and stood by the other cows upon the brink of the river.


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And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed cows ate up the seven fine-looking and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke.


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<pb/>And he slept and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain came up upon one stalk, fat and good.


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And the thin ears swallowed up the seven fat and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.


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<pb/>And it happened in the morning, that his spirit was troubled and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all the wise men of it. And Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no man who could interpret them to Pharaoh.


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Pharaoh was angry with his servants and put me in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.


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And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he, we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.


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<pb/>And there was a young man with us there, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard and we told him. And he interpreted to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man according to his dream.


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<pb/>Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph. And they brought him hastily out of the pit and he shaved himself and changed his garments and came in to Pharaoh.


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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream and there is no man who can interpret it. And I have heard say of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.


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And behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, fat-fleshed and fine-looking and they fed in the reed grass.


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And behold, seven other cows came up after them, poorly and very ill-formed and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.


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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.


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And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, <i>and</i> blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them,


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and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no man who could declare it to me.


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<pb/>And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one; what God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.


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And the seven lean and ill-favored cows that came up after them are seven years and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind, they will be seven years of famine.


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and there will arise after them seven years of famine. And all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt and the famine will consume the land.


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And the plenty will not be known in the land because of that famine which follows, because it will be very grievous.


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<pb/>And because the dream was doubled to Pharaoh, it is because the thing is established by God and God will shortly bring it to pass.


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<pb/>Now therefore let Pharaoh look out for a man discreet and wise and set him over the land of Egypt.


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Let Pharaoh do <i>this</i> and let him appoint overseers over the land and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plentiful years.


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And let them gather all the food of these good years that come and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities and let them keep it.


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And the food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land not perish through the famine.


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And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?


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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Inasmuch as God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.


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You will be over my house and according to your word all my people will be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.


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<pb/>And Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph's hand and arrayed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.


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And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had and they cried before him, Bow the knee. And he set him over all the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh and without you no man will lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah   <n>{Egyptian: Savior of the Age; Hebrew: Revealer of Secrets}</n>   and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah priest of On, for a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.


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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.


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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 all around every city, he laid up in the same.


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And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering, because it was without number.


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<pb/>And two sons were born to Joseph before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah priest of On, bore to him.


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And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, because God has made me forget all my toil and all my father's house.


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And the name of the second he called Ephraim, because God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.


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And the seven years of famine began to come, just-as Joseph had said. And there was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.


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And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; what he says to you*, do.


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<pb/>And the famine was over all the face of the earth. And Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.


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And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe on all the earth.


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<pb/>Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt. And Jacob said to his sons, Why do you* look one upon another?


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And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. You* get down there and buy for us from there, that we may live and not die.


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But Benjamin   <n>{Son of the Right}</n>, Joseph's brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers, because he said, Lest perhaps harm befall him.


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<pb/>And the sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, because the famine was in the land of Canaan.


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And Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves to him with their faces to the earth.


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<pb/>And Joseph saw his brothers and he knew them, but made himself foreign to them and spoke roughly with them. And he said to them. From where do you* come? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.


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<pb/>And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them. And said to them, You* are spies; you* have come to see the nakedness of the land.


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And they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. And behold, the youngest is this day with our father and one is not.


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By this you* will be proved; by the life of Pharaoh you* will not go forth from here unless your* youngest brother comes here.


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Send one of you* and let him fetch your* brother. And you* will be bound, that your* words may be proved, whether there is truth in you*, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you* are spies.


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If you* are true men, let one of your* brothers be bound in your* prison house, but go you*, carry grain for the famine of your* houses,


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and bring your* youngest brother to me. So will your* words be verified and you* will not die. And they did so.


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<pb/>And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul when he besought us and we would not hear. Therefore this distress has come upon us.


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And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you*, saying, Sin not against the child and you* would not hear? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.


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<pb/>And they did not know that Joseph understood them, because there was an interpreter between them.


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And he turned himself around from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them and took Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes.


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<pb/>Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with grain and to restore every man's money into his sack and to give them provisions for the way. And thus it was done to them.


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<pb/>And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder in the lodging place, he saw his money, and behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.


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And he said to his brothers, My money is restored, and behold, it is even in my sack. And their heart failed them and they turned trembling one to another, saying, What is this that God has done to us?


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<pb/>And they came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan and told him all that had befallen them, saying,


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We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is not and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.


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<pb/>And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, By this I will know that you* are true men. Leave one of your* brothers with me and take <i>grain for</i> the famine of your* houses and go your* way,


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and bring your* youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you* are no spies, but that you* are true men. So I will deliver your* brother to you* and you* will trade in the land.


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<pb/>And it happened as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.


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<pb/>And Jacob their father said to them, You* have bereaved me of my sons. Joseph is not and Simeon is not and you* will take Benjamin   <n>{Son of the Right}</n>   away. All these things are against me.


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<pb/>And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Kill my two sons if I do not bring him to you. Deliver him into my hand and I will bring him to you again.


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And he said, My son will not go down with you*, because his brother is dead and he only is left. If harm befalls him by the way in which you* go, then you* will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.


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And it happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food.


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<pb/>And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man solemnly protested to us, saying, You* will not see my face unless your* brother be with you*.


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but if you will not send him, we will not go down. For the man said to us, You* will not see my face unless your* brother be with you*.


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<pb/>And Israel said, Why did you* deal so ill with me, as to tell the man whether you* had yet a brother?


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And they said, The man asked diligently concerning ourselves and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your* father yet alive? Have you* <i>another</i> brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we in any way know that he would say, Bring your* brother down?


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<pb/>And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the young man with me and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.


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I will be a surety for him, of my hand will you require him. If I do not bring him to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.


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<pb/>And their father Israel said to them, If it is so now, do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your* vessels and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, spicery and myrrh, nuts and almonds.


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And take double money in your* hand and the money that was returned in the mouth of your* sacks carry again in your* hand. Perhaps it was an oversight.


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<pb/>And God Almighty give you* mercy before the man, that he may release to you* your* other brother and Benjamin   <n>{Son of the Right}</n>. And if I be bereaved of my sons, I am bereaved.


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<pb/>And the men took that present and they took double money in their hand and Benjamin   <n>{Son of the Right}</n>   and rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.


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<pb/>And when Joseph saw Benjamin   <n>{Son of the Right}</n>   with them, he said to the steward of his house, Bring the men into the house and kill and make ready, because the men will dine with me at noon.


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<pb/>And the men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house and they said, We are brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, that he may seek occasion against us and fall upon us and take us for bondmen and our donkeys.


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<pb/>And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house and they spoke to him at the door of the house,


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And it happened, when we came to the lodging place, that we opened our sacks, and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. And we have brought it again in our hand.


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And we have brought other money down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks.


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<pb/>And he said, Peace be to you*, do not fear. Your* God and the God of your* father, has given you* treasure in your* sacks. I had your* money. <pb/>And he brought Simeon out to them.


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And the man brought the men into Joseph's house and gave them water and they washed their feet. And he gave their donkeys fodder.


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And they made ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon, because they heard that they should eat bread there.


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<pb/>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.


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And he asked them of their welfare and said, Is your* father well, the old man of whom you* spoke? Is he yet alive?


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And they said, Your servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And they bowed the head and <i>then</i> bowed-down <i>to him</i>.


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<pb/>And he lifted up his eyes and saw Benjamin   <n>{Son of the Right}</n>   his brother, his mother's son and said, Is this your* youngest brother, of whom you* spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to you, my son.


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And Joseph made haste, becausehis heart yearned over his brother and he sought where to weep. And he entered into his chamber and wept there.


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<pb/>And they set on for him by himself and for them by themselves and for the Egyptians, who ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, becausethat is an abomination to the Egyptians.


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<pb/>And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth. And the men marveled one with another.


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And he took <i>and sent</i> portions to them from before him, but Benjamin's   <n>{Son of the Right's}</n>   portion was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry with him.


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<pb/>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.


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And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest and his grain money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.


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<i>And</i> when they were gone out of the city and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, Up, follow after the men and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you* rewarded evil for good?


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Is not this that in which my lord drinks and how he indeed a diviner? You* have done evil in so doing.


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<pb/>And they said to him, Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing.


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Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then would we steal out of your lord's house silver or gold?


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And he said, Now also let it be according to your* words. He with whom it is found will be my bondman and you* will be blameless.


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<pb/>Then they hurried and took down every man his sack to the ground and opened every man his sack.


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And he searched, <i>and</i> began at the eldest and left off at the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's  <n>{Son of the Right's}</n>  sack.


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<pb/>And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house. And he was yet there and they fell before him on the ground.


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And Joseph said to them, What deed is this that you* have done? Do you* not know that such a man as I can indeed a diviner?


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<pb/>And Judah said, What will we say to my lord? What will we speak, or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondmen, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.


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<pb/>And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondman, but as for you*, you* get up in peace to your* father.


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<pb/>Then Judah came near to him and said, Oh, my lord, I beseech you, let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears and do not let your anger burn against your servant, because you are even as Pharaoh.


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And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man and a child of his old age, a little one. And his brother is dead and he alone is left of his mother and his father loves him.


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And we said to my lord, The young man cannot leave his father, if he should leave his father, his father would die.


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And you said to your servants, Unless your* youngest brother come down with you*, you* will see my face no more.


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And we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then will we go down, because we may not see the man's face unless our youngest brother be with us.


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And if you* take this one also from me and harm befall him, you* will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.


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<pb/>Now therefore when I come to your servant my father and the young man is not with us, since his life is bound up in the young man's life,


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it will happen, when he sees that the young man is not <i>with us</i>, that he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.


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For your servant became a surety for the young man to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.


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<pb/>Now therefore, I beseech you, let your servant abide a bondman to my lord instead of the young man and let the young man go up with his brothers.


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For how shall I go up to my father, if the young man is not with me? Lest I see the evil that will come on my father.


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<pb/>Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood before him and he cried out, Cause every man to go out from me. And no man stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.


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<pb/>And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph, does my father yet live? And his brothers could not answer him, because they were troubled at his presence.


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And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me, I beseech you*. And they came near and he said, I am Joseph your* brother, whom you* sold into Egypt.


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<pb/>And now do not be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you* sold me here, because God sent me before you* to preserve life.


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For the famine has been in the land these two years and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.


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And God sent me before you* to preserve for you* a remnant on the earth and to save you* alive by a great deliverance.


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<pb/>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 ruler over all the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>You* hasten and go up to my father and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph; God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me, do not delay.


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And you will dwell in the land of Goshen and you will be near to me, you and your sons and your sons' sons and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.


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And there will I nourish you, because there are yet five years of famine, lest you come to poverty, you and your household and all that you have.


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<pb/>And behold, your* eyes see and the eyes of my brother Benjamin   <n>{Son of the Right}</n>, that it is my mouth that speaks to you*.


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And you* will tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and of all that you* have seen. And you* will hasten and bring down my father here.


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<pb/>And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's   <n>{Son of the Right's}</n>   neck and wept and Benjamin   <n>{Son of the Right}</n>   wept upon his neck.


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<pb/>And the report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brothers have come. And it pleased Pharaoh well and his servants.


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<pb/>And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Do this: load your* beasts and go, you* get to the land of Canaan,


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and take your* father and your* households and come to me. And I will give you* the good of the land of Egypt and you* will eat the fat of the land.


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<pb/>Now you are commanded, this do you*: Take wagons for you* out of the land of Egypt for your* little ones and for your* wives and bring your* father and come.


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<pb/>And the sons of Israel did so. And Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh and gave them provision for the way.


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He gave to all of them, each man, changes of garments, but to Benjamin   <n>{Son of the Right}</n>   he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of garments.


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<pb/>And he sent to his father according to this manner: ten donkeys laden with the good things of Egypt and ten female-donkeys laden with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.


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So he sent his brothers away and they departed. And he said to them, See that you* not fall out by the way.


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And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, because he did not believe them.


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<pb/>And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. And when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.


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<pb/>And Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.


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And he said, I am God, the God of your father. Do not fear to go down into Egypt, because I will there make of you a great nation.


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I will go down with you into Egypt and I will also surely bring you up again and Joseph will put his hand upon your eyes.


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<pb/>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.


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And they took up their goods and all their property, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, they came into the land of Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him:


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the sons and the sons of his sons with him, <i>his</i> daughters and the daughters of his daughters. And he brought all his seed into Egypt.


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<pb/>And these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.


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And the sons of Simeon <i>were</i>: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.


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And the sons of Judah <i>were</i>: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah. But Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.


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These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.


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And the sons of Asher <i>were</i>: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah <i>were</i>: Heber and Malchiel.


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These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.


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And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah priest of On, bore to him.


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And the sons of Benjamin <i>were</i>: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.


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These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter and these she bore to Jacob. All the souls were seven.


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<pb/>All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.


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And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were seventy.


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<pb/>And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen and they came into the land of Goshen.


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And Joseph made his chariot ready and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen. And he presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.


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<pb/>And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's house, I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, My brothers and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.


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And the men are shepherds, because they have been keepers of cattle and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.


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that you* will say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers, that you* may dwell in the land of Goshen, because every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.


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<pb/>Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh and said, My father and my brothers and their flocks and their herds and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan. And behold, they are in the land of Goshen.


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<pb/>And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your* occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.


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And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to journey in the land, because there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.


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The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers to dwell in the best of the land; in the land of Goshen let them dwell. And if you know any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.


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And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.


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<pb/>And Joseph placed his father and his brothers 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.


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And Joseph nourished his father and his brothers and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.


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<pb/>And there was no bread in all the land, because the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.


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And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.


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<pb/>And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, Give us bread, why should we die in your presence? Because <i>our</i> money fails.


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And they brought their cattle to Joseph. And Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses and for the flocks and for the herds and for the donkeys. And he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.


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<pb/>And when that year was ended, they came to him the second year and said to him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands.


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Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed, that we may live and not die and that the land not be desolate.


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<pb/>So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. For the Egyptians, every man, sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. And the land became Pharaoh's.


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And as for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.


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Only he did not buy the land of the priests, because the priests had a portion from Pharaoh and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they did not sell their land.


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<pb/>Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you* this day and your* land for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you* and you* will sow the land.


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<pb/>And they said, You have saved our lives. Let us find favor in the sight of my lord and we will be Pharaoh's servants.


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<pb/>And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.


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<pb/>And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they got possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.


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And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty-seven years.


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<pb/>And the time drew near that Israel must die. And he called his son Joseph and said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, I beseech you, put your hand under my thigh and deal kindly and truly with me. I beseech you, do not bury me in Egypt,


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but when I sleep with my fathers, you will carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place. And he said, I will do as you have said.


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<pb/>And it happened after these things, that it was reported to Joseph, Behold, your father is sick. And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.


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And it was reported to Jacob, saying, Behold, your son Joseph comes to you. And Israel strengthened himself and sat upon the bed.


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and said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.


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<pb/>And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine, Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.


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And your offspring, which you father after them, will be your, they will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.


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<pb/>And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (what is Bethlehem).


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And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me here. And he said, I beseech you, bring them to me and I will bless them.


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<pb/>Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near to him and he kissed them and embraced them.


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And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see your face, and behold, God has let me see your seed also.


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<pb/>And Joseph brought them out from between his knees and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.


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And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand and brought them near to him.


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<pb/>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 deliberately, because Manasseh was the firstborn.


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<pb/>And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,


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the messenger who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads and let my name be named on them and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.


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<pb/>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 to Manasseh's head.


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And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, because this is the firstborn, put your right hand upon his head.


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<pb/>And his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he and his seed will become a multitude of nations.


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And he blessed them that day, saying, In you will Israel bless, saying, God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh. And he set Ephraim before Manasseh.


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<pb/>And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die, but God will be with you* and bring you* again to the land of your* fathers.


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Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.


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<pb/>And Jacob called to his sons and said, gather yourselves together, that I may tell you* what will befall you* in the latter days.


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<pb/>Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, the preeminence of dignity and the pre-eminence of power.


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Boiling over as water, you will not have the pre-eminence, because you went up to your father's bed, then you defiled it; he went up to my couch.


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O my soul, do not come into their council, to their assembly, my glory, do not be united, because they killed* a man in their anger and they hocked an ox in their self-will.


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Cursed be their anger, because it was fierce and their wrath, because it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.


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<pb/>Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before you.


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Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion and as a lioness, who will rouse him up?


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<pb/>The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and to him will the obedience of the peoples be.


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Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his raiment in the blood of grapes.


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<pb/>Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea and he will be for a haven of ships. And his border will be upon Sidon.


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And he saw a resting place that it was good and the land that it was pleasant. And he bowed his shoulder to bear and became a servant under forced-labor.


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Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.


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<pb/>Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a fountain, <i>his</i> daughters run over the wall.


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but his bow abode in strength. And the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),


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even by the God of your father, who will help you and by the Almighty, who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that couches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.


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<pb/>The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my forefathers to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They will be on the head of Joseph and on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.


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<pb/>Benjamin is a wolf that ravens. In the morning he will devour the prey and at evening he will divide the spoil.


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<pb/>All these are the twelve tribes of Israel and this is it that their father spoke to them and blessed them; every man according to his blessing he blessed them.


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<pb/>And he ordered them and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,


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in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying place.


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<pb/>There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife and there I buried Leah,


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<pb/>And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed and yielded up the spirit and was gathered to his people.


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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.


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And forty days were fulfilled for him, because so are fulfilled the days of embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.


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<pb/>And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your* eyes, speak, I beseech you*, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,


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My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I die. In my grave which I have dug for me in the land of Canaan, there will you bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I beseech you and bury my father and I will come again.


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<pb/>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,


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and all the house of Joseph and his brothers and his father's house. Only their little ones and their flocks and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.


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<pb/>And they came to the threshing floor of Atad   <n>{Thorns}</n>, which is beyond the Jordan. And there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. And he made a mourning for his father seven days.


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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. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.


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For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.


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<pb/>And Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.


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And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us and will fully requite us all the evil which we did to him.


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So will you* say to Joseph, Forgive, I beseech you now, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did to you evil. And now, please, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.


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<pb/>And his brothers also went and fell down before his face and they said, Behold, we are your servants.


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And as for you*, you* meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.


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Now therefore do not fear. I will nourish you* and your* little ones. And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.


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<pb/>And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house. And Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.


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And Joseph saw Ephraim's sons of the third generation. Also the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees.


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<pb/>And Joseph said to his brothers, I die, but God will surely visit you* and bring you* up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.


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And Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you* and you* will carry up my bones from here.


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<pb/>So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old and they embalmed him and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.


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<pb/>  <n>{Exo_1:1-2:25, 1Ch_6:1-3}</n>   <pb/>Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt (every man and his household who came with Jacob):


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And all the souls who came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls. And Joseph was in Egypt already.


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And the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty and the land was filled with them.


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Come, let us deal craftily with them, lest they multiply and it happen, that, when war happens, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us and get them up out of the land.


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<pb/>Therefore they set forced-labor <i>managers</i> over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built store-cities for Pharaoh <i>which were</i> Pithom and Raameses.


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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. And they were grieved because of the sons of Israel.


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And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, with which they made them serve with rigor.


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<pb/>And the King of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah.


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And he said, When you* do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see them upon the stool, if it is a son, then you* will kill him, but if it is a daughter, then she will live.


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But the midwives feared God and did not do as the King of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.


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<pb/>And the King of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, Why have you* done this thing and have saved the male children alive?


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And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, because they are lively and are delivered before the midwife comes to them.


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<pb/>And Pharaoh ordered all his people, saying, Every son that is born you* will cast into the river and every daughter you* will save alive.


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And the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw him that he was a good <i>looking</i> child, she hid him three months.


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<pb/>And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with tar and with pitch. And she put the child in it and laid it in the reeds by the river's edge.


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<pb/>And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river and her maidens walked along by the riverside. And she saw the ark among the reeds and sent her handmaid to fetch it.


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And she opened it and saw the child, and behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.


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<pb/>Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?


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And Pharaoh's daughter said to 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.


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<pb/>And the child grew and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. And she called his name Moses and said, Because I drew him out of the water.


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<pb/>And it happened in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out to his brothers and looked on their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian slaying a Hebrew, one of his brothers.


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And he looked this way and that way and when he saw that there was no man, he killed* the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.


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<pb/>And he went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together. And he said to him who did the wrong, Why do you kill* your neighbor?


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And he said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you think to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared and said, Surely the thing is known.


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<pb/>Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian and he sat down by a well.


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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.


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And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock.


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<pb/>And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you* have come so soon today?


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And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and moreover he drew water for us and watered the flock.


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And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that you* have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.


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And she bore a son and he called his name Gershom, because he said, I have been a traveler in a foreign land.


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<pb/>And it happened in the course of those many days, that the King of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage and they cried and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.


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And God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.


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<pb/>Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.


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<pb/>And the messenger of Jehovah appeared to 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.


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<pb/>And when Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am.


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And he said, Do not draw near here. Put off your shoes from your feet, because the place on which you stand is holy ground.


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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, because he was afraid to look upon God.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, because I know their sorrows.


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And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.


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<pb/>And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.


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Come now therefore and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people the sons of Israel out of Egypt.


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<pb/>And Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring forth the sons of Israel out of Egypt?


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And he said, I will certainly be with you. And this will be the sign to you, that I have sent you: When you have brought out the people out of Egypt, you* will serve God upon this mountain.


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<pb/>And Moses said to God, Behold, when I come to the sons of Israel and will say to them, The God of your* fathers has sent me to you* and they will say to me, What is his name? What shall I say to them?


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And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. And he said, Thus you will say to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you*.


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<pb/>And God said moreover to Moses, Thus you will say to the sons of Israel, Jehovah, the God of your* fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you*. This is my name everlasting and this is my memorial to all generations.


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<pb/>Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, Jehovah, the God of your* fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you* and seen what is done to you* in Egypt.


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And I have said, I will bring you* up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.


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<pb/>And they will listen to your voice. And you will come, you and the elders of Israel, to the King of Egypt and you* will say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. And now please let us go, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.


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And I will put forth my hand and kill* Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst of it and after that he will let you* go.


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<pb/>And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. And it will happen, that, when you* go, you* will not go empty.


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But every woman will ask of her neighbor and of her who travels in her house, jewels of silver and jewels of gold and garments. And you* will put them upon your* sons and upon your* daughters and you* will despoil the Egyptians.


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<pb/>And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice, because they will say, Jehovah has not appeared to you.


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And he said, Cast in on the ground. And he cast it on the ground. And it became a serpent and Moses fled from before it.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Put forth your hand and take it by the tail (and he put forth his hand and laid hold of it and it became a rod in his hand),


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that they may believe that Jehovah, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said furthermore to him, Put now your 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.


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And he said, Put your hand into your bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.


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<pb/>And it will happen, if they will not believe you, nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.


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And it will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, nor listen to your voice, that you will take of the water of the river and pour it upon the dry land. And the water which you take out of the river will become blood upon the dry land.


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<pb/>And Moses said to Jehovah, Oh, Lord, I am not a man of words, neither yesterday nor in <i>any</i> time past, nor since you have spoken to your servant, because I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue.


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And Jehovah said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah?


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<pb/>And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses and he said, Is there not Aaron your brother the Levite? 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.


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And you will speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you* what you* will do,


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and he will be your spokesman to the people. And it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth and you will be to him as God.


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<pb/>And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, Let me go, I beseech you and return to my brothers who are in Egypt and see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt, because all the men are dead who sought your life.


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And Moses took his wife and his sons and set them upon a donkey and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.


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and I have said to you, Let my son go, that he may serve me and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill* your son, your firstborn.


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Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at his feet. And she said, Surely a bridegroom of blood you are to me.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went and met him on the mountain of God and kissed him.


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And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah with which he had sent him and all the signs with which he had ordered him.


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And Aaron spoke all the words which Jehovah had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people.


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And the people believed. And when they heard that Jehovah had visited the sons of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.


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<pb/>And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.


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<pb/>And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah and moreover I will not let Israel go.


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And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go, three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.


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<pb/>And the King of Egypt said to them, Therefore do you*, Moses and Aaron, loose the people from their works? You* get to your* burdens.


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And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many and you* make them rest from their burdens.


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You* will no more give the people straw to make brick as formerly. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.


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And the number of the bricks, which they made formerly, you* will lay upon them. You* will not diminish any of it. For they are idle, therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.


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Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labor in it and do not let them regard lying words.


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<pb/>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.


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Go yourselves, you* get straw where you* can find it, because none of your* work will be diminished.


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<pb/>And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfill your* works, your* daily deeds, as when there was straw.


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And the officers of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and demanded, Why have you* not fulfilled your* task both yesterday and today, in making brick as formerly?


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<pb/>Then the officers of the sons of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why do you deal thus with your servants?


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There is no straw given to your servants and they say to us, Make brick. And behold, your servants are beaten, but the fault it in your own people.


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<pb/>But he said, You* are idle, you* are idle. Therefore you* say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.


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Go therefore now and work, and no straw will be given you*, yet you* will deliver the number of bricks.


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And the officers of the sons of Israel saw that they were in affliction, when it was said, You* will not diminish anything from your* bricks, your* daily tasks.


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and they said to them, Jehovah look upon you* and judge, because you* have made our fragrance to be stink in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill* us.


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<pb/>And Moses returned to Jehovah and said, Lord, why have you dealt ill with this people? Why is it that you have sent me?


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For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has dealt ill with this people, neither have you delivered your people at all.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. For by a strong hand he will let them go and by a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.


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And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but I was not known by them by my name Jehovah.


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<pb/>And I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they traveled.


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And moreover I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage and I have remembered my covenant.


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<pb/>Therefore say to the sons of Israel, I am Jehovah. And I will bring you* out from under the burdens of the Egyptians and I will rid you* out of their bondage and I will redeem you* with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.


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<pb/>And I will take you* to me for a people and I will be to you* a God and you* will know that I am Jehovah your* God, who brings you* out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.


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And I will bring you* in to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob and I will give it to you* for a heritage. I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>And Moses spoke so to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.


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And Moses spoke before Jehovah, saying, Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me, how then will Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?


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<pb/>And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron and gave them an order to the sons of Israel and to Pharaoh King of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel <i>were</i>: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi, these are the families of Reuben.


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<pb/>And the sons of Simeon <i>were</i>: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman, these are the families of Simeon.


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<pb/>And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogy: Gershon and Kohath and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty-seven years.


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And the sons of Kohath <i>were</i>: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty-three years.


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And the sons of Merari <i>were</i>: Mahli and Mushi. These are the Levite families according to their genealogy.


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<pb/>And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister as a wife and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.


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<pb/>And Aaron took him Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as a wife and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.


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<pb/>And Eleazar Aaron's son took to him one of the daughters of Putiel as a wife and she bore to him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.


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<pb/>These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Jehovah said, Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.


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These are those who spoke to Pharaoh King of Egypt, to bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron.


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that Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, I am Jehovah. Speak to Pharaoh King of Egypt all that I speak to you.


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And Moses said before Jehovah, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips and how will Pharaoh listen to me?


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.


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You will speak all that I command you and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.


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But Pharaoh will not listen to you*. And I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring forth my armies, my people the sons of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.


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And the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from among them.


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When Pharaoh will speak to you*, saying, Show a wonder for you*, then you will say to Aaron, Take your rod and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.


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And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh. And they did so, as Jehovah had commanded and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants and it became a serpent.


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<pb/>Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. And they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their enchantments.


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For they cast down every man his rod and they became serpents, but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.


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You get to Pharaoh in the morning behold, he goes out to the water and you will stand by the river's edge to meet him and the rod which was turned to a serpent you will take in your hand.


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And you will say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. And behold, until now you have not listened.


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<pb/>Jehovah says thus, In this you will know that I am Jehovah. Behold, I will kill* with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river and they will be turned to blood.


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And the fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul and the Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your rod and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams and over their pools and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.


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<pb/>And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah commanded. And he lifted up the rod and killed* 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.


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And the fish that were in the river died and the river became foul and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river. And the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>And the magicians of Egypt did in like manner with their enchantments. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had spoken.


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<pb/>And all the Egyptians dug all around the river for water to drink, because they could not drink of the water of the river.


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<pb/>And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, Jehovah says thus, Let my people go, that they may serve me.


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And the river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house and into your bedroom and upon your bed and into the house of your servants and upon your people and into your ovens and into your kneading-troughs.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch forth your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams and over the pools and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.


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And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>And the magicians did in like manner with their enchantments and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, Entreat Jehovah, that he take away the frogs from me and from my people and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And Moses said to Pharaoh, Have this honor over me: When shall I entreat for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses and remain in the river only?


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<pb/>And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, Be it according to your word, that you may know that there is none like Jehovah our God.


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And the frogs will depart from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people, they will remain in the river only.


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<pb/>And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh. And Moses cried to Jehovah concerning the frogs which he had brought upon Pharaoh.


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And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses. And the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts and out of the fields.


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<pb/>But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, as Jehovah had spoken.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your rod and kill* the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And they did so. And Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and killed* the dust of the earth. And there were lice upon man and upon beast; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not. And there were lice upon man and upon beast.


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Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had spoken.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Behold, he comes forth to the water. And say to him, Jehovah says thus, Let my people go, that they may serve me.


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Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon you and upon they servants and upon your people and into your houses. And the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies and also the ground on which they are.


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<pb/>And in that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies will be there, to the end you may know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth.


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<pb/>And Jehovah did so and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses. And in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted because of the swarms of flies.


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And Moses said, It is not right to do so, because we will sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God. Behold, will we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes and will they not stone us?


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We will go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he will command us.


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<pb/>And Pharaoh said, I will let you* go, that you* may sacrifice to Jehovah your* God in the wilderness, only you* will not go very far away. Entreat for me.


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<pb/>And Moses said, Behold, I go out from you and I will entreat Jehovah that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants and from his people, tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Jehovah.


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And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants and from his people; there remained not one.


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<pb/>Then Jehovah said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and tell him, Jehovah says thus, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.


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behold, the hand of Jehovah is upon your cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the donkeys, upon the camels, upon the herds and upon the flocks — a very grievous pestilence.


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And Jehovah will make a distinction between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt and there will nothing die of all that belongs to the sons of Israel.


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And Jehovah did that thing on the morrow and all the cattle of Egypt died, but of the cattle of the sons of Israel not one died.


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<pb/>And Pharaoh sent, and behold, there was not so much as one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn and he did not let the people go.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, Take to you* handfuls of ashes of the furnace and let Moses sprinkle it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.


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And it will become small dust over all the land of Egypt and will be a boil breaking forth with sores upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.


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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 sores upon man and upon beast.


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<pb/>And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, because the boils were upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.


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And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had spoken to Moses.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, Jehovah says thus, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.


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For this time I will send all my plagues upon your heart and upon your servants and upon your people, that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.


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For now I have put forth my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, <pb/>and you have been cut off from the earth.


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<pb/>But indeed for this cause I have raised you up, to display in you my power and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.


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Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.


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Now therefore send, hasten in your cattle and all that you have in the field, and every man and beast that will be found in the field and will not be brought home, the hail will come down upon them and they will die.


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<pb/>He who feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch forth your 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.


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<pb/>And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven and Jehovah sent thunder and hail and fire ran down to the earth and Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt.


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So there was hail and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.


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<pb/>And throughout all the land of Egypt the hail killed* all that was in the field, both man and beast and the hail killed* every herb of the field and broke every tree of the field.


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<pb/>And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron and said to them, I have sinned this time. Jehovah is righteous and I and my people are wicked.


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Entreat Jehovah, <i>let it be</i> enough of these mighty thunderings and hail and I will let you* go and you* will stay no longer.


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<pb/>And Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Jehovah. The thunders will cease, neither will there be any more hail, that you may know that the earth is Jehovah's.


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<pb/>And the flax and the barley were struck, because the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bloom.


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<pb/>And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread abroad his hands to Jehovah and the thunders and hail ceased and the rain was not poured upon the earth.


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<pb/>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.


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And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened and he did not let the sons of Israel go, as Jehovah had spoken by Moses.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, becauseI have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them,


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and that you may tell in the ears of your son and of your son's son, what things I have worked upon Egypt and my signs which I have done among them, that you* may know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, Jehovah says thus, the God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.


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<pb/>And they will cover the face of the earth, so that no man is able to see the ground. And they will eat the residue of what has escaped, which remains to you* from the hail and will eat every tree which grows for you* out of the field.


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<pb/>And your houses will be filled and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth to this day. And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.


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<pb/>And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Jehovah their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?


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<pb/>And Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh. And he said to them, Go, serve Jehovah your* God, but who are those who will go?


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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, because<i>we must</i> hold a feast to Jehovah.


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And he said to them, So be Jehovah with you*, as I will let you* go and your* little ones — Look, evil is before you*.


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Not so. Go now who are men and serve Jehovah, becausethat is what you* desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your 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.


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And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all the night and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.


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<pb/>And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the borders of Egypt, very grievous were they, before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them will be such.


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For they covered the face of the whole ground, so that the land was darkened and they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. And there remained not any green thing, either tree nor herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste and he said, I have sinned against Jehovah your* God and against you*.


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Now therefore I beseech you, forgive my sin only this once and entreat Jehovah your* God, that he may only take away from me this death.


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And Jehovah turned an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.


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And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days,


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they did not see each other, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.


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<pb/>And Pharaoh called to Moses and said, Go, serve Jehovah, only let your* flocks and your* herds stay. Let your* little ones also go with you*.


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And Moses said, You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.


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Our cattle will also go with us, there will not a hoof be left behind, because we must take of it to serve Jehovah our God and we do not know with what we must serve Jehovah, until we come there.


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And Pharaoh said to him, You get from me. Take heed to yourself, see my face no more, because in the day you see my face you will die.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt, afterwards he will let you* go from here. When he will let you* go, he will surely thrust you* out from here altogether.


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<pb/>Speak now in the ears of the people and let them ask every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver and jewels of gold.


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And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people.


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and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits upon his throne, even to the firstborn of the maid-servant that is behind the mill and all the firstborn of cattle.


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<pb/>And there will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor will be any more.


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But against any of the sons of Israel will not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast, that you* may know how that Jehovah makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.


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<pb/>And all these your servants will come down to me and bow themselves down to me, saying, You get out and all the people who follow you. And after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh will not listen to you*, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.


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And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh. And Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart and he did not let the sons of Israel go out of his land.


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<pb/>Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they will take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.


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And if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house will take one according to the number of the souls, according to every man's eating you* will make your* count for the lamb.


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<pb/>Your* lamb will be without blemish, a male a year old. You* will take it from the sheep, or from the goats.


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And you* will keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will kill it at evening.


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<pb/>And they will take of the blood and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel upon the houses in which they will eat it.


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And they will eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire and unleavened bread, with bitter herbs they will eat it.


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Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs and with the inwards of it.


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And you* will let nothing of it remain until the morning, but what remains of it until the morning you* will burn with fire.


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<pb/>And thus you* will eat it: with your* loins girded, your* shoes on your* feet and your* staff in your* hand. And you* will eat it in haste. It is Jehovah's Passover.


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<pb/>For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night and will kill* all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am Jehovah.


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And the blood will be to you* for a sign upon the houses where you* are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you* and there will no plague be upon you* to destroy you*, when I kill* the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>And this day will be to you* for a memorial and you* will keep it a feast to Jehovah; throughout your* genealogy you* will keep it a feast by an everlasting ordinance.


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<pb/>Seven days you* will eat unleavened bread, even the first day you* will put away leaven out of your* houses, because whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul will be cut off from Israel.


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<pb/>And in the first day there will be to you* a holy convocation and in the seventh day a holy convocation, no manner of work will be done in them, except what every man must eat, that only may be done by you*.


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<pb/>And you* will observe the feast of unleavened bread, because in this same day I have brought your* armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you* will observe this day throughout your* genealogy by an everlasting ordinance.


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<pb/>In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you* will eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.


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Seven days there will be no leaven found in your* houses, because whoever eats what is leavened, that soul will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a traveler, or one who is born in the land.


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<pb/>Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take to you* lambs according to your* families and kill the Passover.


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And you* will take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin and daub the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin and none of you* will go out of the door of his house until the morning.


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For Jehovah will pass through to kill* the Egyptians and when he sees the blood upon the lintel and on the two side-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your* houses to kill* you*.


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And it will happen, when you* have come to the land which Jehovah will give you*, just-as he has promised, that you* will keep this service.


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that you* will say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah's Passover, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when he killed* the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshiped.


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And it happened at midnight, that Jehovah killed* all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the house in the pit and all the firstborn of cattle.


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<pb/>And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians and there was a great cry in Egypt<i>, because there was</i> not a house where there was not one dead.


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And he called for Moses and Aaron by night and said, Rise up, you* get forth from among my people, both you* and the sons of Israel and go, serve Jehovah, as you* have said.


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And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste, because they said, We are all dead men.


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<pb/>And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.


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And the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver and jewels of gold and garments.


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And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians.


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<pb/>And the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.


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And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, because it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not abide, neither had they prepared for themselves any provisions.


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<pb/>Now the time that the sons of Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan was four hundred and thirty years.


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And it happened at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the armies of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>It is a night to be much observed to Jehovah for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Jehovah, to be much observed of all the sons of Israel throughout their genealogy.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover. There will no foreigner eat of it,


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but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he will eat of it.


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In one house it will be eaten. You will not carry forth any of the flesh abroad out of the house, neither will you* break a bone of it.


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<pb/>And when a stranger will journey with you and will keep the Passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised and then let him come near and keep it and he will be as one who is born in the land, but no uncircumcised man will eat of it.


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And it happened the same day, that Jehovah brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.


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Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the sons of Israel. Both of man and of beast, it is mine.


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<pb/>And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which you* came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, because by strength of hand Jehovah brought you* out from this place. There will no leavened bread be eaten.


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And it will be, when Jehovah will bring you into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you will keep this service in this month.


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Unleavened bread will be eaten throughout the seven days and there will no leavened bread be seen with you, neither will there be leaven seen with you in all your borders.


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<pb/>And you will tell your son in that day, saying, It is because of what Jehovah did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.


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And it will be for a sign to you upon your hand and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Jehovah may be in your mouth, because Jehovah has brought you out of Egypt with a strong hand.


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<pb/>And it will be, when Jehovah will bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers and will give it to you,


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that you will set apart to Jehovah all that opens the womb. And every first-offspring which you have that comes of a beast, the males will be Jehovah's.


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And every first-offspring of a donkey you will redeem with a lamb and if you will not redeem it, then you will break its neck. And all the firstborn of man among your sons you will redeem.


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<pb/>And it will be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is this? that you will say to him, By strength of hand Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Jehovah killed* all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that opens the womb, being males, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.


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<pb/>And it will be for a sign upon your hand and for bands between your eyes, because Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt by strength of hand.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, Lest perhaps the people regret when they see war and they return to Egypt.


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But God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea. And the sons of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because he had strictly sworn the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you* and you* will carry up my bones away from here with you*.


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And Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon. You* will encamp opposite it by the sea.


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<pb/>And Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, They are entangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.


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And I will harden Pharaoh's heart and he will follow after them and I will get for me honor upon Pharaoh and upon all his army and the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah. And they did so.


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<pb/>And it was told the King of Egypt that the people were fled. And the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people and they said, What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?


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And he took six hundred chosen chariots and all the chariots of Egypt and captains over all of them.


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<pb/>And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh King of Egypt and he pursued after the sons of Israel, and the sons of Israel went out with a high hand.


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And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and his army and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.


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<pb/>And when Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them and they were very afraid. And the sons of Israel cried out to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And they said to 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 bring us forth out of Egypt?


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Is not this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.


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<pb/>And Moses said to the people, Do not fear. Stand still and see the salvation of Jehovah, which he will work for you* today, because the Egyptians whom you* have seen today, you* will see them again everlasting.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Why do you cry to me? Speak to the sons of Israel, that they go forward.


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And lift you up your rod and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it and the sons of Israel will go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.


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<pb/>And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians and they will go in after them and I will get for me honor upon Pharaoh and upon all his army, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen.


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And the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah, when I have gotten for me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen.


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<pb/>And the messenger of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.


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And it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. And the cloud and the darkness was there, yet it gave light by night. And the one did not come near the other all the night.


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<pb/>And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night and made the sea dry land and the waters were divided.


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And the sons of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.


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And the Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots and his horsemen.


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<pb/>And it happened in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked forth upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud and troubled the army of the Egyptians.


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And he took off their chariot wheels and they drove them with difficulty, so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, because Jehovah fights for them against the Egyptians.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and upon their horsemen.


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And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared and the Egyptians fled against it and Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.


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<pb/>And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all the army of Pharaoh who went in after them into the sea, there remained not so much as one of them.


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But the sons of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.


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<pb/>Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore.


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And Israel saw the great work which Jehovah did upon the Egyptians. And the people feared Jehovah and they believed in Jehovah and in his servant Moses.


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<pb/>Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to Jehovah and spoke, saying, I will sing to Jehovah, because he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.


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<pb/>Jehovah is my strength and song and he has become my salvation. This is my God and I will praise him, my father's God and I will exalt him.


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<pb/>Pharaoh's chariots and his army he has cast into the sea and his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.


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<pb/>Your right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power. Your right hand, O Jehovah, dashes the enemy in pieces.


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And in the greatness of your excellency you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath, it consumes them as stubble.


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And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up. The flowing waters stood up as a heap. The depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.


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<pb/>The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire will be satisfied upon them. I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.


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<pb/>Who is like you, O Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?


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You in your loving kindness have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.


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Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed, the mighty men of Moab. Trembling takes hold upon them. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.


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Terror and dread falls upon them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, till your people pass over, O Jehovah, till the people pass over whom you have purchased.


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<pb/>You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance, the place, O Jehovah, which you have made for you to dwell in, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.


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<pb/>For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.


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<pb/>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.


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And Miriam answered them, Sing to Jehovah, because he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.


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<pb/>And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.


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And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, because they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.


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And he cried to Jehovah. And Jehovah showed him a tree and he cast it into the waters and the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them.


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<pb/>And he said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of Jehovah your God and will do what is right in his eyes and will listen to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you, which I have put upon the Egyptians, because I am Jehovah who heals you.


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<pb/>And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees and they encamped there by the waters.


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<pb/>And they took their journey from Elim. And all the congregation of the sons of Israel came to 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.


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<pb/>And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.


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And the sons of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, because you* have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.


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<pb/>Then Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you* and the people will go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.


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And it will happen on the sixth day, that they will prepare what they bring in and it will be twice as much as they gather daily.


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<pb/>And Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, At evening, then you* will know that Jehovah has brought you* out from the land of Egypt,


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and in the morning, then you* will see the glory of Jehovah, because he hears your* murmurings against Jehovah. And what are we, that you* murmur against us?


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<pb/>And Moses said, This will be when Jehovah will give you* flesh to eat in the evening and bread to the full in the morning, when Jehovah hears your* murmurings which you* murmur against him. And what are we? Your* murmurings are not against us, because <i>they are</i> against Jehovah.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, Come near before Jehovah, because he has heard your* murmurings.


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And it happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud.


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I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel. Speak to them, saying, At evening you* will eat flesh and in the morning you* will be filled with bread. And you* will know that I am Jehovah your* God.


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<pb/>And it happened at evening, that the quails came up and covered the camp. And in the morning the dew lay all around the camp,


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and when the dew that lay had gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoarfrost on the ground.


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<pb/>And when the sons of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which Jehovah has given you* to eat.


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This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer a head. According to the number of your* persons, you* will take it, every man for those who are in his tent.


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And when they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over and he who gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.


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Notwithstanding they did not listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning and it bred worms and became foul and Moses was angry with them.


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And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating. And when the sun grew hot, it melted.


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<pb/>And it happened, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.


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And he said to them, This is what Jehovah has spoken, Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Jehovah. Bake what you* will bake and boil what you* will boil and all that remains over lay up for you* to be kept until the morning.


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And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses commanded and it did not become foul, neither was there any worm in it.


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<pb/>And Moses said, Eat that today, because today is a Sabbath to Jehovah. Today you* will not find it in the field.


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<pb/>And it happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather and they found none.


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See, because Jehovah has given you* the Sabbath, therefore he gives you* on the sixth day the bread of two days. Abide every man in his place. Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.


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<pb/>And the house of Israel called the name of it Manna. And it was like coriander seed, white and the taste of it was like wafers with honey.


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<pb/>And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded. Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your* genealogy, that they may see the bread with which I fed you* in the wilderness, when I brought you* forth from the land of Egypt.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put an omerful of manna in it and lay it up before Jehovah, to be kept throughout your* genealogy.


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<pb/>And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.


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<pb/>And all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of Jehovah and encamped in Rephidim. And there was no water for the people to drink.


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Therefore the people contended with Moses and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you* contend with me? Why do you* challenge Jehovah?


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And the people thirsted there for water. And the people murmured against Moses and said, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?


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<pb/>And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do to this people? They are almost ready to stone me.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Pass on before the people and take with you from the elders of Israel and your rod, with which you killed* the river, take in your hand and go.


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Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb and you will kill* the rock and there will come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.


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<pb/>And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the sons of Israel and because they challenged Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?


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And Moses said to 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.


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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.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.


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But Moses' hands were heavy. And they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. and Aaron and Hur held 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.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.


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<pb/>Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt.


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and her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom, because he said, I have been a traveler in a foreign land.


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And the name of the other was Eliezer, because he said, The God of my father was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.


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<pb/>And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mountain of God.


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And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you and your wife and her two sons with her.


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<pb/>And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed-down and kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare and they came into the tent.


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And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way and how Jehovah delivered them.


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<pb/>And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Jehovah had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.


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And Jethro said, Praise Jehovah, who has delivered you* out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.


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Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods, yes, in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them.


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<pb/>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.


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<pb/>And it happened on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people and the people stood about Moses from the morning to the evening.


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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 do you sit by yourself and all the people stand about you from morning to evening?


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When they have a matter, they come to me and I judge between a man and his neighbor. And I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.


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You will surely wear away, both you and this people that is with you, because the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.


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<pb/>Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel and God be with you. You be <i>a leader</i> for the people toward God and bring you the cases to God.


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And you will teach them the statutes and the laws and will show them the way in which they must walk and the work that they must do.


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<pb/>Moreover you will provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens,


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and let them judge the people at all seasons. And it will be, that every great matter they will bring to you, but every small matter they will judge themselves. So it will be easier for yourself and they will bear the burden with you.


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<pb/>If you will do this thing and God command you so, then you will be able to endure and all this people also will go to their place in peace.


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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,


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and they judged the people at all seasons. The hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.


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<pb/>In the third month after the sons of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.


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And when they were departed from Rephidim and came to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness and there Israel encamped before the mountain.


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<pb/>And Moses went up to God. And Jehovah called to him out of the mountain, saying, Thus you will say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel:


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You* have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you* on eagles' wings and brought you* to myself.


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<pb/>Now therefore, if you* will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then you* will be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine,


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and you* will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you will speak to the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And Moses came and called for the elders of the people and set before them all these words which Jehovah commanded him.


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And all the people answered together and said, All that Jehovah has spoken we will do. And Moses reported the words of the people to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe you everlasting. And Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow and let them wash their garments,


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and be ready for the third day, because the third day Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai.


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<pb/>And you will set bounds to the people all around, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that you* not go up onto the mountain, or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mountain will be surely put to death;


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no hand will touch him, but he will surely be stoned, or shot through, whether it is beast or man, he will not live. When the ram’s horn is prolonged, they will come up to the mountain.


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<pb/>And Moses went down from the mountain to the people and made the people holy and they washed their garments.


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And it happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mountain and the voice of an exceedingly loud trumpet. And all the people who were in the camp trembled.


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<pb/>And Moses brought out the people out of the camp to meet God and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.


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And Mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace. And the whole mountain quaked greatly.


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<pb/>And when the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him by a voice.


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And Jehovah came down upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. And Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain and Moses went up.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Go down, command the people, lest they break through to Jehovah to gaze and many of them perish.


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And let the priests also, who come near to Jehovah, sanctify themselves, lest Jehovah break forth upon them.


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<pb/>And Moses said to Jehovah, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, because you commanded us, saying, Set bounds about the mountain and sanctify it.


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And Jehovah said to him, Go, get down. And you will come up, you and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to Jehovah, lest he break forth upon them.


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<pb/>You will not make to you a graven image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.


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You will not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them, because I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,


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<pb/>You will not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain, because Jehovah will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.


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but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Jehovah your God. You will not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates,


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for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them and rested the seventh day. Therefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.


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<pb/>Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.


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<pb/>You will not desire your neighbor's house. You will not desire your neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.


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<pb/>And all the people perceived the thunderings and the lightnings and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.


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<pb/>And they said to Moses, Speak with us and we will hear, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.


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And Moses said to the people, Do not fear, because God has come to prove you* and that his fear may be before you*, that you* not sin.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Thus you will say to the sons of Israel, You* yourselves have seen that I have talked with you* from heaven.


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<pb/>An altar of earth you will make to me and will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.


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<pb/>And if you make to me an altar of stone, you will not build it of hewn stones, because if you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it.


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<pb/>If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years he will serve and in the seventh he will go out free for nothing.


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If he comes in by himself, he will go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife will go out with him.


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<pb/>If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her sons will be her master's and he will go out by himself.


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then his master will bring him to God and will bring him to the door, or to the door-post and his master will bore his ear through with an awl and he will serve him everlasting.


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<pb/>And if a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she will not go out as the men-servants do.


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If she does not please her master, who has espoused her to himself, then he will let her be redeemed. He will have no power to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.


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If he takes him another wife, her food, her garments and her duty of marriage, he will not diminish.


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<pb/>And if a man does not lie in wait, but God delivers him into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place where he will flee.


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<pb/>And if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to kill him with guile, you will take him from my altar, that he may die.


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<pb/>And he who steals a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he will surely be put to death.


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<pb/>And if men contend and one slays the other with a stone, or with his fist and he does not die, but keeps his bed,


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if he rises again and walks abroad upon his staff, then he who killed* him will be acquitted. Only he will pay for the loss of his time and will cause him to be thoroughly healed.


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<pb/>And if a man slays his servant, or his maid, with a rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be punished.


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<pb/>And if men strive together and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart and yet no harm follow, he will be surely fined, just-as the woman's husband will lay upon him and he will pay as the judges determine.


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<pb/>And if a man slays the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid and destroys it, he will let him go free for his eye's sake.


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And if he knocks out his man-servant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he will let him go free for his tooth's sake.


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<pb/>And if an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox will surely be stoned and its flesh will not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.


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<pb/>But if the ox was accustomed to gore in time past and it has been testified to its owner and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the ox will be stoned and its owner will also be put to death.


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<pb/>If a ransom is laid on him, then he will give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him.


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Whether it has gored a son, or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it will be done to him.


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<pb/>If the ox gores a man-servant or a maidservant, there will be given to their master thirty shekels of silver and the ox will be stoned.


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<pb/>And if a man will open a pit, or if a man will dig a pit and not cover it and an ox or a donkey falls in it,


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the owner of the pit will make it good; he will give money to the owner of it and the dead beast will be his.


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<pb/>And if one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide the price of it and the dead they will also divide.


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Or if it is known that the ox was accustomed to gore in time past and its owner has not kept it in, he will surely pay ox for ox and the dead beast will be his own.


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<pb/>If a man will steal an ox, or a sheep and kill it, or sell it, he will pay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.


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<pb/>If the thief is found breaking in and be struck so that he dies, there will be no blood-guilt for him.


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If the sun has risen upon him, there will be blood-guilt for him. A thief will make restitution. If he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.


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<pb/>If a man will cause a field or vineyard to be eaten and will let his beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he will make restitution of the best of his own field and of the best of his own vineyard.


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If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed, he who kindled the fire will surely make restitution.


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<pb/>If a man will deliver to his neighbor money or stuff to keep and it is stolen out of the man's house, if the thief be found, he will pay double.


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If the thief is not found, then the master of the house will come near to God, to see whether he has not put his hand to his neighbor's goods.


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<pb/>For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for garments, or for any manner of lost thing, of which a man says, This is it, the case of both parties will come before God. He whom God will condemn will pay double to his neighbor.


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<pb/>If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep and it dies, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it,


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the oath of Jehovah will be between them both, whether he has not put his hand to his neighbor's goods. And the owner of it will accept it and he will not make restitution.


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<pb/>And if a man borrows anything of his neighbor and it is hurt, or die, the owner of it not being with it, he will surely make restitution.


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If the owner of it is with it, he will not make it good. If it is a hired thing, it came for its hire.


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<pb/>And if a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he will surely pay wedding-money for her to be his wife.


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If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he will pay money according to the wedding-money of virgins.


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<pb/>And you will not wrong a traveler, neither will you oppress him, because you* were travelers in the land of Egypt.


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and my wrath will grow hot and I will kill you* with the sword and your* wives will be widows and your* sons fatherless.


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<pb/>If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you will not be to him as a creditor, neither will you* lay upon him interest.


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<pb/>If you at all take your neighbor's garment to pledge, you will restore it to him before the sun goes down,


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because that is his only covering. It is his garment for his skin. How will he sleep? And it will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, because I am gracious.


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<pb/>You will not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you will give to me.


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Likewise you will do with your oxen and with your sheep. Seven days it will be with its dam. On the eighth day you will give it me.


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<pb/>And you* will be holy men to me. Therefore you* will not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field. You* will cast it to the dogs.


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<pb/>You will not take up a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked man to be an unrighteous witness.


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<pb/>You will not follow a multitude to do evil, neither will you speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort justice,


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<pb/>If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey wandering, you will surely bring it back to him again.


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If you see the donkey of him who hates you lying under his burden, you will refrain leaving him. You will surely release it with him.


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<pb/>Keep far from a false matter. And do not kill an innocent and righteous man, because I will not justify a wicked man.


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<pb/>And you will take no bribe, because a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.


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<pb/>And you will not oppress a traveler, for you* know the heart of a traveler, because you* were travelers in the land of Egypt.


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but the seventh year you will let it rest and lie tillable, that the poor of your people may eat and what they leave the beast of the field will eat. In like manner you will deal with your vineyard and with your olive-grove.


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<pb/>Six days you will do your work and on the seventh day you will rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest and the son of your handmaid and the traveler, may be refreshed.


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<pb/>And in all things that I have said to you* take you* heed and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth.


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You will keep the feast of unleavened bread (Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, because in it you came out from Egypt and none will appear before me empty),


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and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field and the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.


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<pb/>You will not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither will the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.


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<pb/>The first of the first-fruits of your ground you will bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. You will not boil a kid in its mother's milk.


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<pb/>Behold, I send a messenger before you, to keep you by the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.


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You* take heed before him and listen to his voice, provoke him not. For he will not pardon your* transgression, because my name is in him.


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<pb/>But if you will indeed listen to his voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.


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For my messenger will go before you and bring you in to the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite, the Hivite and the Jebusite and I will cut them off.


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<pb/>You will not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works, but you will utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.


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<pb/>And you* will serve Jehovah your* God and he will bless your bread and your water and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.


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There will none cast her young, nor be barren, in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.


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<pb/>I will send my terror before you and will destroy all the people to whom you will come and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.


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And I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite and the Hittite, from before you.


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<pb/>I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field multiply against you.


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Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you are increased and inherit the land.


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<pb/>And I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines and from the wilderness to the River. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your* hand and you will drive them out before you.


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They will not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, because if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.


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<pb/>And he said to Moses, Come up to Jehovah, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel and worship you* afar off.


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And Moses alone will come near to Jehovah, but they will not come near, neither will the people go up with him.


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<pb/>And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah and all the ordinances. And all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which Jehovah has spoken will we <pb/>do.


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<pb/>And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah and rose up early in the morning and built an altar below the mountain and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And he sent young men of the sons of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to Jehovah.


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And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.


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<pb/>And he took the book of the covenant and read in the audience of the people. And they said, All that Jehovah has spoken will we do and be obedient.


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And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that Jehovah has made with you* concerning all these words.


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And they saw the God of Israel. And there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone and as it were the very heaven for clearness.


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And he laid not his hand upon the nobles of the sons of Israel. And they beheld God and ate and drank.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Come up to me onto the mountain and be there and I will give you the tablets of stone and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that you may teach them.


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<pb/>And he said to the elders, Abide here for us, until we come again to you*. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you*; whoever has a case, let him come near to them.


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And the glory of Jehovah abode upon Mount Sinai and the cloud covered it six days. And the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.


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And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel.


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And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up onto the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, that they take for me an offering; of every man whose heart makes him willing you* will take my offering.


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According to all that I show you: the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the furniture of it, even so will you* make it.


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<pb/>And they will make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half will be the length of it and a cubit and a half the breadth of it and a cubit and a half the height of it.


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And you will overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside you will overlay it and will make upon it a crown of gold all around.


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And you will cast four rings of gold for it and put them in the four feet of it. And two rings will be on the one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.


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<pb/>And you will make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half the length of it and a cubit and a half the breadth of it.


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And you will make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work will you make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat.


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And make one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; of one piece with the mercy-seat you* will make the cherubim on the two ends of it.


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And the cherubim will spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; the faces of the cherubim will be toward the mercy-seat.


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<pb/>And you will put the mercy-seat above upon the ark. And in the ark you will put the testimony that I will give you.


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And there I will meet with you. And I will speak with you from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give you in commandment to the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And you will make a table of acacia wood, two cubits the length of it and a cubit the breadth of it and a cubit and a half the height of it.


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And you will make to it a border of a handbreadth all around and you will make a golden crown to the border of it all around.


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And you will make for it four rings of gold and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet of it.


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And you will make the staves of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.


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And you will make the dishes of it and the spoons of it and the pitchers of it and the bowls of it, with which to pour out, of pure gold you will make them.


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<pb/>And you will make a lamp-stand of pure gold. Of beaten work will the lamp-stand be made, even its base and its shaft, its cups, its knobs and its flowers, will be of one piece with it.


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And there will be six branches going out of the sides of it, three branches of the lamp-stand out of the one side of it and three branches of the lamp-stand out of the other side of it:


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three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knob and a flower and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knob and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lamp-stand,


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And a knob under two branches of one piece with it and a knob under two branches of one piece with it and a knob under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lamp-stand.


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Their knobs and their branches will be of one piece with it, the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.


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And you will make the lamps of it, seven. And they will light the lamps of it, to give light in front of it.


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<pb/>Moreover you will make the tabernacle with ten curtains, of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet, with cherubim the work of the skillful workman will you make them.


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The length of each curtain will be twenty-eight cubits and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains will have one measure.


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Five curtains will be coupled together one to another and the other five curtains will be coupled one to another.


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And you will make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling and likewise you will make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling.


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Fifty loops you will make in the one curtain and fifty loops you will make in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling; the loops will be opposite one to another.


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And you will make fifty clasps of gold and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps. And the tabernacle will be one whole.


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<pb/>And you will make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle. Eleven curtains you will make them.


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The length of each curtain will be thirty cubits and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains will have one measure.


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And you will couple five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves and will double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.


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And you will make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling and fifty loops upon the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling.


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And you will make fifty clasps of brass and put the clasps into the loops and couple the tent together, that it may be one.


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And the overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, will hang over the back of the tabernacle.


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And the cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side, of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, will hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.


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<pb/>And you will make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and a covering of certain skins above.


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There will be two tenons in each board, joined one to another. Thus you will make for all the boards of the tabernacle.


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<pb/>And you will make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.


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And they will be double beneath and in like manner they will be entire to the top of it to one ring. Thus it will be for them both, they will be for the two corners.


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And there will be eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets: two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.


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and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the hinder part westward.


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<pb/>And you will overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. And you will overlay the bars with gold.


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And you will raise up the tabernacle according to the fashion of it which has been shown you on the mountain.


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<pb/>And you will make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen. With cherubim, it will be made the work of the skillful workman.


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And you will hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, their hooks will be of gold, upon four sockets of silver.


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And you will hang up the veil under the clasps and will bring in there within the veil the ark of the testimony. And the veil will separate to you* between the holy place and the most holy.


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And you will set the table outside the veil and the lamp-stand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. And you will put the table on the north side.


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<pb/>And you will make a screen for the door of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.


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And you will make for the screen five pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold. Their hooks will be of gold and you will cast five sockets of brass for them.


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<pb/>And you will make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad (the altar will be square) and the height of it will be three cubits.


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And you will make the horns of it upon the four corners of it. The horns of it will be of one piece with it and you will overlay it with brass.


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And you will make its pots to take away its ashes and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its censors; all the vessels of it you will make of brass.


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And you will make for it a grating of lattice-work of brass and upon the lattice-work you will make four brazen rings in the four corners of it.


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And you will put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the lattice-work may reach halfway up the altar.


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And the staves of it will be put into the rings and the staves will be upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it.


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You will make it hollow with planks. As it has been shown you on the mountain, so will they make it.


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<pb/>And you will make the court of the tabernacle. For the south side southward there will be hangings for the court of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side.


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And the pillars of it will be twenty and their sockets twenty, of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their bands will be of silver.


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And likewise for the north side in length there will be hangings a hundred cubits long and the pillars of it twenty and their sockets twenty, of brass, the hooks of the pillars and their bands, of silver.


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And for the breadth of the court on the west side will be hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their sockets ten.


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The hangings for the one side of the gate will be fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three.


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And for the other side will be hangings of fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three.


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<pb/>And for the gate of the court will be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer, their pillars four and their sockets four.


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<pb/>All the pillars of the court all around will be banded with silver, their hooks of silver and their sockets of brass.


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The length of the court will be a hundred cubits and the breadth fifty everywhere and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen and their sockets of brass.


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<pb/>All the instruments of the tabernacle in all the service of it and all the pegs of it and all the pegs of the court, will be of brass.


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<pb/>And you will command the sons of Israel, that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually


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in the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony. Aaron and his sons will keep it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah. It will be an everlasting statute throughout their genealogy from the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>And bring you near to you Aaron your brother and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.


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And you will speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.


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<pb/>And these are the garments which they will make: a breastplate and an ephod and a robe and a tunic of checker work, a miter and a sash. And they will make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.


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And they will make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple, scarlet and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.


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And the skillfully woven band, which is upon it, with which to gird it on, will be like the work of it and of the same piece, of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen.


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six of their names on the one stone and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, according to their birth.


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With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you will engrave the two stones, according to the names of the sons of Israel. You will make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.


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And you will put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the sons of Israel. And Aaron will bear their names before Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a memorial.


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and two chains of pure gold, like cords you will make them, of corded work. And you will put the corded chains on the settings.


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<pb/>And you will make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman. You will make it like the work of the ephod: of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen, you will make it.


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And you will set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz and carbuncle will be the first row,


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and the fourth row a beryl and an onyx and a jasper. They will be enclosed in gold in their settings.


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<pb/>And the stones will be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name; they will be for the twelve tribes.


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And you will make upon the breastplate two rings of gold and will put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.


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And the other two ends of the two corded chains you will put on the two settings and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod in the forepart of it.


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And you will make two rings of gold and you will put them upon the two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge of it, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.


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<pb/>And you will make two rings of gold and will put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart of it, close by the coupling of it, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.


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And they will bind the breastplate by the rings of it to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be upon the skillfully woven band of the ephod and that the breastplate is not loosed from the ephod.


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<pb/>And Aaron will bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Jehovah continually.


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<pb/>And you will put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim and they will be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Jehovah. And Aaron will bear the judgment of the sons of Israel upon his heart before Jehovah continually.


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And it will have a hole for the head in the midst of it. It will have a binding of woven work all around the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it is not torn.


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And upon the skirts of it you will make pomegranates of blue and of purple and of scarlet, all around the skirts of it and bells of gold between them all around:


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a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe all around.


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<pb/>And it will be upon Aaron to minister. And the sound of it will be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Jehovah and when he comes out, that he does not die.


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<pb/>And you will make a plate of pure gold and engrave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH.


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And you will put it on a lace of blue and it will be upon the miter. It will be upon the forefront of the miter.


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And it will be upon Aaron’s forehead. And Aaron will bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the sons of Israel will sanctify in all their holy gifts. And it will always be upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before Jehovah.


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<pb/>And you will weave the tunic in checker work of fine linen. And you will make a miter of fine linen. And you will make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.


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<pb/>And for Aaron's sons you will make tunics. And you will make for them sashes and head-coverings you will make for them, for glory and for beauty.


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And you will put them upon Aaron your brother and upon his sons with him and will anoint them and consecrate them and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.


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<pb/>And you will make for them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness, from the loins even to the thighs they will reach.


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And they will be upon Aaron and upon his sons, when they go in to the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place, that they not bear iniquity and die. It will be an everlasting statute to him and to his seed after him.


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<pb/>And this is the thing that you will do to them to sanctify them, to minister to me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock and two rams without blemish,


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and unleavened bread and cakes unleavened mingled with oil and wafers unleavened anointed with oil, of fine wheaten flour will you make them,


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and you will put them into one basket and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.


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<pb/>And Aaron and his sons you will bring to the door of the tent of meeting and will wash them with water.


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And you will take the garments and put upon Aaron the tunic and the robe of the ephod and the ephod and the breastplate and gird him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod.


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And you will gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons and bind head-coverings on them. And they will have the priesthood by a everlasting statute. And you will consecrate Aaron and his sons.


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<pb/>And you will bring the bullock before the tent of meeting. And Aaron and his sons will lay their hands upon the head of the bullock,


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And you will take of the blood of the bullock and put it upon the horns of the altar with your finger and you will pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.


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And you will take all the fat that covers the inwards and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them and burn them upon the altar.


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But the flesh of the bullock and its skin and it manure, you will burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering.


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<pb/>You will also take the one ram and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands upon the head of the ram.


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And you will cut the ram into its pieces and wash its inwards and its legs and put them with its pieces and with its head,


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and you will burn the whole ram upon the altar. It is a burnt offering to Jehovah. It is a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And you will take the other ram and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands upon the head of the ram.


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Then you will kill the ram and take of its blood and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons and upon the thumb of their right hand and upon the great toe of their right foot and sprinkle the blood upon the altar all around.


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And you will 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 will be made holy and his garments and his sons and his sons' garments with him.


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<pb/>Also you will take from the ram the fat and the fat tail and the fat that covers the inwards and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),


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and one loaf of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Jehovah,


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and you will put the whole upon the hands of Aaron and upon the hands of his sons and will wave them for a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And you will take them from their hands and burn them on the altar upon the burnt offering, for a sweet aroma before Jehovah. It is an offering made by fire to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And you will take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration and wave it for a wave offering before Jehovah and it will be your portion.


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And you will sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the offering, which is waved and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of what is for Aaron and of what is for his sons,


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and it will be for Aaron and his sons as their everlasting portion from the sons of Israel, becauseit is a heave offering. And it will be a heave offering from the sons of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their heave offering to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And the holy garments of Aaron will be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them and to be consecrated in them.


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Seven days will the son that is priest instead of him put them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.


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And Aaron and his sons will eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.


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And they will eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them, but a stranger will not eat of it, because they are holy.


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And if any of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you will burn the remainder with fire. It will not be eaten, because it is holy.


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<pb/>And thus you will do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Seven days you will consecrate them.


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And every day you will offer the bullock of sin offering for atonement. And you will cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it and you will anoint it, to sanctify it.


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Seven days you will make atonement for the altar and sanctify it. And the altar will be most holy. Whatever touches the altar will be holy.


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And with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.


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And the other lamb you will offer at evening and will do to it according to the meal offering of the morning and according to the drink offering of it, for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to Jehovah.


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It will be a continual burnt offering throughout your* genealogy at the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah, where I will meet with you*, to speak to you there.


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And I will sanctify the tent of meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest's office.


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And they will know that I am Jehovah their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them. I am Jehovah their God.


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A cubit will be the length of it and a cubit the breadth of it (it will be square) and two cubits will be the height of it. The horns of it will be of one piece with it.


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And you will overlay it with pure gold, the top of it and the sides of it all around and the horns of it. And you will make to it a crown of gold all around.


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And two golden rings you will make for it under the crown of it, upon the two ribs of it, upon the two sides of it you will make them. And they will be for places for staves with which to bear it.


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And you will put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy-seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.


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<pb/>And Aaron will burn in it incense of sweet spices. Every morning, when he dresses the lamps, he will burn it.


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And when Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he will burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your* genealogy.


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You* will offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering. And you* will pour no drink offering on it.


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And Aaron will make atonement upon the horns of it once in the year, with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. Once in the year he will make atonement for it throughout your* genealogy. It is most holy to Jehovah.


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When you take the sum of the sons of Israel, according to those who are numbered of them, then they will give every man a ransom for his soul to Jehovah when you number them, that there is no plague among them when you number them.


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This they will give, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary, (the shekel is twenty gerahs,) half a shekel for an offering to Jehovah.


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Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, will give the offering of Jehovah.


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The rich will not give more and the poor will not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your* souls.


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And you will take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and will appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your* souls.


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You will also make a large-basin of brass and the base of it from brass for washing. And you will put it between the tent of meeting and the altar and you will put water in it.


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When they go into the tent of meeting, they will wash with water, that they not die, or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Jehovah.


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So they will wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. And it will be an everlasting statute to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their genealogy.


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You take also to you the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty and of sweet cane two hundred and fifty,


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And you will make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer. It will be a holy anointing oil.


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and the table and all the vessels of it and the lamp-stand and the vessels of it and the altar of incense,


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And you will anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.


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<pb/>And you will speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This will be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your* genealogy.


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Upon the flesh of man it will not be poured, neither will you* make any like it, according to the composition of it. It is holy and it will be holy to you*.


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Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it upon a stranger, he will be cut off from his people.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Take to you sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense, of each there will be a like weight.


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And you will make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.


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And you will beat some of it very small and put of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It will be to you* most holy.


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And the incense which you will make, you* will not make for yourselves according to the composition of it. It will be to you holy for Jehovah.


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and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship,


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<pb/>And I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:


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<pb/>the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony and the mercy-seat that is on it and all the furniture of the tent,


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and the table and its vessels and the pure lamp-stand with all its vessels and the altar of incense,


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and the finely worked garments and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office,


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and the anointing oil and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place. <pb/>According to all that I have commanded you they will do.


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Speak also to the sons of Israel, saying, Truly you* will keep my Sabbaths, because it is a sign between me and you* throughout your* genealogy, that you* may know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies you*.


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You* will keep the Sabbath therefore, because it is holy to you*. Everyone who profanes it will surely be put to death, because whoever does any work on it, that soul will be cut off from among his people.


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Six days will work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Jehovah. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he will surely be put to death.


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Therefore the sons of Israel will keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their genealogy, for a everlasting covenant.


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It is a sign between me and the sons of Israel everlasting. For in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.


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<pb/>And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.


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<pb/>And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, Up, make gods for us, which will go before us. For as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.


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<pb/>And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your* wives, of your* sons and of your* daughters and bring them to me.


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<pb/>And he received it at their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it a molten calf. And they said, These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


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And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation and said, Tomorrow will be a feast to Jehovah.


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<pb/>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 revel.


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<pb/>And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Go, get down. For your people, that you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.


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They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made for them a molten calf and have worshiped it and have sacrificed to it and said, These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


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Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may grow hot against them and that I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.


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<pb/>And Moses besought Jehovah his God and said, Jehovah, why does your wrath grow hot against your people, whom you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?


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Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, He brought them forth for evil, to kill them on the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your fierce wrath and relent of this evil against your people.


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<pb/>Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self and said to them, I will multiply your* seed as the stars of heaven. And all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your* seed and they will inherit it everlasting.


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<pb/>And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.


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And the tablets were the work of God and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets.


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<pb/>And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.


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And he said, It is not the voice of those who shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome, but the noise of those who sing I hear.


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<pb/>And it happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. And Moses' anger grew hot and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them beneath the mountain.


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And he took the calf which they had made and burnt it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it upon the water and made the sons of Israel drink of it.


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<pb/>And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you, that you have brought a great sin upon them?


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And Aaron said, Do not let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.


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For they said to me, Make gods for us, which will go before us. For as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.


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And I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it to me and I cast it into the fire and there came out this calf.


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<pb/>And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a whisper among their enemies,)


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then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, Whoever is on Jehovah's side, come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.


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And he said to them, Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel, Put every man his sword upon his thigh and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp and kill* every man his brother and every man his companion and every man his neighbor.


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<pb/>And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.


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And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves today to Jehovah, yes, every man against his son and against his brother, that he may bestow upon you* a blessing this day.


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<pb/>And it happened on the morrow, that Moses said to the people, You* have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to Jehovah, perhaps I will make atonement for your* sin.


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<pb/>And Moses returned to Jehovah and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin and have made gods of gold for them.


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Yet now, if you will forgive their sin — and if not, I beseech you, blot me out of your book which you have written.


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<pb/>And now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my messenger will go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.


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<pb/>And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it.


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And I will send a messenger before you and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite–


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to a land flowing with milk and honey. Because I will not go up in the midst of you, because you are a stubborn people, lest I consume you on the way.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to the sons of Israel, You* are a stiff-necked people. If I go up into the midst of you for one moment, I will consume you. Therefore now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do to you.


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<pb/>Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, afar off from the camp and he called it, The tent of meeting. And it happened, that everyone who sought Jehovah went out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Moses went out to the tent, that all the people rose up and stood, every man at his tent door and looked after Moses, until he had gone into the tent.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Moses entered into the tent, the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tent and Jehovah spoke with Moses.


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And all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the tent. And all the people rose up and worshiped, every man at his tent door.


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<pb/>And Jehovah spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend and he turned again into the camp. But his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart out of the tent.


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<pb/>And Moses said to Jehovah, See, say to 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 favor in my sight.


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<pb/>Now therefore, I beseech you, if I have found favor in your sight, show me now your ways, that I may know you, to the end that I may find favor in your sight. And consider that this nation is your people.


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For how will it now be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken, because you have found favor in my sight and I know you by name.


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And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim the name of Jehovah before you. I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate.


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And it will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Hew two tablets of stone like the first and I will write upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.


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And be ready by the morning and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.


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<pb/>And no man will come up with you, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mountain, neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.


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<pb/>And he hewed two tablets of stone like the first. And Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him and took in his hand two tablets of stone.


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<pb/>And Jehovah passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and truth,


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keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the sons' sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.


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And he said, If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, I beseech you, let the Lord go in the midst of us, because it is a stiff-necked people and pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us for your inheritance.


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<pb/>And he said, Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation and all the people among which you are will see the work of Jehovah, because it is an awesome thing that I do with you.


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<pb/>Observe you what 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.


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Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you go, lest it is for a snare in the midst of you.


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Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they play the prostitute after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and a man calls you and you eat of his sacrifice,


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and you take of their daughters to your sons and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.


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<pb/>You will keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.


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<pb/>All that opens the womb is mine and all your cattle that is male, the first-offspring of cow and sheep.


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And the first-offspring of a donkey you will redeem with a lamb and if you will not redeem it, then you will break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you will redeem. And none will appear before me empty.


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<pb/>Six days you will work, but on the seventh day you will rest; in plowing time and in harvest you will rest.


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<pb/>And you will observe the feast of weeks, even of the first-fruits of wheat harvest and the feast of ingathering in the middle of the year.


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For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders. Neither will any man desire your land, when you go up to appear before Jehovah your God three times in the year.


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<pb/>You will not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, nor will the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to the morning.


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<pb/>The first of the first-fruits of your ground you will bring to the house of Jehovah your God. <pb/>You will not boil a kid in its mother's milk.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to Moses, Write these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.


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<pb/>And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread, nor drank water and he wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.


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<pb/>And it happened, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mountain, that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.


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<pb/>And when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone and they were afraid to come near him.


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And Moses called to them. And Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him and Moses spoke to them.


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And afterward all the sons of Israel came near and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.


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But when Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out. And he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he was commanded.


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And the sons of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone. And Moses put the veil upon his face again until he went in to speak with him.


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<pb/>And Moses assembled all the congregation of the sons of Israel and said to them, These are the words which Jehovah has commanded, that you* should do them.


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Six days work will be done, but on the seventh day there will be to you* a holy day, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Jehovah. Whoever does any work in it will be put to death.


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<pb/>And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Jehovah commanded, saying,


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You* take from among you* an offering to Jehovah. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it — Jehovah's offering: gold and silver and brass,


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<pb/>the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its clasps and its boards, its bars, its pillars and its sockets,


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and the altar of incense and its staves and the anointing oil and the sweet incense and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle,


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the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, its staves and all its vessels, the large-basin and its base,


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the hangings of the court, the pillars of it and their sockets and the screen for the gate of the court,


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the finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.


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And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him up and everyone whom his spirit made willing and brought Jehovah's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting and for all the service of it and for the holy garments.


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<pb/>And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted and brought brooches and earrings and signet-rings and armlets, all jewels of gold, even every man who offered an offering of gold to Jehovah.


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And every man, with whom was found blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen and goats' hair and rams' skins dyed red and certain skins, brought them.


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Everyone who offered an offering of silver and brass brought Jehovah's offering and every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.


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<pb/>And all the women who were wise hearted spun with their hands and brought what they had spun: the blue and the purple, the scarlet and the fine linen.


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<pb/>And the rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastplate,


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The sons of Israel brought a free-will offering to Jehovah, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Jehovah had commanded to be made by Moses.


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<pb/>And Moses said to the sons of Israel, See, Jehovah has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.


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And he has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship,


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and in cutting of stones for setting and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skillful workmanship.


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<pb/>And he has put in his heart that he may teach, both he and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.


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He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver and of the skillful workman and of the embroiderer, in blue and in purple, in scarlet and in fine linen and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship and of those who devise skillful works.


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<pb/>And Bezalel and Oholiab will work and every wise-hearted man, in whom Jehovah has put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Jehovah has commanded.


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<pb/>And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it,


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and they received from Moses all the offering which the sons of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. And they brought yet to him free-will offerings every morning.


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And all the wise men, who worked all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they worked.


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<pb/>And they spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which Jehovah commanded to make.


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And Moses commanded 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.


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<pb/>And all the wise-hearted men among them who worked the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains, of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet, with cherubim; the work of the skillful workman made them.


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The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.


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And he made loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the second coupling.


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Fifty loops he made in the one curtain and fifty loops he made in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling; the loops were opposite one to another.


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And he made fifty clasps of gold and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps, so the tabernacle was one.


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<pb/>And he made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle. Eleven curtains he made them.


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The length of each curtain was thirty cubits and four cubits the breadth of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.


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And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the coupling and fifty loops he made upon the edge of the curtain which was outmost in the second coupling.


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<pb/>And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and a covering of certain skins above.


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Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. Thus he made for all the boards of the tabernacle.


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<pb/>And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.


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And they were double beneath and in like manner they were entire to the top of it to one ring. Thus he did to both of them in the two corners.


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And there were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, under every board two sockets.


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and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.


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And he made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.


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And he overlaid the boards with gold. And made their rings of gold for places for the bars and overlaid the bars with gold.


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<pb/>And he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen. He made it with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman.


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And he made for it four pillars of acacia and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold and he cast for them four sockets of silver.


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And he made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer,


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and the five pillars of it with their hooks. And he overlaid their capitals and their bands with gold and their five sockets were of brass.


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<pb/>And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half was the length of it and a cubit and a half the breadth of it and a cubit and a half the height of it.


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And he cast four rings of gold for it, in the four feet of it, even two rings on the one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.


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<pb/>And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half the length of it and a cubit and a half the breadth of it.


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one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end, of one piece with the mercy-seat. He made the cherubim at the two ends of it.


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And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, with their faces one to another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy-seat.


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<pb/>And he made the table of acacia wood, two cubits the length of it and a cubit the breadth of it and a cubit and a half the height of it.


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And he made to it a border of a handbreadth all around and made a golden crown to the border of it all around.


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And he cast four rings of gold for it and put the rings in the four corners that were on the four feet of it,


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And he made the vessels which were upon the table, the dishes of it and the spoons of it and the bowls of it and the flagons of it, with which to pour out, of pure gold.


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<pb/>And he made the lamp-stand of pure gold. He made the lamp-stand of beaten work, even its base and its shaft, its cups, its knobs and its flowers, were of one piece with it.


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And there were six branches going out of the sides of it, three branches of the lamp-stand out of the one side of it and three branches of the lamp-stand out of the other side of it,


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three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knob and a flower and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knob and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lamp-stand.


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and a knob under two branches of one piece with it and a knob under two branches of one piece with it and a knob under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.


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Their knobs and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.


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<pb/>And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit was the length of it and a cubit the breadth of it, square and two cubits was the height of it. The horns of it were of one piece with it.


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And he overlaid it with pure gold, the top of it and the sides of it all around and the horns of it. And he made to it a crown of gold all around.


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And he made for it two golden rings under the crown of it, upon the two ribs of it, upon the two sides of it, for places for staves with which to bear it.


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<pb/>And he made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.


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<pb/>And he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood: five cubits was the length of it and five cubits the breadth of it, square and three cubits the height of it.


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And he made the horns of it upon the four corners of it. The horns of it were of one piece with it and he overlaid it with brass.


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And he made all the vessels of the altar: the pots and the shovels and the basins, the forks and the censors. All the vessels of it he made of brass.


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And he made for the altar a grating of lattice-work of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.


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And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to bear it; he made it hollow with planks.


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<pb/>And he made the large-basin of brass and the base of it from brass, from the mirrors of the women who fasted, who fasted by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, in the day in which he set it up.


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<pb/>And he made the court. For the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits,


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their pillars were twenty and their sockets twenty, of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.


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And for the north side a hundred cubits, their pillars twenty and their sockets twenty, of brass, the hooks of the pillars and their bands, of silver.


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And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their sockets ten, the hooks of the pillars and their bands, of silver.


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The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three,


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and so for the other side. On this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three.


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And the sockets for the pillars were of brass, the hooks of the pillars and their bands, of silver and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver. And all the pillars of the court were banded with silver.


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<pb/>And the screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen. And twenty cubits was the length and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.


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And their pillars were four and their sockets four, of brass, their hooks of silver and the overlaying of their capitals and their bands, of silver.


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<pb/>This is the sum of the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.


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And Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skillful workman and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and in fine linen.


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<pb/>All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talants and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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<pb/>And the silver from those who were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talants and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary,


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a beka <i>per</i> head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.


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And the hundred talants of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil, a hundred sockets for the hundred talants, a talant for a socket.


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And of the thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their capitals and made bands for them.


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And with it he made the sockets to the door of the tent of meeting and the brazen altar and the brazen grating for it and all the vessels of the altar,


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and the sockets of the court all around and the sockets of the gate of the court and all the pegs of the tabernacle and all the pegs of the court all around.


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<pb/>And of the blue and purple and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place and made the holy garments for Aaron, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And they beat the gold into thin plates and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue and in the purple and in the scarlet and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.


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And the skillfully woven band, that was upon it with which to gird it on, was of the same piece and like the work of it, of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And they worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel.


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And he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And he made the breastplate, the work of the skillful workman, like the work of the ephod, of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen.


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It was square. They made the breastplate double; a span was the length of it and a span the breadth of it, being double.


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and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx and a jasper. They were set in enclosures of gold in their settings.


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<pb/>And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, each one according to his name, for the twelve tribes.


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And they made two settings of gold and two gold rings and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.


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And the other two ends of the two corded chains they put on the two settings and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart of it.


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<pb/>And they made two rings of gold and put them upon the two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge of it, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.


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And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart of it, close by the coupling of it, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.


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And they bound the breastplate by the rings of it to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be upon the skillfully woven band of the ephod and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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And the hole of the robe in the midst of it, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding all around the hole of it, that it should not be torn.


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And they made bells of pure gold and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe all around, between the pomegranates,


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a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe all around, to minister in, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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and the miter of fine linen and the turban of caps of fine linen and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,


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and the sash of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH.


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<pb/>Thus was finished all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. And the sons of Israel did according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so did they.


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<pb/>And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its furniture: its clasps, its boards, it bars and its pillars and it sockets,


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and the covering of rams' skins dyed red and the covering of certain skins and the veil of the screen,


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the pure lamp-stand, the lamps of it, even the lamps to be set in order and all the vessels of it and the oil for the light,


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and the golden altar and the anointing oil and the sweet incense and the screen for the door of the tent,


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the brazen altar and its grating of brass, its staves and all its vessels, the large-basin and its base,


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the hangings of the court, its pillars and its sockets and the screen for the gate of the court, the cords of it and the pegs of it and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting,


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the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.


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And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it, as Jehovah had commanded, even so they had done it. And Moses blessed them.


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And you will bring in the table and set in order the things that are upon it and you will bring in the lamp-stand and light the lamps of it.


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And you will set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.


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<pb/>And you will set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.


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And you will set the large-basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and will put water in it.


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<pb/>And you will take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it and will sanctify it and all the furniture of it. And it will be holy.


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And you will anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its vessels and sanctify the altar. And the altar will be most holy.


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<pb/>And you will bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting and will wash them with water.


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And you will put upon Aaron the holy garments and you will anoint him and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.


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and you will anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. And their anointing will be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their genealogy.


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<pb/>And it happened in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was raised up.


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And Moses raised up the tabernacle and laid its sockets and set up the boards of it and put in the bars of it and raised up its pillars.


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And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent above upon it, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>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.


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And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen and screened the ark of the testimony, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And he put the table in the tent of meeting, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, outside the veil.


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And he put the lamp-stand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.


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<pb/>And he set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And he set the large-basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it, with which to wash.


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They washed when they went into the tent of meeting and when they came near to the altar, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.


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And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode thereupon and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.


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<pb/>And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys,


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For the cloud of Jehovah was upon the tabernacle by day and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When any man of you* offers an oblation to Jehovah, you* will offer your* oblation of the cattle, even of the herd and of the flock.


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<pb/>If his oblation be a burnt offering of the herd, he will offer it a male without blemish. He will offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.


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And he will lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering and it will be accepted for him to make atonement for him.


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And he will kill the bullock before Jehovah and Aaron's sons, the priests, will present the blood and sprinkle the blood all around upon the altar that is at the door of the tent of meeting.


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And Aaron's sons, the priests, will lay the pieces, the head and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar,


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but its innards and its legs he will wash with water. And the priest will burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And if his oblation be of the flock, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt offering, he will offer it a male without blemish.


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And he will kill it on the side of the altar northward before Jehovah and Aaron's sons, the priests, will sprinkle its blood upon the altar all around.


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And he will cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat and the priest will lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar,


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but the innards and the legs he will wash with water. And the priest will offer the whole and burn it upon the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And if his oblation to Jehovah be a burnt offering of birds, then he will offer his oblation of turtle-doves, or of young pigeons.


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And the priest will bring it to the altar and wring off its head and burn it on the altar. And the blood of it will be drained out on the side of the altar.


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And he will take away its crop with the filth of it and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.


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And he will tear it by the wings of it, but will not divide it apart and the priest will burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And when anyone offers an oblation of a meal offering to Jehovah, his oblation will be of fine flour and he will pour oil upon it and put frankincense on it.


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And he will bring it to Aaron's sons the priests and he will take out of it his handful of the fine flour of it and of the oil of it, with all the frankincense of it. And the priest will burn the memorial of it upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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And what is left of the meal offering will be Aaron's and his sons'. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire.


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<pb/>And when you offer an oblation of a meal offering baked in the oven, it will be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.


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And if your oblation be a meal offering of the baking-pan, it will be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.


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<pb/>And if your oblation be a meal offering of the frying-pan, it will be made of fine flour with oil.


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And you will bring the meal offering that is made of these things to Jehovah and it will be presented to the priest and he will bring it to the altar.


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And the priest will take up from the meal offering the memorial of it and will burn it upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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<pb/>No meal offering, which you* will offer to Jehovah, will be made with leaven, for you* will burn no leaven, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Jehovah.


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As an oblation of first-fruits you* will offer them to Jehovah, but they will not come up for a sweet aroma on the altar.


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And every oblation of your meal offering you will season with salt, nor will you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your oblations you will offer salt.


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<pb/>And if you offer a meal offering of first-fruits to Jehovah, you will offer for the meal offering of your first-fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, crushed grain of the fresh ear.


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And the priest will burn the memorial of it, part of the crushed grain of it and part of the oil of it, with all the frankincense of it. It is an offering made by fire to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offer of the herd, whether male or female, he will offer it without blemish before Jehovah.


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And he will lay his hand upon the head of his oblation and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting. And Aaron's sons the priests will sprinkle the blood upon the altar all around.


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And he will offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Jehovah, he will take away the fat that covers the innards and all the fat that is upon the innards,


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and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins and the lobe of the liver, with the kidneys.


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And Aaron's sons will burn it on the altar upon the burnt offering, which is upon the wood that is on the fire. It is an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And if his oblation for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah be of the flock, male or female, he will offer it without blemish.


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And he will lay his hand upon the head of his oblation and kill it before the tent of meeting. And Aaron's sons will sprinkle the blood of it upon the altar all around.


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And he will offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Jehovah. The fat of it, the entire fat tail, he will take away close by the backbone. And he will take away the fat that covers the innards and all the fat that is upon the innards,


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and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins and the lobe of the liver, with the kidneys.


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And he will lay his hand upon the head of it and kill it before the tent of meeting. And the sons of Aaron will sprinkle the blood of it upon the altar all around.


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And he will offer his oblation from it, even an offering made by fire to Jehovah. He will take away the fat that covers the innards and all the fat that is upon the innards,


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And the priest will burn them upon the altar. It is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet aroma. All the fat is Jehovah's.


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It will be a everlasting statute throughout your* genealogy in all your* dwellings, that you* will eat neither fat nor blood.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If a soul will sin unwittingly, in any of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done and will do any one of them,


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if the anointed priest will sin so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bullock without blemish to Jehovah for a sin offering.


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And he will bring the bullock to the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah. And he will lay his hand upon the head of the bullock and kill the bullock before Jehovah.


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And the priest will dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle of the blood seven times before Jehovah, before the veil of the sanctuary.


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And the priest will put of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Jehovah, which is in the tent of meeting and all the blood of the bullock he will pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting.


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And all the fat of the bullock of the sin offering he will take off from it. The fat that covers the innards and all the fat that is upon the innards,


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and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins and the lobe of the liver, with the kidneys, he will take away,


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as it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest will burn them upon the altar of burnt offering.


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And the skin of the bullock and all its flesh, with its head and with its legs and its innards and its manure,


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even the whole bullock he will carry forth outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out and burn it on wood with fire. It will be burnt where the ashes are poured out.


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<pb/>And if the whole congregation of Israel err and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly and they have done any of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done and are guilty,


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when the sin by which they have sinned is known, then the assembly will offer a young bullock for a sin offering and bring it before the tent of meeting.


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And the elders of the congregation will lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before Jehovah and the bullock will be killed before Jehovah.


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And the priest will dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Jehovah, before the veil.


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And he will put of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before Jehovah, that is in the tent of meeting and all the blood he will pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting.


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Thus he will do with the bullock, as he did with the bullock of the sin offering, so he will do with this. And the priest will make atonement for them and they will be forgiven.


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And he will carry forth the bullock outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bullock. It is the sin offering for the assembly.


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<pb/>When a ruler sins and does unwittingly any one of all the things which Jehovah his God has commanded not to be done and is guilty,


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if his sin, by which he has sinned, be made known to him, he will bring for his oblation a goat, a male without blemish.


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And he will lay his hand upon the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Jehovah. It is a sin offering.


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And the priest will take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering and the blood of it he will pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering.


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And all the fat of it he will burn upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest will make atonement for him as concerning his sin and he will be forgiven.


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<pb/>And if any soul of the common people sin unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done and be guilty,


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if his sin, which he has sinned, be made known to him, then he will bring for his oblation a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned.


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And he will lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.


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And the priest will take of the blood of it with his finger and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering and all the blood of it he will pour out at the base of the altar.


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And all the fat of it he will take away, as the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings and the priest will burn it upon the altar for a sweet aroma to Jehovah. And the priest will make atonement for him and he will be forgiven.


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<pb/>And if he brings a lamb as his oblation for a sin offering, he will bring it a female without blemish.


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And he will lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.


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And the priest will take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering and all the blood of it he will pour out at the base of the altar.


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And all the fat of it he will take away, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings and the priest will burn them on the altar, upon the offerings of Jehovah made by fire. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned and he will be forgiven.


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<pb/>And if a soul sins, in that he hears the voice of an oath, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he does not testify, then he will bear his iniquity.


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Or if a soul touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things and it is hidden from him and he is unclean, then he will be guilty.


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Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness be with which he is unclean and it is hid from him, when he knows of it, then he will be guilty.


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Or if a soul swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man will utter rashly with an oath and it is hid from him, when he realizes it, then he will be guilty in one of these.


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<pb/>And it will be, when he will be guilty in one of these, that he will confess that by which he has sinned.


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And he will bring his trespass offering to Jehovah for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him as concerning his sin.


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<pb/>And if his means is not sufficient for a lamb, then he will bring his trespass offering for that by which he has sinned, two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to Jehovah, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.


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And he will bring them to the priest, who will offer what is for the sin offering first and wring off its head from its neck, but will not divide it apart.


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And he will sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar and the rest of the blood will be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.


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And he will offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance. And the priest will make atonement for him as concerning his sin which he has sinned and he will be forgiven.


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<pb/>But if his means is not sufficient for two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then he will bring his oblation for that by which he has sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He will put no oil upon it, nor will he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.


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And he will bring it to the priest and the priest will take his handful of it as the memorial of it and burn it on the altar, upon the offerings of Jehovah made by fire. It is a sin offering.


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And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things and he will be forgiven. And the remnant will be the priest's, as the meal offering.


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If a soul commits a trespass and sins unwittingly in the holy things of Jehovah, then he will bring his trespass offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.


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And he will make restitution for what he has sinned in the holy thing and will add the fifth part to it and give it to the priest. And the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering and he will be forgiven.


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<pb/>And if a soul sins and does any of the things which Jehovah has commanded not to be done, though he did not know it, yet he is guilty and will bear his iniquity.


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And he will bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning the thing by which he erred unwittingly and knew it not and he will be forgiven.


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If a soul sins and commits a trespass against Jehovah and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,


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or has found what was lost and deals falsely by it and swears to a lie, in any of all these things that a man does, sinning by it,


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then it will be, if he has sinned and is guilty, that he will restore what he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,


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or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he will even restore it in full and will add the fifth part more to it. He will give it to him to whom it pertains, in the day of his being found guilty.


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And he will bring his trespass offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.


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And the priest will make atonement for him before Jehovah and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does so as to be guilty by it.


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Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering will be on the hearth upon the altar all night to the morning and the fire of the altar will be kept burning on it.


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And the priest will put on his linen garment and he will put his linen breeches upon his flesh and he will take up the ashes of the fire which has consumed the burnt offering on the altar and he will put them beside the altar.


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And he will put off his garments and put on other garments and carry forth the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.


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And the fire upon the altar will be kept burning on it; it will not go out. And the priest will burn wood on it every morning and he will lay the burnt offering in order upon it and will burn the fat of the peace offerings on it.


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<pb/>And this is the law of the meal offering: The sons of Aaron will offer it before Jehovah, before the altar.


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And he will take up his handful from it, of the fine flour of the meal offering and of the oil of it and all the frankincense which is upon the meal offering and will burn it upon the altar for a sweet aroma, as the memorial of it, to Jehovah.


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And what is left of it Aaron and his sons will eat. It will be eaten without leaven in a holy place. They will eat it in the court of the tent of meeting.


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It will not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire, it is most holy, as the sin offering and as the trespass offering.


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Every male among the sons of Aaron will eat of it, as an everlasting portion throughout your* genealogy, from the offerings of Jehovah made by fire. Whoever touches them will be holy.


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This is the oblation of Aaron and of his sons, which they will offer to Jehovah in the day when he is anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.


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It will be made with oil on a baking-pan. You will bring it in when it is soaked. You will offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a sweet aroma to Jehovah.


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And the anointed priest who will be instead of him from among his sons will offer it. It will be entirely burnt to Jehovah by an everlasting statute.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed the sin offering will be killed before Jehovah. It is most holy.


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The priest who offers it for sin will eat it. It will be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting.


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Whatever will touch the flesh of it will be holy. And when there is of the blood sprinkled upon any garment, you will wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.


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But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled will be broken and if it is boiled in a brazen vessel, it will be scoured and rinsed in water.


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And no sin offering, from which any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place, will be eaten; it will be burnt with fire.


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In the place where they kill the burnt offering they will kill the trespass offering and the blood of it he will sprinkle upon the altar all around.


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And he will offer from it all the fat of it. He will take away the fat tail and the fat that covers the innards,


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And the priest will burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire to Jehovah. It is a trespass offering.


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<pb/>As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering, there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it, he will have it.


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And the priest who offers any man's burnt offering, even the priest will have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.


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And every meal offering that is baked in the oven and all that is dressed in the frying-pan and on the baking-pan, will be the priest's who offers it.


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And every meal offering, mingled with oil, or dry, all the sons of Aaron will have, one as well as another.


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If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he will offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour soaked.


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He will offer his oblation with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving with cakes of leavened bread.


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And from it he will offer one out of each oblation for a heave offering to Jehovah. It will be the priest's who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.


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<pb/>And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving will be eaten on the day of his oblation; he will not leave any of it until the morning.


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But if the sacrifice of his oblation be a vow, or a free-will offering, it will be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice and on the morrow what remains of it will be eaten,


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And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, nor will it be imputed to him who offers it. It will be an abomination and the soul that eats of it will bear his iniquity.


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<pb/>And the flesh that touches any unclean thing will not be eaten; it will be burnt with fire. And as for the flesh, every clean man will eat of it,


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but the soul that eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain to Jehovah, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul will be cut off from his people.


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And when a soul will touch any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean beast, or any unclean abomination and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain to Jehovah, that soul will be cut off from his people.


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And the fat of what dies of itself and the fat of what is torn of beasts, may be used for any other service, but you* will certainly not eat of it.


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For whoever eats the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire to Jehovah, even the soul that eats it will be cut off from his people.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Jehovah will bring his oblation to Jehovah out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.


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His own hands will bring the offerings of Jehovah made by fire. He will bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And the right thigh you* will give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your* peace offerings.


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He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat, will have the right thigh for a portion.


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For I have taken the breast of the wave-offering and the thigh from the sons of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as an everlasting portion from the sons of Israel.


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This is the anointing-portion of Aaron and the anointing-portion of his sons, out of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to Jehovah in the priest's office,


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which Jehovah commanded to be given them from the sons of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is an everlasting portion throughout their genealogy.


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<pb/>This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering and of the sin offering and of the trespass offering and of the consecration and of the sacrifice of peace offerings,


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which Jehovah commanded Moses at Mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the sons of Israel to offer their oblations to Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai.


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Take Aaron and his sons with him and the garments and the anointing oil and the bullock of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread,


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And Moses did as Jehovah commanded him and the congregation was assembled at the door of the tent of meeting.


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And he put upon him the tunic and girded him with the sash and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod upon him and he girded him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod and bound it to him with it.


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And he set the miter upon his head. And upon the miter, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it and made them holy.


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And he sprinkled of it upon the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its vessels and the large-basin and its base, to sanctify them.


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<pb/>And Moses brought Aaron's sons and clothed them with tunics and girded them with sashes and bound head-coverings upon them, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And he brought the bullock of the sin offering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock of the sin offering,


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and he killed it. And Moses took the blood and put it upon the horns of the altar all around with his finger and purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and made it holy, to make atonement for it.


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And he took all the fat that was upon the innards and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and Moses burned it upon the altar.


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But the bullock and its skin and its flesh and its manure, he burnt with fire outside the camp, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And he presented the ram of the burnt offering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram,


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And he washed the innards and the legs with water. And Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar. It was a burnt offering for a sweet aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Jehovah, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And he presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram,


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and he killed 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.


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And he brought Aaron's sons and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear and upon the thumb of their right hand and upon the great toe of their right foot. And Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar all around.


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And he took the fat and the fat tail and all the fat that was upon the innards and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and the right thigh,


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and out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before Jehovah, he took one unleavened cake and one cake of oiled bread and one wafer and placed them on the fat and upon the right thigh.


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And he put the whole upon the hands of Aaron and upon the hands of his sons and waved them for a wave offering before Jehovah.


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And Moses took them from their hands and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt offering. They were a consecration for a sweet aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before Jehovah. It was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And Moses took of the anointing oil and of the blood which was upon the altar and sprinkled it upon Aaron, upon his garments and upon his sons and upon his sons' garments with him and made Aaron holy, his garments and his sons and his sons' garments with him.


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<pb/>And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tent of meeting and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons will eat it.


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<pb/>And you* will not go out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of your* consecration be fulfilled, for he will consecrate you* seven days.


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And you* will remain at the door of the tent of meeting day and night seven days and keep the charge of Jehovah, that you* not die, for so I am commanded.


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<pb/>And it happened on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel,


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and he said to Aaron, You take a calf of the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish and offer them before Jehovah.


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And you will speak to the sons of Israel, saying, You* take a male-goat for a sin offering and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering,


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and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Jehovah and a meal offering mingled with oil. For today Jehovah appears to you*.


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And they brought what Moses commanded before the tent of meeting and all the congregation drew near and stood before Jehovah.


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<pb/>And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah commanded that you* should do and the glory of Jehovah will appear to you*.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Draw near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and for the people. And offer the oblation of the people and make atonement for them, as Jehovah commanded.


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<pb/>So Aaron drew near to the altar and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.


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And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it upon the horns of the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar,


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but he burnt the fat and the kidneys and the lobe of the liver of the sin offering, upon the altar, as Jehovah commanded Moses.


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<pb/>And he killed the burnt offering. And Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood and he sprinkled it upon the altar all around.


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And they delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece and the head and he burnt them upon the altar.


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<pb/>And he presented the people's oblation. And took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people and killed it and offered it for sin, as the first.


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And he presented the meal offering and filled his hand from it and burnt it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.


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<pb/>He also killed the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people. And Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar all around,


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and the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail and what covers the innards and the kidneys and the lobe of the liver.


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And the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before Jehovah, as Moses commanded.


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<pb/>And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them. And he came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.


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And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting and came out and blessed the people. And the glory of Jehovah appeared to all the people.


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And there came out fire from before Jehovah and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.


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<pb/>And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each of them took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them.


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<pb/>Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that Jehovah spoke, saying, I will be made holy by those who come near me. And I will be glorified before all the people. And Aaron remained silent.


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<pb/>And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron and said to them, Draw near. Carry your* brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.


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<pb/>And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, Do not let the hair of your* heads go loose, neither tear your* clothes, that you* not die and that he not be angry with all the congregation, but let your* brothers, the whole house of Israel, weep at the burning which Jehovah has kindled.


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And you* will not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, lest you* die, for the anointing oil of Jehovah is upon you*. And they did according to the word of Moses.


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Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you* go into the tent of meeting, that you* not die — it will be an everlasting statute throughout your* generations–


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and that you* may make a distinction between the holy and the common and between the unclean and the clean,


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and that you* may teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah has spoken to them by Moses.


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<pb/>And Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire and eat it without leaven beside the altar, for it is most holy.


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And you* will eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion and your sons' portion, of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire. For so I am commanded.


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And you* will eat the wave-breast and the thigh in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you. For they are given as your portion and your sons' portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.


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They will bring the heave-thigh and the wave-breast with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Jehovah and it will be your and your sons' with you, as an everlasting portion, as Jehovah has commanded.


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And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it was burnt. And he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,


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Why have you* not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy and he has given it to you* to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Jehovah?


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Behold, the blood of it was not brought into the sanctuary inside. You* should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.


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<pb/>And Aaron spoke to Moses, Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Jehovah and there have befallen me such things as these. And if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been well pleasing in the sight of Jehovah?


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the living things which you* may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.


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Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven footed and chews the cud, among the beasts, that may you* eat.


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<pb/>Nevertheless these will you* not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those that part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but does not part the hoof, he is unclean to you*.


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And the swine, because he parts the hoof and is cloven footed, but does not chew the cud, he is unclean to you*.


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<pb/>These may you* eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas and in the rivers, that may you* eat.


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<pb/>And all that have no fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you*,


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and they will be an abomination to you*. You* will not eat of their flesh and their carcasses you* will have in abomination.


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<pb/>And these you* will have in abomination among the birds, they will not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle and the vulture and the osprey,


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<pb/>Yet these you* may eat of all winged creeping things that go upon all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to leap upon the earth,


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even these of them you* may eat: the locust after its kind and the bald locust after its kind and the cricket after its kind and the grasshopper after its kind.


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and by these you* will become unclean. Whoever touches the carcass of them will be unclean until the evening.


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And whoever bears any of the carcass of them will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.


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<pb/>Every beast which parts the hoof and is not cloven footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you*. Everyone who touches them will be unclean.


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And whatever goes upon its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours, they are unclean to you*. Whoever touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening.


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And he who bears the carcass of them will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you*.


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<pb/>And these are those which are unclean to you* among the creeping things that creep upon the earth: the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard after its kind,


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These are those which are unclean to you* among all that creep. Whoever touches them, when they are dead, will be unclean until the evening.


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<pb/>And upon whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it will be unclean, whether it is any vessel of wood, or garments, or skin, or sack. Whatever vessel it be, with which any work is done, it must be put into water and it will be unclean until the evening, then it will be clean.


