The First Book of Moses:  Called Genesis

 

 

1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

 

1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon

the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the

waters.

 

1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

 

1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light

from the darkness.

 

1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.

And the evening and the morning were the first day.

 

1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,

and let it divide the waters from the waters.

 

1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were

under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament:

and it was so.

 

1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the

morning were the second day.

 

1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together

unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

 

1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of

the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

 

1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding

seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is

in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

 

1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after

his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after

his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 

1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

 

1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven

to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for

seasons, and for days, and years: 1:15 And let them be for lights in

the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was

so.

 

1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day,

and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

 

1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light

upon the earth, 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and

to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

 

1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

 

1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving

creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the

open firmament of heaven.

 

1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that

moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind,

and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 

1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill

the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

 

1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

 

1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after

his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his

kind: and it was so.

 

1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle

after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after

his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 

1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:

and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl

of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over

every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

 

1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created

he him; male and female created he them.

 

1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and

multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion

over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every

living thing that moveth upon the earth.

 

1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,

which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which

is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

 

1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air,

and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is

life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

 

1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was

very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

 

2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of

them.

 

2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and

he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

 

2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that

in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

 

2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when

they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the

heavens, 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth,

and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not

caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the

ground.

 

2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole

face of the ground.

 

2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and

breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living

soul.

 

2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he

put the man whom he had formed.

 

2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is

pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the

midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

 

2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence

it was parted, and became into four heads.

 

2:11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the

whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 2:12 And the gold of that

land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

 

2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that

compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

 

2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which

goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

 

2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of

Eden to dress it and to keep it.

 

2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the

garden thou mayest freely eat: 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge

of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou

eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

 

2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be

alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

 

2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the

field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see

what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living

creature, that was the name thereof.

 

2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air,

and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an

help meet for him.

 

2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he

slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead

thereof; 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made

he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

 

2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my

flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

 

2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall

cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

 

2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not

ashamed.

 

3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which

the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said,

Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?  3:2 And the woman said

unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden,

God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest

ye die.

 

3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 3:5

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall

be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 

3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that

it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one

wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto

her husband with her; and he did eat.

 

3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they

were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves

aprons.

 

3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in

the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the

presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

 

3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art

thou?  3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was

afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

 

3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten

of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she

gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

 

3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast

done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

 

3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done

this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the

field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the

days of thy life: 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the

woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head,

and thou shalt bruise his heel.

 

3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and

thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy

desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

 

3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice

of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,

saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake;

in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 3:18 Thorns

also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the

herb of the field; 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,

till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for

dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

 

3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother

of all living.

 

3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of

skins, and clothed them.

 

3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to

know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also

of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 3:23 Therefore the

LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground

from whence he was taken.

 

3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden

of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep

the way of the tree of life.

 

4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and

said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

 

4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of

sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

 

4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the

fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

 

4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of

the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his

offering: 4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.

And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

 

4:6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy

countenance fallen?  4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be

accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto

thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

 

4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when

they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother,

and slew him.

 

4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he

said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?  4:10 And he said, What

hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from

the ground.

 

4:11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her

mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; 4:12 When thou

tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her

strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

 

4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can

bear.

 

4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the

earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and

a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one

that findeth me shall slay me.

 

4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain,

vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark

upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

 

4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the

land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

 

4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he

builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his

son, Enoch.

 

4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and

Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

 

4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah,

and the name of the other Zillah.

 

4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents,

and of such as have cattle.

 

4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such

as handle the harp and organ.

 

4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every

artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

 

4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice;

ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to

my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

 

4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and

sevenfold.

 

4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his

name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead

of Abel, whom Cain slew.

 

4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his

name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

 

5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God

created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 5:2 Male and female

created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the

day when they were created.

 

5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his

own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth: 5:4 And

the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years:

and he begat sons and daughters: 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived

were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

 

5:6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: 5:7 And

Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and

begat sons and daughters: 5:8 And all the days of Seth were nine

hundred and twelve years: and he died.

 

5:9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan: 5:10 And Enos lived

after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons

and daughters: 5:11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and

five years: and he died.

 

5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel: 5:13 And

Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years,

and begat sons and daughters: 5:14 And all the days of Cainan were

nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

 

5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: 5:16

And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty

years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:17 And all the days of

Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

 

5:18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat

Enoch: 5:19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years,

and begat sons and daughters: 5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine

hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

 

5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 5:22

And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred

years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:23 And all the days of Enoch

were three hundred sixty and five years: 5:24 And Enoch walked with

God: and he was not; for God took him.

 

5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat

Lamech.

 

5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty

and two years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:27 And all the days of

Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

 

5:28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a

son: 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort

us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground

which the LORD hath cursed.

 

5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five

years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:31 And all the days of Lamech

were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

 

5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham,

and Japheth.

 

6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the

earth, and daughters were born unto them, 6:2 That the sons of God saw

the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of

all which they chose.

 

6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for

that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty

years.

 

6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that,

when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare

children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of

renown.

 

6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and

that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil

continually.

 

6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it

grieved him at his heart.

 

6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the

face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and

the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

 

6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

 

6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect

in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

 

6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

 

6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled

with violence.

 

6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for

all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

 

6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me;

for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I

will destroy them with the earth.

 

6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the

ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

 

6:15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length

of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty

cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

 

6:16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou

finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side

thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

 

6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the

earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under

heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

 

6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come

into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives

with thee.

 

6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt

thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be

male and female.

 

6:20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of

every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort

shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

 

6:21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt

gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

 

6:22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did

he.

 

7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the

ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

 

7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male

and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and

his female.

 

7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to

keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

 

7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth

forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have

made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

 

7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

 

7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was

upon the earth.

 

7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives

with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

 

7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls,

and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 7:9 There went in two

and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had

commanded Noah.

 

7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the

flood were upon the earth.

 

7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month,

the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains

of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

 

7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

 

7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth,

the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons

with them, into the ark; 7:14 They, and every beast after his kind,

and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that

creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind,

every bird of every sort.

 

7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all

flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

 

7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as

God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

 

7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters

increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

 

7:18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the

earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

 

7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the

high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

 

7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains

were covered.

 

7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and

of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth

upon the earth, and every man: 7:22 All in whose nostrils was the

breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

 

7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face

of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the

fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah

only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

 

7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty

days.

 

8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the

cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over

the earth, and the waters asswaged; 8:2 The fountains also of the deep

and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was

restrained; 8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth

continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the

waters were abated.

 

8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of

the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

 

8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the

tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the

mountains seen.

 

8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the

window of the ark which he had made: 8:7 And he sent forth a raven,

which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off

the earth.

 

8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were

abated from off the face of the ground; 8:9 But the dove found no rest

for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for

the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his

hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

 

8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the

dove out of the ark; 8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening;

and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that

the waters were abated from off the earth.

 

8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove;

which returned not again unto him any more.

 

8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the

first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from

off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked,

and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

 

8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the

month, was the earth dried.

 

8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou,

and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

 

8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of

all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing

that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the

earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

 

8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons'

wives with him: 8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every

fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went

forth out of the ark.

 

8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean

beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the

altar.

 

8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his

heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for

the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I

again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

 

8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and

heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

 

9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be

fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

 

9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast

of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth

upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are

they delivered.

 

9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the

green herb have I given you all things.

 

9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall

ye not eat.

 

9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of

every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of

every man's brother will I require the life of man.

 

9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in

the image of God made he man.

 

9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in

the earth, and multiply therein.

 

9:8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9:9 And

I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after

you; 9:10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the

fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from

all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

 

9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all

flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall

there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

 

9:12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make

between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for

perpetual generations: 9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall

be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

 

9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth,

that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 9:15 And I will remember my

covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all

flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all

flesh.

 

9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that

I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living

creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

 

9:17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which

I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

 

9:18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and

Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

 

9:19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth

overspread.

 

9:20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered

within his tent.

 

9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father,

and told his two brethren without.

 

9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their

shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their

father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's

nakedness.

 

9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had

done unto him.

 

9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be

unto his brethren.

 

9:26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be

his servant.

 

9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of

Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

 

9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

 

9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and

he died.

 

10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and

Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

 

10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and

Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

 

10:3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

 

10:4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and

Dodanim.

 

10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands;

every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

 

10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

 

10:7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah,

and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

 

10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

 

10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said,

Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

 

10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and

Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

 

10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the

city Rehoboth, and Calah, 10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah:

the same is a great city.

 

10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

10:14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and

Caphtorim.

 

10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, 10:16 And the

Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, 10:17 And the Hivite,

and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 10:18 And the Arvadite, and the

Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the

Canaanites spread abroad.

 

10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest

to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and

Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

 

10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their

tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

 

10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the

brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

 

10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud,

and Aram.

 

10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

 

10:24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

 

10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for

in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

 

10:26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and

Jerah, 10:27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 10:28 And Obal, and

Abimael, and Sheba, 10:29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these

were the sons of Joktan.

 

10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a

mount of the east.

 

10:31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their

tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

 

10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their

generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided

in the earth after the flood.

 

11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

 

11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they

found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

 

11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn

them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for

morter.

 

11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose

top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be

scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

 

11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the

children of men builded.

 

11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all

one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be

restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

 

11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that

they may not understand one another's speech.

 

11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of

all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

 

11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did

there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the

LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

 

11:10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years

old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: 11:11 And Shem

lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and

daughters.

 

11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: 11:13

And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years,

and begat sons and daughters.

 

11:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: 11:15 And Salah

lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons

and daughters.

 

11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: 11:17 And

Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and

begat sons and daughters.

 

11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: 11:19 And Peleg

lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons

and daughters.

 

11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: 11:21 And

Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat

sons and daughters.

 

11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: 11:23 And Serug

lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and

daughters.

 

11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: 11:25

And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years,

and begat sons and daughters.

 

11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and

Haran.

 

11:27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram,

Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

 

11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his

nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

 

11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife

was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of

Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

 

11:30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

 

11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's

son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they

went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of

Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

 

11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah

died in Haran.

 

12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country,

and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I

will shew thee: 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I

will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a

blessing: 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him

that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be

blessed.

 

12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went

with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed

out of Haran.

 

12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all

their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had

gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan;

and into the land of Canaan they came.

 

12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto

the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

 

12:7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I

give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who

appeared unto him.

 

12:8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel,

and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east:

and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name

of the LORD.

 

12:9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

 

12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into

Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

 

12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt,

that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a

fair woman to look upon: 12:12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when

the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife:

and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

 

12:13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with

me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

 

12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the

Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

 

12:15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before

Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

 

12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and

oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses,

and camels.

 

12:17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues

because of Sarai Abram's wife.

 

12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast

done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?  12:19

Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to

wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

 

12:20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him

away, and his wife, and all that he had.

 

13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he

had, and Lot with him, into the south.

 

13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

 

13:3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto

the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and

Hai; 13:4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had make there at the

first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

 

13:5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and

tents.

 

13:6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell

together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell

together.

 

13:7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and

the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite

dwelled then in the land.

 

13:8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,

between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be

brethren.

 

13:9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee,

from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right;

or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

 

13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan,

that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom

and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt,

as thou comest unto Zoar.

 

13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed

east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

 

13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the

cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

 

13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD

exceedingly.

 

13:14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from

him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art

northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 13:15 For all

the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for

ever.

 

13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a

man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be

numbered.

 

13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the

breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

 

13:18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of

Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

 

14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar,

Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of

nations; 14:2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with

Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of

Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

 

14:3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is

the salt sea.

 

14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year

they rebelled.

 

14:5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that

were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the

Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim, 14:6 And the

Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

 

14:7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and

smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that

dwelt in Hazezontamar.

 

14:8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah,

and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela

(the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of

Siddim; 14:9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king

of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar;

four kings with five.

 

14:10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of

Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled

to the mountain.

 

14:11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their

victuals, and went their way.

 

14:12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom,

and his goods, and departed.

 

14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew;

for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and

brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.

 

14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he

armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and

eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

 

14:15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by

night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the

left hand of Damascus.

 

14:16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his

brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

 

14:17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from

the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at

the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.

 

14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and

he was the priest of the most high God.

 

14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high

God, possessor of heaven and earth: 14:20 And blessed be the most high

God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him

tithes of all.

 

14:21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and

take the goods to thyself.

 

14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand

unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

14:23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and

that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say,

I have made Abram rich: 14:24 Save only that which the young men have

eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol,

and Mamre; let them take their portion.

 

15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a

vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding

great reward.

 

15:2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go

childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo,

one born in my house is mine heir.

 

15:4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This

shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own

bowels shall be thine heir.

 

15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward

heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he

said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

 

15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for

righteousness.

 

15:7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur

of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

 

15:8 And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit

it?  15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old,

and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a

turtledove, and a young pigeon.

 

15:10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst,

and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.

 

15:11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them

away.

 

15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram;

and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

 

15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be

a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve them; and

they shall afflict them four hundred years; 15:14 And also that

nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they

come out with great substance.

 

15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried

in a good old age.

 

15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for

the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

 

15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was

dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between

those pieces.

 

15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,

Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the

great river, the river Euphrates: 15:19 The Kenites, and the

Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 15:20 And the Hittites, and the

Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 15:21 And the Amorites, and the

Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

 

16:1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an

handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

 

16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained

me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may

obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

 

16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after

Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her

husband Abram to be his wife.

 

16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw

that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

 

16:5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my

maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was

despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

 

16:6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand; do

to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she

fled from her face.

 

16:7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the

wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

 

16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither

wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

 

16:9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress,

and submit thyself under her hands.

 

16:10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy

seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

 

16:11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with

child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because

the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

 

16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,

and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence

of all his brethren.

 

16:13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou

God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that

seeth me?  16:14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold,

it is between Kadesh and Bered.

 

16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name,

which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

 

16:16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare

Ishmael to Abram.

 

17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared

to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me,

and be thou perfect.

 

17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will

multiply thee exceedingly.

 

17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, 17:4

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a

father of many nations.

 

17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name

shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

 

17:6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations

of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

 

17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed

after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a

God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

 

17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land

wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an

everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

 

17:9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore,

thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

 

17:10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and

thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

 

17:11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall

be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

 

17:12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you,

every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or

bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

 

17:13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy

money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your

flesh for an everlasting covenant.

 

17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is

not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath

broken my covenant.

 

17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not

call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

 

17:16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I

will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people

shall be of her.

 

17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his

heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old?

and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?  17:18 And Abraham

said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!  17:19 And God

said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call

his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an

everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

 

17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed

him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;

twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

 

17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall

bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

 

17:22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

 

17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his

house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the

men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in

the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

 

17:24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was

circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

 

17:25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was

circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

 

17:26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his

son.

 

17:27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with

money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

 

18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat

in the tent door in the heat of the day; 18:2 And he lift up his eyes

and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he

ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the

ground, 18:3 And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy

sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: 18:4 Let a little

water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves

under the tree: 18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort

ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come

to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

 

18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make

ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes

upon the hearth.

 

18:7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good,

and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.

 

18:8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed,

and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they

did eat.

 

18:9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said,

Behold, in the tent.

 

18:10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the

time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah

heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

 

18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it

ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

 

18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed

old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?  18:13 And the LORD

said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a

surety bear a child, which am old?  18:14 Is any thing too hard for

the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to

the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

 

18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid.

And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

 

18:16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and

Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

 

18:17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I

do; 18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty

nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his

household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do

justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which

he hath spoken of him.

 

18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is

great, and because their sin is very grievous; 18:21 I will go down

now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of

it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

 

18:22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward

Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

 

18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the

righteous with the wicked?  18:24 Peradventure there be fifty

righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the

place for the fifty righteous that are therein?  18:25 That be far

from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the

wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far

from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?  18:26 And

the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city,

then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

 

18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me

to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes: 18:28

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou

destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there

forty and five, I will not destroy it.

 

18:29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there

shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's

sake.

 

18:30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will

speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I

will not do it, if I find thirty there.

 

18:31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the

LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I

will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

 

18:32 And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet

but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I

will not destroy it for ten's sake.

 

18:33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with

Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

 

19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the

gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed

himself with his face toward the ground; 19:2 And he said, Behold now,

my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry

all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on

your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all

night.

 

19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him,

and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake

unleavened bread, and they did eat.

 

19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of

Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people

from every quarter: 19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him,

Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out

unto us, that we may know them.

 

19:6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after

him, 19:7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

 

19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let

me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good

in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they

under the shadow of my roof.

 

19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow

came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal

worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man,

even Lot, and came near to break the door.

 

19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house

to them, and shut to the door.

 

19:11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with

blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to

find the door.

 

19:12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in

law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the

city, bring them out of this place: 19:13 For we will destroy this

place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the

LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

 

19:14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married

his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD

will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons

in law.

 

19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot,

saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here;

lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

 

19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon

the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD

being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him

without the city.

 

19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad,

that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay

thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

 

19:18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD: 19:19 Behold now,

thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy

mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot

escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: 19:20

Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one:

Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall

live.

 

19:21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this

thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou

hast spoken.

 

19:22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou

be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

 

19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

 

19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and

fire from the LORD out of heaven; 19:25 And he overthrew those cities,

and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that

which grew upon the ground.

 

19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a

pillar of salt.

 

19:27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he

stood before the LORD: 19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah,

and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke

of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

 

19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain,

that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the

overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

 

19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his

two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt

in a cave, he and his two daughters.

 

19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and

there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of

all the earth: 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we

will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

 

19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the

firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when

she lay down, nor when she arose.

 

19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto

the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him

drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we

may preserve seed of our father.

 

19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the

younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay

down, nor when she arose.

 

19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

 

19:37 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the

same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

 

19:38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name

Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this

day.

 

20:1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and

dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

 

20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and

Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

 

20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him,

Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken;

for she is a man's wife.

 

20:4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou

slay also a righteous nation?  20:5 Said he not unto me, She is my

sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the

integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

 

20:6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst

this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from

sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

 

20:7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and

he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her

not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are

thine.

 

20:8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his

servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were

sore afraid.

 

20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou

done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on

me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that

ought not to be done.

 

20:10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou

hast done this thing?  20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought,

Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for

my wife's sake.

 

20:12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my

father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

 

20:13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my

father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou

shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me,

He is my brother.

 

20:14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and

womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his

wife.

 

20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where

it pleaseth thee.

 

20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a

thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the

eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was

reproved.

 

20:17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his

wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

 

20:18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of

Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

 

21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto

Sarah as he had spoken.

 

21:2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at

the set time of which God had spoken to him.

 

21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him,

whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

 

21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as

God had commanded him.

 

21:5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born

unto him.

 

21:6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear

will laugh with me.

 

21:7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should

have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

 

21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great

feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

 

21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born

unto Abraham, mocking.

 

21:10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her

son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even

with Isaac.

 

21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of

his son.

 

21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight

because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah

hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy

seed be called.

 

21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation,

because he is thy seed.

 

21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a

bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder,

and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in

the wilderness of Beersheba.

 

21:15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child

under one of the shrubs.

 

21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off,

as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the

child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

 

21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called

to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar?

fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

 

21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will

make him a great nation.

 

21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she

went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

 

21:20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the

wilderness, and became an archer.

 

21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him

a wife out of the land of Egypt.

 

21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the

chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee

in all that thou doest: 21:23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God

that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my

son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee,

thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

 

21:24 And Abraham said, I will swear.

 

21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which

Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

 

21:26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing; neither

didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.

 

21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech;

and both of them made a covenant.

 

21:28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

 

21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs

which thou hast set by themselves?  21:30 And he said, For these seven

ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto

me, that I have digged this well.

 

21:31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they

sware both of them.

 

21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up,

and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the

land of the Philistines.

 

21:33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on

the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

 

21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

 

22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt

Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

 

22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou

lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for

a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

 

22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass,

and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave

the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place

of which God had told him.

 

22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the

place afar off.

 

22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass;

and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

 

22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon

Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they

went both of them together.

 

22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and

he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood:

but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?  22:8 And Abraham said, My

son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they

went both of them together.

 

22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham

built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his

son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

 

22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay

his son.

 

22:11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and

said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

 

22:12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou

any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou

hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

 

22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind

him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took

the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his

son.

 

22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is

said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

 

22:15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the

second time, 22:16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD,

for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son,

thine only son: 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in

multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and

as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess

the gate of his enemies; 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations

of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

 

22:19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and

went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

 

22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told

Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy

brother Nahor; 22:21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and

Kemuel the father of Aram, 22:22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash,

and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

 

22:23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor,

Abraham's brother.

 

22:24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah,

and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

 

23:1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these

were the years of the life of Sarah.

 

23:2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of

Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

 

23:3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the

sons of Heth, saying, 23:4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you:

give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my

dead out of my sight.

 

23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, 23:6

Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of

our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his

sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

 

23:7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the

land, even to the children of Heth.

 

23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I

should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to

Ephron the son of Zohar, 23:9 That he may give me the cave of

Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as

much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a

buryingplace amongst you.

 

23:10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the

Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even

of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, 23:11 Nay, my

lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I

give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee:

bury thy dead.

 

23:12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

 

23:13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the

land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will

give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead

there.

 

23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, 23:15 My lord,

hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver;

what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

 

23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron

the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth,

four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

 

23:17 And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which was before

Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees

that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were

made sure 23:18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the

children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

 

23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the

field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of

Canaan.

 

23:20 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto

Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.

 

24:1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had

blessed Abraham in all things.

 

24:2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled

over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: 24:3

And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God

of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the

daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 24:4 But thou shalt

go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son

Isaac.

 

24:5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be

willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again

unto the land from whence thou camest?  24:6 And Abraham said unto

him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.

 

24:7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and

from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware

unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send

his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from

thence.

 

24:8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou

shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.

 

24:9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his

master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

 

24:10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and

departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he

arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

 

24:11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well

of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out

to draw water.

 

24:12 And he said O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send

me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.

 

24:13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of

the men of the city come out to draw water: 24:14 And let it come to

pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I

pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give

thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed

for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed

kindness unto my master.

 

24:15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold,

Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of

Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

 

24:16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had

any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her

pitcher, and came up.

 

24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee,

drink a little water of thy pitcher.

 

24:18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her

pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

 

24:19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw

water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.

 

24:20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran

again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.

 

24:21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the

LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.

 

24:22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the

man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets

for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; 24:23 And said, Whose

daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's

house for us to lodge in?  24:24 And she said unto him, I am the

daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.

 

24:25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender

enough, and room to lodge in.

 

24:26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.

 

24:27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who

hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being

in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.

 

24:28 And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these

things.

 

24:29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran

out unto the man, unto the well.

 

24:30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon

his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister,

saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and,

behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

 

24:31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore

standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the

camels.

 

24:32 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and

gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet,

and the men's feet that were with him.

 

24:33 And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will

not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

 

24:34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.

 

24:35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become

great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold,

and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

 

24:36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was

old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

 

24:37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife

to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

24:38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and

take a wife unto my son.

 

24:39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not

follow me.

 

24:40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his

angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for

my son of my kindred, and of my father's house: 24:41 Then shalt thou

be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if

they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

 

24:42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my

master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go: 24:43

Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that

when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me,

I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink; 24:44 And she say

to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the

same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's

son.

 

24:45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah

came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto

the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray

thee.

 

24:46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder,

and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank,

and she made the camels drink also.

 

24:47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she

said, the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him:

and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.

 

24:48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed

the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way

to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.

 

24:49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell

me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the

left.

 

24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth

from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

 

24:51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be

thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.

 

24:52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their

words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.

 

24:53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of

gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her

brother and to her mother precious things.

 

24:54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him,

and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said,

Send me away unto my master.

 

24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with

us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

 

24:56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath

prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.

 

24:57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her

mouth.

 

24:58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with

this man? And she said, I will go.

 

24:59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and

Abraham's servant, and his men.

 

24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our

sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed

possess the gate of those which hate them.

 

24:61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the

camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went

his way.

 

24:62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt

in the south country.

 

24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and

he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.

 

24:64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she

lighted off the camel.

 

24:65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh

in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master:

therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.

 

24:66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.

 

24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took

Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was

comforted after his mother's death.

 

25:1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

 

25:2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and

Ishbak, and Shuah.

 

25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were

Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

 

25:4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah,

and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

 

25:5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

 

25:6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham

gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived,

eastward, unto the east country.

 

25:7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he

lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

 

25:8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an

old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

 

25:9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of

Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which

is before Mamre; 25:10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons

of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

 

25:11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed

his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.

 

25:12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom

Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham: 25:13 And

these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according

to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar,

and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 25:14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, 25:15

Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: 25:16 These are the sons

of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their

castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

 

25:17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and

thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was

gathered unto his people.

 

25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as

thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his

brethren.

 

25:19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham

begat Isaac: 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah

to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister

to Laban the Syrian.

 

25:21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was

barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife

conceived.

 

25:22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If

it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.

 

25:23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two

manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one

people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall

serve the younger.

 

25:24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there

were twins in her womb.

 

25:25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and

they called his name Esau.

 

25:26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on

Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore

years old when she bare them.

 

25:27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the

field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

 

25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but

Rebekah loved Jacob.

 

25:29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was

faint: 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that

same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

 

25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

 

25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit

shall this birthright do to me?  25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me

this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto

Jacob.

 

25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did

eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his

birthright.

 

26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that

was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the

Philistines unto Gerar.

 

26:2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt;

dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 26:3 Sojourn in this

land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and

unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the

oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; 26:4 And I will make thy

seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed

all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the

earth be blessed; 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept

my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

 

26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: 26:7 And the men of the place asked him

of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She

is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for

Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

 

26:8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that

Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw,

and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

 

26:9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is

thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto

him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

 

26:10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of

the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest

have brought guiltiness upon us.

 

26:11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth

this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

 

26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an

hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

 

26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he

became very great: 26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and

possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines

envied him.

 

26:15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the

days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and

filled them with earth.

 

26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much

mightier than we.

 

26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of

Gerar, and dwelt there.

 

26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged

in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped

them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the

names by which his father had called them.

 

26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a

well of springing water.

 

26:20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen,

saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek;

because they strove with him.

 

26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he

called the name of it Sitnah.

 

26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for

that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he

said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful

in the land.

 

26:23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.

 

26:24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am

the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will

bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

 

26:25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the

LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a

well.

 

26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his

friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

 

26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye

hate me, and have sent me away from you?  26:28 And they said, We saw

certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now

an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a

covenant with thee; 26:29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not

touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have

sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.

 

26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

 

26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to

another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in

peace.

 

26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came,

and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto

him, We have found water.

 

26:33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is

Beersheba unto this day.

 

26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the

daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the

Hittite: 26:35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

 

27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were

dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said

unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.

 

27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my

death: 27:3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver

and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison; 27:4

And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I

may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

 

27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went

to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

 

27:6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy

father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, 27:7 Bring me venison, and

make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD

before my death.

 

27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I

command thee.

 

27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of

the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as

he loveth: 27:10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may

eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.

 

27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is

a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: 27:12 My father peradventure will

feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a

curse upon me, and not a blessing.

 

27:13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only

obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

 

27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and

his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

 

27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which

were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:

27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands,

and upon the smooth of his neck: 27:17 And she gave the savoury meat

and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

 

27:18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said,

Here am I; who art thou, my son?  27:19 And Jacob said unto his

father, I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest

me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may

bless me.

 

27:20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it

so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it

to me.

 

27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may

feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.

 

27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and

said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

 

27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his

brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.

 

27:24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.

 

27:25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's

venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him,

and he did eat: and he brought him wine and he drank.

 

27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me,

my son.

 

27:27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of

his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as

the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: 27:28 Therefore God

give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and

plenty of corn and wine: 27:29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow

down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow

down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he

that blesseth thee.

 

27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of

blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of

Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

 

27:31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his

father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his

son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.

 

27:32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I

am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.

 

27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he

that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all

before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be

blessed.

 

27:34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a

great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me,

even me also, O my father.

 

27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away

thy blessing.

 

27:36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath

supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and,

behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not

reserved a blessing for me?  27:37 And Isaac answered and said unto

Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I

given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained

him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?  27:38 And Esau said

unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even

me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

 

27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy

dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven

from above; 27:40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve

thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the

dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

 

27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his

father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning

for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

 

27:42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and

she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold,

thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to

kill thee.

 

27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee thou to Laban

my brother to Haran; 27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy

brother's fury turn away; 27:45 Until thy brother's anger turn away

from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will

send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you

both in one day?  27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my

life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the

daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the

land, what good shall my life do me?  28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and

blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a

wife of the daughters of Canaan.

 

28:2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's

father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughers of Laban thy

mother's brother.

 

28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply

thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; 28:4 And give thee

the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou

mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave

unto Abraham.

 

28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban,

son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's

mother.

 

28:6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to

Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him

he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the

daughers of Canaan; 28:7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his

mother, and was gone to Padanaram; 28:8 And Esau seeing that the

daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; 28:9 Then went Esau

unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the

daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his

wife.

 

28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

 

28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all

night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that

place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to

sleep.

 

28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the

top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending

and descending on it.

 

28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD

God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou

liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 28:14 And thy seed

shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the

west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee

and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

 

28:15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places

whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I

will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to

thee of.

 

28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD

is in this place; and I knew it not.

 

28:17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is

none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

 

28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that

he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil

upon the top of it.

 

28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of

that city was called Luz at the first.

 

28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will

keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and

raiment to put on, 28:21 So that I come again to my father's house in

peace; then shall the LORD be my God: 28:22 And this stone, which I

have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou

shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

 

29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the

people of the east.

 

29:2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there

were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they

watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.

 

29:3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the

stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone

again upon the well's mouth in his place.

 

29:4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they

said, Of Haran are we.

 

29:5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they

said, We know him.

 

29:6 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well:

and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.

 

29:7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the

cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and

feed them.

 

29:8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered

together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we

water the sheep.

 

29:9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's

sheep; for she kept them.

 

29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban

his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother,

that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and

watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

 

29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

 

29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that

he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.

 

29:13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his

sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed

him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

 

29:14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And

he abode with him the space of a month.

 

29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother,

shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy

wages be?  29:16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder

was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

 

29:17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well

favoured.

 

29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years

for Rachel thy younger daughter.

 

29:19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that

I should give her to another man: abide with me.

 

29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto

him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

 

29:21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are

fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

 

29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a

feast.

 

29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his

daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

 

29:24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an

handmaid.

 

29:25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah:

and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I

serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

29:26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give

the younger before the firstborn.

 

29:27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service

which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

 

29:28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel

his daughter to wife also.

 

29:29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be

her maid.

 

29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more

than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

 

29:31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb:

but Rachel was barren.

 

29:32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name

Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction;

now therefore my husband will love me.

 

29:33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the

LORD hath heard I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also:

and she called his name Simeon.

 

29:34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time

will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons:

therefore was his name called Levi.

 

29:35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will

I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left

bearing.

 

30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel

envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I

die.

 

30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I

in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

30:3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she

shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

 

30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in

unto her.

 

30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

 

30:6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my

voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

 

30:7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second

son.

 

30:8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my

sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

 

30:9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her

maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

 

30:10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.

 

30:11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.

 

30:12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.

 

30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me

blessed: and she called his name Asher.

 

30:14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found

mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then

Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

 

30:15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken

my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And

Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's

mandrakes.

 

30:16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went

out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I

have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that

night.

 

30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob

the fifth son.

 

30:18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given

my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

 

30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

 

30:20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my

husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she

called his name Zebulun.

 

30:21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

 

30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened

her womb.

 

30:23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away

my reproach: 30:24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD

shall add to me another son.

 

30:25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob

said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and

to my country.

 

30:26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee,

and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

 

30:27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in

thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath

blessed me for thy sake.

 

30:28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

 

30:29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and

how thy cattle was with me.

 

30:30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now

increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my

coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?  30:31

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not

give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again

feed and keep thy flock.

 

30:32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence

all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among

the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such

shall be my hire.

 

30:33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it

shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled

and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be

counted stolen with me.

 

30:34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy

word.

 

30:35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and

spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and

every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the

sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

 

30:36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and

Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

 

30:37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and

chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white

appear which was in the rods.

 

30:38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the

gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that

they should conceive when they came to drink.

 

30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth

cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

 

30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the

flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of

Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto

Laban's cattle.

 

30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did

conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in

the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

 

30:42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the

feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

 

30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and

maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

 

31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken

away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's

hath he gotten all this glory.

 

31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was

not toward him as before.

 

31:3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy

fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

 

31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his

flock, 31:5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that

it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with

me.

 

31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

 

31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times;

but God suffered him not to hurt me.

 

31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the

cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be

thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.

 

31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given

them to me.

 

31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that

I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which

leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.

 

31:11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob:

And I said, Here am I.

 

31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which

leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I

have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

 

31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and

where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this

land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.

 

31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any

portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?  31:15 Are we not

counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured

also our money.

 

31:16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is

ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto

thee, do.

 

31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

31:18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he

had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in

Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

 

31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the

images that were her father's.

 

31:20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he

told him not that he fled.

 

31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over

the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

 

31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

 

31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven

days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

 

31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said

unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

 

31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the

mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

 

31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast

stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives

taken with the sword?  31:27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly,

and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent

thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?

31:28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou

hast now done foolishly in so doing.

 

31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of

your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that

thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

 

31:30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore

longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my

gods?  31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was

afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy

daughters from me.

 

31:32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before

our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee.

For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

 

31:33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into

the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out

of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

 

31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's

furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but

found them not.

 

31:35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I

cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he

searched but found not the images.

 

31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered

and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast

so hotly pursued after me?  31:37 Whereas thou hast searched all my

stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here

before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us

both.

 

31:38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she

goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not

eaten.

 

31:39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare

the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by

day, or stolen by night.

 

31:40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by

night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

 

31:41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee

fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle:

and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

 

31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of

Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God

hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee

yesternight.

 

31:43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my

daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my

cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day

unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

31:44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and

let it be for a witness between me and thee.

 

31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

 

31:46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took

stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

 

31:47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

 

31:48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this

day.

 

Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; 31:49 And Mizpah; for he

said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from

another.

 

31:50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other

wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness

betwixt me and thee.

 

31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this

pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee: 31:52 This heap be

witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this

heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this

pillar unto me, for harm.

 

31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their

father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father

Isaac.

 

31:54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his

brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night

in the mount.

 

31:55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and

his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto

his place.

 

32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

 

32:2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he

called the name of that place Mahanaim.

 

32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the

land of Seir, the country of Edom.

 

32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord

Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and

stayed there until now: 32:5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and

menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that

I may find grace in thy sight.

 

32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy

brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men

with him.

 

32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the

people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels,

into two bands; 32:8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and

smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

 

32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father

Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to

thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: 32:10 I am not worthy of

the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast

shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan;

and now I am become two bands.

 

32:11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the

hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the

mother with the children.

 

32:12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed

as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

 

32:13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came

to his hand a present for Esau his brother; 32:14 Two hundred she

goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 32:15

Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls,

twenty she asses, and ten foals.

 

32:16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove

by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and

put a space betwixt drove and drove.

 

32:17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother

meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither

goest thou? and whose are these before thee?  32:18 Then thou shalt

say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord

Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.

 

32:19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that

followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau,

when ye find him.

 

32:20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For

he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and

afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.

 

32:21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that

night in the company.

 

32:22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two

womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.

 

32:23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over

that he had.

 

32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him

until the breaking of the day.

 

32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched

the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of

joint, as he wrestled with him.

 

32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I

will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

 

32:27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

 

32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel:

for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast

prevailed.

 

32:29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.

And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he

blessed him there.

 

32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen

God face to face, and my life is preserved.

 

32:31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he

halted upon his thigh.

 

32:32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which

shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because

he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.

 

33:1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came,

and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah,

and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

 

33:2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah

and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

 

33:3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground

seven times, until he came near to his brother.

 

33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck,

and kissed him: and they wept.

 

33:5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children;

and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God

hath graciously given thy servant.

 

33:6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they

bowed themselves.

 

33:7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves:

and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

 

33:8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And

he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

 

33:9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast

unto thyself.

 

33:10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in

thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have

seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast

pleased with me.

 

33:11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because

God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he

urged him, and he took it.

 

33:12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will

go before thee.

 

33:13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are

tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men

should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

 

33:14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I

will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and

the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

 

33:15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that

are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the

sight of my lord.

 

33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

 

33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made

booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called

Succoth.

 

33:18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the

land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent

before the city.

 

33:19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent,

at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred

pieces of money.

 

33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.

 

34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went

out to see the daughters of the land.

 

34:2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the

country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

 

34:3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved

the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

 

34:4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this

damsel to wife.

 

34:5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his

sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until

they were come.

 

34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune

with him.

 

34:7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it:

and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had

wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter: which thing

ought not to be done.

 

34:8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem

longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

 

34:9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us,

and take our daughters unto you.

 

34:10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you;

dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

 

34:11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me

find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

 

34:12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according

as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

 

34:13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father

deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

34:14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our

sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:

34:15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be,

that every male of you be circumcised; 34:16 Then will we give our

daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will

dwell with you, and we will become one people.

 

34:17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will

we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

 

34:18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.

 

34:19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had

delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the

house of his father.

 

34:20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city,

and communed with the men of their city, saying, 34:21 These men are

peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade

therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us

take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our

daughters.

 

34:22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us,

to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are

circumcised.

 

34:23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of

their's be our's? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell

with us.

 

34:24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went

out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that

went out of the gate of his city.

 

34:25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that

two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each

man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

 

34:26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the

sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.

 

34:27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city,

because they had defiled their sister.

 

34:28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that

which was in the city, and that which was in the field, 34:29 And all

their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they

captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

 

34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make

me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites

and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather

themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed,

I and my house.

 

34:31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

35:1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there:

and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou

fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

 

35:2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with

him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and

change your garments: 35:3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and

I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my

distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

 

35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their

hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid

them under the oak which was by Shechem.

 

35:5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities

that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of

Jacob.

 

35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is,

Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.

 

35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel:

because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his

brother.

 

35:8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath

Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.

 

35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram,

and blessed him.

 

35:10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be

called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his

name Israel.

 

35:11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and

multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and

kings shall come out of thy loins; 35:12 And the land which I gave

Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee

will I give the land.

 

35:13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

 

35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him,

even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he

poured oil thereon.

 

35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him,

Bethel.

 

35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way

to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

 

35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the

midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

 

35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she

died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him

Benjamin.

 

35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is

Bethlehem.

 

35:20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of

Rachel's grave unto this day.

 

35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of

Edar.

 

35:22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben

went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it.

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 35:23 The sons of Leah; Reuben,

Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and

Zebulun: 35:24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 35:25 And the

sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: 35:26 And the

sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of

Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.

 

35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city

of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

 

35:28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

 

35:29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his

people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried

him.

 

36:1 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

 

36:2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter

of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter

of Zibeon the Hivite; 36:3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of

Nebajoth.

 

36:4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel; 36:5 And

Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of

Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.

 

36:6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all

the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all

his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into

the country from the face of his brother Jacob.

 

36:7 For their riches were more than that they might dwell together;

and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because

of their cattle.

 

36:8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

 

36:9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites

in mount Seir: 36:10 These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the

son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of

Esau.

 

36:11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and

Kenaz.

 

36:12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to

Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.

 

36:13 And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and

Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.

 

36:14 And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the

daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and

Jaalam, and Korah.

 

36:15 These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the

firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,

36:16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes

that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.

 

36:17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke

Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of

Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's

wife.

 

36:18 And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush,

duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah

the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.

 

36:19 These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their

dukes.

 

36:20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land;

Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, 36:21 And Dishon, and Ezer,

and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir

in the land of Edom.

 

36:22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's

sister was Timna.

 

36:23 And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath, and

Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

 

36:24 And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this

was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the

asses of Zibeon his father.

 

36:25 And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the

daughter of Anah.

 

36:26 And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and

Ithran, and Cheran.

 

36:27 The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.

 

36:28 The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.

 

36:29 These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke

Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, 36:30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke

Dishan: these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in

the land of Seir.

 

36:31 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before

there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

 

36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his

city was Dinhabah.

 

36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in

his stead.

 

36:34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his

stead.

 

36:35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in

the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was

Avith.

 

36:36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

 

36:37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in

his stead.

 

36:38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his

stead.

 

36:39 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his

stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was

Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

 

36:40 And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau,

according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke

Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth, 36:41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah,

duke Pinon, 36:42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, 36:43 Duke

Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their

habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of

the Edomites.

 

37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in

the land of Canaan.

 

37:2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years

old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the

sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and

Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

 

37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he

was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

 

37:4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than

all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto

him.

 

37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they

hated him yet the more.

 

37:6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have

dreamed: 37:7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and,

lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves

stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

 

37:8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or

shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the

more for his dreams, and for his words.

 

37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and

said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and

the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

 

37:10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his

father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou

hast dreamed?  Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to

bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?  37:11 And his brethren

envied him; but his father observed the saying.

 

37:12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

 

37:13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock

in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him,

Here am I.

 

37:14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with

thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he

sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

 

37:15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in

the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?  37:16

And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed

their flocks.

 

37:17 And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say,

Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found

them in Dothan.

 

37:18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto

them, they conspired against him to slay him.

 

37:19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.

 

37:20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some

pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall

see what will become of his dreams.

 

37:21 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands;

and said, Let us not kill him.

 

37:22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this

pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might

rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.

 

37:23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren,

that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that

was on him; 37:24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the

pit was empty, there was no water in it.

 

37:25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes

and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead

with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry

it down to Egypt.

 

37:26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay

our brother, and conceal his blood?  37:27 Come, and let us sell him

to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our

brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.

 

37:28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and

lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites

for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

 

37:29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in

the pit; and he rent his clothes.

 

37:30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not;

and I, whither shall I go?  37:31 And they took Joseph's coat, and

killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; 37:32 And

they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their

father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's

coat or no.

 

37:33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast

hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.

 

37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins,

and mourned for his son many days.

 

37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him;

but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into

the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

 

37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer

of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.

 

38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his

brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

 

38:2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name

was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.

 

38:3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.

 

38:4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name

Onan.

 

38:5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name

Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

 

38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.

 

38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD;

and the LORD slew him.

 

38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and

marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

 

38:9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to

pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on

the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

 

38:10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he

slew him also.

 

38:11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at

thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest

peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and

dwelt in her father's house.

 

38:12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died;

and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to

Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

 

38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up

to Timnath to shear his sheep.

 

38:14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her

with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is

by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was

not given unto him to wife.

 

38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she

had covered her face.

 

38:16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee,

let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter

in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come

in unto me?  38:17 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock.

And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?  38:18

And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet,

and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it

her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

 

38:19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and

put on the garments of her widowhood.

 

38:20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite,

to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.

 

38:21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the

harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no

harlot in this place.

 

38:22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also

the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.

 

38:23 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed:

behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

 

38:24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told

Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and

also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her

forth, and let her be burnt.

 

38:25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law,

saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said,

Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and

staff.

 

38:26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more

righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he

knew her again no more.

 

38:27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold,

twins were in her womb.

 

38:28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out

his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet

thread, saying, This came out first.

 

38:29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his

brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this

breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.

 

38:30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread

upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

 

39:1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of

Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of

the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.

 

39:2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he

was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

 

39:3 And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD

made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

 

39:4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he

made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his

hand.

 

39:5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer

in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the

Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was

upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.

 

39:6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not

ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly

person, and well favoured.

 

39:7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife

cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

 

39:8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my

master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed

all that he hath to my hand; 39:9 There is none greater in this house

than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because

thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin

against God?  39:10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by

day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

 

39:11 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the

house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house

there within.

 

39:12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he

left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

 

39:13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment

in her hand, and was fled forth, 39:14 That she called unto the men of

her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an

Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I

cried with a loud voice: 39:15 And it came to pass, when he heard that

I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and

fled, and got him out.

 

39:16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.

 

39:17 And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The

Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to

mock me: 39:18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried,

that he left his garment with me, and fled out.

 

39:19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his

wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy

servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

 

39:20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a

place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the

prison.

 

39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him

favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

 

39:22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the

prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he

was the doer of it.

 

39:23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under

his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the

LORD made it to prosper.

 

40:1 And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the

king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.

 

40:2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the

chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

 

40:3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard,

into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

 

40:4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he

served them: and they continued a season in ward.

 

40:5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one

night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the

butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the

prison.

 

40:6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon

them, and, behold, they were sad.

 

40:7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of

his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?  40:8 And

they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no

interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations

belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.

 

40:9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him,

In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; 40:10 And in the vine were

three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot

forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes: 40:11 And

Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them

into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

 

40:12 And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The

three branches are three days: 40:13 Yet within three days shall

Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou

shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner

when thou wast his butler.

 

40:14 But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew

kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh,

and bring me out of this house: 40:15 For indeed I was stolen away out

of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that

they should put me into the dungeon.

 

40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he

said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three

white baskets on my head: 40:17 And in the uppermost basket there was

of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out

of the basket upon my head.

 

40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation

thereof: The three baskets are three days: 40:19 Yet within three days

shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a

tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

 

40:20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday,

that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head

of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

 

40:21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and

he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand: 40:22 But he hanged the chief

baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

 

40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

 

41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh

dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

 

41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured

kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.

 

41:3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the

river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon

the brink of the river.

 

41:4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven

well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.

 

41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears

of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

 

41:6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind

sprung up after them.

 

41:7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears.

And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.

 

41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled;

and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the

wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none

that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

 

41:9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember

my faults this day: 41:10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put

me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief

baker: 41:11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed

each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

 

41:12 And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to

the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us

our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.

 

41:13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he

restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.

 

41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him

hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his

raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

 

41:15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there

is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou

canst understand a dream to interpret it.

 

41:16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall

give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

 

41:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon

the bank of the river: 41:18 And, behold, there came up out of the

river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a

meadow: 41:19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor

and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the

land of Egypt for badness: 41:20 And the lean and the ill favoured

kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: 41:21 And when they had

eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but

they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

 

41:22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one

stalk, full and good: 41:23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin,

and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: 41:24 And the

thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the

magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

 

41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God

hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.

 

41:26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are

seven years: the dream is one.

 

41:27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them

are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind

shall be seven years of famine.

 

41:28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is

about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.

 

41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all

the land of Egypt: 41:30 And there shall arise after them seven years

of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt;

and the famine shall consume the land; 41:31 And the plenty shall not

be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall

be very grievous.

 

41:32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is

because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it

to pass.

 

41:33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and

set him over the land of Egypt.

 

41:34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land,

and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous

years.

 

41:35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come,

and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in

the cities.

 

41:36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven

years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land

perish not through the famine.

 

41:37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes

of all his servants.

 

41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as

this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?  41:39 And Pharaoh said

unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none

so discreet and wise as thou art: 41:40 Thou shalt be over my house,

and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the

throne will I be greater than thou.

 

41:41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the

land of Egypt.

 

41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon

Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a

gold chain about his neck; 41:43 And he made him to ride in the second

chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he

made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

 

41:44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee

shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.

 

41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave

him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And

Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.

 

41:46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh

king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and

went throughout all the land of Egypt.

 

41:47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by

handfuls.

 

41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were

in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of

the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

 

41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much,

until he left numbering; for it was without number.

 

41:50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine

came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto

him.

 

41:51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God,

said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

 

41:52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath

caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

 

41:53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of

Egypt, were ended.

 

41:54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph

had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of

Egypt there was bread.

 

41:55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to

Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto

Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

 

41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph

opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the

famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

 

41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn;

because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

 

42:1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto

his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?  42:2 And he said, Behold,

I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and

buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

 

42:3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

 

42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren;

for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

 

42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came:

for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

 

42:6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that

sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and

bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

 

42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself

strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them,

Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

 

42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

 

42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and

said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are

come.

 

42:10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy

servants come.

 

42:11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no

spies.

 

42:12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land

ye are come.

 

42:13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one

man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with

our father, and one is not.

 

42:14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you,

saying, Ye are spies: 42:15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of

Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come

hither.

 

42:16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be

kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any

truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

 

42:17 And he put them all together into ward three days.

 

42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for

I fear God: 42:19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound

in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your

houses: 42:20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your

words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

 

42:21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning

our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought

us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

 

42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying,

Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore,

behold, also his blood is required.

 

42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto

them by an interpreter.

 

42:24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to

them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and

bound him before their eyes.

 

42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to

restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision

for the way: and thus did he unto them.

 

42:26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.

 

42:27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in

the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth.

 

42:28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it

is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid,

saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?  42:29

And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and

told him all that befell unto them; saying, 42:30 The man, who is the

lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the

country.

 

42:31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies: 42:32 We

be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest

is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

 

42:33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall

I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me,

and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone: 42:34

And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are

no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your

brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.

 

42:35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold,

every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and

their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

 

42:36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my

children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin

away: all these things are against me.

 

42:37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I

bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him

to thee again.

 

42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother

is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in

the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to

the grave.

 

43:1 And the famine was sore in the land.

 

43:2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they

had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy

us a little food.

 

43:3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest

unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with

you.

 

43:4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy

thee food: 43:5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down:

for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your

brother be with you.

 

43:6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell

the man whether ye had yet a brother?  43:7 And they said, The man

asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your

father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according

to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would

say, Bring your brother down?  43:8 And Judah said unto Israel his

father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may

live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

 

43:9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I

bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the

blame for ever: 43:10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had

returned this second time.

 

43:11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do

this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry

down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and

myrrh, nuts, and almonds: 43:12 And take double money in your hand;

and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry

it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight: 43:13 Take

also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: 43:14 And God

Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your

other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am

bereaved.

 

43:15 And the men took that present, and they took double money in

their hand and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and

stood before Joseph.

 

43:16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of

his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these

men shall dine with me at noon.

 

43:17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into

Joseph's house.

 

43:18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's

house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our

sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion

against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.

 

43:19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they

communed with him at the door of the house, 43:20 And said, O sir, we

came indeed down at the first time to buy food: 43:21 And it came to

pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold,

every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full

weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

 

43:22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food:

we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.

 

43:23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of

your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money.

And he brought Simeon out unto them.

 

43:24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them

water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.

 

43:25 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for

they heard that they should eat bread there.

 

43:26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which

was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the

earth.

 

43:27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father

well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?  43:28 And they

answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive.

And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.

 

43:29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his

mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake

unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.

 

43:30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his

brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber,

and wept there.

 

43:31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and

said, Set on bread.

 

43:32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves,

and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because

the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an

abomination unto the Egyptians.

 

43:33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his

birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men

marvelled one at another.

 

43:34 And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but

Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of their's. And they

drank, and were merry with him.

 

44:1 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's

sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money

in his sack's mouth.

 

44:2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the

youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that

Joseph had spoken.

 

44:3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they

and their asses.

 

44:4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off,

Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou

dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for

good?  44:5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby

indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

 

44:6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.

 

44:7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God

forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing: 44:8

Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought

again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal

out of thy lord's house silver or gold?  44:9 With whomsoever of thy

servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's

bondmen.

 

44:10 And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he

with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.

 

44:11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground,

and opened every man his sack.

 

44:12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the

youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

 

44:13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and

returned to the city.

 

44:14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was

yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.

 

44:15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done?

wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?  44:16 And Judah

said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak?  or how

shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy

servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with

whom the cup is found.

 

44:17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in

whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you,

get you up in peace unto your father.

 

44:18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy

servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not

thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.

 

44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a

brother?  44:20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old

man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is

dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

 

44:21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that

I may set mine eyes upon him.

 

44:22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for

if he should leave his father, his father would die.

 

44:23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother

come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

 

44:24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father,

we told him the words of my lord.

 

44:25 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

 

44:26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with

us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except

our youngest brother be with us.

 

44:27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife

bare me two sons: 44:28 And the one went out from me, and I said,

Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since: 44:29 And if ye

take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down

my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

 

44:30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad

be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

44:31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with

us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs

of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

 

44:32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father,

saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to

my father for ever.

 

44:33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the

lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

 

44:34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me?

lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

 

45:1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood

by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there

stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his

brethren.

 

45:2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh

heard.

 

45:3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father

yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were

troubled at his presence.

 

45:4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you.

And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye

sold into Egypt.

 

45:5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye

sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

 

45:6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet

there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor

harvest.

 

45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the

earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

 

45:8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath

made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler

throughout all the land of Egypt.

 

45:9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith

thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me,

tarry not: 45:10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou

shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's

children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: 45:11

And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine;

lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

 

45:12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin,

that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.

 

45:13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all

that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.

 

45:14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and

Benjamin wept upon his neck.

 

45:15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and

after that his brethren talked with him.

 

45:16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying,

Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his

servants.

 

45:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye;

lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; 45:18 And

take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will

give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of

the land.

 

45:19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the

land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your

father, and come.

 

45:20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of

Egypt is your's.

 

45:21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons,

according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for

the way.

 

45:22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to

Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of

raiment.

 

45:23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden

with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and

bread and meat for his father by the way.

 

45:24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said

unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

 

45:25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan

unto Jacob their father, 45:26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet

alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's

heart fainted, for he believed them not.

 

45:27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said

unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry

him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: 45:28 And Israel said,

It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before

I die.

 

46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to

Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

 

46:2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said,

Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

 

46:3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down

into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: 46:4 I will

go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up

again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

 

46:5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried

Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the

wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

 

46:6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had

gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his

seed with him: 46:7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his

daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with

him into Egypt.

 

46:8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came

into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

 

46:9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and

Carmi.

 

46:10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin,

and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.

 

46:11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

 

46:12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and

Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of

Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.

 

46:13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and

Shimron.

 

46:14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

 

46:15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in

Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his

daughters were thirty and three.

 

46:16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri,

and Arodi, and Areli.

 

46:17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah,

and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

 

46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his

daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

 

46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

 

46:20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and

Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare

unto him.

 

46:21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel,

Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

 

46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the

souls were fourteen.

 

46:23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.

 

46:24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and

Shillem.

 

46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his

daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.

 

46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of

his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore

and six; 46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt,

were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into

Egypt, were threescore and ten.

 

46:28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face

unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

 

46:29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel

his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on

his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

 

46:30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen

thy face, because thou art yet alive.

 

46:31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house,

I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my

father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

46:32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed

cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all

that they have.

 

46:33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and

shall say, What is your occupation?  46:34 That ye shall say, Thy

servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now,

both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of

Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

 

47:1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my

brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have,

are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land

of Goshen.

 

47:2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented

them unto Pharaoh.

 

47:3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And

they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also

our fathers.

 

47:4 They said morever unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we

come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the

famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let

thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

 

47:5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy

brethren are come unto thee: 47:6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in

the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the

land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity

among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

 

47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before

Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

 

47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?  47:9 And Jacob

said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an

hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of

my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the

life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

 

47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

 

47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a

possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land

of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

 

47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his

father's household, with bread, according to their families.

 

47:13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very

sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by

reason of the famine.

 

47:14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land

of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought:

and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

 

47:15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of

Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread:

for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.

 

47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your

cattle, if money fail.

 

47:17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them

bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle

of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all

their cattle for that year.

 

47:18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year,

and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our

money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not

ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

47:19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land?

buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants

unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that

the land be not desolate.

 

47:20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the

Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over

them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

 

47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of

the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

 

47:22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had

a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which

Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.

 

47:23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this

day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall

sow the land.

 

47:24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give

the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for

seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households,

and for food for your little ones.

 

47:25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in

the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

 

47:26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day,

that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, except the land of the

priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.

 

47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen;

and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied

exceedingly.

 

47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the

whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

 

47:29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his

son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight,

put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly

with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: 47:30 But I will lie with

my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their

buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

 

47:31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel

bowed himself upon the bed's head.

 

48:1 And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph,

Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons,

Manasseh and Ephraim.

 

48:2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto

thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

 

48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz

in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 48:4 And said unto me, Behold,

I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee

a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee

for an everlasting possession.

 

48:5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto

thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are

mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

 

48:6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine,

and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their

inheritance.

 

48:7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the

land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come

unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same

is Bethlehem.

 

48:8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?  48:9

And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given

me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I

will bless them.

 

48:10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not

see.

 

And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced

them.

 

48:11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face:

and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.

 

48:12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed

himself with his face to the earth.

 

48:13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward

Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's

right hand, and brought them near unto him.

 

48:14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon

Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's

head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.

 

48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers

Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto

this day, 48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the

lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers

Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of

the earth.

 

48:17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the

head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand,

to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

 

48:18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is

the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

 

48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it:

he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly

his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall

become a multitude of nations.

 

48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel

bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set

Ephraim before Manasseh.

 

48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be

with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

 

48:22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren,

which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my

bow.

 

49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves

together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last

days.

 

49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and

hearken unto Israel your father.

 

49:3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my

strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 49:4

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to

thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

 

49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their

habitations.

 

49:6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly,

mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man,

and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

 

49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it

was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

 

49:8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall

be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down

before thee.

 

49:9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up:

he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall

rouse him up?  49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a

lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall

the gathering of the people be.

 

49:11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the

choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the

blood of grapes: 49:12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth

white with milk.

 

49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for

an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

 

49:14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

49:15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was

pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto

tribute.

 

49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

 

49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that

biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

 

49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

 

49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the

last.

 

49:20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal

dainties.

 

49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

 

49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well;

whose branches run over the wall: 49:23 The archers have sorely

grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 49:24 But his bow abode

in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands

of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of

Israel:) 49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and

by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above,

blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and

of the womb: 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above

the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the

everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the

crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

 

49:27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour

the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

 

49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that

their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to

his blessing he blessed them.

 

49:29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered

unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the

field of Ephron the Hittite, 49:30 In the cave that is in the field of

Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham

bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a

buryingplace.

 

49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried

Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

 

49:32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was

from the children of Heth.

 

49:33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he

gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was

gathered unto his people.

 

50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and

kissed him.

 

50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his

father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

 

50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the

days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him

threescore and ten days.

 

50:4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto

the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes,

speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 50:5 My father made

me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in

the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go

up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

 

50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he

made thee swear.

 

50:7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all

the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders

of the land of Egypt, 50:8 And all the house of Joseph, and his

brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their

flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

 

50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was

a very great company.

 

50:10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond

Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation:

and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

 

50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the

mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning

to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim,

which is beyond Jordan.

 

50:12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: 50:13

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in

the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the

field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before

Mamre.

 

50:14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all

that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his

father.

 

50:15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they

said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us

all the evil which we did unto him.

 

50:16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did

command before he died, saying, 50:17 So shall ye say unto Joseph,

Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin;

for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the

trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept

when they spake unto him.

 

50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and

they said, Behold, we be thy servants.

 

50:19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of

God?  50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant

it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people

alive.

 

50:21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little

ones.

 

And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

 

50:22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and

Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

 

50:23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the

children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon

Joseph's knees.

 

50:24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely

visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware

to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

 

50:25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God

will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

 

50:26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they

embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

 

 

 

 

The Second Book of Moses:  Called Exodus

 

 

1:1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came

into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

 

1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and

Benjamin, 1:4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

 

1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy

souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

 

1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

 

1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased

abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land

was filled with them.

 

1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

 

1:9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of

Israel are more and mightier than we: 1:10 Come on, let us deal wisely

with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there

falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight

against us, and so get them up out of the land.

 

1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with

their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and

Raamses.

 

1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and

grew.

 

And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

 

1:13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with

rigour: 1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in

morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all

their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

 

1:15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the

name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 1:16 And

he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and

see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but

if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

 

1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt

commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

 

1:18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto

them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children

alive?  1:19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew

women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are

delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

 

1:20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people

multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

 

1:21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he

made them houses.

 

1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is

born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save

alive.

 

2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a

daughter of Levi.

 

2:2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that

he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

 

2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of

bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child

therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

 

2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

 

2:5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the

river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she

saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

 

2:6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the

babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the

Hebrews' children.

 

2:7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to

thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for

thee?  2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went

and called the child's mother.

 

2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and

nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the women took

the child, and nursed it.

 

2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter,

and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said,

Because I drew him out of the water.

 

2:11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he

went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied

an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

 

2:12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there

was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

 

2:13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the

Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong,

Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?  2:14 And he said, Who made thee a

prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou

killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing

is known.

 

2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But

Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian:

and he sat down by a well.

 

2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and

drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

 

2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up

and helped them, and watered their flock.

 

2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that

ye are come so soon to day?  2:19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered

us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for

us, and watered the flock.

 

2:20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that

ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.

 

2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses

Zipporah his daughter.

 

2:22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he

said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

 

2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt

died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and

they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

 

2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant

with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

 

2:25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect

unto them.

 

3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest

of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and

came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

 

3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out

of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned

with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

 

3:3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight,

why the bush is not burnt.

 

3:4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto

him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said,

Here am I.

 

3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy

feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

 

3:6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham,

the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he

was afraid to look upon God.

 

3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people

which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their

taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 3:8 And I am come down to

deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up

out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing

with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the

Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and

the Jebusites.

 

3:9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come

unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians

oppress them.

 

3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou

mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

 

3:11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh,

and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

3:12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a

token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth

the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

 

3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of

Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me

unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say

unto them?  3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said,

Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me

unto you.

 

3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the

children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,

the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is

my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

 

3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them,

The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of

Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen

that which is done to you in Egypt: 3:17 And I have said, I will bring

you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites,

and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the

Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

 

3:18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou

and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say

unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us

go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we

may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

 

3:19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not

by a mighty hand.

 

3:20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my

wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will

let you go.

 

3:21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians:

and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty.

 

3:22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that

sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and

raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your

daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.

 

4:1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe

me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not

appeared unto thee.

 

4:2 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he

said, A rod.

 

4:3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground,

and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.

 

4:4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by

the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a

rod in his hand: 4:5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their

fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,

hath appeared unto thee.

 

4:6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into

thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it

out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

 

4:7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his

hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and,

behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.

 

4:8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither

hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the

voice of the latter sign.

 

4:9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two

signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the

water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which

thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.

 

4:10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent,

neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I

am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

 

4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who

maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the

LORD?  4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach

thee what thou shalt say.

 

4:13 And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him

whom thou wilt send.

 

4:14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said,

Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well.

And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth

thee, he will be glad in his heart.

 

4:15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I

will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye

shall do.

 

4:16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be,

even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him

instead of God.

 

4:17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt

do signs.

 

4:18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said

unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which

are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to

Moses, Go in peace.

 

4:19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt:

for all the men are dead which sought thy life.

 

4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass,

and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in

his hand.

 

4:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into

Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have

put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let

the people go.

 

4:22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is

my son, even my firstborn: 4:23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go,

that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will

slay thy son, even thy firstborn.

 

4:24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him,

and sought to kill him.

 

4:25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her

son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art

thou to me.

 

4:26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art,

because of the circumcision.

 

4:27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.

And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

 

4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him,

and all the signs which he had commanded him.

 

4:29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of

the children of Israel: 4:30 And Aaron spake all the words which the

LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the

people.

 

4:31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had

visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their

affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

 

5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus

saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a

feast unto me in the wilderness.

 

5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to

let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

 

5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go,

we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto

the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the

sword.

 

5:4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and

Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.

 

5:5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and

ye make them rest from their burdens.

 

5:6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people,

and their officers, saying, 5:7 Ye shall no more give the people straw

to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for

themselves.

 

5:8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye

shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be

idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

 

5:9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour

therein; and let them not regard vain words.

 

5:10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers,

and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not

give you straw.

 

5:11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your

work shall be diminished.

 

5:12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of

Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

 

5:13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your

daily tasks, as when there was straw.

 

5:14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's

taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore

have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to

day, as heretofore?  5:15 Then the officers of the children of Israel

came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with

thy servants?  5:16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and

they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but

the fault is in thine own people.

 

5:17 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us

go and do sacrifice to the LORD.

 

5:18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given

you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.

 

5:19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were

in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your

bricks of your daily task.

 

5:20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came

forth from Pharaoh: 5:21 And they said unto them, The LORD look upon

you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the

eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in

their hand to slay us.

 

5:22 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, LORD, wherefore hast

thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

5:23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done

evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.

 

6:1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do

to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a

strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.

 

6:2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: 6:3

And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name

of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

 

6:4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them

the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were

strangers.

 

6:5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom

the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

 

6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I

will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will

rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched

out arm, and with great judgments: 6:7 And I will take you to me for a

people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the

LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the

Egyptians.

 

6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did

swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give

it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.

 

6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened

not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

 

6:10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6:11 Go in, speak unto

Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of

his land.

 

6:12 And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of

Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who

am of uncircumcised lips?  6:13 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto

Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto

Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land

of Egypt.

 

6:14 These be the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben

the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these

be the families of Reuben.

 

6:15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin,

and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the

families of Simeon.

 

6:16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their

generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the

life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.

 

6:17 The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their

families.

 

6:18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel:

and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three

years.

 

6:19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families

of Levi according to their generations.

 

6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she

bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an

hundred and thirty and seven years.

 

6:21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.

 

6:22 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.

 

6:23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of

Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and

Ithamar.

 

6:24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these

are the families of the Korhites.

 

6:25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel

to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers

of the Levites according to their families.

 

6:26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out

the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their

armies.

 

6:27 These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out

the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.

 

6:28 And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spake unto Moses in

the land of Egypt, 6:29 That the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I am

the LORD: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto

thee.

 

6:30 And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised

lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?  7:1 And the LORD said

unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy

brother shall be thy prophet.

 

7:2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother

shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of

his land.

 

7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my

wonders in the land of Egypt.

 

7:4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand

upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of

Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

 

7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch

forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from

among them.

 

7:6 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they.

 

7:7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three

years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.

 

7:8 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 7:9 When

Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then

thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh,

and it shall become a serpent.

 

7:10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the

LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and

before his servants, and it became a serpent.

 

7:11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the

magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their

enchantments.

 

7:12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents:

but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

 

7:13 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them;

as the LORD had said.

 

7:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he

refuseth to let the people go.

 

7:15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the

water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and

the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.

 

7:16 And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath

sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in

the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.

 

7:17 Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD:

behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters

which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

 

7:18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall

stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the

river.

 

7:19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and

stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams,

upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of

water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood

throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in

vessels of stone.

 

7:20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted

up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight

of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that

were in the river were turned to blood.

 

7:21 And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and

the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was

blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

 

7:22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and

Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the

LORD had said.

 

7:23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set

his heart to this also.

 

7:24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to

drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

 

7:25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten

the river.

 

8:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him,

Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

 

8:2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy

borders with frogs: 8:3 And the river shall bring forth frogs

abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy

bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and

upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:

8:4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and

upon all thy servants.

 

8:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine

hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the

ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.

 

8:6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the

frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

 

8:7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up

frogs upon the land of Egypt.

 

8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the

LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and

I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.

 

8:9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat

for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the

frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river

only?  8:10 And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to

thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD

our God.

 

8:11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and

from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river

only.

 

8:12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto

the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.

 

8:13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs

died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.

 

8:14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

 

8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his

heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

 

8:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy

rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice

throughout all the land of Egypt.

 

8:17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod,

and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in

beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of

Egypt.

 

8:18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth

lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.

 

8:19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God:

and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as

the LORD had said.

 

8:20 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and

stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto

him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

 

8:21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send

swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people,

and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of

swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.

 

8:22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my

people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou

mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.

 

8:23 And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to

morrow shall this sign be.

 

8:24 And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies

into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all

the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of

flies.

 

8:25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye,

sacrifice to your God in the land.

 

8:26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice

the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we

sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will

they not stone us?  8:27 We will go three days' journey into the

wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.

 

8:28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the

LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away:

intreat for me.

 

8:29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat

the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his

servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal

deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the

LORD.

 

8:30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.

 

8:31 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed

the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his

people; there remained not one.

 

8:32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would

he let the people go.

 

9:1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him,

Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they

may serve me.

 

9:2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, 9:3

Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field,

upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and

upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

 

9:4 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the

cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the

children's of Israel.

 

9:5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD

shall do this thing in the land.

 

9:6 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of

Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

 

9:7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of

the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did

not let the people go.

 

9:8 And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls

of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven

in the sight of Pharaoh.

 

9:9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall

be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast,

throughout all the land of Egypt.

 

9:10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and

Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking

forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.

 

9:11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the

boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the

Egyptians.

 

9:12 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not

unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.

 

9:13 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and

stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the

Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

 

9:14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and

upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that

there is none like me in all the earth.

 

9:15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy

people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

 

9:16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to

shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all

the earth.

 

9:17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt

not let them go?  9:18 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause

it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since

the foundation thereof even until now.

 

9:19 Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast

in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the

field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon

them, and they shall die.

 

9:20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh

made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: 9:21 And he

that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his

cattle in the field.

 

9:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward

heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and

upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of

Egypt.

 

9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD

sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the

LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

 

9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous,

such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it

became a nation.

 

9:25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was

in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the

field, and brake every tree of the field.

 

9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were,

was there no hail.

 

9:27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto

them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my

people are wicked.

 

9:28 Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty

thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no

longer.

 

9:29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I

will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall

cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how

that the earth is the LORD's.

 

9:30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet

fear the LORD God.

 

9:31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in

the ear, and the flax was bolled.

 

9:32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not

grown up.

 

9:33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad

his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the

rain was not poured upon the earth.

 

9:34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders

were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his

servants.

 

9:35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the

children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.

 

10:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have

hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew

these my signs before him: 10:2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears

of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt,

and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I

am the LORD.

 

10:3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus

saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble

thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

 

10:4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will

I bring the locusts into thy coast: 10:5 And they shall cover the face

of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall

eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you

from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of

the field: 10:6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all

thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy

fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they

were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out

from Pharaoh.

 

10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be

a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their

God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?  10:8 And Moses and

Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go,

serve the LORD your God: but who are they that shall go?  10:9 And

Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons

and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go;

for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.

 

10:10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will

let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.

 

10:11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye

did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

 

10:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the

land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of

Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath

left.

 

10:13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and

the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that

night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

 

10:14 And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in

all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there

were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

 

10:15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land

was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the

fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any

green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all

the land of Egypt.

 

10:16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I

have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.

 

10:17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and

intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death

only.

 

10:18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.

 

10:19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away

the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one

locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

 

10:20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let

the children of Israel go.

 

10:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward

heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even

darkness which may be felt.

 

10:22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was

a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: 10:23 They saw

not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but

all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

 

10:24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the LORD;

only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones

also go with you.

 

10:25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt

offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.

 

10:26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be

left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and

we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.

 

10:27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them

go.

 

10:28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to

thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face thou

shalt die.

 

10:29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again

no more.

 

11:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more

upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence:

when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence

altogether.

 

11:2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of

his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver and

jewels of gold.

 

11:3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the

Egyptians.

 

Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the

sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

 

11:4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out

into the midst of Egypt: 11:5 And all the firstborn in the land of

Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his

throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the

mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

 

11:6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt,

such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.

 

11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move

his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD

doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

 

11:8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down

themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that

follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from

Pharaoh in a great anger.

 

11:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you;

that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

 

11:10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and

the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the

children of Israel go out of his land.

 

12:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt

saying, 12:2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it

shall be the first month of the year to you.

 

12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the

tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb,

according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 12:4 And

if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour

next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls;

every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

 

12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye

shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 12:6 And ye shall

keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole

assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

 

12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side

posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat

it.

 

12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and

unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

 

12:9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with

fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

 

12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and

that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

 

12:11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on

your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste:

it is the LORD's passover.

 

12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will

smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and

against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

 

12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where

ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague

shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

 

12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep

it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a

feast by an ordinance for ever.

 

12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye

shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth

leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul

shall be cut off from Israel.

 

12:16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in

the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner

of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat,

that only may be done of you.

 

12:17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this

selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt:

therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an

ordinance for ever.

 

12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even,

ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the

month at even.

 

12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for

whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut

off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born

in the land.

 

12:20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye

eat unleavened bread.

 

12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto

them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and

kill the passover.

 

12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood

that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts

with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at

the door of his house until the morning.

 

12:23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when

he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the

LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to

come in unto your houses to smite you.

 

12:24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to

thy sons for ever.

 

12:25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the

LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep

this service.

 

12:26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto

you, What mean ye by this service?  12:27 That ye shall say, It is the

sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the

children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and

delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

 

12:28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had

commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

 

12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the

firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat

on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the

dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

 

12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and

all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was

not a house where there was not one dead.

 

12:31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up,

and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of

Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.

 

12:32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be

gone; and bless me also.

 

12:33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might

send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.

 

12:34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their

kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

 

12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses;

and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of

gold, and raiment: 12:36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the

sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as

they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.

 

12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth,

about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

 

12:38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and

herds, even very much cattle.

 

12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought

forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust

out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for

themselves any victual.

 

12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in

Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

 

12:41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty

years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of

the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

 

12:42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing

them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be

observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

 

12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of

the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: 12:44 But every

man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised

him, then shall he eat thereof.

 

12:45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

 

12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought

of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone

thereof.

 

12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

 

12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the

passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let

him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the

land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

 

12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger

that sojourneth among you.

 

12:50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses

and Aaron, so did they.

 

12:51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring

the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

 

13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 13:2 Sanctify unto me all

the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of

Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

 

13:3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye

came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of

hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened

bread be eaten.

 

13:4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.

 

13:5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of

the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites,

and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a

land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in

this month.

 

13:6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh

day shall be a feast to the LORD.

 

13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no

leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen

with thee in all thy quarters.

 

13:8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done

because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of

Egypt.

 

13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a

memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth:

for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.

 

13:10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year

to year.

 

13:11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of

the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall

give it thee, 13:12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that

openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which

thou hast; the males shall be the LORD's.

 

13:13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and

if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all

the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.

 

13:14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come,

saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of

hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:

13:15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that

the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the

firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to

the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the

firstborn of my children I redeem.

 

13:16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets

between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth

out of Egypt.

 

13:17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that

God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines,

although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people

repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 13:18 But God led

the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea:

and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

 

13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly

sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and

ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.

 

13:20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham,

in the edge of the wilderness.

 

13:21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to

lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them

light; to go by day and night: 13:22 He took not away the pillar of

the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the

people.

 

14:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 14:2 Speak unto the

children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth,

between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall

ye encamp by the sea.

 

14:3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are

entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

 

14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after

them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that

the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.

 

14:5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the

heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people,

and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from

serving us?  14:6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people

with him: 14:7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the

chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.

 

14:8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he

pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went

out with an high hand.

 

14:9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots

of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them

encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.

 

14:10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up

their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they

were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.

 

14:11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt,

hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou

dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?  14:12 Is not this

the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we

may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the

Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

 

14:13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and

see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for

the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no

more for ever.

 

14:14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

 

14:15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me?

speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: 14:16 But

lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and

divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through

the midst of the sea.

 

14:17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and

they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and

upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

 

14:18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have

gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his

horsemen.

 

14:19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel,

removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from

before their face, and stood behind them: 14:20 And it came between

the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud

and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the

one came not near the other all the night.

 

14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD

caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and

made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

 

14:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon

the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right

hand, and on their left.

 

14:23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst

of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

 

14:24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked

unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the

cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, 14:25 And took off

their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the

Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD

fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

 

14:26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the

sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their

chariots, and upon their horsemen.

 

14:27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea

returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians

fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of

the sea.

 

14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the

horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after

them; there remained not so much as one of them.

 

14:29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of

the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and

on their left.

 

14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the

Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.

 

14:31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the

Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and

his servant Moses.

 

15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the

LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath

triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the

sea.

 

15:2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation:

he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God,

and I will exalt him.

 

15:3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.

 

15:4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his

chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.

 

15:5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a

stone.

 

15:6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right

hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

 

15:7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown

them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which

consumed them as stubble.

 

15:8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered

together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were

congealed in the heart of the sea.

 

15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the

spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my

hand shall destroy them.

 

15:10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank

as lead in the mighty waters.

 

15:11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee,

glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?  15:12 Thou

stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.

 

15:13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast

redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy

habitation.

 

15:14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on

the inhabitants of Palestina.

 

15:15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab,

trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan

shall melt away.

 

15:16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine

arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O

LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.

 

15:17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of

thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee

to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have

established.

 

15:18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.

 

15:19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his

horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the

sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the

midst of the sea.

 

15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel

in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and

with dances.

 

15:21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath

triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the

sea.

 

15:22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into

the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness,

and found no water.

 

15:23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters

of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called

Marah.

 

15:24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we

drink?  15:25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a

tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made

sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he

proved them, 15:26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the

voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his

sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his

statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have

brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

 

15:27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and

threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

 

16:1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation

of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is

between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after

their departing out of the land of Egypt.

 

16:2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured

against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: 16:3 And the children of

Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the

LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we

did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this

wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

 

16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from

heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate

every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or

no.

 

16:5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall

prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as

they gather daily.

 

16:6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At

even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the

land of Egypt: 16:7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of

the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and

what are we, that ye murmur against us?  16:8 And Moses said, This

shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat,

and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your

murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your

murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.

 

16:9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the

children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your

murmurings.

 

16:10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation

of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness,

and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.

 

16:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 16:12 I have heard the

murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even

ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread;

and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.

 

16:13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and

covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.

 

16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of

the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar

frost on the ground.

 

16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to

another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said

unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

 

16:16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it

every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to

the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in

his tents.

 

16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some

less.

 

16:18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much

had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they

gathered every man according to his eating.

 

16:19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.

 

16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them

left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses

was wroth with them.

 

16:21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his

eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.

 

16:22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice

as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the

congregation came and told Moses.

 

16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To

morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which

ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which

remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

 

16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did

not stink, neither was there any worm therein.

 

16:25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto

the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.

 

16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is

the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

 

16:27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on

the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.

 

16:28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my

commandments and my laws?  16:29 See, for that the LORD hath given you

the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two

days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place

on the seventh day.

 

16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

 

16:31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it

was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers

made with honey.

 

16:32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth,

Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see

the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought

you forth from the land of Egypt.

 

16:33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of

manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your

generations.

 

16:34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the

Testimony, to be kept.

 

16:35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they

came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the

borders of the land of Canaan.

 

16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

 

17:1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from

the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the

commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no

water for the people to drink.

 

17:2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us

water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with

me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?  17:3 And the people thirsted

there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said,

Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill

us and our children and our cattle with thirst?  17:4 And Moses cried

unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be

almost ready to stone me.

 

17:5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take

with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest

the river, take in thine hand, and go.

 

17:6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb;

and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it,

that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders

of Israel.

 

17:7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because

of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the

LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?  17:8 Then came Amalek,

and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

 

17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight

with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the

rod of God in mine hand.

 

17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek:

and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

 

17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel

prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

 

17:12 But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it

under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands,

the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his

hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

 

17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of

the sword.

 

17:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a

book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put

out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

 

17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it

Jehovahnissi: 17:16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the

LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

 

18:1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of

all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that

the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; 18:2 Then Jethro, Moses'

father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

18:3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for

he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 18:4 And the name of

the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine

help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: 18:5 And Jethro,

Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into

the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God: 18:6 And he

said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy

wife, and her two sons with her.

 

18:7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance,

and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they

came into the tent.

 

18:8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto

Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail

that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

 

18:9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done

to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.

 

18:10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out

of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath

delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

 

18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the

thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.

 

18:12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and

sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to

eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.

 

18:13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the

people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the

evening.

 

18:14 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people,

he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest

thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto

even?  18:15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people

come unto me to enquire of God: 18:16 When they have a matter, they

come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them

know the statutes of God, and his laws.

 

18:17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou

doest is not good.

 

18:18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is

with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to

perform it thyself alone.

 

18:19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God

shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou

mayest bring the causes unto God: 18:20 And thou shalt teach them

ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must

walk, and the work that they must do.

 

18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such

as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over

them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of

fifties, and rulers of tens: 18:22 And let them judge the people at

all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring

unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be

easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.

 

18:23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou

shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their

place in peace.

 

18:24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did

all that he had said.

 

18:25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads

over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of

fifties, and rulers of tens.

 

18:26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they

brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

 

18:27 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into

his own land.

 

19:1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth

out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness

of Sinai.

 

19:2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert

of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped

before the mount.

 

19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of

the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and

tell the children of Israel; 19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the

Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto

myself.

 

19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my

covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all

people: for all the earth is mine: 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a

kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.

 

These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of

Israel.

 

19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid

before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.

 

19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD

hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people

unto the LORD.

 

19:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick

cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe

thee for ever.

 

And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.

 

19:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify

them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, 19:11 And

be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come

down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

 

19:12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying,

Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch

the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to

death: 19:13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be

stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not

live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

 

19:14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and

sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

 

19:15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day:

come not at your wives.

 

19:16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there

were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and

the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that

was in the camp trembled.

 

19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with

God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

 

19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD

descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke

of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

 

19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder

and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

 

19:20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the

mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses

went up.

 

19:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest

they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

 

19:22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify

themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.

 

19:23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount

Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and

sanctify it.

 

19:24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt

come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the

people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth

upon them.

 

19:25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.

 

20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, 20:2 I am the LORD thy

God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the

house of bondage.

 

20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

 

20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness

of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath,

or that is in the water under the earth.

 

20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I

the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the

fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them

that hate me; 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love

me, and keep my commandments.

 

20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the

LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

 

20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

 

20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 20:10 But the

seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not

do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor

thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy

gates: 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea,

and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the

LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

 

20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon

the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

 

20:13 Thou shalt not kill.

 

20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

 

20:15 Thou shalt not steal.

 

20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

 

20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet

thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his

ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

 

20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and

the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the

people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

 

20:19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear:

but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

 

20:20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to

prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin

not.

 

20:21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the

thick darkness where God was.

 

20:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the

children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from

heaven.

 

20:23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make

unto you gods of gold.

 

20:24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice

thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and

thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto

thee, and I will bless thee.

 

20:25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build

it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast

polluted it.

 

20:26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy

nakedness be not discovered thereon.

 

21:1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

 

21:2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in

the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

 

21:3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were

married, then his wife shall go out with him.

 

21:4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons

or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he

shall go out by himself.

 

21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife,

and my children; I will not go out free: 21:6 Then his master shall

bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or

unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an

aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

 

21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not

go out as the menservants do.

 

21:8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself,

then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation

he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

 

21:9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her

after the manner of daughters.

 

21:10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty

of marriage, shall he not diminish.

 

21:11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out

free without money.

 

21:12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to

death.

 

21:13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand;

then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

 

21:14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him

with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

 

21:15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely

put to death.

 

21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found

in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

 

21:17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be

put to death.

 

21:18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone,

or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: 21:19 If he

rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote

him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall

cause him to be thoroughly healed.

 

21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he

die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

 

21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be

punished: for he is his money.

 

21:22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit

depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely

punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he

shall pay as the judges determine.

 

21:23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

21:25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

 

21:26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his

maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

 

21:27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's

tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

 

21:28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall

be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of

the ox shall be quit.

 

21:29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and

it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but

that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his

owner also shall be put to death.

 

21:30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for

the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

 

21:31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according

to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

 

21:32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall

give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be

stoned.

 

21:33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and

not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; 21:34 The owner of the

pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the

dead beast shall be his.

 

21:35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall

sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also

they shall divide.

 

21:36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past,

and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and

the dead shall be his own.

 

22:1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it;

he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

 

22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die,

there shall no blood be shed for him.

 

22:3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him;

for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall

be sold for his theft.

 

22:4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be

ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

 

22:5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall

put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best

of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make

restitution.

 

22:6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of

corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he

that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

 

22:7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep,

and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let

him pay double.

 

22:8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be

brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his

neighbour's goods.

 

22:9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for

sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another

challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the

judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto

his neighbour.

 

22:10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a

sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away,

no man seeing it: 22:11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them

both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and

the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

 

22:12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the

owner thereof.

 

22:13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and

he shall not make good that which was torn.

 

22:14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or

die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it

good.

 

22:15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good:

if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

 

22:16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with

her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

 

22:17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay

money according to the dowry of virgins.

 

22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

 

22:19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

 

22:20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he

shall be utterly destroyed.

 

22:21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were

strangers in the land of Egypt.

 

22:22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

 

22:23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I

will surely hear their cry; 22:24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I

will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your

children fatherless.

 

22:25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee,

thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him

usury.

 

22:26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou

shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: 22:27 For that

is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he

sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will

hear; for I am gracious.

 

22:28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy

people.

 

22:29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and

of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

 

22:30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep:

seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give

it me.

 

22:31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh

that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

 

23:1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the

wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

 

23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou

speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: 23:3 Neither

shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

 

23:4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt

surely bring it back to him again.

 

23:5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his

burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with

him.

 

23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

 

23:7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous

slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

 

23:8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and

perverteth the words of the righteous.

 

23:9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of

a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

 

23:10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the

fruits thereof: 23:11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and

lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave

the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with

thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

 

23:12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou

shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy

handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

 

23:13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and

make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out

of thy mouth.

 

23:14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

 

23:15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat

unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time

appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and

none shall appear before me empty:) 23:16 And the feast of harvest,

the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and

the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou

hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

 

23:17 Three items in the year all thy males shall appear before the

LORD God.

 

23:18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened

bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

 

23:19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into

the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his

mother's milk.

 

23:20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way,

and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

 

23:21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will

not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

 

23:22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I

speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary

unto thine adversaries.

 

23:23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the

Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites,

the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.

 

23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do

after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite

break down their images.

 

23:25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy

bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of

thee.

 

23:26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy

land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

 

23:27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people

to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their

backs unto thee.

 

23:28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the

Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

 

23:29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the

land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against

thee.

 

23:30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee,

until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

 

23:31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of

the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will

deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt

drive them out before thee.

 

23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

 

23:33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin

against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare

unto thee.

 

24:1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron,

Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye

afar off.

 

24:2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come

nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.

 

24:3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and

all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and

said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.

 

24:4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in

the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars,

according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

 

24:5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered

burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

 

24:6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half

of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

 

24:7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of

the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and

be obedient.

 

24:8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and

said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with

you concerning all these words.

 

24:9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of

the elders of Israel: 24:10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there

was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as

it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

 

24:11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his

hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

 

24:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and

be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and

commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

 

24:13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up

into the mount of God.

 

24:14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come

again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man

have any matters to do, let him come unto them.

 

24:15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

 

24:16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud

covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of

the midst of the cloud.

 

24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire

on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

 

24:18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into

the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

 

25:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 25:2 Speak unto the

children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that

giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.

 

25:3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and

silver, and brass, 25:4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine

linen, and goats' hair, 25:5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers'

skins, and shittim wood, 25:6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing

oil, and for sweet incense, 25:7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in

the ephod, and in the breastplate.

 

25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

 

25:9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the

tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so

shall ye make it.

 

25:10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a

half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth

thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

 

25:11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without

shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round

about.

 

25:12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in

the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of

it, and two rings in the other side of it.

 

25:13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them

with gold.

 

25:14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the

ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

 

25:15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be

taken from it.

 

25:16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give

thee.

 

25:17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a

half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth

thereof.

 

25:18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt

thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.

 

25:19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the

other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the

two ends thereof.

 

25:20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high,

covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look

one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims

be.

 

25:21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the

ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

 

25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee

from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are

upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in

commandment unto the children of Israel.

 

25:23 Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall

be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit

and a half the height thereof.

 

25:24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a

crown of gold round about.

 

25:25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round

about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round

about.

 

25:26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings

in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.

 

25:27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the

staves to bear the table.

 

25:28 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them

with gold, that the table may be borne with them.

 

25:29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and

covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt

thou make them.

 

25:30 And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

 

25:31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work

shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls,

his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

 

25:32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three

branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of

the candlestick out of the other side: 25:33 Three bowls made like

unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls

made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in

the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

 

25:34 And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like unto

almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

 

25:35 And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a

knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of

the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the

candlestick.

 

25:36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it

shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

 

25:37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall

light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

 

25:38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of

pure gold.

 

25:39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these

vessels.

 

25:40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was

shewed thee in the mount.

 

26:1 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine

twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of

cunning work shalt thou make them.

 

26:2 The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and

the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains

shall have one measure.

 

26:3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and

other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

 

26:4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one

curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou

make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the

second.

 

26:5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops

shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of

the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.

 

26:6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains

together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

 

26:7 And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon

the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.

 

26:8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth

of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of

one measure.

 

26:9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six

curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the

forefront of the tabernacle.

 

26:10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain

that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the

curtain which coupleth the second.

 

26:11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches

into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

 

26:12 And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the

half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the

tabernacle.

 

26:13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of

that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it

shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that

side, to cover it.

 

26:14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed

red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.

 

26:15 And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood

standing up.

 

26:16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a

half shall be the breadth of one board.

 

26:17 Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against

another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

 

26:18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards

on the south side southward.

 

26:19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty

boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two

sockets under another board for his two tenons.

 

26:20 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side

there shall be twenty boards: 26:21 And their forty sockets of silver;

two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

 

26:22 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six

boards.

 

26:23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle

in the two sides.

 

26:24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be

coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be

for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

 

26:25 And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver,

sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under

another board.

 

26:26 And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of

the one side of the tabernacle, 26:27 And five bars for the boards of

the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the

side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.

 

26:28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from

end to end.

 

26:29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their

rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars

with gold.

 

26:30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion

thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.

 

26:31 And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and

fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:

26:32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood

overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four

sockets of silver.

 

26:33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou

mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and

the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most

holy.

 

26:34 And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony

in the most holy place.

 

26:35 And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the

candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle

toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.

 

26:36 And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of

blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with

needlework.

 

26:37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim

wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold:

and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.

 

27:1 And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long,

and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height

thereof shall be three cubits.

 

27:2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners

thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it

with brass.

 

27:3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his

shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the

vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

 

27:4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon

the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.

 

27:5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath,

that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

 

27:6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood,

and overlay them with brass.

 

27:7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall

be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.

 

27:8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in

the mount, so shall they make it.

 

27:9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south

side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined

linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: 27:10 And the twenty

pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks

of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

 

27:11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be

hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their

twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of

silver.

 

27:12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be

hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

 

27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be

fifty cubits.

 

27:14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits:

their pillars three, and their sockets three.

 

27:15 And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their

pillars three, and their sockets three.

 

27:16 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty

cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,

wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their

sockets four.

 

27:17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with

silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

 

27:18 The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the

breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined

linen, and their sockets of brass.

 

27:19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof,

and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of

brass.

 

27:20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring

thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn

always.

 

27:21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is

before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening

to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their

generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

 

28:1 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him,

from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the

priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar,

Aaron's sons.

 

28:2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory

and for beauty.

 

28:3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have

filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments

to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's

office.

 

28:4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate,

and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle:

and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons,

that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

 

28:5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and

fine linen.

 

28:6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of

scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

 

28:7 It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two

edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.

 

28:8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be

of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and

purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

 

28:9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names

of the children of Israel: 28:10 Six of their names on one stone, and

the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their

birth.

 

28:11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a

signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the

children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

 

28:12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the

ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron

shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a

memorial.

 

28:13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold; 28:14 And two chains of pure

gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten

the wreathen chains to the ouches.

 

28:15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning

work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of

blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt

thou make it.

 

28:16 Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length

thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.

 

28:17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of

stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle:

this shall be the first row.

 

28:18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a

diamond.

 

28:19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.

 

28:20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they

shall be set in gold in their inclosings.

 

28:21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of

Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a

signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve

tribes.

 

28:22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of

wreathen work of pure gold.

 

28:23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and

shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

 

28:24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two

rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.

 

28:25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt

fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the

ephod before it.

 

28:26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them

upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is

in the side of the ephod inward.

 

28:27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them

on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof,

over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of

the ephod.

 

28:28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto

the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the

curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed

from the ephod.

 

28:29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the

breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy

place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.

 

28:30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and

the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in

before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of

Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

 

28:31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

 

28:32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst

thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of

it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.

 

28:33 And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of

blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and

bells of gold between them round about: 28:34 A golden bell and a

pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe

round about.

 

28:35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be

heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when

he cometh out, that he die not.

 

28:36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it,

like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

 

28:37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the

mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.

 

28:38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the

iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow

in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead,

that they may be accepted before the LORD.

 

28:39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt

make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of

needlework.

 

28:40 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make

for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and

for beauty.

 

28:41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons

with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify

them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.

 

28:42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their

nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach: 28:43

And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in

unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto

the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity,

and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after

him.

 

29:1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow

them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young

bullock, and two rams without blemish, 29:2 And unleavened bread, and

cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed

with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

 

29:3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the

basket, with the bullock and the two rams.

 

29:4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the

tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.

 

29:5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat,

and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and

gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod: 29:6 And thou shalt put

the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.

 

29:7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his

head, and anoint him.

 

29:8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.

 

29:9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and

put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a

perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

 

29:10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the

tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their

hands upon the head of the bullock.

 

29:11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of

the tabernacle of the congregation.

 

29:12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon

the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside

the bottom of the altar.

 

29:13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and

the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat

that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.

 

29:14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt

thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.

 

29:15 Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put

their hands upon the head of the ram.

 

29:16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and

sprinkle it round about upon the altar.

 

29:17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of

him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.

 

29:18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt

offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire

unto the LORD.

 

29:19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall

put their hands upon the head of the ram.

 

29:20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it

upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right

ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the

great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar

round about.

 

29:21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of

the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments,

and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he

shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons'

garments with him.

 

29:22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the

fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the

two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder;

for it is a ram of consecration: 29:23 And one loaf of bread, and one

cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened

bread that is before the LORD: 29:24 And thou shalt put all in the

hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for

a wave offering before the LORD.

 

29:25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon

the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it

is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

 

29:26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's

consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it

shall be thy part.

 

29:27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the

shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved

up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron,

and of that which is for his sons: 29:28 And it shall be Aaron's and

his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is

an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children

of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave

offering unto the LORD.

 

29:29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to

be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.

 

29:30 And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven

days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to

minister in the holy place.

 

29:31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his

flesh in the holy place.

 

29:32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the

bread that is in the basket by the door of the tabernacle of the

congregation.

 

29:33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was

made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat

thereof, because they are holy.

 

29:34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread,

remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire:

it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

 

29:35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to

all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou

consecrate them.

 

29:36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for

atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an

atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.

 

29:37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and

sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth

the altar shall be holy.

 

29:38 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two

lambs of the first year day by day continually.

 

29:39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb

thou shalt offer at even: 29:40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of

flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the

fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.

 

29:41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do

thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according

to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by

fire unto the LORD.

 

29:42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your

generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before

the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.

 

29:43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the

tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.

 

29:44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the

altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me

in the priest's office.

 

29:45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their

God.

 

29:46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought

them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am

the LORD their God.

 

30:1 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim

wood shalt thou make it.

 

30:2 A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth

thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height

thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.

 

30:3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and

the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt

make unto it a crown of gold round about.

 

30:4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it,

by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make

it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.

 

30:5 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them

with gold.

 

30:6 And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the

testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I

will meet with thee.

 

30:7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he

dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.

 

30:8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense

upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your

generations.

 

30:9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice,

nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.

 

30:10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a

year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the

year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it

is most holy unto the LORD.

 

30:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 30:12 When thou takest

the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they

give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou

numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou

numberest them.

 

30:13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are

numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel

is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.

 

30:14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty

years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.

 

30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less

than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make

an atonement for your souls.

 

30:16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of

Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the

congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel

before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

 

30:17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 30:18 Thou shalt also

make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and

thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the

altar, and thou shalt put water therein.

 

30:19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet

thereat: 30:20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation,

they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near

to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:

30:21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die

not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to

his seed throughout their generations.

 

30:22 Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 30:23 Take thou also

unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of

sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and

of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, 30:24 And of cassia

five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil

olive an hin: 30:25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an

ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy

anointing oil.

 

30:26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation

therewith, and the ark of the testimony, 30:27 And the table and all

his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of

incense, 30:28 And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels,

and the laver and his foot.

 

30:29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy:

whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

 

30:30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them,

that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.

 

30:31 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This

shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.

 

30:32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make

any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it

shall be holy unto you.

 

30:33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of

it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

 

30:34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices,

stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure

frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight: 30:35 And thou

shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary,

tempered together, pure and holy: 30:36 And thou shalt beat some of it

very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of

the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you

most holy.

 

30:37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make

to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto

thee holy for the LORD.

 

30:38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall

even be cut off from his people.

 

31:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 31:2 See, I have called by

name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in

understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

31:4 To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in

brass, 31:5 And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of

timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

 

31:6 And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of

Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise

hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have

commanded thee; 31:7 The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark

of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the

furniture of the tabernacle, 31:8 And the table and his furniture, and

the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,

31:9 And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the

laver and his foot, 31:10 And the cloths of service, and the holy

garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to

minister in the priest's office, 31:11 And the anointing oil, and

sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have

commanded thee shall they do.

 

31:12 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 31:13 Speak thou also

unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep:

for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that

ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

 

31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you:

every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever

doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his

people.

 

31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of

rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day,

he shall surely be put to death.

 

31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to

observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual

covenant.

 

31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for

in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he

rested, and was refreshed.

 

31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing

with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone,

written with the finger of God.

 

32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of

the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and

said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for

this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we

wot not what is become of him.

 

32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which

are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters,

and bring them unto me.

 

32:3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in

their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

 

32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a

graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These

be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

 

32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron

made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.

 

32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt

offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat

and to drink, and rose up to play.

 

32:7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people,

which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted

themselves: 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I

commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped

it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O

Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

 

32:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and,

behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 32:10 Now therefore let me alone,

that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them:

and I will make of thee a great nation.

 

32:11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth

thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth

out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?

32:12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did

he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them

from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of

this evil against thy people.

 

32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou

swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your

seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of

will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

 

32:14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto

his people.

 

32:15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two

tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on

both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.

 

32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the

writing of God, graven upon the tables.

 

32:17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted,

he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

 

32:18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery,

neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the

noise of them that sing do I hear.

 

32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that

he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he

cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

 

32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the

fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made

the children of Israel drink of it.

 

32:21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that

thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?  32:22 And Aaron said, Let

not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they

are set on mischief.

 

32:23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us:

for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of

Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

 

32:24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it

off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came

out this calf.

 

32:25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had

made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) 32:26 Then

Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD's

side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered

themselves together unto him.

 

32:27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put

every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate

throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his

companion, and every man his neighbour.

 

32:28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and

there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

 

32:29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD,

even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow

upon you a blessing this day.

 

32:30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the

people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the

LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.

 

32:31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have

sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.

 

32:32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me,

I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

 

32:33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me,

him will I blot out of my book.

 

32:34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have

spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee:

nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.

 

32:35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf,

which Aaron made.

 

33:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and

the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto

the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying,

Unto thy seed will I give it: 33:2 And I will send an angel before

thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the

Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 33:3 Unto a

land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of

thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the

way.

 

33:4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and

no man did put on him his ornaments.

 

33:5 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of

Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of

thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy

ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.

 

33:6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments

by the mount Horeb.

 

33:7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp,

afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the

congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the

LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was

without the camp.

 

33:8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle,

that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and

looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.

 

33:9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the

cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and

the Lord talked with Moses.

 

33:10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle

door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent

door.

 

33:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh

unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant

Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the

tabernacle.

 

33:12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up

this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with

me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found

grace in my sight.

 

33:13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight,

shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in

thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

 

33:14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give

thee rest.

 

33:15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us

not up hence.

 

33:16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have

found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so

shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are

upon the face of the earth.

 

33:17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that

thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know

thee by name.

 

33:18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.

 

33:19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I

will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious

to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew

mercy.

 

33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man

see me, and live.

 

33:21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou

shalt stand upon a rock: 33:22 And it shall come to pass, while my

glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and

will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: 33:23 And I will take

away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall

not be seen.

 

34:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like

unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were

in the first tables, which thou brakest.

 

34:2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto

mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

 

34:3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen

throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before

that mount.

 

34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses

rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the

LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

 

34:5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there,

and proclaimed the name of the LORD.

 

34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The

LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in

goodness and truth, 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving

iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear

the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children,

and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth

generation.

 

34:8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and

worshipped.

 

34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let

my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and

pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

 

34:10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I

will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in

any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work

of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

 

34:11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive

out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and

the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

 

34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the

inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in

the midst of thee: 34:13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break

their images, and cut down their groves: 34:14 For thou shalt worship

no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

34:15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and

they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods,

and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; 34:16 And thou take

of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring

after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

 

34:17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

 

34:18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou

shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the

month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

 

34:19 All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among

thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.

 

34:20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and

if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the

firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before

me empty.

 

34:21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt

rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

 

34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of

wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

 

34:23 Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the

LORD God, the God of Israel.

 

34:24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy

borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up

to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.

 

34:25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven;

neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto

the morning.

 

34:26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto

the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his

mother's milk.

 

34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after

the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with

Israel.

 

34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he

did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables

the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

 

34:29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with

the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the

mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he

talked with him.

 

34:30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold,

the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

 

34:31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the

congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.

 

34:32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave

them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount

Sinai.

 

34:33 And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his

face.

 

34:34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he

took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto

the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

 

34:35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin

of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again,

until he went in to speak with him.

 

35:1 And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel

together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath

commanded, that ye should do them.

 

35:2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall

be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth

work therein shall be put to death.

 

35:3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the

sabbath day.

 

35:4 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of

Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,

35:5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of

a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and

silver, and brass, 35:6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine

linen, and goats' hair, 35:7 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers'

skins, and shittim wood, 35:8 And oil for the light, and spices for

anointing oil, and for the sweet incense, 35:9 And onyx stones, and

stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

 

35:10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that

the LORD hath commanded; 35:11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his

covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his

sockets, 35:12 The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat,

and the vail of the covering, 35:13 The table, and his staves, and all

his vessels, and the shewbread, 35:14 The candlestick also for the

light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,

35:15 And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil,

and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in

of the tabernacle, 35:16 The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen

grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot, 35:17

The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the

hanging for the door of the court, 35:18 The pins of the tabernacle,

and the pins of the court, and their cords, 35:19 The cloths of

service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron

the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's

office.

 

35:20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from

the presence of Moses.

 

35:21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every

one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD's offering

to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his

service, and for the holy garments.

 

35:22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing

hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets,

all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of

gold unto the LORD.

 

35:23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and

scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and

badgers' skins, brought them.

 

35:24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought

the LORD's offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood

for any work of the service, brought it.

 

35:25 And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their

hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of

purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.

 

35:26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun

goats' hair.

 

35:27 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for

the ephod, and for the breastplate; 35:28 And spice, and oil for the

light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

 

35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD,

every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all

manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of

Moses.

 

35:30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath

called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe

of Judah; 35:31 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in

wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of

workmanship; 35:32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and

in silver, and in brass, 35:33 And in the cutting of stones, to set

them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.

 

35:34 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and

Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

 

35:35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of

work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the

embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen,

and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that

devise cunning work.

 

36:1 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in

whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all

manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that

the LORD had commanded.

 

36:2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted

man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose

heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it: 36:3 And they

received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had

brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it

withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.

 

36:4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary,

came every man from his work which they made; 36:5 And they spake unto

Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service

of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.

 

36:6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed

throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more

work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained

from bringing.

 

36:7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make

it, and too much.

 

36:8 And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of

the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and

purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.

 

36:9 The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the

breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.

 

36:10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other

five curtains he coupled one unto another.

 

36:11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the

selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of

another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

 

36:12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in

the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the

loops held one curtain to another.

 

36:13 And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one

unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.

 

36:14 And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the

tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.

 

36:15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was

the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.

 

36:16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by

themselves.

 

36:17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain

in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain

which coupleth the second.

 

36:18 And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together,

that it might be one.

 

36:19 And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and

a covering of badgers' skins above that.

 

36:20 And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing

up.

 

36:21 The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board

one cubit and a half.

 

36:22 One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus

did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

 

36:23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the

south side southward: 36:24 And forty sockets of silver he made under

the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and

two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

 

36:25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the

north corner, he made twenty boards, 36:26 And their forty sockets of

silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another

board.

 

36:27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

 

36:28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the

two sides.

 

36:29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head

thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.

 

36:30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen

sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.

 

36:31 And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one

side of the tabernacle, 36:32 And five bars for the boards of the

other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the

tabernacle for the sides westward.

 

36:33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the

one end to the other.

 

36:34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of

gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

 

36:35 And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine

twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.

 

36:36 And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid

them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four

sockets of silver.

 

36:37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and

purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework; 36:38 And

the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their

chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of

brass.

 

37:1 And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half

was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a

cubit and a half the height of it: 37:2 And he overlaid it with pure

gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.

 

37:3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four

corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings

upon the other side of it.

 

37:4 And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

 

37:5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to

bear the ark.

 

37:6 And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half

was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

 

37:7 And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made

he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat; 37:8 One cherub on the end

on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of

the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

 

37:9 And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered

with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another;

even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.

 

37:10 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length

thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the

height thereof: 37:11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made

thereunto a crown of gold round about.

 

37:12 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about;

and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.

 

37:13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon

the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.

 

37:14 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the

staves to bear the table.

 

37:15 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with

gold, to bear the table.

 

37:16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes,

and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure

gold.

 

37:17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he

the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and

his flowers, were of the same: 37:18 And six branches going out of the

sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side

thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side

thereof: 37:19 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one

branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in

another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches

going out of the candlestick.

 

37:20 And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his

knops, and his flowers: 37:21 And a knop under two branches of the

same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two

branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.

 

37:22 Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was

one beaten work of pure gold.

 

37:23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his

snuffdishes, of pure gold.

 

37:24 Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels

thereof.

 

37:25 And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it

was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two

cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.

 

37:26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the

sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a

crown of gold round about.

 

37:27 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by

the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for

the staves to bear it withal.

 

37:28 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with

gold.

 

37:29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of

sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.

 

38:1 And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five

cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it

was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.

 

38:2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the

horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.

 

38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the

shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the

vessels thereof made he of brass.

 

38:4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the

compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.

 

38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass,

to be places for the staves.

 

38:6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with

brass.

 

38:7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar,

to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.

 

38:8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of

the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the

door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

 

38:9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings

of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits: 38:10 Their

pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the

pillars and their fillets were of silver.

 

38:11 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits,

their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the

hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

 

38:12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their

pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their

fillets of silver.

 

38:13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.

 

38:14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits;

their pillars three, and their sockets three.

 

38:15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that

hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their

sockets three.

 

38:16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined

linen.

 

38:17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the

pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their

chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted

with silver.

 

38:18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of

blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty

cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits,

answerable to the hangings of the court.

 

38:19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four;

their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their

fillets of silver.

 

38:20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round

about, were of brass.

 

38:21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of

testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses,

for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron

the priest.

 

38:22 And Bezaleel the son Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,

made all that the LORD commanded Moses.

 

38:23 And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan,

an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in

purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.

 

38:24 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of

the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine

talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the

sanctuary.

 

38:25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation

was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore

and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: 38:26 A bekah

for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the

sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years

old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five

hundred and fifty men.

 

38:27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of

the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the

hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

 

38:28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he

made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted

them.

 

38:29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two

thousand and four hundred shekels.

 

38:30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle

of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for

it, and all the vessels of the altar, 38:31 And the sockets of the

court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins

of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.

 

39:1 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of

service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments

for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.

 

39:2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and

fine twined linen.

 

39:3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into

wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet,

and in the fine linen, with cunning work.

 

39:4 They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the

two edges was it coupled together.

 

39:5 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the

same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and

scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.

 

39:6 And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven,

as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.

 

39:7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should

be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD

commanded Moses.

 

39:8 And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the

ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

 

39:9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was

the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.

 

39:10 And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a

sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.

 

39:11 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

 

39:12 And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.

 

39:13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were

inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.

 

39:14 And the stones were according to the names of the children of

Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a

signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.

 

39:15 And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of

wreathen work of pure gold.

 

39:16 And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put

the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.

 

39:17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on

the ends of the breastplate.

 

39:18 And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the

two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before

it.

 

39:19 And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of

the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the

ephod inward.

 

39:20 And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two

sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against

the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.

 

39:21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of

the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious

girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from

the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.

 

39:22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.

 

39:23 And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of

an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not

rend.

 

39:24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue,

and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.

 

39:25 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the

pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the

pomegranates; 39:26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a

pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the

LORD commanded Moses.

 

39:27 And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and

for his sons, 39:28 And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of

fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen, 39:29 And a

girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of

needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.

 

39:30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and

wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS

TO THE LORD.

 

39:31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon

the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.

 

39:32 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the

congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all

that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

 

39:33 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all

his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and

his sockets, 39:34 And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the

covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering, 39:35 The

ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,

39:36 The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread, 39:37

The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to

be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,

39:38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet

incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door, 39:39 The brasen

altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the

laver and his foot, 39:40 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and

his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his

pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the

tent of the congregation, 39:41 The cloths of service to do service in

the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his

sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office.

 

39:42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children

of Israel made all the work.

 

39:43 And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done

it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses

blessed them.

 

40:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 40:2 On the first day of

the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the

congregation.

 

40:3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover

the ark with the vail.

 

40:4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things

that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the

candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.

 

40:5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the

ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the

tabernacle.

 

40:6 And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the

door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

 

40:7 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation

and the altar, and shalt put water therein.

 

40:8 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the

hanging at the court gate.

 

40:9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle,

and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels

thereof: and it shall be holy.

 

40:10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all

his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most

holy.

 

40:11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.

 

40:12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the

tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.

 

40:13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him,

and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

 

40:14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats: 40:15

And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that

they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing

shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their

generations.

 

40:16 Thus did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded him, so

did he.

 

40:17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on

the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.

 

40:18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets,

and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared

up his pillars.

 

40:19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the

covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.

 

40:20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the

staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark: 40:21

And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the

covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded

Moses.

 

40:22 And he put the table