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 And the earth was waste and void. And darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God brooded on the face of the waters. 


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 And God called the light, Day. And He called the darkness, Night. And the evenings and the mornings were the first time. 


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 And God said, Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 


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


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


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


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 And God said, Let the earth sprout tender sprouts (the herb seeding seed and the fruit tree producing fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself) upon the earth; and it was so. 


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 And the earth sprouted tender sprouts, the herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree producing fruit after its kind, whose seed was in itself. And God saw that it was good. 


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 And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to divide between the day and the night. And let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years. 


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 And let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth. And it was so. 


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 And God brought forth two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars also. 


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 and to rule over the day and over the night; and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 


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 And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarmers having a living soul; and let birds fly over the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens. 


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 And God created great sea-animals, and every living soul that creeps with which the waters swarmed after their kind; and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good. 


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 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters of the seas and let the fowl multiply on the earth. 


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 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creepers, and its beasts of the earth after its kind; and it was so. 


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 And God made the beasts of the earth after its kind, and cattle after their kind, and all creepers upon the earth after their kind. And God saw that it was good. 


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 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 heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth. 


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 And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female. 


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 And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it. And have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heavens, and all animals that move upon the earth. 


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 And God said, Behold! I have given you every herb seeding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree seeding seed; to you it shall be for food. 


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 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeper on the earth which has in it a living soul every green plant is for food; and it was so. 


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 And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evenings and the mornings were the sixth time. 


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 And on the seventh time God ended His work which He had made. And He rested on the seventh time from all His work which He had made. 


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 And God blessed the seventh time and sanctified it, because in it He had rested from all His work which God created to make. 


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 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the time that Jehovah God made the earth and the heavens. 


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 And every shrub of the field was not yet on the land, and every plant of the field had not yet sprung up, for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the land, and there was no man to till the ground. 


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 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 


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 And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to sprout every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The tree of life also was in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 


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 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden. And from there was spread out and existed four headwaters. 


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 The name of the first is Pishon; that is it which surrounds all the land of Havilah, where there is gold. 


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 And the name of the third river is Tigris; it is that which goes toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. 


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 but you shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. For in the time that you eat of it you will be doomed die. 


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


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 And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every animal of the field and every fowl of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 


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 And Adam gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field. But there was not found a suitable helper for Adam. 


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 And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept. And He took one part from his side, and repaired the flesh underneath. 


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 And Jehovah God made the side part (which He had taken from the man) into a woman. And He brought her to the man. 


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 And Adam said, This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman because she was taken out of man. 


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 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh. 


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 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Is it so that God has said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 


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 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. 


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 for God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil. 


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 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise, she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 


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


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 And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God in the middle of the trees of the garden. 


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 And he said, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I am naked, and I hid myself. 


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 And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree which I commanded you that you should not eat? 


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 And Jehovah God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent charmed me, and I ate. 


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 And Jehovah God said to the serpent, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every animal of the field. You shall go upon your belly, and you shall eat dust all the time of your life. 


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 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel. 


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 To the woman He said, I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception. In pain you shall bear sons, and your desire shall be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you. 


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 And to Adam He said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it! The ground is cursed for your sake. In pain shall you eat of it all the time of your life. 


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 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return. 


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


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 therefore Jehovah God sent him out from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken. 


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 And He drove out the man. And He placed cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. 


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 And Adam knew Eve his wife. And she conceived and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from Jehovah. 


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 And she bore again, his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 


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 And in the end of days, it happened, Cain brought to Jehovah an offering of the fruit of the ground. 


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 And Abel also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat of it. And Jehovah had respect to Abel and to his offering, 


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 but He did not have respect to Cain and to his offering. And Cain glowed with anger, and his face fell. 


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 If you do well, shall you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door; and its desire is for you, and you shall rule over it. 


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 And Cain talked with his brother Abel. And it happened when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. 


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 And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper? 


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


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 When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. And you shall be a vagabond and a fugitive in the land. 


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 Behold! You have driven me out from the face of the land today, and I shall be hidden from Your face. And I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the land, and it shall be that anyone who finds me shall kill me. 


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 And Jehovah said to him, Therefore whoever kills Cain shall be avenged seven times. And Jehovah set a mark upon Cain so that anyone who found him should not kill him. 


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


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 And Irad was born to Enoch. And Irad fathered Mehujael. And Mehujael fathered Methusael. And Methusael fathered Lamech. 


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 And Lamech took two wives to himself. The name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah. 


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 And Zillah also bore Tubalcain, the hammerer of every engraving tool of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. 


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 And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have killed a man because of my wound, and a young man because of my hurt. 


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


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 And there was also a son born to Seth, and he called his name Enos. Then men began to call upon the name of Jehovah. 


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 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the time that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 


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 He created them male and female, and blessed them. And He called their name man in the day when they were created. 


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 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years [230* per the Septuagint] and fathered a son in his own likeness, after his own image. And he called his name Seth. 


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 And the time of Adam after he had fathered Seth were eight hundred [700] years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And after he fathered Enos, Seth lived eight hundred and seven [707] years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And after he fathered Cainan, Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen [715] years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And after he fathered Mahalaleel, Cainan lived eight hundred and forty [740] years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And after he fathered Jared, Mahalaleel lived eight hundred and thirty [730] years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And Enoch walked with God three hundred [200] years after he fathered Methuselah. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And after he fathered Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two [802] years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed. 


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 And after he fathered Noah, Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five [565] years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and when daughters were born to them, 


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 the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were good. And they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose. 


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 And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. 


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 There were giants in the land in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore to them, they were mighty men who existed of old, men of renown. 


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 And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the land, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 


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 And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created, from the face of the land, both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air. For I sigh that I have made them. 


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 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. 


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 And God looked upon the land. And, behold, it was corrupted! For all flesh had corrupted its way upon the land. 


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 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the land is filled with violence through them. And, behold, I will destroy them with the land. 


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 Make an ark of cyprus timbers. You shall make nests in the ark. And you shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch. 


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 And this is the way you shall make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it shall be fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits. 


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


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 And behold! I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters upon the land in order to destroy all flesh (in which is the breath of life) from under the heavens. Everything which is on the land shall die. 


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 But I will establish My covenant with you. And you shall come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. 


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 And you shall bring into the ark two of every kind, of every living thing of all flesh, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. 


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 Two of every kind shall come to you to keep them alive; of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the land after its kind. 


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 And take for yourself all food that is eaten, and you shall gather for yourself. And it shall be for food, for you and for them. 


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 And Jehovah said to Noah, You and all your house come into the ark, for I have seen you righteous before Me in this generation. 


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 You shall take with you every clean animal by sevens, the male and female. And take two of the animals that are not clean, the male and female. 


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 Also take of the fowls of the air by sevens, the male and the female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the land. 


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 For in seven more days I will cause it to rain upon the land forty days and forty nights. And I will destroy from off the face of the land every living thing that I have made. 


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


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 Of the clean animals, and of the animals that were not clean, and of the fowls, and of everything that creeps on the land, 


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 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day all the wells of the great deep were cleaved, and the windows of the heavens were opened up. 


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 In this same day, Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark. 


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 They went in, and every animal after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the land after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort. 


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


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 And the flood was upon the land forty days. And the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the land. 


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 And the waters prevailed and were increased greatly upon the land. And the ark floated upon the face of the waters. 


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 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the land. And all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. 


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 And all flesh that moved upon the face of the land died, of birds, of cattle, of animal, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the land; and every man, 


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 And every living thing which was on the face of the land was destroyed, from man to cattle, and to the creeping things, and the fowls of the heavens. And they were destroyed from the land, and only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark. 


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 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the land, and the waters subsided. 


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


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 And the waters returned from off the land continually. And after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down. 


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 And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the hills of Ararat. 


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 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. And the tops of the hills were seen in the tenth month on the first day of the month. 


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 And he sent forth a raven, and it went out, going out and returning until the waters were dried up from off the land. 


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 He also sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had gone down from off the face of the land.


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 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. And she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole land. Then he put out his hand and took her, and pulled her in to him into the ark. 


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 And the dove came in to him in the evening. And, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from off the land. 


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 And he waited yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove. And she did not return again to him any more. 


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 And it happened in the six hundred and first year, at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the land. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And, behold, the face of the land was dried! 


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 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, of fowl, of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the land, so that they may breed abundantly on the land, and be fruitful and multiply upon the land. 


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 Every animal, every fowl, and every creeping thing, all which creeps upon the land after their families, went forth out of the ark. 


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 And Noah built an altar to Jehovah. And he took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 


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 And Jehovah smelled a sweet odor. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. And I will not again smite every living thing as I have done. 


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


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 And God blessed Noah and his sons. And He said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the land. 


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 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon the animals of the land, and upon every bird of the air, upon all that moves on the land, and upon all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 


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 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herb. 


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 and surely the blood of your lives will I require. At the hand of every animal 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. 


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 and with every living creature that is with you, of the birds, of the cattle, and of every animal of the land with you; from all that go out from the ark, to every animal of the land. 


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 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 land. 


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 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature with you, for everlasting generations: 


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 And I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 


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 And the rainbow 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 land. 


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 And God said to Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the land. 


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 And the sons of Noah that went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan. 


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 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 


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 And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders. And they went backwards and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were backwards, and they did not see their father's nakedness. 


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 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem. And Canaan shall be their servant. 


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 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood. 


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 By these were the coasts of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. 


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 And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 


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 He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah. Therefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before Jehovah. 


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 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 


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 and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad. 


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 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon (as you come to Gerar) to Gaza, as you go in towards Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim, even to Lasha. 


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 These were the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. 


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 And to Shem were born, even him, the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder. 


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 And two sons were born to Eber. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the people was divided. And his brother's name was Joktan. 


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 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, and after their nations. 


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 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. And from these were the nations divided on the land after the flood. 


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 And it happened, as they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar. And they lived there. 


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 And they said to one another, Come, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 


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


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 And Jehovah said, Behold! The people is one and they all have one language. And this they begin to do. And now nothing which they have imagined to do will be restrained from them. 


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 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they cannot understand one another's speech. 


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 So Jehovah scattered them abroad from that place upon the face of all the land. And they quit building the city. 


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 Therefore the name of it is called Babel; because Jehovah confused the language of all the land there. And from there Jehovah scattered them abroad on the face of all the land. 


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 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. 


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 And after he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived five hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And after he fathered Salah, Arpachshad lived four hundred and three [400] years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And after he fathered Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three [330] years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And after he fathered Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty [270] years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And after he fathered Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And after he fathered Nahor, Serug lived two hundred [130] years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 And after he fathered Terah, Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen [125] years. And he fathered sons and daughters. 


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 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran fathered Lot. 


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 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai. And the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 


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 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 he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and lived there. 


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 And Jehovah said to Abram, Go out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house into a land that I will show you. 


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 And I will make you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing. 


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 And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses you. And in you shall all families of the land be blessed. 


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 And Abram departed, even as Jehovah had spoken to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 


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 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gained in Haran. And they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan. 


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 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, unto the Oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 


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


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 And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel. And he pitched his tent with Bethel toward the sea and Hai on the east. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah. 


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 And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to stay there, for the famine was grievous in the land. 


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 And it happened, when he had come near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon. 


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 And it will be when the Egyptians see you, they shall say, This is his wife. And they will kill me, but they will save you alive. 


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 I pray you, say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me for your sake. And my soul shall live because of you. 


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 And it happened when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 


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 The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her before Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 


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 And he treated Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and male servants, and maidservants, and she-asses, and camels. 


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


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 Why did you say, She is my sister? And so I was about to take her to me as wife. Now therefore behold your wife. Take her and go. 


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 And Pharaoh commanded men concerning him. And they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. 


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 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, (and Lot was with him) into the south. 


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


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


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 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might live together. For their substance was great, so that they could not live together. 


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


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 And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray you, between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are men, brothers. 


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 Is not the whole land before you? I pray you, separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right, then I will go to the left. 


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 And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the circuit of Jordan, that it was all well watered (before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,) like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt as you come to Zoar. 


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 And Lot chose all the circuit of Jordan for himself. And Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves from one another. 


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 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the circuit and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 


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


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 And I will make your seed as the dust of the land, so that if a man can count the dust of the land, then shall your seed also be counted. 


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 Rise up and walk through the land, in the length of it and in the breadth of it, for I will give it to you. 


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 And Abram moved his tent and came and lived in the oaks of Mamre, which is in Hebron. And he built an altar to Jehovah there. 


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 And it happened in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations, 


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 they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. 


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 And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and struck the giants in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, 


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 And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar. 


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 And the king of Sodom went out, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar). And they joined battle with them in the valley of Siddim; 


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 with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal the king of nations, and Amraphel the king of Shinar, and Arioch the king of Ellasar, four kings with five. 


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 And the valley of Siddim was full of asphalt pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain. 


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 And there came one who had escaped. And he told Abram the Hebrew, for he lived in the plains of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. And these had a covenant with Abram. 


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 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained servants, born in his own house (three hundred and eighteen) and pursued them to Dan. 


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 And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants. And he struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left of Damascus. 


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


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 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's valley. 


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 And Melchizedek the king of Salem brought forth bread and wine. And he was the priest of the most high God. 


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 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of Heaven and earth. 


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 And blessed be the most high God, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 


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 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, the most high God, the possessor of Heaven and earth, 


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 that I will take from all that is yours, not from a thread even to a shoestring, lest you say, I have made Abram rich. 


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 Nothing for me, only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion. 


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 After these things the Word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am your shield and your exceeding great reward. 


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 And Abram said, Lord God, what will You give me, since I am going childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 


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 And Abram said, Behold, You have given no seed to me. And behold, one born in my house is my heir. 


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 And behold, the Word of Jehovah came to him saying, This one shall not be your heir. But he that shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir. 


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 And He brought him outside and said, Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them. And He said to him, So shall your seed be. 


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 And He said to him, I am Jehovah that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it. 


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 And He said to him, Take Me a 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. 


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 And he took all these to himself, and divided them in the middle, and laid each piece against one another; but he did not divide the birds. 


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 And it happened as the sun was setting, and a deep sleep fell upon Abram. And, behold, a horror of great darkness fell upon him! 


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 And He said to Abram, You must surely know that your seed shall be a stranger in a land not theirs, and shall serve them. And they shall afflict them four hundred years. 


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


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 But in the fourth generation they shall come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 


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 And it happened, the sun went down, and it was dark and behold, a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp passed between those pieces. 


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 In the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 


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 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, did not bear. And she had a female slave, an Egyptian, and her name was Hagar. 


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 And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah has kept me from bearing. I pray you, go in to my slave woman. It may be that I may be built by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 


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 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her slave woman, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife (after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan). 


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


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 And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be upon you. I have given my slave woman into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and you. 


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 But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, your slave woman is in your hand. Do to her as it pleases you. And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face. 


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 And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 


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 And He said, Hagar, Sarai's slave, where did you come from? and where will you go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 


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 And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her hands. 


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 And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply your seed exceedingly, so that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 


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 And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah has heard your affliction. 


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 And he will be a wild man. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. And he shall live in the presence of all his brothers. 


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 And she called the name of Jehovah who had spoken to her, You are a God of vision! For she said, Even here have I looked after Him that sees me? 


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 Therefore the well was called The Well of the Living One Seeing Me. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 


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 And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God! Walk before Me and be perfect. 


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 Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham. For I have made you a father of many nations. 


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 And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, greatly so, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you. 


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 And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 


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


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 And God said to Abraham, And you shall keep My covenant, you and your seed after you in their generations. 


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 This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you. Every male child among you shall be circumcised. 


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 And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin. And it shall be a token of the covenant between Me and you. 


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 And a son of eight days shall be circumcised among you, every male child in your generations; he that is born in the house, or bought with silver of any stranger who is not of your seed. 


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 He that is born in your house, and he that is bought with your silver, must be circumcised. And My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 


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 And the uncircumcised male child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant. 


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 And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah. 


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 And I will bless her, and give you a son also of her. Yes, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations, kings of people shall be from her. 


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 And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear? 


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 And God said, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed. And you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. 


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


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


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 And Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his silver; every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins in the same day, even as God said to him. 


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 And all the men of his house, that were born in the house, and bought with silver of the stranger, were circumcised with him. 


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 And Jehovah appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he sat at the tent door in the heat of the day. 


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 And he lifted 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 toward the ground. 


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 And he said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in Your sight, do not pass away, I pray, from Your servant. 


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 And I will bring a bite of bread, and will comfort your hearts. After that You shall pass on. For this is why You have come to Your servant. And they said, Do so, as you have said. 


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 And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal; knead it, and make cakes. 


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 And Abraham ran out to the herd and brought a calf, tender and good. And he gave it to a young man. And he hurried to dress it. 


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 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 ate. 


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 And He said, I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and lo, Sarah your wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door which was behind Him. 


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 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, far gone in days, and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. 


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 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After my being old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? 


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 And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I, who am old, truly bear a child? 


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 Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the time appointed I will return again, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. 


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 Then Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And He said, No, but you did laugh. 


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 And the men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham was going with them to bring them on the way. 


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 And Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the persons of the earth shall be blessed in him? 


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 For I know him, that he will command his sons and his house after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do justice and judgment, that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which He has spoken of him. 


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


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 I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which has come to Me. And if not, I will know. 


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 And the men turned their faces away from there, and went toward Sodom. But Abraham still stood before Jehovah. 


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 Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city. Will You also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are in it? 


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 Far be it from You to act in this manner, to kill the righteous with the wicked. And far be it from You, that the righteous should be as the wicked. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 


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 And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. 


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 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to Jehovah, who am but dust and ashes. 


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 Perhaps there will be five lacking from the fifty righteous. Will You destroy all the city for lack of five? And He said, If I find there forty-five, I will not destroy it. 


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 And he spoke to Him yet again, and said, Perhaps there shall be forty found there. And He said, I will not do it for forty's sake. 


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 And he said, Oh let not Jehovah be angry, and I will speak. Perhaps there shall be thirty found there. And He said, I will not do it if I find thirty there. 


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 And he said, Lo now, I have taken upon me to speak to Jehovah. Perhaps there shall be twenty found there. And He said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake. 


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 And he said, Oh do not let Jehovah be angry, and I will speak only once more. Perhaps ten shall be found there. And He said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. 


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 And Jehovah went His way as soon as He had left off talking with Abraham. And Abraham returned to his place. 


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 And there came two angels to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot rose up to meet them when he saw them. And he bowed himself with his face toward the ground, 


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 and said, Behold now, my lords, please turn into your servant's house and stay all night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise up early and go your way. And they said, No, but we will stay in the street. 


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 But he urgently pressed on them, and they turned in to him and entered into his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 


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 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter. 


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 And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men which came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them. 


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 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man. I pray you, let me bring them out to you, and you do to them as you see fit. But do nothing to these men, for this is why they came under the shadow of my roof. 


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 And they said, Stand back! And they said, This one came in to stay, and must he judge always? Now we will deal worse with you than with them. And they pressed hard upon the man, Lot, and came near to breaking the door. 


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 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. 


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 And the men said to Lot, Have you anyone here besides yourself? Bring your sons-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whatever you have in the city, bring them out of this place. 


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 For we will destroy this place because great is the cry of them before the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah has sent us to destroy it. 


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 And Lot went out and spoke with his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Get up and get out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked to his sons-in-law. 


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 And when the dawn rose up, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, Rise up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 


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 And he lingered, the angel laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters (Jehovah being merciful to him), and they brought him forth and set him outside the city. 


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 And it happened when they brought him outside, He said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, nor stay in all the plain. Escape to the mountain lest you be consumed. 


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 please now, Your servant has found grace in Your sight, and You have magnified Your mercy, which You have shown to me in saving my life. And I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me and I die. 


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


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 And He said to him, See, I have accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken. 


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 Hurry and escape there! For I cannot do anything till you have come there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. 


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 Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire, from Jehovah out of the heavens. 


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 And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 


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 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the lands of the plain, and saw, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. 


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 And when God destroyed the cities of the plain, it happened that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. 


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 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him. For he feared to live in Zoar, and he and his two daughters lived in a cave. 


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 And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth. 


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


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


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 And it happened on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also, and you go in and lie down with him so that we may preserve seed of our father. 


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


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 And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day. 


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 And the younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day. 


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 And Abraham moved from there toward the south country, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar. 


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 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. 


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 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, you are about to die, for the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife. 


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 Did he not say to me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the sincerity of my heart and innocency of my hands I have done this. 


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 And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the sincerity of your heart. For I also withheld you from sinning against Me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her. 


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 Now therefore, restore his wife to the man. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live. And if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours. 


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 And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears. And the men were greatly afraid. 


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 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done to us? In what have I offended you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done. 


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 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me for my wife's sake. 


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 And yet truly she is my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. And she became my wife. 


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


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 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants, and gave them to Abraham. And he restored him Sarah his wife. 


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 And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, he is to you a covering of the eyes, to all that are with you, and with all this, you are reproved. 


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 And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his slave women, and they gave birth. 


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


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


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 And she said, Who could have said to Abraham, will Sarah suckle children? For I have borne a son to him in his old age. 


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 And she said to Abraham, Cast out this slave woman and her son. For the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son, with Isaac. 


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 And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the boy and because of your slave woman. In all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice. For in Isaac your Seed shall be called. 


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 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder. And he gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. 


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 And she went and sat down across from him, a good way off, about a bowshot. For she said, Let me not see the death of the boy. And she sat across from him, and lifted up her voice, and cried. 


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 And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar out of the heavens, and said to her, What ails you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. 


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 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the bottle with water, and gave drink to the boy. 


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


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 And it happened at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do. 


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 Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. Do to me according to the kindness that I have sworn to you, and to the land in which you have lived. 


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 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. 


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 And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing, neither did you tell me, neither have I even heard of it, except today. 


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 And he said, For you shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, so that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well. 


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 So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, rose up. And they returned to the land of the Philistines. 


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 And Abraham planted a tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the everlasting God. 


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 And it happened after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Behold me. 


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 And He said, Take now your son, your only one, Isaac, whom you love. And go into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will name to you. 


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 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 he split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up and went to the place of which God had told him. 


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 And Abraham said to his young men, You stay here with the ass. And I and the boy will go on to this way and worship, and come again to you. 


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 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took the fire in his hand, and a knife. And they both went together. 


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 And Isaac spoke to 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? 


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 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So they both went together. 


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 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 he bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on the wood. 


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 And the Angel of Jehovah called to him from the heavens and said, Abraham! Abraham! And he said, Here am I. 


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 And He said, Do not lay your hand on the lad, nor do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me. 


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 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked. And, behold, a ram behind him was entangled in a thicket by its horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. 


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 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Will See; so that it is said until this day, In the mount of Jehovah it will be seen. 


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


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 that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies. 


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 Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham lived at Beer-sheba. 


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 And it happened after these things that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold Milcah! She also has borne children to your brother Nahor: 


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 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 


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 I am a stranger and a visitor with you. Give me a possession of a burying place with you, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight. 


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 Hear us, my lord. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choice of our burying places. None of us shall withhold from you his burying-place from burying your dead. 


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


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 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he has, which is in the end of his field. For as much silver as it is worth he shall give it to me for a possession of a burying-place among you. 


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 And Ephron lived among the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, 


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


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 And he spoke to Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, Only if you would hear me. I will give you silver for the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there. 


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


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 And Abraham listened to Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, which passes with the merchant. 


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 And the field of Ephron was certified, which was Machpelah, which was before Mamre; the field and the cave which was in it, and all the trees in the field, in all the borders round about, 


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


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 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave at the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. 


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 And the field, and the cave that is in it, were certified to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the sons of Heth. 


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


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


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


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 Jehovah, the God of Heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: He shall send His Angel before you. And you shall take a wife to my son from there. 


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 And if the woman will not be willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath of mine. Only do not bring my son there again. 


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


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 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 to the city of Nahor. 


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


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 And he said, O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, I pray You, send me good speed this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham. 


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 Behold, I stand by the well of water. And the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water. 


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 And let it be that the young woman to whom I shall say, Let down your pitcher, please, so that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give your camels drink also. Let her be the one that You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. And by it I shall know that You have shown kindness to my master. 


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 And before he had finished speaking, it happened, 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. 


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 And the young woman was very beautiful 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. 


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 And she said, Drink, my lord. And she hurried and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave a drink to him. 


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


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


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 And the man was watching her, keeping silent, in order to know whether Jehovah had prospered his journey or not. 


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 And it happened, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hand, weighing ten shekels of gold. 


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 And he said, Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father's house for us to stay? 


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 And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who has not left my master destitute of His mercy and His truth. Jehovah led me, I being in the way to the house of my master's brothers. 


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 And it happened when he saw the earrings and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, So spoke the man to me, he came to the man. And behold, he stood by the camels at the well. 


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


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 And the man came into the house. And he unloaded his camels, and gave straw and fodder to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men that were with him. 


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 And food was set before him to eat. But he said, I will not eat until I have told my errand. And he said, Speak on. 


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 And Jehovah has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great. And He has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and male slaves and slave women, and camels and asses. 


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


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 And my master made me swear, saying, You shall not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live. 


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 And he said to me, Jehovah, before whom I walk, will send his Angel with you, and prosper your way. And you shall take a wife for my son from my kindred, and from my father's house. 


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 Then shall you be clear from my oath when you come to my kindred, and if they do not give you one, you shall be clear from my oath. 


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 And I came this day to the well, and said, O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, if now You prosper my way in which I go, 


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 behold, I stand by the well of water. And it shall be when the virgin comes forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, please, a little water from your pitcher to drink, 


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


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 And before I finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her, Please let me drink. 


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


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


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


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 And now if you will deal kindly and truthfully with my master, tell me. And if not, tell me so that I may turn to the right hand or to the left. 


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 And Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing has come forth from Jehovah. We cannot speak to you bad or good. 


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 Behold! Rebekah is before you; take her and go. And let her be the wife of your master's son, even as Jehovah has spoken. 


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 And it happened, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth to Jehovah, bowing himself to the earth. 


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


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


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 And her brother and her mother said, Let the young woman stay with us perhaps ten days. After that she shall go. 


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


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 And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, be the mother of thousands of millions, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them. 


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 And Rebekah rose up, and her young women, and they rode upon the camels and followed the man. And the servant took Rebekah and went his way. 


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 And Isaac came from the way of the well, The Well of the Living One, my Beholder. For he lived in the south country. 


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 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the beginning of the evening. And he lifted up his eyes, and looked. And behold, camels coming! 


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


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 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. 


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 And Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim. 


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 And the sons of Midian: Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. 


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


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 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life, which he lived: a hundred seventy-five years. 


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 And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, old and satisfied. And he was gathered to his people. 


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 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, 


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 the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth. Abraham and Sarah his wife were buried there. 


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 And after the death of Abraham, it happened that God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac lived by The Well of the Living One, My Beholder. 


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 And these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham. 


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 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations. The first-born of Ishmael was Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 


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 These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names, by their towns and by their settlements; twelve chiefs according to their nations. 


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 And these were the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred thirty-seven years. And he expired and died, and was gathered to his people. 


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 And they lived from Havilah to Shur, which is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. And he died in the presence of all his brothers. 


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


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 And Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren. And Jehovah heard him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 


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 And the sons struggled together within her. And she said, If it is so, why am I this way? And she went to inquire of Jehovah. 


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 And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in your womb, and two kinds of people shall be separated from your bowels. And the one people shall be stronger than the other people, the older shall serve the younger. 


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 And after that his brother came out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel. And his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. 


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 And the boys grew. And Esau was a man knowing hunting, and Jacob was a simple man, living in tents. 


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 And Esau said to Jacob, I beg you, Let me eat of the red, this red soup, for I am faint. Therefore his name was called Edom. 


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 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point of dying, and what profit shall this birthright be to me? 


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 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and soup of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up and went his way. And Esau despised his birthright. 


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 And there was a famine in the land, besides the famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar. 


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


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


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 And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of the heavens, and will give to your seed all these lands. And in your Seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, 


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 And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, She is my sister. For he feared to say, My wife; lest the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she was beautiful of form. 


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 And when he had been there a long time, it happened that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through the window, and saw; and behold! Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife. 


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 And Abimelech called Isaac and said, Behold! She surely is your wife. And why did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die on account of her. 


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


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 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. 


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 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold. And Jehovah blessed him. 


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 And he had possession of flocks and possession of herds, and many servants. And the Philistines envied him. 


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 For all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them and filled them with earth. 


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 And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. And he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. 


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 And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Contention, because they strove with him. 


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 And they dug another well, and they strove for that also. And he called the name of it Opposition. 


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 And he moved from there, and dug another well, and they did not strive for that. And he called the name of it Broad Places. And he said, For now Jehovah has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. 


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 And Jehovah appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not fear, for I am with you, and will bless you and multiply your seed for My servant Abraham's sake. 


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


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 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath, one of his friends, and Phicol the commander of his army. 


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 And they said, We saw certainly that Jehovah was with you. And we said, Let there be now an oath between us, between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you; 


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


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


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 And the same day it happened, Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug. And they said to him, We have found water. 


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 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite; 


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 And it happened when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called his oldest son Esau and said to him, My son. And he said to him, Behold, I am here. 


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 And he said to him, Behold, here am I. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I do not know the day of my death. 


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 And now please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me. 


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 And make tasty meat for me, such as I love, and bring to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die. 


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 And Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game in order to bring it. 


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 And Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob, saying, Behold, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, saying, 


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 Bring me game, and make me delicious things so that I may eat and bless you before Jehovah before my death. 


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 And you shall bring it to your father so that he may eat, and that he may bless you before his death. 


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 And Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 


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


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 And his mother said to him, Your curse be upon me, my son, only obey my voice and go bring them to me. 


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 And he went. And he took them and brought to his mother. And his mother made delicious things such as his father loved. 


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 And Rebekah took the clothes of her older son Esau, the costly ones which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. 


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 And she gave the delicious things and the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob. 


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 And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your first-born. I have done as you asked me. Arise, I pray you, sit and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me. 


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


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 And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near, I pray you, so that I may feel you, my son, whether you are truly my son Esau or not. 


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


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 And he did not know him because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. And he blessed him. 


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


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


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


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


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 And he also had made tasty meat and brought to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son's game so that your soul may bless me. 


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 And Isaac trembled with a great trembling, and said, Who then was the one who has hunted deer and brought to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed! 


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 And when Esau heard the voice of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me, me also, O my father! 


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 And he said, It is because his name is called Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me? 


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 And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold! I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given him for servants. And with grain and wine I have supported him. And what shall I do now to you, my son? 


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 And Esau said to his father, Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, me also, my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. 


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


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 And by your sword you shall live, and shall serve your brother. And it shall be when you shall have the dominion, you shall break his yoke from off your neck. 


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


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 And these words of her older son Esau were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, Behold, your brother Esau is going to ease himself on you, to kill you. 


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


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 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these of the daughters of the land, what good is my life to me? 


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 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and commanded him. And he said to him, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 


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 And may He give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, so that you may inherit the land in which you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham. 


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 And Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Padan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. 


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 And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him away to Padan-aram in order to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; 


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 then Esau went to Ishmael, and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to the wives which he had for his wife. 


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 And he came on a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took of the stones of that place, and placed them at his head. And he lay down in that place to sleep. 


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 And he dreamed. And behold! A ladder was set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to Heaven! And behold! The angels of God were ascending and descending on it! 


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


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 And your seed shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in you and in your Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 


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 And Jacob awakened from his sleep. And he said, Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I did not know. 


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 And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! This is nothing but the house of God, and this is the gate of Heaven! 


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 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone which he had put at his head, and set it as a memorial pillar, and poured oil on the top of it. 


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 And he called the name of that place The House of God. But the name of that city was Luz at first. 


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 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 clothing to put on, 


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 And this stone which I have set for a pillar shall be God's house. And of all that You shall give me, I will surely give the tenth to You. 


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


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


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


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 And he said, Lo, the day is yet high. It is not yet time for gathering the cattle together. Water the sheep, and go feed them. 


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 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered together. And they roll the stone from the well's mouth, then we water the sheep. 


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 And it happened when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, then Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flocks of Laban his mother's brother. 


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 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. And she ran and told her father. 


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 And it happened when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things. 


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 And Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother, should you then serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall be your wages? 


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 And Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 


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 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me. 


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 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him a few days, for the love he had for her. 


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


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 And it happened in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you tricked me? 


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 And he also went in to Rachel. He also loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him still seven more years. 


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 And Leah conceived and bore a son. And she called his name Reuben, for she said, Surely Jehovah has looked upon my afflictions. Now therefore my husband will love me. 


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 And she conceived again, and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I was hated, He has therefore given me this son also. And she called his name Simeon. 


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


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 And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she said, This time I will praise Jehovah. Therefore she called his name Judah, and quit bearing. 


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 And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. And she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I will die. 


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 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel. And he said, Am I in God's stead, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb? 


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 And she said, Behold my slave woman Bilhah; go in to her, and she shall bear upon my knees, and yea, let me be built up from her, me also. 


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


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


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 When Leah saw that she had quit bearing, she took her slave woman Zilpah and gave her to Jacob to wife. 


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 And Reuben went out in the days of the wheat harvest, and found love-apples in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, please give me some of your son's love-apples. 


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


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


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


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 And Leah said, God has given me a good present. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun. 


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


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 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go. For you know my service which I have done you. 


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 And Laban said to him, Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, stay. For I have seen omens, that Jehovah has blessed me for your sake. 


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 For you had little before I came, and it has now increased to a multitude. And Jehovah has blessed you since my coming. And now when shall I provide for my own house also? 


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


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 I will pass through all the flocks today, taking out all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all of the black sheep among the lambs, and the spotted and the speckled among the goats. And these shall be my hire. 


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 And shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, and it shall come for my hire before your face. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, shall be counted stolen with me. 


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 And that day he took out the he-goats that were striped and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black from among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons. 


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 And he set three days' journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. 


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 And Jacob took rods of green poplar, and of a fresh tree, and the almond and plane tree. And he peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 


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 And he set the rods which he had peeled by the troughs, by the water troughs, where the flocks came to drink, across from the flocks, and the flocks were in heat when they came to drink. 


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 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth striped cattle, speckled, and spotted. 


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 And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped, and all the black in the flock of Laban. And he put his own flocks by themselves, and did not put them with the flock of Laban. 


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 And it happened when the stronger flocks conceived, Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flocks in the troughs, so that they might conceive among the rods. 


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 But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in. And usually it came to be, the weak ones were Laban's and the stronger ones Jacob's. 


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 And the man increased exceedingly, and had many flocks, and maidservants, and male servants, and camels, and asses. 


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 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and he has gotten all this glory from that which was our father's. 


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


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 And he said to them, I see your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me. 


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 and your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not allow him to hurt me. 


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 If he said this, The speckled shall be your wages, then all the flocks bore speckled. And if he said this, The striped shall be your hire, then all the flocks bore striped. 


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 And at the time the cattle conceived, I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were striped, speckled, and mottled. 


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 And He said, Lift up your eyes and see all the rams which leap upon the cattle, that they are striped, speckled, and mottled. For I have seen all that Laban is doing to you. 


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


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


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 Are we not counted strangers by him? For he has sold us, and has also entirely devoured our silver. 


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 For all the riches which God has taken from our father, that is for us and for our sons. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do. 


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 And he drove away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his property, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, in order to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. 


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 And he fled with all that was his. And he rose up and passed over the river, and set his face toward Mount Gilead. 


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 And he took his brothers with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. And they overtook him in Mount Gilead. 


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


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 Then Laban overtook Jacob. And Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount. And Laban with his brothers pitched in Mount Gilead. 


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


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 Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and did not tell me so that I might have sent you away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret and with harp? 


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 And why have you not allowed me to kiss my sons and my daughters? You have done foolishly in so doing. 


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 It is in the power of my hand to do you harm. But the God of your fathers spoke to me last night, saying, Take heed that you do not speak either good or bad to Jacob. 


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 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, for I said, Perhaps you would take your daughters away from me by force. 


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 With whomever you find your gods, let him not live. Before our brothers, choose what is yours with me, and take it to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. 


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 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two slave women, and he did not find. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. 


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 And Rachel had taken the images and put them into the camel's saddle, and sat on them. And Laban searched all the tent, but did not find them. 


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 But she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before you. For the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but did not find the images. 


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 And Jacob was angry, and rebuked Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued after me? 


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 For you have searched all my stuff; what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, that they may judge between us both. 


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 I was with you these twenty years. Your ewes and she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of your flock I have not eaten. 


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 That which was mangled I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it. You required it at my hand, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. 


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 I was there; in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night. And my sleep departed from my eyes. 


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 And I have been twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six for your flocks. And you have changed my wages ten times. 


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


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


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


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 And Laban called it in Syrian, Heap of the Testimony, and Jacob called it in Hebrew, Heap of Testimony. 


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 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between you and me this day. Therefore the name of it was called Heap of Testimony, 


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 and Watchtower, for he said, Jehovah watch between you and me when we are absent from one another. 


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 If you shall not afflict my daughters, or if you shall take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us. See! God is witness between you and me. 


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


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


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


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 And Jacob offered sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night in the mountain. 


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


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 And when Jacob saw them he said, This is God's camp. And he called the name of that place Two Camps. 


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 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 


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 And he commanded them, saying, So shall you speak to my lord Esau: Your servant Jacob says thus, I have lived with Laban and stayed until now. 


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 And I have oxen and asses, flocks, and menservants, and slave women. And I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in your sight. 


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


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


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 And he said, If Esau comes to the one company and strikes it, then the other company which is left shall escape. 


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 And Jacob said, Oh God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who said to me, Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you: 


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 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have done to Your servant. For with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two bands. 


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 Deliver me, I pray You, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, lest he come and strike me, from mother to sons. 


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


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 And he lodged there that night. And he took of that which came to his hand, a present for Esau his brother 


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 And he delivered into the hands of his servants, every drove by themselves. And he said to his servants, Pass over in front of me and put a space between drove and drove. 


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 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you saying, To whom do you belong? and, Where do you go? And whose are these before you? 


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


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 And so he commanded the second and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, In this way you shall speak to Esau when you find him. 


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 And also you shall say, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me. 


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 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. 


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


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 And He said, Let Me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let You go except You bless me. 


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 And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for like a prince you have power with God and with men, and have prevailed. 


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 And Jacob asked and said, I pray You, reveal Your name. And He said, Why do you ask after My name? And He blessed him there. 


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 And Jacob called the name of the place Face of God; for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 


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 Therefore the sons of Israel do not eat of the sinew of the thigh, which is on the hip-socket, until this day, because He touched Jacob's hip-socket, the sinew of the thigh. 


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 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, Esau came, and four hundred men with him. And he divided the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two handmaids. 


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 And he put the slave women and their children first, and Leah and her children afterward, and Rachel and Joseph last. 


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


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


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


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 And Jacob said, No, please, if now I have found grace in your sight, then receive my present at my hand. For therefore have I seen your face, as though I had seen the face of God, and you were pleased with me. 


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 Please take my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he accepted. 


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 And he said to him, My lord knows that the boys are tender, and the flocks and herds with me are suckling. And if the men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die. 


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 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on softly, according as the flocks that go before me, and the boys, are able to endure, until I come to my lord to Seir. 


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 And Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the people with me. And he said, Why this? Let me find grace in the sight of my lord. 


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 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth and built himself a house, and made booths for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. 


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 And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram. And he pitched his tent in front of the city. 


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 And he bought a piece of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver. 


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


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


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 And his soul clung to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke to the heart of the girl. 


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 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. And his sons were with his cattle in the field. And Jacob kept silent until they had come. 


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 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard. And the men were furious, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel, in lying with the daughter of Jacob. And it ought not to be done so. 


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 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife. 


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 And you shall live with us. And the land shall be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it. 


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 And Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, Let me find grace in your eyes, and whatever you shall say to me I will give. 


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 Heap upon me ever so much price and dowry, and I will give according as you shall say to me. But give me the girl for a wife. 


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 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, speaking with deceit because he had defiled Dinah their sister. 


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 And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised. For it is a reproach to us. 


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 But in this we will agree with you, if you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised, 


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 then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will live with you, and we will become one people. 


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


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 And the young man did not hesitate to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was more honorable than all the house of his father. 


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 And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying, 


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 These men are at peace with us. Therefore let them live in the land, and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. 


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 Only on this condition will the men agree to us, to live with us, to be one people, if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised. 


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 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every animal of theirs be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live with us. 


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 And all that went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to Shechem his son. And every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. 


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


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


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


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 They took their sheep and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field. 


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 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives, they took captive, and plundered even all that was in the house. 


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 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me, to make me stink among those who live in the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And I, being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and kill me. And I shall be destroyed, my house and I. 


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


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 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods among you, and be clean, and change your garments. 


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


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 And they gave all the strange gods which were in their hands to Jacob, and the earrings in their ears. And Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. 


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 And they moved. And the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. 


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


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 But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried beneath Bethel, under an oak. And the name of it was called Oak of Weeping. 


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


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


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


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


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 And they moved from Bethel. And there was only a length of land to come to Ephrath. And Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor in her bearing. 


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 And it happened when she was in hard labor in her bearing, the midwife said to her, Do not fear, you shall have this son also. 


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 And it happened as her soul was departing (for she died) that she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin. 


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 And it happened when Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve: 


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 The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun. 


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 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's slave woman: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob born to him in Padan-aram. 


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 And Jacob came to his father Isaac, to Mamre, to the city of Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham had lived, and Isaac. 


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 And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his people, old and satisfied of days. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him. 


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


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


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 And Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance which he had gotten in the land of Canaan, and went into the country away from the face of his brother Jacob. 


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 For their riches were more than that they might dwell together. And the land of their travels could not bear them because of their cattle. 


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


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


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


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


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 These were the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the first-born of Esau: Chief Teman, Chief Omar, Chief Zepho, Chief Kenaz, 


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 Chief Korah, Chief Gatam, Chief Amalek. These were the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these the sons of Adah. 


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 And these were the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: Chief Nahath, and Chief Zerah, Chief Shammah, Chief Mizzah. These were the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. 


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 And these were the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: Chief Jeush, Chief Jaalam, Chief Korah. These were the chiefs of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. 


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 These were the sons of Seir the Horite living in the land: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, 


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


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 And these were the sons of Zibeon: both Aiah and Anah (he is Anah that found the hot springs in the desert as he fed the asses of Zibeon, his father). 


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 Chief Dishon, Chief Ezer, Chief Dishan. These were the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir. 


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 And these were the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before the reigning of a king over the sons of Israel. 


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 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith. 


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 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Pau. And his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. 


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 And these were the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names: Chief Timnah, Chief Alvah, Chief Jetheth, 


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 Chief Magdiel, Chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwellings in the land of their possession; he is Esau the father of the Edomites. 


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 These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, came tending the flock with his brothers. And he was a youth with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them. 


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 And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a tunic reaching to the soles of his feet. 


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


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 For behold! We were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and lo, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And behold, your sheaves stood around and bowed down to my sheaf. 


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 And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have the rule over us? And they hated him still more for his dreams and for his words. 


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 And he dreamed still another dream, and told it to his brothers. And he said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream. And behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowed down to me. 


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


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 And Israel said to Joseph, Do not your brothers feed the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am. 


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 And he said to him, please go see whether it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks. And bring me word again. And he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. 


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 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, What are you looking for? 


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 And the man said, They are gone from here, for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan. 


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 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him. 


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 Therefore come now, and let us kill him, and throw him into some pit, and we will say some evil beast has devoured him. And we shall see what will become of his dreams. 


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 And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him (in order to rescue him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again). 


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 And it happened when Joseph had come to his brothers, they stripped Joseph out of his tunic, the tunic reaching to the soles of his feet that was on him. 


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 And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes, and looked. And behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. 


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 And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we should kill our brother and hide his blood? 


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


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 And men, Midianites traders, came by. And they drew up Joseph and took him out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt. 


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 And they sent the tunic reaching to the soles of the feet, and they brought it to their father. And they said, We have found this. Do you know whether it is your son's coat or not? 


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 And he knew it, and said, It is my son's tunic. An evil beast has eaten him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces. 


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


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 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief of the executioners. 


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 And it happened at that time Judah went down from his brothers and turned in to a certain Adullamite, named Hirah. 


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 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shuah. And he took her and went in to her. 


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 And she yet again conceived and bore a son. And she called his name Shelah. And she was at Chezib when she bore him. 


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 And Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to your brother. 


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 And Onan knew that the seed would not be his. And it happened when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled on the ground, not giving seed to his brother. 


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 Then said Judah to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow at your father's house until Shelah my son is grown. For he said, Lest perhaps he die also, as his brothers did. And Tamar went and lived in her father's house. 


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 And the days were many, and Judah's wife, the daughter of Shuah, died. And Judah was comforted, and went up to shearers of his sheep, he and his friend Hiram of Adullam, to Timnah. 


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


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 And she put off her widow's clothes, and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself. And she sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown and she was not given to him as wife. 


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 And he turned aside to her by the wayside, and said, Come now, let me come in to you. For he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me, so that you may come in to me? 


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 And he said, I will send a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Will you give me a pledge until you send it? 


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


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 And she arose, and went away, and laid away her veil from her, and put on the clothes of her widowhood. 


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


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 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot who was by the wayside? And they said, There was no harlot here. 


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 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her. And also the men of the place said, There was no harlot here. 


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 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be ashamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you have not found her. 


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 And it happened, about three months afterward, that it was told Judah, saying, Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the harlot, and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burned. 


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 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, I am with child by the man whose things these are. And she said, Please observe. Whose things are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff? 


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 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She has been more righteous than I have, because I did not give her to my son Shelah. And he never knew her again. 


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


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 And it happened as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, How have you broken a break for yourself? And his name was called Pharez. 


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 And afterwards his brother came out, on whose hand was the scarlet thread. And his name was called Zarah. 


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 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt. And Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief of the executioners, an Egyptian man, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. 


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 And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. And he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 


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 And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and that Jehovah made all he did to prosper in his hand. 


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 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him. And he made him overseer over his house, and he put into his hand all he had. 


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


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 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand. And he did not know anything that he had, except the bread which he ate. And Joseph was beautiful in form and beautiful in appearance. 


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 And after these things it happened that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph. And she said, Lie with me. 


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 But he refused and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master does not know what is in the house with me, and he has given all that he has into my hand. 


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 There is none greater in this house than I. Neither has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? 


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 And it happened as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not listen to her to lie with her, or to be with her. 


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 And it happened about this time that he came into the house to do his work. And none of the men of the house were inside. 


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 And she caught him by his robe, saying, Lie with me. And he left his robe in her hand and fled, and got out. 


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 she called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying, See, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to sport with us. He came in to me, to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice. 


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 And it happened when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his robe with me, and fled, and got out. 


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 And she spoke to him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant which you have brought to us came in to me to sport with me. 


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 And it happened when his master heard the words of his wife which she spoke to him, saying, Your servant did this to me, his wrath was kindled. 


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 And Joseph's master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound. And he was there in the prison. 


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 But Jehovah was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 


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 And the keeper of the prison gave all the prisoners in the prison into Joseph's hand. And whatever they did there, he was the doer of it. 


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 The keeper of the prison did not look to anything under his hand, because Jehovah was with him; and whatever he did, Jehovah made it to prosper. 


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 And after these things it happened that the cupbearer of the king of Egypt, and his baker, had offended their lord the king of Egypt. 


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 And Pharaoh was angry against two of his eunuchs, against the chief of the cupbearers and against the chief of the bakers. 


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 And he put them under guard in the house of the chief of the executioners, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. 


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 And the chief of the executioners charged Joseph with them, and he served them. And they continued for a time under guard. 


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 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 cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison. 


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 And he asked Pharaoh's eunuchs who were with him under guard in his lord's house, saying, Why are your faces sad today? 


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 And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? Now tell it to me. 


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 And the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me. 


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 And in the vine were three branches. And it was as if it budded, and its blossom shot up. And the clusters of it brought forth ripe grapes. 


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 And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand. And I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. 


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 Yet within three days Pharaoh shall lift up your head and restore you to your place. And you shall deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer. 


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 But remember me when it is well with you, and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house. 


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 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. 


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 When the chief baker saw the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also saw in my dream, and three baskets of white bread were on my head. 


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 And in the top basket were all kinds of baked foods for Pharaoh. And the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head. 


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 Yet within three days Pharaoh shall lift up your head from off you, and shall hang you on a tree. And the birds shall eat your flesh from off you. 


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 And it happened on the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast to all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer, and of the chief baker, among his servants. 


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 And he restored the chief cupbearer back into his cupbearer office again. And he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. 


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 And it happened at the end of two years of days, Pharaoh dreamed. And behold, he stood by the river. 


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 And behold! There came up out of the river seven cows beautiful of form, and fat of flesh. And they fed in the reeds! 


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 And behold! Seven other cows came up after them out of the river, evil in appearance, and lean of flesh! And they stood by the other cows on the river bank. 


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 And the evil-appearing and lean-fleshed cows ate up the seven beautifully formed and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke. 


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 And he slept and dreamed the second time. And behold! Seven ears of grain came up on one stock, fat and good! 


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 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven fat and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. 


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 And it happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men of it. And Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was none who could interpret them to Pharaoh. 


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 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me under guard in the chief of the executioner's house, me and the chief baker. 


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 And we dreamed a dream one night, he and I. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. 


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 And there was there with us a young man, a Hebrew, a slave to the chief of the executioners. And we told him, and he interpreted our dreams to us. He interpreted to each man according to his dream. 


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 And it happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him. 


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 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph. And they hurried him out of the dungeon. And he shaved and changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh. 


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 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and none can interpret it. And I have heard it about you, saying, you can understand a dream to interpret it. 


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 And behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, beautiful in appearance and fat of flesh. And they fed in the reeds. 


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 And behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and evil of appearance, and lean of flesh, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness. 


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 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be seen that they had eaten them; but they were still evil of appearance, as at the beginning. And I awoke. 


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 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I spoke to the magicians, but there was none that could open it to me. 


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 And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one. God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do. 


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 And the seven thin and evil-appearing cows that came up after them are seven years. And the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. 


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 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. 


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 And the plenty shall not be known in the land because of the famine following; for it shall be very grievous. 


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 And since the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. 


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 Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a man who is discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 


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 Let Pharaoh act, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. 


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 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 


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 That food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt, so that the land does not perish through the famine. 


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 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has shown you all this, no one is as discreet and wise as you. 


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 You shall be over my house, and all my people shall kiss the hand at your word. Only in the throne will I be greater than you. 


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 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand. And he dressed him with fine linen robes, and put a gold chain around his neck. 


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 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had, and they cried before him, Bow the knee! And he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. 


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 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without a word from you, no man shall lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. 


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 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah. And he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, for his wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. 


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 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. 


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 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and he put food in the cities. He put the food of the field which was around every city; he put it in among it. 


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 And Joseph gathered grain like the sand of the sea, very much, until he quit numbering it; for it was without number. 


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 And two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine came, whom Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bore to him. 


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 And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh, saying, For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father's house. 


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 And the name of the second he called Ephraim, saying, For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. 


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 And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said. And the famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 


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 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do. 


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 And the famine was over all the face of the land. And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine was severe on the land of Egypt. 


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 And all the land came into Egypt to buy, to Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the land. 


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 And when Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, Why do you look upon one another? 


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 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy for us from there, so that we may live and not die. 


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 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers. For he said, Lest perhaps mischief happen to him. 


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 And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 


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 And Joseph was the potentate over the land. He was the one selling to all the people of the earth. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed down themselves before him, their faces to the earth. 


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 And Joseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but remained a stranger to them, and spoke roughly to them. And he said to them, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. 


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 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said to them, You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land. 


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 And they said, Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. And behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not. 


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 By this you shall be proved; as Pharaoh lives you shall not go forth from here unless your youngest brother comes here. 


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 Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and you shall be kept in prison so that your words may be proved, whether any truth is in you. Or else, as Pharaoh lives, surely you are spies. 


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 If you are honest, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your prison. You go carry grain for the famine of your houses. 


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 But bring your youngest brother to me, and let your words be confirmed, be proved true, and you shall not die. And they did so. 


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 And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he begged us, and we would not hear. Therefore this distress has come upon us. 


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 And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you saying, Do not sin against the youth? And you would not hear. Therefore, behold, also his blood is required. 


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 And he turned from them, and wept. And he returned to them again and talked with them, and took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes. 


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 Then Joseph commanded their sacks to be filled with grain, and returned their silver, each into his sack, and to give them provision for the way. And so he did to them. 


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 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass fodder in the inn, he saw his silver. For, behold, it was in the mouth of the sack. 


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 And he said to his brothers, My silver has been put back. And, also look in my sack. And their hearts failed, and they each were afraid, saying to one another, What is this God has done to us? 


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 And they came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that happened to them, saying, 


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 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. 


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 And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, By this I shall know that you are honest. Leave one, your brother, with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and go. 


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 And bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies, but that you are honest. And I will deliver you your brother, and you shall trade in the land. 


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 And it happened they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's bundle of silver was in his sack. And when they and their father saw the bundles of silver, they were afraid. 


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 And Jacob their father said to them, You have bereaved me. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you will take Benjamin. All these things are against me. 


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 And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Kill my two sons if I do not bring him to you. Deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to you again. 


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 And he said, My son shall not go down with you. For his brother is dead, and he is left alone. And if mischief should happen to him by the way you go, then you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. 


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 And it happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food. 


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 And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man solemnly protested to us, saying, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you. 


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 But if you will not send him, we will not go down. For the man said to us, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you. 


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 And they said, The man asked us strictly of our state and of our kindred, saying, Is your father still alive? Have you yet 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? 


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 And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, so that we may live and not die, both we and you, also our little ones. 


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 I will be surety for him. You shall require him of my hand. If I do not bring him to you and set him before you, I shall be a sinner against you all the days. 


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 And their father Israel said to them, If it be so now, do this. Take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and bring a present down to the man, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds. 


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 And take double silver in your hand, and the silver that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand. Perhaps it was an oversight. 


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 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, so that he may send away your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved, I am bereaved. 


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 And the men took that present, and they took double silver in their hand, and Benjamin. And they rose up and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. 


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 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring the men into the house, and kill an animal and make ready. For the men shall dine with me at noon. 


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 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house. And they said, Because of the silver that was returned in our sacks at the first time we are brought in, to throw himself on us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses. 


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 And they came near to the man over Joseph's house, and they talked with him at the door of the house, 


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 And it happened, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's silver was in the mouth of his sack, our silver in full weight. And we have brought it again in our hands. 


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 And we have brought down other silver in our hands to buy food. We cannot tell who put our silver in our sacks. 


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 And he said, Peace to you, do not fear. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I had your silver. And he brought Simeon out to them. 


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 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. And he gave fodder to their asses. 


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 And they made ready the presents for the coming of Joseph at noon. For they heard that they should eat bread there. 


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 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth. 


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 And he asked them as to their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive? 


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 And they answered, Your servant, our father, is in good health. He is still alive. And they bowed down their heads and fell before him. 


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 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother of whom you spoke to me? And he said, God bless you, my son. 


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 And Joseph made haste, for his bowels yearned toward his brother. And he sought a place to weep. And he entered into his room and wept there. 


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 And they set it on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians may not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination to the Egyptians. 


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 And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth. And the men marveled at one another. 


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 And one took portions to them from before him. But Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him. 


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 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each one's silver in his sack's mouth. 


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 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his grain silver. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. 


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 They had gone out of the city, not having gone far. And Joseph said to his steward, Rise up, follow after the men and overtake them, and say to them, Why have you rewarded evil for good? 


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 Is this not that in which my lord drinks, and by which indeed he divines? You have done evil in so doing. 


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 And they said to him, Why does your lord say these words? Far be it that your servants should do according to this thing. 


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 Behold, the silver which we found in our sack's mouth, we brought it in to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal out of your lord's house silver or gold? 


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 With whomever of your servants it may be found, both let him die, and we all will be my lord's bondmen. 


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 And he said, Now also let it be according to your word. He with whom it is found shall be my servant, and you shall be blameless. 


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 And he searched first at the oldest and with the youngest last. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. 


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 And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, for he was still there. And they fell before him to the earth. 


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 And Joseph said to them, What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that one like me can certainly divine? 


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 And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's servants, both we and he also with whom the cup is found. 


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 And he said, Be it far from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant. And as for you, you go in peace to your father. 


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 And Judah came near him and said, O my lord, pray let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and do not let your anger burn against your servant, for you are even as Pharaoh. 


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 And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. And his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him. 


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 And we said to my lord, The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, he would die. 


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 And you said to your servants, Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more. 


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 And we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, we will go down, for we may not see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us. 


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 And if you take this one also from me, and mischief befall him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. 


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 And now when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, since his life is bound up in his life, 


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 it shall be, when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. And your servants shall bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave. 


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 For your servant became surety for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever. 


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 And now please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a slave to my lord. And let the boy go up with his brothers. 


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 For how shall I go up to my father, and the boy is not with me lest perhaps I see the evil that will find my father? 


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 Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. And he cried, Cause every man to go out from me! And no man stood before him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 


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 And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph. Is my father still alive? And his brothers could not answer him, for they were troubled at his presence. 


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 And Joseph said to his brothers, Please come near me. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. 


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 And now do not be grieved, nor angry with yourselves that you sold me here. For God sent me before you to preserve life. 


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 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be no plowing nor harvest. 


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 And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 


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 And now you did not send me here, but God. And He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler over all the land of Egypt. 


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 Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, So says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me, do not wait. 


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 And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you and your sons and your sons' sons, and your flocks, and your herds, and all that you have. 


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 And I will nourish you there, for there are still five years of famine, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty. 


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 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. 


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 And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. And you shall hurry and bring down my father here. 


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 And the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brothers have come. And it was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and of his servants. 


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 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Do this: load your beasts and go into the land of Canaan, 


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 and take your father and your households and come to me. And I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land. 


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 Now you are commanded; do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 


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 And the sons of Israel did so. And Joseph gave them wagons according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. 


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 To all of them he gave each man changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of clothing. 


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 And to his father he sent this: ten asses loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses loaded with grain and bread and food for his father by the way. 


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 And he sent his brothers away, and they departed. And he said to them, Do not quarrel along the way. 


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 And they told him, saying, Joseph is still alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he did not believe them. 


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 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. And when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. 


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 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 


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 And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob! And he said, Here I am. 


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 And He said, I am God, the God of your fathers. Do not fear to go down into Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation. 


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 I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again. And Joseph shall put his hand on your eyes. 


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 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba. And the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 


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 And they took 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. 


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 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed, he brought with him into Egypt. 


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 And these were the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born. 


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 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan. 


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 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: Hezron and Hamul. 


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 These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three. 


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 And the sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. 


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 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these whom she bore to Jacob, sixteen souls. 


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 And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Potipherah the priest of On bore him. 


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 And the sons of Benjamin: Belah and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. 


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 These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob. All the souls were seven. 


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 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, who came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six. 


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 And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy. 


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 And Joseph made his chariot ready, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself to him. And he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. 


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 And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive. 


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 And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's house, I will go up and show Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. 


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 And the men are shepherds, for they have been men of cattle. And they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have. 


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 Then you shall say, Your servants have been men of cattle from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers, so that you may live in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians. 


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 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan. 


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 And behold, they are in the land of Goshen. And he took some of his brothers, five men, and presented them to Pharaoh. 


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 And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers. 


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 And they said to Pharaoh, For we have come to live in the land. For your servants have no pasture left for their flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen. 


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 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and brothers to live in the best of the land; in the land of Goshen let them live. And if you know men of ability among them, then make them overseers of livestock, over what is mine. 


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 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and I have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 


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 And Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded. 


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 And Joseph nourished his father and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, for the mouth of the little ones. 


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 And no bread was in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted because of the famine. 


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 And Joseph gathered up all the silver found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought. And Joseph brought the silver into Pharaoh's house. 


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 And when silver failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For the silver has failed. 


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 And they brought their cattle to Joseph. And Joseph gave them food for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses. And he fed them with food for all their cattle for that year. 


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 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year and said, We will not hide it from my lord, that our silver has failed, also our herds of cattle, going to my lord. Nothing is left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands. 


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 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants for Pharaoh. And give us seed, that we may live and not die, that the land be not desolate. 


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 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them and the land became Pharaoh's. 


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 And as for the people, he caused them to go into the cities, from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end of it. 


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 Only he did not buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they did not sell their land. 


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 And Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day, and your land, for Pharaoh. Lo, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 


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 And it shall be, as you gather you shall give the fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for those of your household, and for food for your little ones. 


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 And they said, You have saved our lives. Let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. 


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 And Joseph made it a law of the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, excepting only the land of the priests, which did not become Pharaoh's. 


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 And Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they had possession in it, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. 


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 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty-seven years. 


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 And the days of Israel to die drew near. And he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found grace in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh and deal kindly and truly with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt. 


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 But I will lie with my fathers. You shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will do according to your words. 


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 And it happened after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, your father is sick. And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 


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 And one spoke to Jacob, and said, Behold, your son Joseph comes to you. And Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. 


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 And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me. 


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 And He said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you. And I will make of you a multitude of people, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession. 


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 And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who are born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; like Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. 


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 And your issue, which you father after them, shall be yours, and shall be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. 


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 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still but a little way to come to Ephrath. And I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; it is Bethlehem. 


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 And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place. And he said, Please bring them to me, and I will bless them. 


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 And the eyes of Israel were dim for age; he could not see. And he brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them. 


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 And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought I would see your face, and, lo, God has showed me also your seed. 


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 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left, and Manasseh in his left toward Israel's right hand. And he brought them near to him. 


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 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left on Manasseh's head, crossing his hands. For Manasseh was the first-born. 


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 And he blessed Joseph and said, May God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who fed me all my life to this day, 


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 the Angel who 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 like the fishes into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 


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 And Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and it was evil in his eyes. And he held up his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. 


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 And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father. For this is the first-born. Put your right hand on his head. 


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 And his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he is, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. 


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 And he blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh. And he put Ephraim before Manasseh. 


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 And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die. But God shall be with you, and bring you again into the land of your fathers. 


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 And I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. 


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 And Jacob called to his sons and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the days to come. 


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 Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power. 


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 Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it. He went up to my couch. 


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 Oh my soul, do not come into their secret. Let not my honor be united with their assembly. For in their anger they killed a man, and in their self-will they hamstrung a bull. 


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 Let their anger be cursed, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 


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 Judah, may your brothers praise you. May your hand be in the neck of your enemies. May your father's sons bow before you. 


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 Judah is a lion's whelp. My son, you have gone up from the prey. He stooped, he crouched like a lion; and like a lioness, who shall rouse him? 


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 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come. And the obedience of the peoples to him. 


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 Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine, he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes. 


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 Zebulun shall live at the sea shore. And he shall be a haven for ships, and his border beside Sidon. 


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 And he saw that rest was good and that the land was pleasant. And he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a tribute-slave. 


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 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse's heels, so that its rider shall fall backward. 


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 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob (from the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel); 


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 The blessings of your father are above the blessings of my ancestors, to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him, the ruler, the leader of his brothers. 


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 Benjamin is a wolf that tears in pieces. In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. 


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 All these were the twelve tribes of Israel. And this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them; everyone according to his blessing he blessed them. 


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 And he charged them and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 


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 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burying-place. 


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 They buried Abraham and his wife Sarah there, and they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah. And I buried Leah there; 


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 And Jacob finished commanding his sons, and he gathered his feet into the bed. And he expired, and was gathered to his people. 


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 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel. 


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 And forty days were fulfilled for him, for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. 


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 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh saying, 


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 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die. You shall bury me in my grave which I have dug for me in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please, let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again. 


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 And Joseph went up to bury his father. And all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 


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 and all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father's house. They left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen. 


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 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation. And he made a mourning for his father seven days. 


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 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the grain floor of thorns, and they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians. Therefore they called its name, Meadow of Egypt, which is beyond Jordan. 


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 For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a burying place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 


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 And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 


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 And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will perhaps hate us, and will certainly repay us all the evil which we did to him. 


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 So shall you say to Joseph, please lift up the rebellion of your brothers, and their sin. For they did evil to you. And please now lift up the rebellion of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 


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 And his brothers also went and fell down before his face. And they said, Behold, we are your servants. 


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 But as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save a great many people alive. 


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 And now do not fear. I will nourish you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke to their hearts. 


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 And Joseph saw Ephraim's sons of the third generation. Also the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph's knees. 


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 And Joseph said to his brothers, I die. And God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land into the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 


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 And Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here. 


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 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and put him in a coffin in Egypt. 


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 And these were the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt. Every man and his household came with Jacob: 


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 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls, for Joseph was already in Egypt. 


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 And the sons of Israel were fruitful, and increased very much, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty. And the land was filled with them. 


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 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are many and mightier than we. 


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 Come, let us deal slyly with them, lest they multiply, and it will be when there comes a war, they join also to our enemies, and fight against us, and get out of the land. 


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 And they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built treasure cities for Pharaoh, Pithon and Raamses. 


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 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the sons of Israel. 


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 And they made their lives bitter with hard work in mortar and in bricks, and in all kinds of work in the field; all their work in which they made them do was with harshness. 


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 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah. 


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 And he said, When you midwife the Hebrew women, and look on the birth stools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him. But if it is a daughter, then she shall live. 


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 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved alive the male children. 


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 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, Why have you done this thing, and have saved the male children alive? 


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 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. For they are lively, and are delivered before the midwives come in to them. 


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 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive. 


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 And the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw him, that he was beautiful, she hid him three months. 


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 But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of papyrus for him, and daubed it with bitumen and with pitch, and put the child in it. And she laid it in the reeds by the river's edge. 


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 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river. And her maidens walked along by the riverside. And when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her slave-girl to bring it. 


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 And she opened it, and she saw the child. And behold, a boy wept. And she had pity on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' sons. 


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 And his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call a woman, a nurse of the Hebrew women for you, that she may nurse the child for you? 


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 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give your wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it. 


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 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses. And she said, Because I took him out of the water. 


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 And it happened in those days, when Moses was grown, he went out to his brothers and looked upon their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. 


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 And he looked this way and that way, and when he did not see anyone, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 


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 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together. And he said to the guilty one, Why do you strike your neighbor? 


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 And he said, Who made you as a man, a ruler and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. 


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 And when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well. 


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 And the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 


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 And the shepherds came and drove them away. But Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 


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 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew for us and watered the flock. 


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 And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why then have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread. 


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 And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom. For he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. 


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 And it happened after many days the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 


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 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 


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 And Moses kept the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back side of the desert. And he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb. 


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 And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a thorn bush. And he looked. And behold! The thorn bush burned with fire! And the thorn bush was not burned up. 


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 And Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the thorn bush is not burned up. 


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 And Jehovah saw that he had turned aside to see. God called to him out of the midst of the thorn bush, and said, Moses! Moses! And he said, Here I am. 


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 And He said, Do not come near here. Pull off your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. 


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 And He said, I am the God of your fathers, 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. 


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 And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. 


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 And I am coming down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, to bring them up out of that land, to a good land, a large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites and the Jebusites. 


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 And now behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me. And I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 


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 And now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt. 


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 And Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the sons of Israel out of Egypt? 


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 And He said, I will be with you. And this shall be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this mountain. 


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 And Moses said to God, Behold, when I come to the sons of Israel, and shall say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they shall say to me, What is His name? What shall I say to them? 


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 And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. And He said, So you shall say to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you. 


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 And God said to Moses again, You shall say this to the sons of Israel, Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My title from generation to generation. 


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 Go, and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, Jehovah the God of your fathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I have surely visited you and have seen what is done to you in Egypt. 


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 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey. 


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 And they shall listen to your voice. And you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt. And you shall say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews has met with us. And now let us go, we beseech you, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God. 


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 And I will stretch out My hand and smite Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in the midst of it. And after that he will let you go. 


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 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. And it shall be that when you go, you shall not go empty. 


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 But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her that stays in her house, jewels of silver and jewels of gold and clothing. And you shall put them upon your sons and upon your daughters. And you shall plunder the Egyptians. 


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 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me nor listen to my voice. For they will say, Jehovah has not appeared to you. 


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 And He said, Throw it on the ground. And he threw it on the ground. And it became a serpent. And Moses ran from it. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Put forth your hand and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand, -- 


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 so that they may believe that Jehovah, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you. 


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 And Jehovah said to him again, Now put your hand in your bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom. And when he took it out, behold, his hand was as leprous as snow. 


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 And He said, Put your hand into your bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again. And he brought it out of his bosom, and behold, it was turned again like his other flesh. 


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 And it will be, if they will not believe you, neither listen to the voice of the first sign, then they will believe the voice of the latter sign. 


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 And also it will be, if they will not believe these two signs, neither listen to your voice, then you shall take from the water of the river and pour it upon the dry land. And the water which you take out of the river shall become blood on the dry land. 


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 And Moses said to Jehovah, O my Lord, I am not a man of words now, nor since You have spoken to Your servant, but I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue. 


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 And Jehovah said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, Jehovah? 


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 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses. And He said, Do I not know Aaron the Levite, your brother that he can speak well? And also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. And when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. 


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 And you shall speak to him, and you shall put words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. 


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 And it will be, he shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be for a mouth to you. And you shall be to him a god. 


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 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt and see if they are still alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses in Midian, Go! Return to Egypt, for all the men who sought your life are dead. 


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 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. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, When you go to return into Egypt, see that you do all those wonders which I have put in your hand before Pharaoh; but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. 


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 And I say to you, Let My son go, that he may serve Me. And if you refuse to let him go, behold, I am going to kill your son, your first-born. 


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 And Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and threw it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband you are to me. 


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 And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him. 


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 And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah who had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him. 


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 And Aaron spoke all the words which Jehovah had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 


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 And the people believed. And when they heard that Jehovah had visited the sons of Israel, and that He had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed and worshiped. 


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 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness. 


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 And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, neither will I let Israel go. 


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 And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go, we pray you, three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, lest He fall upon us with plague or with the sword. 


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 And the king of Egypt said to them, Moses and Aaron, Why do you keep the people from their work? Get to your burdens! 


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 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and you make them rest from their burdens. 


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 You shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. 


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 And you shall lay upon them the number of bricks which they have made before now. You shall not take away from it. For they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go sacrifice to our God. 


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 Let more work be laid upon the men, and let them labor in it. And do not let them regard vain words. 


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 And the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out. And they spoke to the people, saying, So says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. 


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 And the taskmasters hurried them, saying, Finish your works, the thing of a day, just as when there was straw. 


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 And the taskmasters of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten. And they demanded, Why have you not completed your task in making brick, both yesterday and today, as you did before? 


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 And the overseers of the sons of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why do you deal so with your servants? 


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 There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, Make bricks! And behold, your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people. 


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 But he said, You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, Let us go, let us sacrifice to Jehovah. 


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 Therefore go now and work, for there shall be no straw given to you; yet you shall deliver the number of bricks. 


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 And the overseers of the sons of Israel saw themselves in affliction, after it was said, You shall not take away from your bricks of your daily task. 


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 And they said to them, Jehovah look upon you and judge, because you have made our smell to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hands to kill us. 


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 And Moses returned to Jehovah, and said, Lord, why have You treated this people ill? Why then have you sent me? 


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 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done evil to this people. Neither have You delivered Your people at all. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand he shall let them go, and with a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land. 


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 And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty. But I was not known to them by the name JEHOVAH. 


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 And I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they traveled. 


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 And I have also heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, those whom the Egyptians are keeping in bondage. And I have remembered My covenant. 


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 Therefore say to the sons of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rescue you out of their bondage. And I will redeem you with a stretched-out arm, and with great judgments. 


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 And I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God. And you shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 


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 And I will bring you in to the land concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And I will give it to you for a heritage. I am Jehovah! 


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 And Moses said so to the sons of Israel. But they did not listen to Moses through anguish of spirit and through cruel bondage. 


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 And Moses spoke before Jehovah, saying, Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh hear me, since I have lips that are not circumcised? 


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 And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the sons of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt. 


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 These were the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the families of Reuben. 


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 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanitess. These were the families of Simeon. 


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 And these were the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven years. 


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 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred and thirty-three years. 


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 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These were the families of Levi according to their generations. 


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 And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, for his wife. And she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years. 


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 And Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, for his wife. And she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 


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 And the sons of Korah were Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the families of the Korahites. 


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 And Aaron's son Eleazar took his wife of the daughters of Putiel. And she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families. 


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 It was Aaron and Moses to whom Jehovah said, Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies. 


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 These were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt. It was Moses and Aaron. 


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 Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, I am Jehovah. You speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you. 


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 And Moses said before Jehovah, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me? 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh. And Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. 


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 You shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, he will send the sons of Israel out of his land. 


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 But Pharaoh shall not listen to you, and I will lay My hand upon Egypt, and bring My armies, My people the sons of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 


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 And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt, and bring out the sons of Israel from among them. 


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 When Pharaoh shall speak to you saying, Give a miracle for yourselves, you shall say to Aaron, Take your rod, and throw it in front of Pharaoh. It shall become a snake. 


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 And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh. And they did so, as Jehovah had commanded. And Aaron threw down his rod in front of Pharaoh and in front of his servants, and it became a snake. 


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 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers. And they, the magicians of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts. 


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 You go to Pharaoh in the morning. Lo, he goes out to the water. And you shall stand by the river's brink until he comes. And you shall take in your hand the rod which was turned to a snake. 


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 And you shall say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Let My people go so that they may serve Me in the wilderness. And, behold, until now you would not hear. 


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 Thus says Jehovah, In this you shall know that I am Jehovah. Behold! I will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. 


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 And the fish in the river shall die, and the river shall stink. And the Egyptians shall hate to drink of the water of the river. 


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 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your rod, and stretch out your hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their canals, and upon their pools, and upon every reservoir of their waters, that they may become blood. And blood shall be throughout all the land of Egypt, both in wooden and in stone vessels. 


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 And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah commanded. And he lifted up the rod and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants. And all the waters in the river were turned to blood. 


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 And the fish 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. 


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 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their secret arts. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said. 


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 And all the Egyptians dug all around the river for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the river. 


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 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and say to him: Thus says Jehovah, Let my people go so that they may serve Me. 


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 And the river shall bring forth frogs plentifully, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and upon your bed, and into the house of your servants, and upon your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs. 


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 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron: Stretch out your hand with your rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. 


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 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. 


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 And Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Pray to Jehovah that He may take away the frogs from me and from my people. And I will let the people go, so that they may sacrifice to Jehovah. 


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 And Moses said to Pharaoh, Glory over me! When shall I pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, so that they may remain in the river only? 


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 And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, It shall be according to your word, so that you may know that there is none like Jehovah our God. 


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 And the frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only. 


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 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh. And Moses cried to Jehovah because of the frogs which He had brought against Pharaoh. 


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 And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses. And the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields. 


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 But Pharaoh saw that there was relief, and he hardened his heart, and did not listen to them, even as Jehovah had said. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron: Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the land, so that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 


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 And they did so. For Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and struck 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. 


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 And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth lice, but they could not. So there were lice upon man and upon beast. 


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 And the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Lo, he comes forth to the water. And say to him, Thus says Jehovah: Let My people go, so that they may serve Me. 


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 And if you will not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your house. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they are. 


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 And in that day I will cut off the land of Goshen, in which My people live, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, so that you may know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth. 


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 And Jehovah did so. And teeming swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt. The land was destroyed because of the swarms. 


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 And Moses said, It is not right to do so, for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God. Lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? 


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 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as He shall command us. 


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 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go so that you may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness. Only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me. 


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 And Moses said, Behold, I will go out from you, and I will pray to Jehovah that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow. But do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Jehovah. 


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 And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses. And He removed the swarms from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained not one. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and tell him, Thus says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go so that they may serve Me. 


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 behold, the hand of Jehovah is upon your cattle in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep, a very grievous plague. 


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 And Jehovah shall separate between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. And there shall nothing die of all that belongs to the sons of Israel. 


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 And Jehovah did that thing on the next day, and all the cattle of Egypt died. But of the cattle of the sons of Israel, not one died. 


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 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. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, Take to yourselves handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh. 


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 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with sores upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. 


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 And they took ashes of the furnace and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky, and it became a boil breaking forth with sores upon man and upon beast. 


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 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boil was upon the priests and upon all the Egyptians. 


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 And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, even as Jehovah had spoken to Moses. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, So says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, Let My people go, so that they may serve Me. 


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 For I am going to send at this time all My plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants, and upon your people, so that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth. 


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 For now I will stretch out My hand, that I may strike you and your people with plagues, and you shall be cut off from the earth. 


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 Behold! Tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the foundation of it even until now! 


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 And now send out, gather your cattle, and all that you have in the field. 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. 


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 He that feared the Word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle to flee into the houses. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch forth your hand toward heaven, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. 


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 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heavens. And Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and the fire came down to the ground. And Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 


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 And 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. 


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 And the hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast. And the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field. 


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 And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time. Jehovah is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. 


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 Pray to Jehovah, for it is enough. Let there be no mighty thunderings and hail. And I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer. 


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 And Moses said to him, as soon as I go out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Jehovah. The thunder shall stop, and the hail will not be any more, so that you may know that the earth is Jehovah's. 


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 And the flax and the barley were stricken, for the barley was in the head, and the flax was in bud. 


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 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to Jehovah. And the thunder and hail stopped, and the rain was not poured upon the earth. 


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 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned still more and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 


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 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the sons of Israel go, even as Jehovah had spoken by Moses. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, so that I might show these My signs before him, 


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 and so that you may tell in the ears of your son, and of your son's sons, what things I have worked in Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them, so that you may know that I am Jehovah. 


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 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, So says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may serve Me. 


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 And they shall cover the face of the land, so that one cannot be able to see the earth. And they shall eat the rest of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field. 


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 And they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, which neither your fathers, nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day they were upon the earth until this day. And he turned himself and went out from Pharaoh. 


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 And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go so that they may serve Jehovah their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed? 


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 And Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, Go! Serve Jehovah your God. Who are the ones that shall go? 


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 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters. We will go with our flocks and with our herds. For we must hold a feast to Jehovah. 


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 And he said to them, May Jehovah be so with you, as I send you and your little ones away. Watch out, for evil is before you. 


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 Not so! You men go now and serve Jehovah, for it is you who desired it. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has left. 


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 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all the night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 


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 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the coasts of Egypt, very numerous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. 


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 For they covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkened. And they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. And there did not remain any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt. 


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 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste. And he said, I have sinned against Jehovah your God, and against you. 


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 And now please, forgive my sin only this once, and pray to Jehovah your God, that He may take away from me this death only. 


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 And Jehovah turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts and threw them into the Red Sea. There did not remain one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, so that one may even feel the darkness. 


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 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven. And there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 


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 They did not see one another, nor did any rise from his place, for three days. But all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings. 


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 And Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, You go serve Jehovah. Only let your flocks and your herds be left. Let your little ones also go with you. 


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 And Moses said, You must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, so that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God. 


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 Our cattle also shall go with us. There shall not be a hoof left behind. For we must take from them to serve Jehovah our God. And we do not know with what we must serve Jehovah until we come there. 


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 And Pharaoh said to him, Go away from me! Take heed to yourself; see my face no more. For in the day you see my face you shall die. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, I will still bring one plague yet on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out from here altogether. 


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 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask from his neighbor, and every woman from her neighbor, articles of silver and jewels of gold. 


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 And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. And the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people. 


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 And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the slave-girl that is behind the mill; also the first-born of beasts. 


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 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. 


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 But against any of the sons of Israel not even a dog shall move his tongue, against man or beast, so that you may know that Jehovah puts a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. 


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 And all these, your servants, shall come down to me and bow themselves down to me, saying, You and all the people that follow you get out. And after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh shall not listen to you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. 


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 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh. And Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart so that he would not let the sons of Israel go out of his land. 


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 This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. 


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 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month they shall take to them each man a lamb for a father's house, a lamb for a house. 


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 And if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take according to the number of the souls, each one, according to the eating of his mouth, you shall count concerning the lamb. 


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 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You shall take from the sheep or from the goats. 


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 And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month. And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 


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 And they shall take some of the blood and strike on the two side posts and upon the upper door post of the houses in which they shall eat it. 


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 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. 


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 Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inward parts. 


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 And you shall not let any of it remain until the morning. And that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire. 


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 And you shall eat of it this way, with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in a hurry. It is Jehovah's passover. 


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 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Jehovah. 


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 And the blood shall be a sign to you upon the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be upon you for a destruction when I smite in the land of Egypt. 


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 And this day shall be a memorial to you. And you shall keep it as a feast to Jehovah throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by a law forever. 


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 You shall eat unleavened bread seven days; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. 


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 And on the first day shall be a holy gathering, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy gathering for you. No manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you. 


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 And you shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall keep this day in your generations by a law forever. 


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 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 


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 Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses. For whoever eats that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, among the aliens and among the natives of the land. 


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 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take a lamb for yourselves according to your families, and kill the passover. 


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 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip in the blood in the bowl, and strike the lintel and the doorposts with the blood in the bowl. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 


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 For Jehovah will pass through to strike the Egyptians. And when He sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. 


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 And it shall be, when you have come to the land which Jehovah will give you, according as He has promised, that you shall keep this service. 


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 Then you shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah's passover, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed and worshiped. 


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 And it happened at midnight Jehovah struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive that was in the prison; also all the first-born of cattle. 


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 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. 


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 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up! Get away from my people, both you and the sons of Israel! And go serve Jehovah, as you have said. 


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 And the Egyptians were urging the people, that they might send them out of the land in a hurry. For they said, We are all dead. 


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 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. 


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 And the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses. And they asked articles of silver, and articles of gold, and clothing from the Egyptians. 


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 And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they granted their request, and they plundered the Egyptians. 


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 And the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, the men being about six hundred families men on foot, apart from little ones. 


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 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not stay, neither had they prepared any food for a journey for themselves. 


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 And it happened at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even it was on this very day, all the armies of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt. 


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 It is a night to be much kept to Jehovah for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Jehovah to be kept by all the sons of Israel in their generations. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover. No stranger shall eat of it. 


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 But every man's servant that is bought for silver, when you have circumcised him, then he shall eat of it. 


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 It shall be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the flesh out of the house. Neither shall you break a bone of it. 


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 And when a stranger shall stay with you, and desires to keep the Passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. And he shall be as one that is born in the land. And no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. 


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 And it happened the very same day, that Jehovah brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. 


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 Sanctify all the first-born to Me, whatever opens the womb among the sons of Israel, of man and of beast. It is Mine. 


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 And Moses said to the people, Remember this day in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. For Jehovah brought you out from this place by the strength of His hand. There shall be no leaven eaten. 


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 And it shall be when Jehovah shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month. 


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 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And there shall be no leavened bread seen with you, nor shall there be leaven seen with you in all your borders. 


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 And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, This is because of what Jehovah did for me when I came out from Egypt. 


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 And it shall be a sign to you upon your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Jehovah's Law may be in your mouth. For the Lord has brought you out of Egypt with a strong hand. 


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 And it will be, when Jehovah shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it to you, 


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 you shall set apart to Jehovah every one that opens the womb, and every first-born that comes of any animal which you have; the males shall be Jehovah's. 


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 And every first-born of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. And all the first-born of man among your sons you shall redeem. 


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 And it shall be when your sons asks you in time to come, saying, What is this? you shall say to him, Jehovah brought us out of Egypt by the strength of His hand, from the house of bondage. 


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 And it happened when Pharaoh hardened himself against sending us, Jehovah killed all the first-born of the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that opens the womb, that are males. But all the first-born of my sons I redeem. 


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 And it shall be for a token upon your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes. For Jehovah brought us out from Egypt by strength of His hand. 


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 And it happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines although that was near. For God said, Lest the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt. 


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 But God led the people around, by the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the sons of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. 


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 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him. For he had strictly sworn the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall carry my bones away from here with you. 


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 And Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the right away, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, to go by day and night. 


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 He did not take away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people. 


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 Speak to the sons of Israel that they turn and camp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon. You shall camp before it, by the sea. 


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 For Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, They are tangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in. 


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 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he will follow them. And I will be honored upon Pharaoh, and upon all his army, so that the Egyptians may know that I am Jehovah. And they did so. 


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 And the king of Egypt was told 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? 


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 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. 


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 And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he pursued the sons of Israel, and the sons of Israel went out with a high hand. 


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 But the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army. And they overtook them camping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon. 


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 And Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes. And, behold, the Egyptians marched after them. And they were very afraid. And the sons of Israel cried out to Jehovah. 


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 And they said to Moses, Have you taken us away to die in the wilderness because there were no graves in Egypt? Why have you dealt this way with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? 


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 Did we not tell you this word in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, so that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness. 


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 And Moses said to the people, Do not fear. Stand still and see the salvation of Jehovah, which He will prepare for you this day. For the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them anymore. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Why do you cry to Me? Speak to the sons of Israel, that they go forward. 


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 But lift up your rod and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it. And the sons of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. 


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 And behold! I am about to harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. And I will get honor for Me upon Pharaoh, and upon all his army, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen. 


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 And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah when I have gotten honor for Me upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. 


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 And the Angel of God, the one who went before the camp of Israel, moved. And he went to the rear of them. And the pillar of the cloud went from in front of their face and it stood behind them. 


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 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. And it was a cloudy and dark night, but it lit up the night, so that the one did not come near the other all night. 


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 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. And Jehovah caused the sea to recede by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 


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 And the sons of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground. And the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 


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 And the Egyptians pursued and went after them to the middle of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 


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 And in the morning watch it happened that Jehovah looked to the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the army of the Egyptians. 


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 And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them go heavily, so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for Jehovah fights for them against the Egyptians. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. 


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 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea. And the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared. And the Egyptians fled against it. And Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. 


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 And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. There did not remain so much as one of them. 


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 But the sons of Israel walked upon dry land in the middle of the sea. And the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 


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 So Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore. 


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 And Israel saw that great work which Jehovah did upon the Egyptians. And the people feared Jehovah, and believed Jehovah and His servant Moses. 


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 Then the sons of Moses and Israel sang this song to Jehovah, and spoke, saying, I will sing to Jehovah, for He has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider He has thrown into the sea. 


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 Jehovah is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will glorify Him, my father's God, and I will exalt Him. 


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 Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has thrown into the sea; his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. 


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 Your right hand, O Jehovah, has become glorious in power. Your right hand, O Jehovah, has dashed the enemy in pieces. 


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 And in the greatness of Your excellency You have overthrown them that rose up against You. You sent forth Your wrath, consuming them like stubble. 


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 And with the blast of Your nostrils the waters were gathered together; the floods stood upright like a heap; the depths were curdled in the heart of the sea. 


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 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. 


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 Who is like You, O Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? 


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 You in Your mercy have led forth the people which You have redeemed. You have guided them in Your strength to Your holy habitation. 


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 Then the princes of Edom were terrified. Trembling seized upon the mighty men of Moab. All the people of Canaan shall melt away. 


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 Fear and dread shall fall upon them. By the greatness of Your arm they shall be still as a stone, until Your people pass over, O Jehovah; until the people whom You have purchased pass over. 


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 You shall bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, the place, O Jehovah, You have made for You to dwell in; the Sanctuary, O Jehovah, which Your hands have established. 


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 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought again the waters of the sea upon them. But the sons of Israel went on dry land in the middle of the sea. 


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 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand. And all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. 


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 And Miriam answered them, Sing to Jehovah, for He has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider He has thrown into the sea. 


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 And 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. 


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 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, because it was bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah. 


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 And he cried to Jehovah. And Jehovah showed him a tree. And when he had cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a decree and a law for them, and there He tested them. 


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 And he said, If you will carefully listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, and will do that which is right in His sight, and will give ear to His commandments, and keep all His Laws, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am Jehovah who heals you. 


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 And they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water, and seventy palm trees. And they camped there by the waters. 


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 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came into the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. 


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 And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. 


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 And the sons of Israel said to them, O that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger. 


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 Then Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain amount every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My Law or not. 


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 And on the sixth day it shall happen, they shall prepare what they bring in. And it shall be twice as much as they gather day by day. 


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 And Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, At evening, then you shall know that Jehovah has brought you out from the land of Egypt. 


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 And in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Jehovah. For He hears your murmurings against Jehovah. And what are we, that you murmur against us? 


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 And Moses said, You will see when Jehovah shall give you flesh to eat in the evening and bread to the full in the morning, when Jehovah hears your murmurings which you murmur against Him. And what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah. 


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 And Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, Come near before Jehovah. For He has heard your murmurings. 


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 And it happened as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, they turned toward the wilderness. And behold! The glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud! 


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 I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel. Speak to them, saying, You shall eat flesh at evening, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am Jehovah your God. 


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 And it happened at evening, the quails came up and covered the camp. And in the morning the dew lay all around the host. 


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 And when the layer of dew had gone up, behold, there was a small round thing upon the face of the wilderness, small as the hoar-frost upon the ground. 


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 And when the sons of Israel saw, they said each one to his brother, What is that? For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat. 


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 This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: Each man gather of it according to his eating, an omer for a head, according to the number of your souls. Each one shall take for those who are in his camp. 


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 And when they measured with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little lacked nothing. They gathered each one according to his eating. 


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 But they did not listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning. And it became rotten with maggots, and stank. And Moses was angry with them. 


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 And they gathered it every morning, each man according to his eating. And when the sun became hot, it melted. 


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 And it happened, on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. 


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 And he said to them, This is that which Jehovah has said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath to Jehovah. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil. And that which remains over, lay up for you to be kept until the morning. 


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 And they laid it up until the morning, as Moses said. And it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it. 


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 And Moses said, Eat that today. For today is a sabbath to Jehovah. Today you shall not find it in the field. 


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 And it happened some of the people went out on the seventh day in order to gather. And they did not find any. 


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 See, because Jehovah has given you the sabbath, therefore He gives you the bread of two days on the sixth day. Each one stay in his place. Let not any one go out of his place on the seventh day. 


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 And the house of Israel called the name of it Manna. And it was like coriander seed, white. And the taste of it was like wafers with honey. 


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 And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations, so that you may see the bread with which I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. 


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 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put an omer full of manna in it, and lay it up before Jehovah, to be kept for your generations. 


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 And the sons of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to a land in which people lived. They ate manna until they came into the borders of the land of Canaan. 


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 And all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the command of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim. And there was no water for the people to drink. 


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 And the people wrangled with Moses and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you wrangle with me? Why do you tempt Jehovah? 


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 And the people thirsted there for water. And the people murmured against Moses and said, Why is this, that You brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst? 


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 And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do to this people? They are almost ready to stone me. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go on in front of the people, and take with you the elders of Israel. And take your rod with which you struck the river, in your hand, and go. 


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 Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb. And you shall smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, so that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 


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 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the wrangling of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us or not? 


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 And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand. 


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 And Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 


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 And it happened when Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. And when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 


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 But Moses' hands became heavy. And they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. And his hands were steady until the going of the sun. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this, a memorial in a book, and set it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heavens. 


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 And he said, A hand is on the throne of Jehovah; war is to Jehovah with Amalek from generation to generation. 


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 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt, 


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 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), 


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 and the name of the other was Eliezer (for the God of my father, my help, delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.) 


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 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he camped at the mount of God. 


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 And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you, and your wife and her two sons with her. 


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 And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed down to him, and kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare. And they came into the tent. 


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 And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how Jehovah delivered them. 


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 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Jehovah had done to Israel, whom He had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians. 


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 And Jethro said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 


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 Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they were proved against them. 


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 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. And Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God. 


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 And on the next day it happened that Moses sat to judge the people. And the people stood by Moses from the morning to the evening. 


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 And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing which you do to the people? Why do you sit alone by yourself, and all the people stand by you from morning to evening? 


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 When they have a matter, they come to me. And I judge between one and another, and I make known the statutes of God and His Laws. 


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 You will surely wear away, both you and this people that is with you. For this thing is too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it alone. 


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 Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God will be with you. You be for the people toward God, that you may bring the causes to God. 


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 And you shall teach them ordinances and laws, and shall make them know the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do. 


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 And you shall look out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain. And place such over them to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 


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 And let them judge the people at all times. And it shall be, every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge. And make it easier for yourself, and they shall bear with you. 


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 If you will do this thing, and God command you, then you shall be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace. 


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 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 


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 And they judged the people at all times. The hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. 


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 In the third month when the sons of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on this day they came to the wilderness of Sinai. 


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 And they journeyed from Rephidim, and came to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness. And Israel camped there in front of the mount. 


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 And Moses went up to God, and Jehovah called to him out of the mountain, saying, You shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the sons of Israel: 


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 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself. 


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 And now if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure to Me above all the nations; for all the earth is Mine. 


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 And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the sons of Israel. 


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 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which Jehovah commanded him. 


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 And all the people answered together and said, All that Jehovah has spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people to Jehovah. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Lo, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever. And Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. 


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 And be ready for the third day. For the third day Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai. 


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 And you shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves. Do not go up into the mountain, or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death. 


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 There shall not be a hand to touch it, but that he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether beast or man, it shall not live. When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain. 


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 And Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people. And they washed their clothes. 


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 And it happened on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain. And the voice of the trumpet was exceedingly loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled. 


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 And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God. And they stood at the lower part of the mountain. 


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 And Mount Sinai was smoking, all of it, because Jehovah came down upon it in fire. And the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. 


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 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and became very strong, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. 


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 And Jehovah came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go down. Command the people, lest they break through to Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish. 


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 And let the priests also, who come near to Jehovah, sanctify themselves, lest Jehovah break forth upon them. 


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 And Moses said to Jehovah, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai. For You commanded us, saying, Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it. 


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 And Jehovah said to him, Away! You go down, and you shall come up, you and Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to Jehovah, lest He break forth upon them. 


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 You shall not make to yourselves any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 


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 You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me, 


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 You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain. For Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that takes His name in vain. 


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 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah your God. You shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger within your gates. 


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 For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day, and sanctified it. 


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 Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you. 


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 You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's. 


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 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, they trembled, and stood afar off. 


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 And they said to Moses, You speak with us, and we will hear. But let not God speak with us, lest we die. 


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 And Moses said to the people, Do not fear, for God has come to test you, and so that His fear may be before your faces, so that you may not sin. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, So you shall say to the sons of Israel, You have seen that I have talked with you from the heavens. 


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 You shall make an altar of earth to Me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In all places where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you. 


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 And if you will make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stone. For if you lift up your tool upon it, you have defiled it. 


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 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years. And in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 


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 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he was married, then his wife shall go out with him. 


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 If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 


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 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my sons. I do not want to go out free 


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 his master shall bring him to the judges. He shall also bring him to the door or to the door-post. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. 


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 If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no power to sell her to a strange nation, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. 


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 If he takes himself another wife, her food, her clothing, and her duty of marriage shall not be lessened. 


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 And if a man does not lie in wait, but God delivers him into his hand, then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. 


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 But if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile, you shall take him from My altar, so that he may die. 


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 And he that steals a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 


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 And if men strive together, and one strikes another with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die, but keeps his bed; 


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 if he rises again and walks abroad upon his staff, then he that struck him shall be set free. Only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be completely healed. 


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 And if a man strikes his servant, or his maidservant, with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. 


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 If men strive and strike a pregnant woman, so that her child comes out, and there is no injury, he shall surely be punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him. And he shall pay as the judges say 


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 And if a man strike the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, so that it perishes, he shall let him go free on account of his eye. 


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 And if he strikes out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth. 


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 If an ox gores a man or woman so that they die, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall be set free. 


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 But if the ox was apt to gore in time past, and his owner has been told, and he has not kept him in, but that he has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. 


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 If there is laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is laid upon him. 


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 Whether he has gored a son, or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. 


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 If the ox shall gore a manservant or a maidservant, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 


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 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 falls in it, 


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 And in the event the ox of a man damages the ox of a neighbor, so that it dies, then they shall sell the living ox, and they shall divide the money of it. And they shall also divide the dead ox. 


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 Or if it is known that the ox has been apt to gore in time past, and his owner has not kept him in, he shall surely pay ox for ox. And the dead shall be his own. 


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 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. 


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 If the sun is risen upon him, blood is due for him. He should repay in full. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 


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 If the theft is certainly found in his hand alive, whether it is an ox, or an ass, or a sheep, he shall restore double. 


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 If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his animal, and shall feed in another man's field; he shall repay from the best of his own field, and the best of his own vineyard. 


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 If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so that the stacks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field, is burned up, he who kindled the fire shall surely repay in full. 


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 If a man shall deliver to his neighbor silver or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, let him pay double. 


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 If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges, whether he has put his hand to his neighbor's goods. 


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 For every case of trespass, for ox, for ass, for sheep, for clothing, for any kind of lost thing, which another claims to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges. Whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double to his neighbor. 


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 If a man delivers to his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies, or is hurt, or driven away, no one seeing, 


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 an oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand to his neighbor's goods. And the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make it good. 


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 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn. 


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 And if a man borrows from his neighbor, and it is hurt, or dies, and the owner of it not with it, he shall surely make it good. 


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 And if a man lures a virgin who is not promised, and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 


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 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 


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 And My wrath shall become hot, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your sons fatherless. 


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 If you lend money to one of My people who is poor beside you, you shall not be to him as a money-lender, neither shall you lay upon him interest. 


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 If you at all take your neighbor's clothing as a pledge, you shall deliver it to him by the time the sun goes down. 


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 For that is his covering only, it is his clothing for his skin. In what shall he sleep? And it will be, when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am gracious. 


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 You shall not delay giving the fullness of your crops and juices of your vintage. You shall give the first-born of your sons to Me. 


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 Likewise you shall do with your oxen and with your sheep; it shall be with its dam seven days. On the eighth day you shall give it to Me. 


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 And you shall be holy men to Me. Neither shall you eat flesh torn by beasts in the field. You shall throw it to the dogs. 


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 You shall not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 


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 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil. Neither shall you speak in a cause in order to follow many in order to wrest judgment. 


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 If you see the ass of him who hates you lying under his burden, and would hold back from helping him, you shall surely help him. 


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 Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked. 


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 And you shall take no bribe, for the bribe blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. 


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 Also you shall not oppress a stranger. For you know the heart of a stranger, since you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 


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 But the seventh year you shall let it rest and let it alone, so that the poor of your people may eat. And what they leave, the animals of the field shall eat. In the same way you shall deal with your vineyard and with your oliveyard. 


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 You shall do your work six days, and on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your ass may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. 


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 And be watchful in all that I have said to you. And make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth. 


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 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. You shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, in the time appointed of the month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And no one shall appear before Me empty. 


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 Also the Feast of Harvest, the first-fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field. Also the Feast of Ingathering, in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field. 


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 You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, neither shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until the morning. 


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 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. 


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 Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared. 


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 Be on guard before Him, and obey His voice. Do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions. For My name is in Him. 


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 But if you shall indeed obey His voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and a foe to your foes. 


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 For My Angel shall go before you and bring you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I will cut them off. 


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 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them. And you shall not do according to their works. But you shall surely pull them down, and surely you shall smash their images. 


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 And you shall serve Jehovah your God, and He shall bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. 


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 Nothing shall cast their young, nor be barren in your land. The number of your days I will fulfill. 


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 I will send My fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall come. And I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 


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 And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you. 


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 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a waste, and the beast of the field multiply against you. 


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 By little and little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and inherit the land. 


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 And I will stretch your bounds from the Red Sea even to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 


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 They shall not dwell in your land lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it surely will be a snare to you. 


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 And He said to Moses, Come up to Jehovah, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. And bow yourselves afar off. 


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 And Moses alone shall come near Jehovah, but they shall not come near. Neither shall the people go up with him. 


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 And Moses came and told the people all the Words of Jehovah, and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which Jehovah has said, we will do. 


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 And Moses wrote all the Words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar below the mountain and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 


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 And he sent young men of the sons of Israel who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of bulls to Jehovah. 


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 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 


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 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the ears of the people. And they said, All that Jehovah has said we will do, and be obedient. 


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 And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words. 


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 And they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as the essence of the heavens for clearness. 


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 And upon the nobles of the sons of Israel He did not lay his hands. Also they saw God, and ate and drank. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Come up to Me in the mountain, and be there. And I will give you tablets of stone, and the Law, and commandments which I have written, so that you may teach them. 


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 And he said to the elders, You stay here for us until we come again to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. If any man has any matters to do, let him come to them. 


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 And the glory of Jehovah abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 


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 And the sight of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel. 


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 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mountain. And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights. 


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 Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring Me an offering. You shall take an offering from every man that gives it willingly with his heart. 


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 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments of it, even so you shall make it. 


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 And they shall make an ark of acacia-wood. Two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high. 


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 And you shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and out, and shall make on it a crown of gold all around. 


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 And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and shall put it on its four feet. And two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. 


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 And you shall put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, so that the ark may be carried with them. 


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 And you shall make a mercy-seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it. 


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 And you shall make two cherubs of gold; of beaten work you shall make them, in the two ends of the mercy-seat. 


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 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end. From the mercy-seat you shall make the cherubs, on the two ends of it. 


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 And the cherubs shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces each toward the other; toward the mercy-seat shall the cherubs' faces be. 


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 And you shall put the mercy-seat above, upon the ark. And in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you. 


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 And I will meet with you there, and I will talk with you from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubs on the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give you in commandment to the sons of Israel. 


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 You shall also make a table of acacia-wood, its length two cubits, and its breadth a cubit, and its height a cubit and a half. 


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 And you shall make to it a border of a hand's breadth round about. And you shall make a golden crown to the border of it, all around. 


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 And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet of it. 


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 And you shall make the staves of acacia-wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them. 


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 And you shall make its dishes, and its spoons, and its pitchers, and its sacrificial cups with which a drink-offering is made. You shall make them of pure gold. 


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 And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of beaten work; its shaft, and its branches, its cups, its knobs, and its blossoms, shall be from it. 


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 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it-- three branches of the lampstand out of the one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side. 


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 Three almond-like cups on the one branch, with knob and blossom; and three almond-like cups on the one branch, with knob and blossom, so for the six branches, those going out of the lampstand. 


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 and a knob under two branches of it, and a knob under two branches of it, and a knob under two branches of it, according to the six branches, those going out of the lampstand. 


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 And you shall make the seven lamps of it. And one shall light the lamps of it, so that they may give light on its face. 


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 And you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined bleached linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet. You shall make them with cherubs, of the work of a cunning workman. 


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 The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits. And every one of the curtains shall have one measure. 


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 And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of one curtain, from the end at the juncture; and so you shall do at the edge of the last curtain, at the second juncture. 


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 You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the end of the curtain which is at second juncture, the corresponding loops each to her sister. 


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 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and you shall join the curtains each to her sister by the clasps. And it shall be one tabernacle. 


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 And you shall make curtains of goats' hair to be a tent over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains. 


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 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits, one measure to the eleven curtains. 


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 And you shall join five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. And you shall double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle. 


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 And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of one curtain, the last at the juncture, and fifty loops on the edge of the second curtain that joins. 


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 And you shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, so that it may be one. 


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 And the rest that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle. 


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 And the cubit from this side, and the cubit from that side that remains in the length of the curtains of the tent shall be hung over the sides of the tabernacle, from this and from that side, to cover it. 


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 And you shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of dugong skins. 


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 Ten cubits shall be the length of one board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board. 


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 There shall be two pins in one board, each connected to its sister-piece. So you shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle. 


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 And you shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards-- two sockets under one board for its two pins, and two sockets under another board for its two pins. 


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 and their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 


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 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it to one ring. So it shall be for them both. They shall be for the two corners. 


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 And there shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 


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 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle; and five bars for the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward. 


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 And you shall overlay the boards with gold, and you shall make their rings of gold, housings for the bars. And you shall overlay the bars with gold. 


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 And you shall rear up the tabernacle according to the pattern of it which was shown you in the mountain. 


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 And you shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen of embroidered work. It shall be made with cherubs. 


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 And you shall hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. 


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 And you shall hang up the veil under the clasps, that you may bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil. And the veil shall divide for you between the holy place and the Holy of Holies. 


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 And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. And you shall put the table on the north side. 


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 And you shall make a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen, worked with needlework. 


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 And you shall make five pillars of acacia-wood for the screen, and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold. And you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them. 


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 And you shall make an altar of acacia-wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad. The altar shall be square. And the height of it shall be three cubits. 


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 And you shall make the horns of it upon the four corners of it. Its horns shall be of the same, and you shall overlay it with bronze. 


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 And you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pans. All the vessels of it you shall make of bronze. 


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 And you shall make for it a grating, a network of bronze. And upon the net you shall make four bronze rings in the four corners of it. 


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 And you shall put it under the ledge of the altar beneath, so that the net may be even to the midst of the altar. 


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 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to carry it. 


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 And you shall make the court of the tabernacle. For the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined bleached linen, of a hundred cubits long for one side. 


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 And the twenty pillars of it, and their twenty sockets, shall be of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver. 


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 And so for the north side in length, hangings of a hundred cubits long. And its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets shall be of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. 


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 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits. Their pillars shall be ten, and their sockets ten. 


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 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits. Their pillars shall be three, and their sockets three; 


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 And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue and purple and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen, worked with needlework; their pillars four, and their sockets four. 


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 All the pillars around the court shall be banded with silver; their hooks silver, and their sockets of bronze. 


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 The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the width fifty by fifty, and the height five cubits of fine twined bleached linen, and their sockets bronze. 


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 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service of it, and all the pins of it, and all the pins of the court, shall be bronze. 


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 And you shall command the sons of Israel that they bring you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always 


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 in the tabernacle of the congregation, outside the veil which is before the testimony. Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before Jehovah. It shall be a statute forever to their generations on behalf of the sons of Israel. 


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 And you shall take to yourself Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, so that he may minister to Me in the priest's office: Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 


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 And you shall speak to all the wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, so that he may minister to Me in the priest's office. 


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 And these are the garments which they shall make: a breast-pocket, and an ephod, and a robe, and an embroidered coat, a miter, and a girdle. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, so that he may minister to Me in the priest's office. 


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 And they shall make the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen, skilled work. 


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 It shall have the two shoulder-pieces of it joined at the two edges of it. And so it shall be joined together. 


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 And the embroidered girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work of it: of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen. 


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 And you shall take two onyx stones, and you shall engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel. 


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 Six of their names shall be on one stone, and six of the remaining names on the other stone, according to their birth. 


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 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall make them to be set in settings of gold. 


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 And you shall put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial to the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a memorial. 


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 and two chains of pure gold at the ends. You shall make them of woven work, a work of cord, and fasten the woven chains to the plaited work. 


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 And you shall make the breast-pocket of judgment with embroidered work. After the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen, you shall make it. 


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 And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones. The first row shall be a ruby, topaz, and carbuncle in the row. 


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 And the fourth row: a chrysolite, and an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be set in gold in their fillings. 


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 And the stones shall be with the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet. They shall be each one with his name according to the twelve tribes. 


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 And you shall make upon the breast-pocket two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breast-pocket. 


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 And the two ends of the two cords you shall fasten on the two plaitings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod before it. 


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 And you shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them upon the two ends of the breast-pocket in the border of it, which is in the side of the ephod inward. 


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 And you shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the front of it, near its joining, above the band of the ephod. 


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 And they shall bind the breast-pocket by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the band of the ephod, and so that the breast-pocket may not be loosed from the ephod. 


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 And Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breast-pocket of judgment upon his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Jehovah continually. 


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 And you shall put in the breast-pocket of judgment the Urim and the Thummim. And they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goes in before Jehovah. And Aaron shall bear the judgment of the sons of Israel upon his heart before Jehovah continually. 


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 And there shall be a hole in the top of it, in its middle; a binding shall be all around its mouth, of woven work. It shall be like the mouth of a corselet; it may not be torn. 


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 And on its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, all around its hem. And bells of gold shall be amidst them all around. 


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 There shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe all around. 


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 And it shall be on Aaron to serve. And his sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Jehovah, and when he comes out, so that he will not die. 


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 And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and carve on it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH. 


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 And you shall put a ribbon on it, and it shall be on the miter; to the front of the miter it shall be. 


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 And it shall be on Aaron's forehead, so that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things which will sanctify the sons of Israel in all their holy gifts. And it shall always be on his forehead, so that they may be accepted before Jehovah. 


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 And you shall weave the tunic of bleached linen, and you shall make the miter of bleached linen, and you shall make the girdle of needlework. 


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 And you shall make tunics for Aaron's sons, and you shall make for them girdles, and turbans you shall make for them, for glory and for beauty. 


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 And you shall clothe Aaron your brother with them, and his sons with him. And you shall anoint them, and you shall consecrate them, and you shall sanctify them, so that they may minister to Me in the priest's office. 


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 And you shall make them linen breeches to cover the naked flesh; from the loins even to the thighs they shall reach. 


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 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in to the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place; so that they do not bear iniquity, and die. It shall be a statute forever to him and his seed after him. 


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 And this is the thing that you shall do to them, to sanctify them to minister to Me in the priest's office. Take one bull, the son of the herd, and two rams without blemish, 


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 and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mixed with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil. You shall make them of wheat flour. 


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 And you shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams. 


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 And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall wash them with water. 


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 And you shall take the garments, and clothe Aaron with the tunic, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breast-pocket, and bind it to him with the band of the ephod. 


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 And you shall gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind turbans on them. And the priest's office shall be theirs for an everlasting statute. And you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons. 


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 And you shall cause a bull to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bull. 


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 And you shall take some of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar. 


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 And you shall take all the fat that covers the inward parts, and the lobe on the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, and burn them upon the altar. 


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 But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering. 


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 And you shall also take one ram. And Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. 


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 And you shall cut the ram in pieces, and you shall wash its inward parts and its legs, and put them with its pieces and with its head. 


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 And you shall burn the whole ram upon the altar. It is a burnt offering to Jehovah. It is a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 


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 And you shall take the other ram. And Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. 


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 Then you shall kill the ram, and take of its blood, and put it upon the tip of the ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar all around. 


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 And you shall take some of the blood on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him. And he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. 


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 Also you shall take from the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the inward parts, and the lobe on the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right shoulder, for it is a ram of consecration; 


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 and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before Jehovah. 


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 And you shall put all in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Jehovah. 


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 And you shall take them from their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor before Jehovah. It is an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 


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 And you shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration and wave it for a wave offering before Jehovah. And it shall be your portion. 


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 And you shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is lifted from the ram of the consecration, from what is Aaron's, and from what is for his sons. 


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 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute forever from the sons of Israel. For it is a heave offering. And it shall be a heave offering from the sons of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their heave offering to Jehovah. 


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 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed in them and consecrated in them. 


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 The one of his sons that is priest in his place shall put them on seven days, when he comes into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place. 


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 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. 


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 And they shall eat those things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them. But a stranger shall not eat because they are holy. 


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 And if any of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remains until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy. 


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 And so you shall do to Aaron and to his sons according to all things which I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days. 


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 And you shall offer every day a bull, a sin offering for atonement. And you shall cleanse the altar when you have made an atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it. 


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 You shall make an atonement for the altar seven days, and sanctify it. And it shall be a most holy altar. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy. 


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 And with the one lamb a tenth part of flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine, a drink offering. 


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 And you shall offer the other lamb at evening; you shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 


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 This shall be a burnt offering forever throughout your generations, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before Jehovah, where I will meet you, to speak there to you. 


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 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar. I will also sanctify both Aaron and his sons to minister to Me in the priest's office. 


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 And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt so that I may dwell among them. I am Jehovah their God. 


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 A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square. And two cubits shall be the height of it, its horns from itself. 


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 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, and its sides all around, and its horns. And you shall make to it a crown of gold all around. 


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 And you shall make two golden rings to it under the crown of it, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides of it you shall make it. And they shall be housings for the staves to bear it with. 


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 And you shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy-seat that is beside the testimony, where I will meet with you. 


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 And Aaron shall burn sweet incense on it every morning; when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it. 


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 And when Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations. 


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 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meal offering. Neither shall you pour drink offering on it. 


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 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offerings of atonement. He shall make atonement on it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to Jehovah. 


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 When you count the sons of Israel, of those who are to be counted, then they shall each man give a ransom for his soul to Jehovah when you number them, so that there may be no plague among them when you number them. 


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 They shall give this, every one that passes among those who are counted, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs); a half shekel shall be the offering of Jehovah. 


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 Everyone that passes among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to Jehovah. 


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 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than half a shekel, when they give an offering to Jehovah to make an atonement for your souls. 


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 And you shall take the atonement silver of the sons of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, so that it may be a memorial to the sons of Israel before Jehovah, to make an atonement for your souls. 


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 You shall also make a laver of bronze and its foot also of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar. And you shall put water in it, 


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 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water so that they do not die. Or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Jehovah, 


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 they shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they do not die. And it shall be a statute forever to them, to him and to his seed throughout their generations. 


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 Take also to you principal spices, five hundred shekels of pure myrrh, and half as much of sweet cinnamon, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus, 


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 And you shall make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the perfumer. It shall be a holy anointing oil. 


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 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them, so that they may minister to Me in the priest's office. 


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 And you shall speak to the sons of Israel saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations. 


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 It shall not be poured upon man's flesh, neither shall you make any other like it, according to the way it is made. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you. 


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 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Take to yourself sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense, a part of each one. 


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 And you shall make it a perfume, an incense according to the art of the perfumer, salted, pure and holy. 


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 And you shall beat some of it very small, and put it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you. 


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 And the perfume which you shall make, you shall not make any for yourselves according to the way it is made. It shall be holy to you for Jehovah. 


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 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all workmanship, 


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 And behold, I have given to him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in the hearts of all the wise-hearted, so that they may make all that I have commanded you: 


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 the tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy-seat that is upon it, and all the vessels of the tabernacle, 


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 and the table and its vessels, and the pure lampstand with all its vessels, and the altar of incense, 


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 and the woven garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office, 


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 and the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do. 


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 Speak also to the sons of Israel, saying, Truly you shall keep My sabbaths. For it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, to know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies you. 


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 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone that defiles it shall surely be put to death. For whoever does any work in it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 


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 Six days may work be done, but on the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to Jehovah. Whoever does any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 


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 Therefore the sons of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant. 


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 It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever. For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested, and was refreshed. 


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 And He gave to Moses, when He had made an end of speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written by the finger of God. 


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 And the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, and the people gathered themselves to Aaron. And they said to him, Up! Make us gods who shall go before us. For this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him. 


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 And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me. 


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 And all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. 


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 And he took them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool. And he made it a molten calf. And they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 


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 And when Aaron saw, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation and said, Tomorrow is a feast to Jehovah. 


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 And they rose up early on the next day and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go! Get down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, are corrupted. 


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 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made them a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These are your gods, O Israel, who have brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 


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 And now leave Me alone, so that My wrath may become hot against them and so that I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation. 


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 And Moses prayed to Jehovah his God, and said, Jehovah, why does Your wrath become hot against Your people whom You have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 


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 Why should the Egyptians speak and say, He brought them out for harm, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and be moved to pity as to this evil against Your people. 


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 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever. 


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 And Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the testimony were in his hand. The tablets were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other. 


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 And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God. It was engraved on the tablets. 


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 And Joshua heard the voice of the people in their shouting. And he said to Moses, A sound of war in the camp! 


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 And he said, It is not a sound of a cry of victory, nor a sound of the cry of defeat. I am hearing the sound of singing. 


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 And it happened, as he came near to the camp and saw the calf and dances, the anger of Moses became hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them at the bottom of the mountain. 


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 And he took the calf which they had made and burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and dropped it upon the water, and made the sons of Israel drink of it. 


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 And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you, that you have brought so great a sin upon them? 


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 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord become hot. You know the people, that they are set on mischief. 


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 For they said to me, Make us gods who shall go before us. For this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him. 


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 And I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let them break it off. And they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and there came out this calf. 


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 And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had made them naked to their shame among their enemies,) 


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 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, Who is on Jehovah's side? Come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves to him. 


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 And he said to them, Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel: Each man put his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and kill each one his brother, and each one his neighbor, and each one his kindred. 


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 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. 


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 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to Jehovah, since each one has been against his son, and against his brother, and in order to give you a blessing today. 


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 And it happened on the next day, Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to Jehovah. Perhaps I shall make an atonement for your sin. 


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 And Moses returned to Jehovah, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold. 


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 And now will You forgive their sin! And if not, I pray You, blot me out of Your book which You have written. 


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 And now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you. And in the day of My visitation I will visit their sin upon them. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Come, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To your seed I will give it. 


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 And I will send an Angel before you. And I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; 


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 to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way. 


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 And Jehovah had said to Moses, Say to the sons of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people. I will come up into the midst of you in a moment, and I will consume you. And now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do with you. 


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 And Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it outside the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of the congregation. And it happened, everyone who sought Jehovah went out to the tabernacle of the congregation, which was outside the camp. 


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 And it happened as Moses went out to the tabernacle, all the people rose up, and each man stood at his tent door and looked after Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle. 


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 And it happened as Moses went into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and Jehovah spoke with Moses. 


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 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door. And all the people rose up and worshiped, each man in his tent door. 


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 And Jehovah would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he turned again to the camp. But his servant, Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the middle of the tabernacle. 


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 And Moses said to Jehovah, Behold, You say to me, Bring up this people. And You have not told me whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight. 


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 Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found grace in Your sight, make me see now Your ways, that I may know You, that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people. 


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 For in what shall it be known that I and Your people have found grace in Your sight? Is it not in that You go with us? So we shall be separated, I and Your people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken. For you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name. 


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 And He said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of Jehovah before you. And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. 


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 And it will be, while My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Cut out two tablets of stone like the first. And I will write upon the tablets the words that were in the first tablets which you broke. 


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 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me in the top of the mountain. 


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 And no man shall come up with you, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mountain. Also do not let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain. 


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 And he cut out two tablets of stone like the first. And Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tablets of stone. 


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 And Jehovah passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah! Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 


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 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the sons, and on the sons of sons, to the third and to the fourth generation. 


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 And he said, If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Jehovah, I pray You, let my Lord go among us. For it is a stiff-necked people. And pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your inheritance. 


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 And He said, Behold! I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. And all the people in whose midst you are shall see the work of Jehovah, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. 


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 Observe that which I command you this day. Behold! I drive out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 


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 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the people of the land where you go, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you. 


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 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and call you, and you eat of his sacrifice; 


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 and lest you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods and make your sons go whoring after their gods. 


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 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. You shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, in the time of the month Abib. For in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. 


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 But the firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the first-born of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before Me empty. 


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 You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. 


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 And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end. 


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 For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders. Neither shall any man desire your land when you shall go up to appear before Jehovah your God three times in the year. 


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 You shall not slaughter the blood of My sacrifice with leaven. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to the morning. 


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 The first of the first-fruits of your land you shall bring to the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. 


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 And Jehovah said to Moses, Write these words for yourself; for on the mouth of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. 


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 And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread, nor drank water. And He wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. 


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 And it happened as Moses was going down from the mountain of Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony being in Moses' hand as he went down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face had become luminous through His speaking with him. 


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 And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face had become luminous. And they were afraid to come near him. 


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 And Moses called to them. And Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them. 


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 And afterward all the sons of Israel came near. And he commanded them all that Jehovah had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. 


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 But when Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with Him, he took the veil off until he came out. And he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel that which he was commanded. 


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 And the sons of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face had become luminous. And Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with Him. 


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 And Moses gathered all the congregation of the sons of Israel together and said to them, These are the words which Jehovah has commanded, to do them. 


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 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah. Whoever does work in it shall be put to death. 


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 And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel saying, This is the thing which Jehovah commanded. He said, 


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 Take from among you an offering to Jehovah. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of Jehovah: gold, and silver, and bronze, 


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 the tabernacle, its tent, its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets. 


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 and the incense altar, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging of the door at the entering in of the tabernacle. 


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 And make the altar of burnt offering, with its bronze grating, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base, 


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 the hangings of the court, its pillars and their sockets, and the hanging, for the door of the court, 


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 the woven garments 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. 


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 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom His spirit made willing. They brought Jehovah's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all His service, and for the holy garments. 


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 And the men came in together with the women, as many as were willing-hearted, bringing bracelets and earrings, and rings and ornaments, all jewels of gold. And everyone who offered waved a wave offering of gold to Jehovah. 


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 And everyone with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and bleached linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them. 


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 Everyone lifting up an offering of silver and bronze brought Jehovah's offering. And everyone with whom was found acacia-wood for any work of the service, brought it. 


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 And every wise-hearted woman spun with her hands. And they brought spun yarn, blue, and purple, scarlet, and bleached linen. 


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 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breast-pocket. 


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 And they brought spice and oil, for the light and for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense. 


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 The sons of Israel brought a willing offering to Jehovah, every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all kinds of work which Jehovah had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses. 


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 And Moses said to the sons of Israel, See, Jehovah has called the son of Uri the son of Hur, by the name Bezaleel, of the tribe of Judah. 


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 And He has filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of work, 


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 And He has put in his heart that he may teach, he and Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. 


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 He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of work; of the smith, and of the skillful worker, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in bleached linen, and of the weaver, of those who do any work, and of those who work out artful work. 


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 And Bezaleel and Aholiab shall work with everyone wise of heart to whom Jehovah has given wisdom and intelligence, to know how to do every work of the service of the sanctuary, concerning all which Jehovah had commanded. 


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 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise-hearted man in whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come, to do the work. 


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 And they received all the offerings from Moses, the offering which the sons of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it. And they still brought to him free offerings every morning. 


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 And all the wise men who worked all the work of the sanctuary came, every man from his work which they made. 


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 And they spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which Jehovah commanded to make. 


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 And Moses commanded, and they caused it to be known throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. And the people were kept from bringing. 


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 And every wise-hearted one among them that worked the work of the tabernacle, made ten curtains of fine twined bleached linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet. He made them with cherubs of skillful work. 


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 The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain was four cubits. The curtains were all of one size. 


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 And he coupled the five curtains to one another, and he coupled the other five curtains to one another. 


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 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made loops in the outermost side, in the coupling of the second curtain. 


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 He made fifty loops in one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second. The loops held one to another. 


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 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps. And it became one tabernacle. 


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 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain. The eleven curtains were of one size. 


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 And he made fifty loops on the outermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and he made fifty loops upon the edge of the curtains which coupled the second. 


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 And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of dugong skins above. 


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 By two pins the one board was connected, one to another. So he made for all the boards of the tabernacle. 


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 And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two pins, and two sockets under another board for its two pins. 


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 and their forty sockets were of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 


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 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head of it, to one ring. So he did to both of them in both the corners. 


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 And there were eight boards. And their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, two sockets under every board. 


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 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the westward sides. 


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 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. 


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 And he made a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen. He made it the work of an artisan, with cherubs. 


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 And he made for it four pillars of acacia. And he overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold, and he cast four sockets of silver for them. 


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 And he made a screen for the tabernacle door, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen, of needlework; 


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 and the five pillars of it, and their hooks. And he overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, but their five sockets were of bronze. 


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 And Bezaleel made the ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. 


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 And he cast four rings of gold for it, for the corners of it, even two rings on the one side of it and two rings on the other side of it. 


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 And he made the mercy-seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half long, and one cubit and a half wide. 


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 one cherub here at one end, and one cherub there at the other end. He made the cherubs out of the mercy-seat on the two ends of it. 


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 And the cherubs were spreading out their wings above, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, their faces each toward the other. The faces of the cherubs were toward the mercy-seat. 


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 Also he made for it a border all around, of a hand's breadth. And he made a crown of gold for the border of it all around. 


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 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that were in the four feet of it. 


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 And he made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes and its spoons, and its bowls, and its pitchers by which a drink offering is made, of pure gold. 


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 And he made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of beaten work; its shaft and its branch, its cups, its knobs, and its blossoms, were of the same. 


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 And six branches went out of the sides of it; three branches of the lampstand out of the one side of it, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it. 


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 Three almond-like cups were on the one branch, a knob and a blossom; and three almond-like cups on the one branch, a knob and a blossom. So throughout the six branches going out of the lampstand. 


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 And a knob was under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, to the six branches going out of it. 


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 And he made the incense altar of acacia-wood. Its length was a cubit, and its breadth a cubit, square. And its height was two cubits. Its horns were of the same. 


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 And he overlaid it with pure gold, the top of it and the sides of it all around, and the horns of it. Also he made for it a crown of gold all around. 


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 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown of it, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides of it, to be places for the staves to bear it with. 


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 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, the work of the perfumer. 


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 And he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia-wood. Its length was five cubits, and its breadth five cubits, square; and its height three cubits. 


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 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, the flesh-hooks, and the fire-pans. All the vessels of it he made of bronze. 


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 And he made a bronze grating of network for the altar, under the compass of it, beneath to the middle of it. 


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 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it with. He made it hollow with boards. 


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 And he made the laver of bronze, and its base bronze, out of the mirrors of serving women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 


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 And he made the court. On the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined bleached linen, a hundred cubits. 


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 Their pillars were twenty, and their bronze sockets twenty. The hooks of the pillar and their bands were of silver. 


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 And for the north side, a hundred by the cubit, their pillars twenty, and their twenty sockets bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver. 


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 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver. 


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 The hangings of the one side were fifteen cubits, and their pillars three, and their sockets three. 


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 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. 


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 And the sockets for the pillars were of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver. And the overlaying of their capitals was of silver. And all the pillars of the court were banded with silver. 


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 And the screen for the gate of the court was needlework: blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen. And it was twenty cubits long, and the height and the width five cubits, to match the hangings of the court. 


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 And the pillars were four, and their bronze sockets four; their hooks silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their bands silver. 


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 This is the sum of the tabernacle, of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the command of Moses, for the service of the Levites by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. 


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 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And with him was Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and bleached linen. 


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 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 


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 And the silver from those numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and seventeen hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; 


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 a bekah for every man, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for five hundred and ninety-eight families, with five thousand, five hundred and fifty men. 


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 And the sockets of the sanctuary were cast of the hundred talents of silver, and the sockets of the veil also, a hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket. 


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 And he made hooks for the pillars out of the seventeen hundred seventy-five shekels, and overlaid their capitals and joined them. 


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 and with it he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the bronze altar, and the bronze grating for it, and all the vessels of the altar, 


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 and the sockets of the court all around, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court all around bronze. 


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 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary. And they made the holy garments for Aaron, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And they beat the gold into thin plates, and cut threads to work it into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the bleached linen, the work of an artisan. 


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 They made shoulder-pieces for it, to couple it together. It was coupled together by the two edges. 


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 And its fastening band which was on it, was of it, according to its work; gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And they made stones of onyx set in plaited work of gold, engraved as signets are engraved, with the names of the sons of Israel. 


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 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, stones for a memorial to the sons of Israel, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And he made the breast-pocket a work of an artisan, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen; 


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 it was square. They made the breast-pocket double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, doubled. 


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 And they set four rows of stones in it. One row was a ruby, a topaz, and a carbuncle, the first row. 


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 And the fourth row: a chrysolite, an agate, and a jasper; set in plaited work of gold in their settings. 


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 And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with its name according to the twelve tribes. 


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 And they made two plaitings of gold and two gold rings. And they put the two rings on the two ends of the breast-pocket. 


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 And the two ends of the two cords were fastened in the two plaitings. And they put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, on its front. 


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 And they made two rings of gold. And they put them on the two ends of the breast-pocket, on its border, on the side of the ephod inward. 


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 And they made two golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the front of it, near the other coupling of it, above to the band of the ephod. 


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 And they bound the breast-pocket by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it might be above the band of the ephod, and so that the breast-pocket might not be loosened from the ephod, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And the opening in the middle of the robe was like the opening of a corselet, with a band around the opening, so that it might not tear. 


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 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined bleached linen. 


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 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hems of the robe, all around, between the pomegranates: 


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 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe to minister in, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And they made a miter of bleached linen, and the turban of the caps of bleached linen, and linen breeches of fine twined bleached linen, 


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 and a girdle of fine twined bleached linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it an inscription of the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH. 


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 And they tied a lace of blue to it, in order to fasten it on high upon the miter, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation was finished. And the sons of Israel did according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses. So they did. 


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 And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, 


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 and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of dugong skins, and the veil of the covering, 


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 the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels of it, and the oil for light, 


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 and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the tabernacle door, 


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 the bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base, 


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 the curtains of the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the court gate, its cords, and its pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle for the tent of the congregation, 


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 the woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office. 


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 And Moses looked upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it. As Jehovah commanded, even so they had done it. And Moses blessed them. 


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 You shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation on the first day of the first month. 


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 And you shall bring the table in, and set in order its arrangement. And you shall bring the lampstand in and light the lamps of it. 


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 And you shall set the altar of gold for the incense in front of the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle. 


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 And you shall set the altar of the burnt offering in front of the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. 


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 And you shall set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shall put water in it. 


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 And you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle, and all in it, and shall sanctify it and all the vessels of it. And it shall be holy. 


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 And you shall anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar. And it shall be a most holy altar. 


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 And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water. 


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 And you shall put the holy garments on Aaron, and anoint him and sanctify him, so that he may minister to Me in the priest's office. 


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 And you shall anoint them, even as you anointed their father, so that they may minister to Me in the priest's office. For their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood for their generations. 


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 And it was in the first month in the second year, on the first of the month, the tabernacle was reared up. 


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 And Moses reared up the tabernacle and fastened its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and reared up its pillars. 


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 And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent above upon it, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And he took and placed the Testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy-seat on the ark from above. 


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 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the covering, and covered the Ark of Testimony, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside the veil. 


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 And he put the lampstand in the tent of the congregation across from the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. 


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 And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered on it the burnt offering and the food offering, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, for washing. 


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 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near the altar, they washed, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And he reared up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the court gate. And Moses finished the work. 


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 And the cloud covered the tabernacle of the congregation, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle. 


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 And Moses was not able to enter into the tabernacle of the congregation because the cloud stayed on it, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle. 


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 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel journeyed on in all their journeys. 


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 For the cloud of Jehovah was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, in all their journeys. 


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 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, If any one of you brings an offering to Jehovah, you shall bring your offering of the cattle, of the herd and of the flock. 


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 If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish. He shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before Jehovah. 


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 And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering. And it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 


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 And he shall kill the young bull before Jehovah. And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 


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 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and lay the wood in order on the fire. 


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 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall arrange the parts with the head and the fat on the wood that is on the fire on the altar. 


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 But its inward parts and its legs he shall wash in water. And the priest shall burn all on the altar, a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Jehovah. 


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 And if his offering is of the flocks, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall bring a male without blemish. 


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 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before Jehovah. And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar. 


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 And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. And the priest shall arrange on the wood that is on the fire, which is on the altar. 


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 But he shall wash the inward parts and the legs in water; and the priest shall bring near all of it and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt sacrifice, a fire offering of a sweet fragrance to Jehovah. 


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 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to Jehovah is out of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtle-doves or of young pigeons. 


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 And the priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head and burn it on the altar. And its blood shall be drained at the side of the altar. 


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 And he shall pluck away its crop with its feathers, and throw it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes. 


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 And he shall cut it in two with the wings of it, not dividing it. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Jehovah. 


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 And when anyone will offer a food offering to Jehovah, his offering shall be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it. 


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 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests. And he shall take out of it his handful of flour and its oil, with all its frankincense. And the priest shall burn the memorial of it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Jehovah. 


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 And the rest of the food offering shall be Aaron's and his sons', most holy of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire. 


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 And if you bring a sacrifice of a food offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 


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 And if your offering is a food offering on the griddle, your offering shall be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil. 


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 And if your offering is a food offering in the frying pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. 


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 And you shall bring the food offering that is made of these things to Jehovah. And when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar. 


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 And the priest shall take from the food offering a memorial of it, and shall burn it on the altar. It is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Jehovah. 


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 And that which is left of the food offering shall be Aaron's and his sons: it is most holy of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire. 


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 Any food offering which you shall bring to Jehovah shall not be made with leaven. For you shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of Jehovah made by fire. 


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 As an offering of the firstfruits, you shall bring them to Jehovah. But they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet savor. 


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 And every sacrifice of your food offering shall you season with salt. And you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your food offering. You shall offer salt with all your offerings. 


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 And if you bring a food offering of your firstfruits to Jehovah, green ears roasted by fire, grains of a garden, you shall bring near for a food offering your firstfruits, 


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 And the priest shall burn it as incense with its memorial offering from its grains and from its oil, besides all its frankincense, a fire offering to Jehovah. 


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 And if his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers from the herd, whether it is a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before Jehovah. 


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 And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle the blood on the altar all around. 


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 And he shall bring near from the sacrifice the peace offering, a fire offering to Jehovah. The fat that covers the inward parts, all the fat that is on the inward parts, 


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 and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, on the loins, and the lobe above the liver, with the kidneys, he shall remove. 


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 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar, on the burnt sacrifice on the wood, which is on the fire. It is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Jehovah. 


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 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to Jehovah is of the flocks, male or female, he shall bring it without blemish. 


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 And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar. 


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 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering, a fire offering to Jehovah. He shall take away its fat, all its fat next to the backbone, and all the fat that covers the inward parts, and all the fat that is on the inward parts, 


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 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe above the liver, beside the kidneys, he shall remove it. 


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 And he shall lay his hand on its head and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation. And the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood on the altar all around. 


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 And he shall offer his offering of it, a fire offering to Jehovah, the fat that covers the inward parts, and all the fat on the inward parts, 


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 and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe above the liver, beside the kidneys, he shall remove. 


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 And the priest shall burn them on the altar, bread of the fire offering for a sweet savor. All the fat is Jehovah's. 


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 It shall be a statute forever for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood. 


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 if the priest who is anointed sins, resulting in guilt to the people, then he shall bring for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull, a son of the herd without blemish, to Jehovah for a sin offering. 


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 And he shall bring the young bull to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before Jehovah, and he shall lay his hand on the young bull's head, and kill the young bull before Jehovah. 


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 And the priest who is anointed shall take of the young bull's blood, and shall bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation. 


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 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle of the blood seven times before Jehovah, at the front of the veil of the holy place. 


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 And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Jehovah, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation. And he shall pour all the blood of the young bull at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 


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 And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering, he shall lift up the fat which is covering over the inward parts, and all the fat which is on the inward parts, 


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 and the two kidneys, and the fat which is on them, which is on the loins, and he shall remove the lobe on the liver beside the kidneys. 


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 Even as it was lifted from the young bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings, the priest shall burn them on the altar of the burnt offering. 


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 And the skin of the young bull, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inward parts, and its dung, 


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 even the whole bull shall he carry forth outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on the wood with fire. It shall be burned where the ashes are poured out. 


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 And if the whole company of Israel sins through ignorance, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and if they do that which ought not to be done to any of all the commands of Jehovah, and are guilty; 


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 when the sin is known which they have sinned against it, then the congregation shall bring near a young bull for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation. 


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 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the young bull before Jehovah, and the young bull shall be killed before Jehovah. 


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 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the young bull's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation. 


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 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle seven times before Jehovah, before the veil. 


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 And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Jehovah, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation. And he shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 


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 And he shall do with the young bull as he did with the young bull for a sin offering; so shall he do to it. And the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them. 


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 And he shall carry forth the young bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is a sin offering for the congregation. 


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 When a ruler has sinned and through ignorance has acted against one of the commands of Jehovah his God, which is not to be done, and is guilty; 


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 or if his sin which he has sinned shall be made known to him, he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish. 


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 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where he kills the burnt offering before Jehovah. It is a sin offering. 


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 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out its blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering. 


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 And he shall burn all its fat on the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him. 


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 And if any one of the people of the land sins through ignorance, by doing that which is not to be done against one of the commands of Jehovah, and is guilty; 


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 or if his sin which he has sinned shall be made known to him, then he shall bring his offering, a ewe of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned. 


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 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering. 


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 And the priest shall take of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood of it at the bottom of the altar. 


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 And he shall take away all its fat, as the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall burn it on the altar for a sweet savor to Jehovah. And the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him. 


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 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where he kills the burnt offering. 


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 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all its blood at the bottom of the altar. 


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 And he shall take away all the fat of it, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings. And the priest shall burn them on the altar, on the fire offerings to Jehovah. And the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him. 


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 And if a soul sins and hears the voice of swearing, and is a witness, and he has seen or known, if he does not tell it, then he shall bear his iniquity. 


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 Or if a soul touches any unclean thing, whether a dead body of an unclean beast, or a dead body of unclean cattle, or the dead body of unclean swarming things, and if it is hidden from him that he is unclean and guilty-- 


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 or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever uncleanness by which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him, and he knows, then he shall be guilty. 


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 Or if a soul swears, pronouncing with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man speaks rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, and he knows, then he shall be guilty of one of these. 


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 And he shall bring his trespass offering to Jehovah for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a doe of the goats, for a sin offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin. 


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 And if his hand cannot reach to a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass which he has committed, two turtle-doves or two young pigeons to Jehovah-- one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. 


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 And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer for the sin offering first, and shall wring off its head from its neck, but shall not divide it. 


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 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained at the bottom of the altar. It is a sin offering. 


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 And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance. And the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him. 


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 But if he is not able to bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put frankincense on it. For it is a sin offering. 


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 And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his full handful of it, a memorial of it, and burn it on the altar, on the fire offering to Jehovah. It is a sin offering. 


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 And the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin that he has sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him. And the rest shall be the priest's, as a food offering. 


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 If a soul commits a trespass and sins through ignorance in the holy things of Jehovah, then he shall bring for his trespass to Jehovah a ram without blemish out of the flock, together with an amount set by you, by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering. 


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 And he shall make it good in which he has sinned, in the holy thing, and he shall add the fifth part of it, and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him. 


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 And if a soul sins, and he has done that which ought not to be done, any one from all the commands of Jehovah, and does not know, and he is guilty and bears his iniquity; 


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 then he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, at your evaluation, for a trespass offering, to the priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him for his ignorance in which he erred without knowing it, and it shall be forgiven him. 


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 If a soul sins, and acts unfaithfully against Jehovah, and lies to his neighbor as to a deposit-- or as to security, or by robbery, or has extorted his neighbor, 


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 or has found that which was lost and lies concerning it and swears falsely-- in any of all these that a man does, sinning in it, 


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 then, it shall be, because he sinned and is guilty, he shall pay back that which he got by robbery, if he robbed; or the thing extorted which he extorted; or the deposit which had been deposited with him; or the lost thing which he had found; 


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 or all that which he swore about falsely, --he shall even repay it in its principal, and the fifth part he shall add to it, to whomever it belongs. He shall give it on the day of his guilt offering. 


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 And he shall bring his trespass offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, together with an amount set by you, for a trespass offering, to the priest. 


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 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before Jehovah, and it shall be forgiven him for anything of all that he has done by being guilty in it. 


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 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. It is the burnt offering for burning on the altar all night to the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it. 


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 And the priest shall put on his linen garment. And he shall put his linen breeches on his flesh and take up the ashes which the fire has consumed with the burnt offering on the altar. And he shall put them beside the altar. 


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 And he shall strip off his garments and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. 


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 And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it. It shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order on it. And he shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. 


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 And this is the law of the food offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before Jehovah before the altar. 


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 And he shall take from it his handful of the flour of the food offering, and of the oil of it, and all the frankincense which is on the food offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a sweet savor, the memorial of it, to Jehovah. 


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 And the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten with unleavened bread in the holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation. 


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 It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering is. 


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 All the males among the sons of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute forever in your generations concerning the offerings of Jehovah made by fire. Everyone that touches them shall be holy. 


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 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Jehovah in the day he is anointed, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a continual food offering, half of it in the morning and half of it at night. 


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 It shall be made in a pan with oil; you shall bring it in. And you shall offer the baked pieces of the food offering, a sweet savor to Jehovah. 


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 And the priest of his sons, who is anointed in his stead, shall offer it. It is a statute forever to Jehovah. It shall be wholly burnt. 


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 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Jehovah. It is most holy. 


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 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in the holy place, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation. 


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 Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. And when any of its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in the holy place. 


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 But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. And if it is boiled in a bronze pot, it shall be both scoured and rinsed in water. 


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 And no sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation for atonement in the sanctuary, shall be eaten. It shall be burned up in the fire. 


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 In the place where they kill the burnt offering, they shall kill the trespass offering. And he shall sprinkle its blood on the altar all around. 


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 And he shall offer all its fat; he shall offer the fat tail of it, and the fat that covers the inward parts, 


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 and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, on the loins, and the lobe above the liver, beside the kidneys, he shall take away. 


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 And the priest shall burn them on the altar for a fire offering to Jehovah. It is a trespass offering. 


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 Every male among the priests shall eat of it. It shall be eaten in the holy place. It is most holy. 


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 As the sin offering, so is the trespass offering. There is one law for them. The priest that makes atonement with it, it is his. 


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 And the priest that offers any man's burnt offering, that priest shall have the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered; it is his. 


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 And all the food offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the frying-pan and on the griddle, shall be the priest's that offers it; it is his. 


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 And every food offering mixed with oil, or dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one like another. 


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 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil, of fine flour, fried. 


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 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings. 


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 And from it he shall offer one cake out of the whole sacrifice for a heave offering to Jehovah, to the priest that sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings; it is his. 


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 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until the morning. 


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 But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice. And on the next day also the rest of it shall be eaten. 


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 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offerings is eaten at all the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it. It shall be an abomination, and the soul that eats of it shall bear his iniquity. 


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 And the flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. And as for the flesh, all who are clean shall eat of it. 


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 But the soul that eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings that pertain to Jehovah, having his uncleanness on him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people. 


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 And the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, of the uncleanness of man, or any unclean animal, or an unclean abominable thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which pertain to Jehovah, even that soul shall be cut off from his people. 


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 And the fat of a dead body, and the fat of a thing torn, may be used in any other use. But you shall in no way eat it. 


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 For whoever eats the fat of the beast of which men offer an offering made by fire to Jehovah, even the soul that eats it shall be cut off from his people. 


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 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Jehovah, shall bring his sacrifice to Jehovah of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. 


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 His own hands shall bring in the fire offerings of Jehovah. He shall bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be waved for a wave-offering before Jehovah. 


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 And you shall give the right shoulder to the priest for a heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. 


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 He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part. 


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 For I have taken the breast of the wave offering and the heave shoulder from the sons of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons by a statute forever from among the sons of Israel. 


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 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, in the day he presented them to minister to Jehovah in the priest's office, 


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 which Jehovah commanded to be given to them of the sons of Israel, in the day that He anointed them as a statute forever throughout their generations. 


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 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the food offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifices of the peace offerings, 


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 which Jehovah commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day that He commanded the sons of Israel to offer their sacrifices to Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai. 


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 Take Aaron, and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a young bull for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread. 


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 And Moses did as Jehovah had commanded him. And the assembly was gathered together to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 


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 And he put on him the tunic, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him, and girded him with the embroidered girdle of the ephod, and bound it to him with it. 


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 And he put the miter on his head. Also he put the golden plate, the holy crown, on the miter, on his forehead, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them. 


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 And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, both the laver and its base, to sanctify them. 


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 And Moses brought Aaron's sons and put tunics on them, and girded them with girdles, and bound turbans on them, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And he brought the young bull for the sin offering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the young bull for the sin offering. 


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 And he killed it. And Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement on it. 


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 And he took all the fat on the inward parts, and the lobe above the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and Moses burned it on the altar. 


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 But the young bull and its hide, its flesh and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And he brought the ram for the burnt offering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 


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 And he washed the inward parts and the legs in water. And Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savor, a fire offering to Jehovah, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And he brought the second ram, the ram of consecration. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 


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 And he killed it. And Moses took of the blood of it, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 


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 And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the great toes of their right feet. And Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar all around. 


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 And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat on the inward parts, and the lobe above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder. 


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 And he took one unleavened cake out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Jehovah, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and on the right shoulder. 


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 And he put all on Aaron's hands, and on his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before Jehovah. 


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 And Moses took them off their hands and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were consecrations for a soothing fragrance. It is a fire offering to Jehovah. 


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 And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before Jehovah. It was Moses' part of the ram of consecration, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him. And he sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. 


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 And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And eat it there with the bread in the basket of consecrations, as I have commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it. 


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 You shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation seven days, until the days of your consecration are at an end. For He shall consecrate you seven days. 


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 And you shall remain at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Jehovah, so that you do not die. For so I am commanded. 


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 And he said to Aaron, Take a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram without blemish for a burnt offering, and offer before Jehovah. 


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 And speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Take a kid of the goats for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb of the first year, all without blemish, for a burnt offering. 


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 Also take a young bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Jehovah, and a food offering mixed with oil. For today Jehovah will appear to you. 


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 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation. And all the congregation drew near and stood before Jehovah. 


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 And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah commanded that you should do. And the glory of Jehovah shall appear to you. 


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 And Moses said to Aaron, Go to the altar, and offer your sin offering and your burnt offerings, and make an atonement for yourself and for the people. And offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them, even as Jehovah commanded. 


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 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him. And he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar. 


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 But he burned the fat and the kidneys and the lobe above the liver of the sin offering on the altar, even as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 And he killed the burnt offering. And Aaron's sons presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled all around on the altar. 


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 And they presented the burnt offering to him, with the pieces of it, and the head. And he burned them on the altar. 


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 And he brought the people's offering. And he took the he-goat, the sin offering for the people, and killed it and offered it for sin as the first. 


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 And he brought the food offering and took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar besides the burnt sacrifice of the morning. 


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 He also killed the young bull and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings for the people. And Aaron's sons presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled on the altar all around. 


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 And they brought the fat of the young bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the inward parts, and the kidneys, and the lobe above the liver. 


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 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before Jehovah, as Moses commanded. 


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 And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and peace offerings. 


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 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out and blessed the people. And the glory of Jehovah appeared to all the people. 


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 And there came a fire out from before Jehovah, and burned up the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. And all the people saw and shouted and fell on their faces. 


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 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which He had not commanded them. 


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 Then Moses said to Aaron, It is that which Jehovah spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. 


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 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, Come near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp. 


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 And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, lest you die, and lest He be angry on all the people. But let your brothers, the whole of Israel, mourn the burning which Jehovah has kindled. 


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 And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die. For the anointing oil of Jehovah is on you. And they did according to the word of Moses. 


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 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die, a statute forever throughout your generations. 


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 and so that you may teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah has spoken to them by the hand of Moses. 


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 And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the food offering that remains of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar. For it is most holy. 


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 And you shall eat in the holy place, because it is your due, and your sons' due, of the fire offerings of Jehovah made by fire. For so I am commanded. 


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 And the wave breast and heave shoulder you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons and your daughters with you. For they have been given for your portion and the portion of your sons out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the sons of Israel. 


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 The heave shoulder and the wave breast they shall bring with the fire offerings of the fat, to wave for a wave offering before Jehovah. And it shall be yours, and your sons' with you, by a statute forever, even as Jehovah has commanded. 


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 And Moses carefully looked for the goat of the sin offering. And behold, it was burned! And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron left alive, saying, 


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 Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, since it is most holy, and He has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Jehovah? 


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 Behold! The blood of it was not brought within the holy place! You should indeed have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded. 


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 And Aaron said to Moses, Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Jehovah. And such things have happened to me. And if I had eaten the sin offering today, should it have been accepted in the sight of Jehovah? 


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 Whatever divides the hoof, and is cloven-footed, chewing the cud, among the animals, that you shall eat. 


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 Only, you shall not eat these of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: the camel, for he chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; he is unclean to you. 


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 And the rock badger, because he chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof; he is unclean to you. 


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 And the swine, though he divides the hoof and is cloven-footed, yet he does not chew the cud; he is unclean to you. 


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 You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall not touch their dead body. They are unclean to you. 


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 These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them you shall eat. 


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 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing that is in the waters, they shall be an abomination to you. 


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 They shall even be an abomination to you. You shall not eat of their flesh, but you shall have their carcasses in abomination. 


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 And you shall have these in abomination among the fowls. They shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the black vulture, and the bearded vulture, 


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 Yet you may eat these of any flying swarming thing that goes on all four, those which have legs above their feet, to leap with on the earth. 


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 You may eat these of them: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the long horned locust after its kind, and the short horned grasshopper after its kind. 


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 And you shall be unclean for these. Whoever touches their dead body shall be unclean until the evening. 


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 even every living thing which divides the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, they are unclean to you. Everyone that touches them shall be unclean. 


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 And whatever goes on its paws, among all the living things that go on all four, those are unclean to you. Whoever touches their dead body shall be unclean until the evening. 


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 And he that carries their dead bodies shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you. 


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 These also shall be unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind; 


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 These are unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening. 


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 And whatever shall fall on any of them when they are dead, shall be unclean, whether any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack; whatever vessel in which work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean to the evening. So it shall be cleaned. 


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 And every earthen vessel in which any of them falls, whatever is in it shall be unclean. And you shall break it. 


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 Of all food which may be eaten, that on which such water comes shall be unclean. And all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean. 


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 And every thing on which any part of their dead body falls shall be unclean; whether it is the oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down. They are unclean, and shall be unclean to you. 


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 But a fountain or pit, with a collection of water, shall be clean. But that which touches their dead body shall be unclean. 


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 But if any water is put on the seed, and any part of the dead body falls on it, it shall be unclean to you. 


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 And if any animal among those you may eat dies, he that touches its dead body shall be unclean until the evening. 


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 And he that eats of its dead body shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. He also that carries its body shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. 


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 Anything going on its belly, and any going on all four, and all having many feet, even every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them. For they are an abomination. 


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 You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that swarms, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, so that you should be defiled by them. 


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 For I am Jehovah your God, and you shall sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy, for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of swarming thing that swarms on the earth. 


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 For I am Jehovah who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. 


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 This is the law of the animals, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that swarms on the earth, 


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 to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the creature that may be eaten and the creature that may not be eaten. 


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 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If a woman has conceived seed and has borne a male, then she shall be unclean seven days; as on the days of her menstrual impurity she shall be unclean. 


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 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying thirty-three days. She shall touch no holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are fulfilled. 


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 But if she bears a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying sixty-six days. 


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 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtle-dove, for a sin offering to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to the priest. 


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 And he shall offer it before Jehovah, and make an atonement for her. And she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that has borne a male or a female. 


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 And if her hand cannot reach to a lamb, then she shall bring two turtle-doves or two young pigeons. The one shall be for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed. 


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 When a man has a rising in the skin of his flesh, or a scab or bright spot, and it is in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests. 


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 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh. And if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the plague in sight is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy. And the priest shall look on him and shall pronounce him unclean. 


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 And if the bright spot is white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight is not deeper than the skin, and the hair of it has not turned white, then the priest shall shut up the plague seven days. 


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 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day. And behold, if the plague in his sight is stayed; the plague has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days more. 


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 And the priest shall look on him again in the seventh day. And, behold, if the plague is somewhat dark; the plague has not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean. 


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 But if the scab spreads greatly in the skin after he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again. 


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 And if the priest sees that, behold, the scab spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprosy. 


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 And the priest shall look. And, behold, if the rising is white in the skin, and it has turned the hair white and there is live raw flesh in the rising, 


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 it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh. And the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up, for he is unclean. 


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 And if a leprosy breaks out greatly on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one who has the plague from his head even to his foot, to all that appears to the eyes of the priest, 


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 then the priest shall look. And behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce the plague-spot clean. It has all turned white. He is clean. 


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 And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; it is a leprosy. 


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 And the priest shall look on him. And, behold, the plague has turned to white, then the priest shall pronounce the plague-spot clean. He is clean. 


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 and in the place of the boil there is a white rising or a bright spot, a reddish white, it shall be seen by the priest; 


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 and if the priest sees it, and behold, it is in sight lower than the skin, and the hair of it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague of leprosy broken out in a boil. 


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 But if the priest looks on it, and, behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it is not lower than the skin, but has become dark, then the priest shall shut him up seven days. 


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 And if it spreads greatly in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague. 


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 But if the bright spot stays in its place, not spreading, it is a burning boil. And the priest shall pronounce him clean. 


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 Or if there is flesh in which the skin has a hot burning, and the raw flesh of the burning becomes a white bright spot, reddish or white, 


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 then the priest shall look on it. And behold, the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and it is in sight deeper than the skin, it is leprosy broken out of the burning. Therefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. 


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 But if the priest looks on it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it is no lower than the other skin, but is somewhat dark, then the priest shall shut him up seven days. 


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 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day. If it spreads farther in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. 


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 And if the bright spot stays in its place, and does not spread in the skin, but is somewhat faded, it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is a scar of the burning. 


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 then the priest shall see the plague. And behold, if it is in sight deeper than the skin, and a yellow thin hair is in it, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a dry scab, a leprosy on the head or beard. 


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 And if the priest looks on the plague of the scab, and behold, it is not in sight deeper than the skin, and no black hair is in it, then the priest shall shut up the plagued one with the scab seven days. 


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 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague. And behold, if the scab does not spread, and no yellow hair is in it, and the scab is not in sight deeper than the skin, 


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 he shall be shaven, but shall not shave the scab. And the priest shall shut up the one who has the scab seven days more. 


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 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scab. And behold, if the scab has not spread in the skin, nor is in sight deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean. 


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 then the priest shall look on him, and behold, if the scab is spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for shining yellow hair. He is unclean. 


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 But if in his eyes the scab is stabilized, and black hair is growing up in it, the scab is healed. He is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean. 


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 then the priest shall look. And behold, if pale white bright spots are in the skin of their flesh, it is a pale spot springing up in the skin. He is clean. 


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 And if there is in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore, it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head or his bald forehead. 


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 And the priest shall look on it. And behold, if the rising of the sore is reddish white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appears in the skin of the flesh, 


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 he is a man with leprosy. He is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean. His plague is in his head. 


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 And as for the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be torn, and his head shall be bare, and he shall put a covering on his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean! Unclean! 


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 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be defiled. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp. 


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 And if there is any garment that has the plague of leprosy in it, in a wool garment or a linen garment, 


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 and if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is a plague of leprosy. And it shall be seen by the priest. 


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 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day. If the plague is spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in any skin or in any work that is made of skin, the plague is a fretting leprosy. It is unclean. 


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 And he shall burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin in which the plague is. For it is a fretting leprosy. It shall be burned in the fire. 


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 And if the priest shall look, and behold, the plague has not spread in the garment, either in the warp or the woof, or anything of skin, 


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 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is. And he shall shut it up seven days more. 


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 And the priest shall look on the plague after it is washed, and behold, if the plague has not changed its color and the plague has not spread; it is unclean. You shall burn it in the fire. It is eaten away in its inside or in its outside. 


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 And if the priest looks, and behold, the plague is somewhat dark after the washing of it, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof. 


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 And if it appears still in the garment, or in the warp or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is a spreading plague. You shall burn that which is in it is the plague is with fire. 


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 And the garment which you shall wash, either warp or woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed a second time, and shall be clean. 


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 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woolen or linen, either in the warp or woof or anything of skins, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean. 


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 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest. 


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 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp. And the priest shall look, and behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper, 


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 then the priest shall command to take two clean live birds for him that is to be cleansed, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. 


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 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water. 


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 He shall take the living bird, and the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the slain bird, over the running water. 


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 And he shall sprinkle on him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field. 


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 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water so that he may be clean. And after that he shall come into the camp, and shall stay outside his tent seven days. 


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 But on the seventh day he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eye-brows; even all his hair shall he shave off. And he shall wash his clothes. He also shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean. 


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 And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three-tenth parts of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil. 


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 And the priest who is cleansing, and the man who is to be cleansed, shall stand with them before Jehovah at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 


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 And the priest shall take one male lamb and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before Jehovah. 


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 And he shall kill the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place. For as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy. 


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 And the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 


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 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil in his left hand and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before Jehovah. 


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 And of the rest of the oil in his hand, the priest shall put on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the trespass offering. 


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 And the rest of the oil in the priest's palm he shall pour on the head of him that is to be cleansed. And the priest shall make an atonement for him before Jehovah. 


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 And the priest shall offer the sin offering and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering. 


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 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the food offering on the altar. And the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean. 


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 And if he is poor and his hand cannot reach so much, then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one-tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering, and a log of oil, 


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 and two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, such as his hand can reach. And the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering. 


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 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before Jehovah. 


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 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Jehovah. 


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 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. And the priest shall take from the blood of the trespass offering, and put it on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 


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 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Jehovah. 


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 And the priest shall put of the oil in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering. 


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 And the rest of the oil in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before Jehovah. 


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 And he shall offer the one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is able to get, 


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 even such as he is able to reach, the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, with the food offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before Jehovah. 


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 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to reach in his cleansing. 


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 When you come into the land of Canaan which I give you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house in the land of your possession, 


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 and if he that owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, A plague is seen by me in the house; 


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 then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to see the plague, so that all that is in the house may not become unclean. And afterwards the priest shall go in to see the house. 


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 And he shall look on the plague. And behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall, 


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 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. 


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 And the priest shall come again the seventh day and shall look. And behold, if the plague has spread in the walls of the house, 


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 then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall throw them into an unclean place outside the city. 


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 And he shall cause the house to be scraped inside all around, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off outside the city in an unclean place. 


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 And they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones. And he shall take other mortar and shall plaster the house. 


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 And if the plague comes again and breaks out in the house after he has taken away the stones and after he has scraped the house, and after it is plastered, 


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 then the priest shall come and look. And behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house. It is unclean. 


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 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber of it, and all the mortar of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place. 


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 And he that goes into the house all the days that it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening. 


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 And he that lies in the house shall wash his clothes. And he that eats in the house shall wash his clothes. 


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 And if the priest shall come in and look, and, behold, the plague has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the plague is healed. 


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 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet dye, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. 


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 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet. 


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 But he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field, and make an atonement for the house. And it shall be clean. 


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 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When any man has an issue from his flesh; he is unclean because of his issue. 


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 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue. His flesh has run with his issue, or his flesh is ceased from his issue, it is his uncleanness. 


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 Every bed on which he who issues lies is unclean. And everything on which he sits shall be unclean. 


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 And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. 


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 And he that sits on any thing on which he who issues sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. 


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 And he that touches the flesh of him who issues shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. 


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 And if he who issues spits on him that is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. 


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 And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. And he that carries any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. 


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 And whomever he who issues touches, and has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. 


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 And the earthen vessel that he who issues touches shall be broken. And every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. 


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 And when he who issues is cleansed of his issue, then he shall number seven days to himself for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean. 


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 And on the eighth day he shall take two turtle-doves to himself, or two young pigeons, and come before Jehovah to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them to the priest. 


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 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him before Jehovah for his issue. 


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 And if any man's semen goes from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water and be unclean until the evening. 


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 And every garment and every skin on which the semen shall be, it shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening. 


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 And the woman with whom a man shall lie with emission of semen shall both bathe in water and be unclean until the evening. 


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 And if a woman has an issue, and her issue in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. And whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. 


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 And everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean. 


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 And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. 


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 And whoever touches anything that she sat on, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. 


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 And if it is on the bed or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening. 


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 And if any man lies with her at all, and her impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days. And every bed on which he lies shall be unclean. 


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 And if a woman has an issue of her blood many days outside of the time of her impurity, or if she issues it beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her impurity. She is unclean. 


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 Every bed on which she lies all the days of her issue shall be to her as the bed of her impurity. And whatever she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity. 


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 And whoever touches those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. 


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 But if she is cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 


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 And on the eighth day she shall take two turtle-doves to her, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 


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 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her before Jehovah for the issue of her uncleanness. 


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 So you shall separate the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness when they defile My tabernacle that is among them. 


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 This is the law of him that has an issue, and of him whose semen goes from him and is defiled with it, 


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 and of her that is menstruating, and of him that has an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lies with an unclean woman. 


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 And Jehovah spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before Jehovah and they died. 


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 and Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother, that he does not come at all times into the sanctuary within the veil before the mercy-seat, which is on the Ark, so that he will not die. For I will appear in the cloud on the mercy-seat. 


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 Aaron shall come into the sanctuary this way: with a bull, a son of the herd, for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. 


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 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches on his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen miter he shall be dressed. These are holy garments. And he shall wash his flesh in water and put them on. 


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 And he shall take from the congregation of the sons of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. 


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 And Aaron shall offer his young bull of the sin offering which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself and for his house. 


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 And he shall take the two he-goats and present them before Jehovah at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 


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 And Aaron shall cast lots on the two he-goats; one lot for Jehovah and the other lot for a complete removal. 


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 But the goat on which the lot fell to be the complete removal shall be presented alive before Jehovah, to make an atonement with him, to let him go for a complete removal into the wilderness. 


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 And Aaron shall bring the young bull of the sin offering which is for himself, and shall atone for himself and for his house, and shall kill the young bull of the sin offering which is for himself. 


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 And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Jehovah, and his hands full of fragrant perfumes beaten small, and bring it within the veil. 


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 And he shall put the incense on the fire before Jehovah. And the cloud of the incense shall cover the mercy-seat that is on the Testimony. And he shall not die. 


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 And he shall take of the blood of the young bull and shall sprinkle with his finger on the front of the mercy-seat eastward. And he shall sprinkle at the front of the mercy-seat seven times from the blood with his finger. 


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 And he shall atone for the sanctuary, because of the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins. And so he shall do for the tabernacle of the congregation which remains with them in the midst of their uncleannesses. 


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 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goes in to make an atonement in the sanctuary, until he comes out and has made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. 


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 And he shall go out to the altar that is before Jehovah and make an atonement for it. And he shall take some of the blood of the young bull, and of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around. 


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 And he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel. 


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 And when he has made an end of reconciling the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, he shall bring the live goat. 


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 And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the sins of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send away by the hand of a chosen man into the wilderness. 


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 And the goat shall bear on him all their sins to a land in which no one lives. And he shall let the goat go in the wilderness. 


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 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall strip off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the sanctuary, and shall leave them there. 


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 And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself and for the people. 


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 And he that let go the goat for the complete removal shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp. 


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 And the young bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall they carry forth outside the camp. And they shall burn their skins in the fire, and their flesh and their dung. 


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 And he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. 


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 And it shall be a statute forever to you: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work at all, the native and the alien who is staying among you. 


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 For on that day an atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse you, so that you may be clean from all your sins before Jehovah. 


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 And the priest whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement and shall put on the linen clothes, the holy garments. 


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 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar; and he shall make an atonement for the priests and for all the people of the congregation. 


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 And this shall be an everlasting statute to you, to make an atonement for the sons of Israel for their sins once a year. And he did as Jehovah commanded Moses. 


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 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded, saying, 


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 Any man of the house of Israel who kills an ox or lamb or goat in the camp, or kills it out of the camp, 


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 and does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer as offering to Jehovah before the tabernacle of Jehovah, blood shall be charged to that man; he has shed blood. And that man shall be cut off from among his people, 


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 so that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them to Jehovah, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to the priest, and offer them for peace offerings to Jehovah. 


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 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of Jehovah at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savor to Jehovah. 


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 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices to goats, after whom they have gone whoring. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations. 


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 And you shall say to them, Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who are staying among you, offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, 


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 and does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation to offer it to Jehovah, even that man shall be cut off from among his people. 


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 And any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that are staying among you, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 


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 For the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I have given it to you on the altar to make an atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul. 


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 Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that is staying among you eat blood. 


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 And any man of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that are staying among you, who hunts game, beast or fowl, that may be eaten, he shall even pour out its blood and cover it with dust. 


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 For it is the life of all flesh. Its blood is for the life of it. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh. For the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off. 


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 And any soul that eats a dead body, or a torn thing, whether a native or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean. 


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 You shall not do like the doings of the land of Egypt in which you lived. And you shall not do like the doings of the land of Canaan, where I bring you. Neither shall you walk in their ordinances. 


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 And you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Jehovah. 


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 None of you shall approach to any who are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness. I am Jehovah. 


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 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 


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 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, born at home or born away. Their nakedness you shall not uncover. 


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 The nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, you shall not uncover their nakedness. For theirs is your own nakedness. 


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 You shall not uncover the nakedness of the daughter of your father's wife, begotten of your father. She is your sister. 


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 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister. For she is your mother's near kinswoman. 


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 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother. You shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt. 


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 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness. 


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 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shall you undertake to uncover her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter. They are her near kinswomen; it is wickedness. 


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 And you shall not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life. 


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 Also you shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness in the impurity of her uncleanness. 


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 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shall you profane the name of your God. I am Jehovah. 


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 And you shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. And a woman shall not stand before an animal to lie down to it. It is a perversion. 


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 Do not defile yourselves in any of these things. For in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you. 


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 And the land is defiled. Therefore I visit its wickedness on it, and the land itself vomits out those who live in it. 


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 You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, neither the native, nor any stranger that lives among you. 


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 For the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and the land is defiled. 


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 You shall not do these so that the land may not spew you out also when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you. 


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 For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls who commit them shall be cut off from among their people. 


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 And you shall keep My ordinance, so as not to do any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves in them. I am Jehovah your God. 


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 Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I, Jehovah your God, am holy. 


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 And if you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, you shall offer it of your own free will. 


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 It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day. And if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire. 


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 And anyone that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Jehovah. And that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 


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 And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corner of your field. And you shall not gather the gleaning of your harvest. 


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 And you shall not glean your vineyard. And you shall not gather the leavings of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am Jehovah your God. 


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 And you shall not swear by My name falsely; nor shall you profane the name of your God. I am Jehovah. 


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 You shall not defraud your neighbor nor rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you until the morning. 


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 You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but shall fear your God. I am Jehovah. 


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 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. You shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness. 


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 You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah. 


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 You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall always rebuke your neighbor, and not allow sin on him. 


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 You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Jehovah. 


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 You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with different kinds. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed. And you shall not allow clothing mixed of linen and wool to come on you. 


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 And whoever lies with a woman with semen, and she is a slave-girl, betrothed to a husband and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her, there shall be an inquest. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 


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 And he shall bring his trespass offering to Jehovah, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering. 


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 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before Jehovah for his sin which he has done. And the sin which he has done shall be forgiven him. 


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 And when you shall come into the land, and shall have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count the fruit of them as uncircumcised. It shall be uncircumcised three years to you. It shall not be eaten. 


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 And in the fifth year you shall eat of the fruit of it, so that it may yield to you its increase. I am Jehovah your God. 


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 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you. I am Jehovah. 


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 You shall not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a whore, lest the land go whoring, and the land become full of wickedness. 


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 You shall not turn to mediums, and you shall not seek to spirit-knowers to be defiled by them. I am Jehovah your God. 


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 You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God. I am Jehovah. 


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 The stranger that dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself. For you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am Jehovah your God. 


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 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 


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 Again you shall say to the sons of Israel, Any man of the sons of Israel or of the strangers who live in Israel, that gives any of his seed to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. 


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 And I will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile My sanctuary, and to profane My holy name. 


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 And if the people of the land in any way hide their eyes from the man when he gives of his seed to Molech, and do not kill him, 


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 then I will set My face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go lusting after him to commit adultery with Molech, from among their people. 


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 And the soul that turns to mediums, and to spirit-knowers, to go lusting after them, I will even set My face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. 


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 And any man who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be on him. 


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 And a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 


