ETR World English Bible

Genesis

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty.  Darkness was on the surface of the deep.  God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Genesis 1:3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.  1:4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good.  God divided the light from the darkness.  1:5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night."  There was evening and there was morning, one day.

Genesis 1:6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."  1:7 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.  1:8 God called the expanse "sky."  There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1:9 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.  1:10 God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas."  God saw that it was good.  1:11 God said, "Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.  1:12 The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.  1:13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

Genesis 1:14 God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; 1:15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.  1:16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night.  He also made the stars.  1:17 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, 1:18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness.  God saw that it was good.  1:19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

Genesis 1:20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."  1:21 God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind.  God saw that it was good.  1:22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."  1:23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Genesis 1:24 God said, "Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.  1:25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind.  God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."  1:27 God created man in his own image.  In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.  1:28 God blessed them.  God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.  Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."  1:29 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed.  It will be your food.  1:30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.  1:31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.  There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.


Genesis 2:1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.  2:2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.  2:3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

Genesis 2:4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.  2:5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth.  There was not a man to till the ground, 2:6 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.  2:7 The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.  2:8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.  2:9 Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  2:10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.  2:11 The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 2:12 and the gold of that land is good.  There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.  2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.  2:14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria.  The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:15 The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.  2:16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."

Genesis 2:18 The LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."  2:19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them.  Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.  2:20 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.  2:21 The LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.  2:22 He made the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.  2:23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.  She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man."  2:24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.  2:25 They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.


Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made.  He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"

Genesis 3:2 The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, 3:3 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.'"

Genesis 3:4 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die, 3:5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

Genesis 3:6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.  3:7 The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked.  They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.  3:8 They heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:9 The LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"  3:10 The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."  3:11 God said, "Who told you that you were naked?  Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"  3:12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."  3:13 The LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?"  The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

Genesis 3:14 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field.  On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.  3:15  I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring.  He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

Genesis 3:16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.  In pain you will bear children.  Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake.  In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.  3:18 It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.  3:19  By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken.  For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

Genesis 3:20 The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.  3:21 The LORD God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

Genesis 3:22 The LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil.  Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever".  3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.  3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.


Genesis 4:1 The man knew Eve his wife.  She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with the LORD's help."  4:2 Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel.  Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.  4:3 As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the ground.  4:4 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat.  The LORD respected Abel and his offering, 4:5 but he didn't respect Cain and his offering.  Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.  4:6 The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry?  Why has the expression of your face fallen?  4:7 If you do well, will it not be lifted up?  If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door.  Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."  4:8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field."  It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

Genesis 4:9 The LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?"  He said, "I don't know.  Am I my brother's keeper?"  4:10 The LORD said, "What have you done?  The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.  4:11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.  4:12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you.  You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

Genesis 4:13 Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.  4:14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground.  I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.  It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."  4:15 The LORD said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold."  The LORD appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.

Genesis 4:16 Cain went out from the LORD's presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.  4:17 Cain knew his wife.  She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch.  He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.  4:18 To Enoch was born Irad.  Irad became the father of Mehujael.  Mehujael became the father of Methushael.  Methushael became the father of Lamech.  4:19 Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.  4:20 Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.  4:21 His brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.  4:22 Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron.  Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.

Genesis 4:23 Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice.  You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.  4:24  If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."

Genesis 4:25 Adam knew his wife again.  She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, "for God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."  4:26 There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh.  Then men began to call on the LORD's name.


Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam.  In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.  5:2 He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name "Adam," in the day when they were created.  5:3 Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.  5:4 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.  5:5 All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

Genesis 5:6 Seth lived one hundred five years, and became the father of Enosh.  5:7 Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.  5:8 All the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.

Genesis 5:9 Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.  5:10 Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.  5:11 All the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.

Genesis 5:12 Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.  5:13 Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters 5:14 and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.

Genesis 5:15 Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.  5:16 Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.  5:17 All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.

Genesis 5:18 Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.  5:19 Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.  5:20 All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.

Genesis 5:21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.  5:22 Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.  5:23 All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.  5:24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

Genesis 5:25 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.  5:26 Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.  5:27 All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.

Genesis 5:28 Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son, 5:29 and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed."  5:30 Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.  5:31 All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.

Genesis  5:32 Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.


Genesis 6:1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, 6:2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.  6:3 The LORD said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."  6:4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters.  They bore children to them.  Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Genesis 6:5 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  6:6 The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.  6:7 The LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."  6:8 But Noah found favor in the LORD's eyes.

Genesis 6:9 This is the history of the generations of Noah.  Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time.  Noah walked with God.  6:10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.  6:11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.  6:12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Genesis 6:13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them.  Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.  6:14 Make a ship of gopher wood.  You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.  6:15 This is how you shall make it.  The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.  6:16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward.  You shall set the door of the ship in its side.  You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.  6:17 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky.  Everything that is in the earth will die.  6:18 But I will establish my covenant with you.  You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your son's wives with you.  6:19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you.  They shall be male and female.  6:20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.  6:21 Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."  6:22 Thus Noah did.  According to all that God commanded him, so he did.


Genesis 7:1 The LORD said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.  7:2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female.  Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.  7:3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.  7:4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights.  Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."  7:5 Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.

Genesis 7:6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.  7:7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his son's wives, because of the waters of the flood.  7:8 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground 7:9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.  7:10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.  7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.  7:12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship; 7:14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.  7:15 They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.  7:16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.  7:17 The flood was forty days on the earth.  The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.  7:18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.  7:19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth.  All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.  7:20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.  7:21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.  7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.  7:23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky.  They were destroyed from the earth.  Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.  7:24 The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.


Genesis 8:1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth.  The waters subsided.  8:2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.  8:3 The waters receded from the earth continually.  After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.  8:4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.  8:5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month.  In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

Genesis 8:6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, 8:7 and he sent out a raven.  It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.  8:8 He sent out a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, 8:9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth.  He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.  8:10 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.  8:11 The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off.  So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.  8:12 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

Genesis 8:13 It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth.  Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked.  He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.  8:14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

Genesis 8:15 God spoke to Noah, saying, 8:16 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your son's wives with you.  8:17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

Genesis 8:18 Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his son's wives with him.  8:19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

Genesis 8:20 Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.  8:21 The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma.  The LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.  8:22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."


Genesis 9:1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.  9:2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky.  Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.  9:3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you.  As the green herb, I have given everything to you.  9:4 But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.  9:5 I will surely require your blood of your lives.  At the hand of every animal I will require it.  At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.  9:6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.  9:7 Be fruitful and multiply.  Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

Genesis 9:8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 9:9 "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, 9:10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.  9:11 I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth."  9:12 God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 9:13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.  9:14 It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, 9:15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.  9:16 The rainbow will be in the cloud.  I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."  9:17 God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."

Genesis 9:18 The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.  Ham is the father of Canaan.  9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

Genesis 9:20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.  9:21 He drank of the wine and got drunk.  He was uncovered within his tent.  9:22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.  9:23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father.  Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness.  9:24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.  9:25 He said, "Canaan is cursed.  He will be servant of servants to his brothers."  9:26 He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem.  Let Canaan be his servant.  9:27  May God enlarge Japheth.  Let him dwell in the tents of Shem.  Let Canaan be his servant."

Genesis 9:28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.  9:29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.


Genesis 10:1 Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.  Sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.  10:3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.  10:4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.  10:5 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

Genesis 10:6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.  10:7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca.  The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.  10:8 Cush became the father of Nimrod.  He began to be a mighty one in the earth.  10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD.  Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD."  10:10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.  10:11 Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, 10:12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).  10:13 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 10:14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

Genesis 10:15 Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth, 10:16 the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, 10:17 the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, 10:18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.  Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.  10:19 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.  10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.

Genesis 10:21 To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.  10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.  10:23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.  10:24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah.  Shelah became the father of Eber.  10:25 To Eber were born two sons.  The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided.  His brother's name was Joktan.  10:26 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 10:27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 10:28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 10:29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab.  All these were the sons of Joktan.  10:30 Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.  10:31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.

Genesis 10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations.  Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.


Genesis 11:1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.  11:2 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.  11:3 They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.  11:4 They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

Genesis 11:5 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.  11:6 The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do.  Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.  11:7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth.  They stopped building the city.  11:9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth.  From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

Genesis 11:10 This is the history of the generations of Shem.  Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.  11:11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.  11:13 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:14 Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber: 11:15 and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.  11:17 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.  11:19 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.  11:21 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:22 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.  11:23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.  11:25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11:27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah.  Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.  Haran became the father of Lot.  11:28 Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.  11:29 Abram and Nahor took wives.  The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.  11:30 Sarai was barren.  She had no child.  11:31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife.  They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan.  They came to Haran and lived there.  11:32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years.  Terah died in Haran.


Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.  12:2 I will make of you a great nation.  I will bless you and make your name great.  You will be a blessing.  12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you.  All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."

Genesis 12:4 So Abram went, as the LORD had spoken to him.  Lot went with him.  Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.  12:5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan.  Into the land of Canaan they came.  12:6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh.  The Canaanite was then in the land.

Genesis 12:7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed."  He built an altar there to the LORD, who appeared to him.  12:8 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east.  There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.  12:9 Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.

Genesis 12:10 There was a famine in the land.  Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.  12:11 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.  12:12 It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.'  They will kill me, but they will save you alive.  12:13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

Genesis 12:14 It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.  12:15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.  12:16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake.  He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.  12:17 The LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.  12:18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me?  Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?  12:19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife?  Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way." 12:20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.


Genesis 13:1 Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.  13:2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.  13:3 He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, 13:4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first.  There Abram called on the name of the LORD.  13:5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.  13:6 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.  13:7 There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.  13:8 Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.  13:9 Isn't the whole land before you?  Please separate yourself from me.  If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right.  Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

Genesis 13:10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.  13:11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself.  Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.  13:12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.  13:13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the LORD.

Genesis 13:14 The LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, 13:15 for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.  13:16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.  13:17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."

Genesis 13:18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.


Genesis 14:1 It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, 14:2 that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).  14:3 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).  14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.  14:5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, 14:6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.  14:7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.  14:8 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim; 14:9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.  14:10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.  14:11 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.  14:12 They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

Genesis 14:13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew.  Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.  14:14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.  14:15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.  14:16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

Genesis 14:17 The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).  14:18 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.  14:19 He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth: 14:20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand."  Abram gave him a tenth of all.

Genesis 14:21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."

Genesis 14:22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, 14:23 that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'  14:24 I will accept nothing from you except 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."


Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram.  I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."  15:2 Abram said, "Lord, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 15:3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

Genesis 15:4 Behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir." 15:5 The LORD brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be." 15:6 He believed in the LORD; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.  15:7 He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."

Genesis 15:8 He said, "Lord, how will I know that I will inherit it?"  15:9 He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."  15:10 He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.  15:11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

Genesis 15:12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram.  Now terror and great darkness fell on him.  15:13 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them.  They will afflict them four hundred years.  15:14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve.  Afterward they will come out with great wealth, 15:15 but you will go to your fathers in peace.  You will be buried in a good old age.  15:16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full." 15:17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.  15:18 In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: 15:19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 15:20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 15:21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."


Genesis 16:1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children.  She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.  16:2 Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing.  Please go in to my handmaid.  It may be that I will obtain children by her."  Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.  16:3 Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.  16:4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived.  When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.  16:5 Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault.  I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes.  The LORD judge between me and you."

Genesis 16:6 But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand.  Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.  16:7 The angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.  16:8 He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from?  Where are you going?"  She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."

Genesis 16:9 The angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands." 16:10 The angel of the LORD said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude." 16:11 The angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son.  You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your affliction.  16:12 He will be like a wild donkey among men.  His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.  He will live opposite all of his brothers."

Genesis 16:13 She called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?" 16:14 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.  Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 16:15 Hagar bore a son for Abram.  Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.  16:16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.


Genesis 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty.  Walk before me, and be blameless.  17:2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

Genesis 17:3 Abram fell on his face.  God talked with him, saying, 17:4 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you.  You will be the father of a multitude of nations.  17:5 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.  17:6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you.  Kings will come out of you.  17:7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.  17:8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.  I will be their God."

Genesis 17:9 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.  17:10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you.  Every male among you shall be circumcised.  17:11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin.  It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.  17:12 He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.  17:13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised.  My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.  17:14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people.  He has broken my covenant."

Genesis 17:15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.  17:16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her.  Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations.  Kings of peoples will come from her."

Genesis 17:17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old?  Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?" 17:18 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

Genesis 17:19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son.  You shall call his name Isaac.  I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.  17:20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you.  Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly.  He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.  17:21 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

Genesis 17:22 When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.  17:23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.  17:24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.  17:25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.  17:26 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.  17:27 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.


Genesis 18:1 The LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.  18:2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him.  When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, 18:3 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.  18:4 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.  18:5 I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart.  After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant."  They said, "Very well, do as you have said."

Genesis 18:6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes." 18:7 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant.  He hurried to dress it.  18:8 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them.  He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

Genesis 18:9 They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?"  He said, "See, in the tent."

Genesis 18:10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round.  Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son."  Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.  18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age.  Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.  18:12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

Genesis 18:13 The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'  18:14 Is anything too hard for the LORD?  At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

Genesis 18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid.  He said, "No, but you did laugh."

Genesis 18:16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom.  Abraham went with them to see them on their way.  18:17 The LORD said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do, 18:18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?  18:19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the LORD may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him." 18:20 The LORD said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, 18:21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me.  If not, I will know."

Genesis 18:22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.  18:23 Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?  18:24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city?  Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?  18:25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked.  May that be far from you.  Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

Genesis 18:26 The LORD said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake." 18:27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.  18:28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous?  Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?"  He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

Genesis 18:29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?"  He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

Genesis 18:30 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak.  What if there are thirty found there?"  He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

Genesis 18:31 He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord.  What if there are twenty found there?"  He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."

Genesis 18:32 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more.  What if ten are found there?"  He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

Genesis 18:33 The LORD went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.


Genesis 19:1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening.  Lot sat in the gate of Sodom.  Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them.  He bowed himself with his face to the earth, 19:2 and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way."  They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."

Genesis 19:3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house.  He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.  19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.  19:5 They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night?  Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."

Genesis 19:6 Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.  19:7 He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.  19:8 See now, I have two virgin daughters.  Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you.  Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."

Genesis 19:9 They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge.  Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.  19:10 But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.  19:11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

Genesis 19:12 The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here?  Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place: 19:13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it."

Genesis 19:14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up!  Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city."  But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

Genesis 19:15 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up!  Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city." 19:16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughter's hands, the LORD being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.  19:17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life!  Don't look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in the plain.  Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"

Genesis 19:18 Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord.  19:19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life.  I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.  19:20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one.  Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."

Genesis 19:21 He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.  19:22 Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Genesis 19:23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.  19:24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the sky.  19:25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.  19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:27 Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.  19:28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Genesis 19:29 It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Genesis 19:30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar.  He lived in a cave with his two daughters.  19:31 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.  19:32 Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed." 19:33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father.  He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose.  19:34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father.  Let us make him drink wine again, tonight.  You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed." 19:35 They made their father drink wine that night also.  The younger went and lay with him.  He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she got up.  19:36 Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father.  19:37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab.  He is the father of the Moabites to this day.  19:38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi.  He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.


Genesis 20:1 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur.  He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.  20:2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister."  Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.  20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken.  For she is a man's wife."

Genesis 20:4 Now Abimelech had not come near her.  He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?  20:5 Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?'  She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.'  In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."

Genesis 20:6 God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me.  Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her.  20:7 Now therefore, restore the man's wife.  For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live.  If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."

Genesis 20:8 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear.  The men were very scared.  20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us?  How have I sinned against 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!"  20:10 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"

Genesis 20:11 Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place.  They will kill me for my wife's sake.'  20:12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.  20:13 It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me.  Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"

Genesis 20:14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.  20:15 Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you.  Dwell where it pleases you."  20:16 To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver.  Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you.  In front of all you are vindicated."

Genesis 20:17 Abraham prayed to God.  God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.  20:18 For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.


Genesis 21:1 The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.  21:2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.  21:3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.  21:4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.  21:5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.  21:6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh.  Everyone who hears will laugh with me."  21:7 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children?  For I have borne him a son in his old age."

Genesis 21:8 The child grew, and was weaned.  Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.  21:9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.  21:10 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son!  For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."

Genesis 21:11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.  21:12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid.  In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice.  For from Isaac will your seed be called.  21:13 I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."

Genesis 21:14 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 gave her the child, and sent her away.  She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.  21:15 The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.  21:16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away.  For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child."  She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.  21:17 God heard the voice of the boy.  The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar?  Don't be afraid.  For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.  21:18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand.  For I will make him a great nation."  21:19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water.  She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.  21:20 God was with the boy, and he grew.  He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.  21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran.  His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

Genesis 21:22 It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.  21:23 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.  But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."

Genesis 21:24 Abraham said, "I will swear."  21:25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.  21:26 Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing.  You didn't tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."

Genesis 21:27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech.  Those two made a covenant.  21:28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.  21:29 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"

Genesis 21:30 He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."  21:31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.  21:32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba.  Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.  21:33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.  21:34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.


Genesis 22:1 It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!"  He said, "Here I am."

Genesis 22:2 He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah.  Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."

Genesis 22:3 Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son.  He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.  22:4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.  22:5 Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey.  The boy and I will go yonder.  We will worship, and come back to you."  22:6 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son.  He took in his hand the fire and the knife.  They both went together.  22:7 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?"  He said, "Here I am, my son."  He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

Genesis 22:8 Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son."  So they both went together.  22:9 They came to the place which God had told him of.  Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.  22:10 Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.

Genesis 22:11 The angel of the LORD called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!"  He said, "Here I am."  22:12 He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him.  For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

Genesis 22:13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns.  Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.  22:14 Abraham called the name of that place the LORD Will Provide.  As it is said to this day, "On the LORD's mountain, it will be provided."

Genesis 22:15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of the sky, 22:16 and said, "I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, 22:17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore.  Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.  22:18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

Genesis 22:19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba.  Abraham lived at Beersheba.

Genesis 22:20 It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor: 22:21 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, 22:22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."  22:23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.  These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.  22:24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.


Genesis 23:1 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years.  This was the length of Sarah's life.  23:2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.  Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.  23:3 Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying, 23:4 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you.  Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

Genesis 23:5 The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, 23:6 "Hear us, my lord.  You are a prince of God among us.  Bury your dead in the best of our tombs.  None of us will withhold from you his tomb.  Bury your dead."

Genesis 23:7 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.  23:8 He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, 23:9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field.  For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place."

Genesis 23:10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth.  Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying, 23:11 "No, my lord, hear me.  I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it.  In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you.  Bury your dead."

Genesis 23:12 Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.  23:13 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me.  I will give the price of the field.  Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

Genesis 23:14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 23:15 "My lord, listen to me.  What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you?  Therefore bury your dead."

Genesis 23:16 Abraham listened to Ephron.  Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchant's standard.

Genesis 23:17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded 23:18 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.  23:19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.  23:20 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.


Genesis 24:1 Abraham was old, and well stricken in age.  the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.  24:2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.  24:3 I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.  24:4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."  Genesis 24:5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land?  Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"

Genesis 24:6 Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my son there again.  24:7 The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.'  He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.  24:8 If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath.  Only you shall not bring my son there again."

Genesis 24:9 The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.  24:10 The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master's with him.  He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.  24:11 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

Genesis 24:12 He said, "The LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.  24:13 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water.  The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.  24:14 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,' let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac.  By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."

Genesis 24:15 It happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.  24:16 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her.  She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.  24:17 The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."

Genesis 24:18 She said, "Drink, my lord."  She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.  24:19 When she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking."  24:20 She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.

Genesis 24:21 The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.  24:22 It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, 24:23 and said, "Whose daughter are you?  Please tell me.  Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?"

Genesis 24:24 She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."  24:25 She said moreover to him, "We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in."

Genesis 24:26 The man bowed his head, and worshiped the LORD.  24:27 He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master.  As for me, the LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."

Genesis 24:28 The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words.  24:29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban.  Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.  24:30 It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me,"  that he came to the man.  Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.  24:31 He said, "Come in, you blessed of the LORD.  Why do you stand outside?  For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels."

Genesis 24:32 The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels.  He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.  24:33 Food was set before him to eat, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message."  He said, "Speak on."

Genesis 24:34 He said, "I am Abraham's servant.  24:35 The LORD has blessed my master greatly.  He has become great.  He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.  24:36 Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old.  He has given all that he has to him.

Genesis 24:37 "My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live, 24:38 but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'  24:39 I asked my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?'  24:40 He said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way.  You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.  24:41 Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives.  If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'

Genesis 24:42 I came this day to the spring, and said, 'The LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go  24:43 behold, I am standing by this spring of water.  Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink," 24:44 and she will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for your camels," let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master's son.'  24:45 Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder.  She went down to the spring, and drew.  I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'  24:46 She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.'  So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.  24:47 I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?'  She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.'  I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.  24:48 I bowed my head, and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.  24:49 Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me.  If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."

Genesis 24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from the LORD.  We can't speak to you bad or good.  24:51 Behold, Rebekah is before you.  Take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as the LORD has spoken."

Genesis 24:52 It happened that when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to the LORD.  24:53 The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah.  He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.  24:54 They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night.  They rose up in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master."

Genesis 24:55 Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten.  After that she will go."  24:56 He said to them, "Don't hinder me, since the LORD has prospered my way.  Send me away that I may go to my master."

Genesis 24:57 They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."  24:58 They called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?"  She said, "I will go."

Genesis 24:59 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men.  24:60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."

Genesis 24:61 Rebekah arose with her ladies.  They rode on the camels, and followed the man.  The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.  24:62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.

Genesis 24:63 Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening.  He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.  24:64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel.  24:65 She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?"  The servant said, "It is my master."  She took her veil, and covered herself.  24:66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.  24:67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife.  He loved her.  Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.


Genesis 25:1 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.  25:2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.  25:3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan.  The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.  25:4 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah.  All these were the children of Keturah.  25:5 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac, 25:6 but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts.  He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.  25:7 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.  25:8 Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.  25:9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre, 25:10 the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth.  Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.  25:11 It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac, his son.  Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

Genesis 25:12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.  25:13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 25:14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.  25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.  25:17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years.  He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.  25:18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria.  He lived opposite all his relatives.

Genesis 25:19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son.  Abraham became the father of Isaac.  25:20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.  25:21 Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren.  the LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.  25:22 The children struggled together within her.  She said, "If it be so, why do I live?"  She went to inquire of the LORD.  25:23 The LORD said to her,

"Two nations are in your womb.
Two peoples will be separated from your body.
The one people will be stronger than the other people.
The elder will serve the younger."

Genesis 25:24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.  25:25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment.  They named him Esau.  25:26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel.  He was named Jacob.  Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

Genesis 25:27 The boys grew.  Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field.  Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.  25:28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison.  Rebekah loved Jacob.  25:29 Jacob boiled stew.  Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.  25:30 Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished."  Therefore his name was called Edom.

Genesis 25:31 Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright."  25:32 Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die.  What good is the birthright to me?"  25:33 Jacob said, "Swear to me first."  He swore to him.  He sold his birthright to Jacob.  25:34 Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils.  He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way.  So Esau despised his birthright.


Genesis 26:1 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.  Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.  26:2 The LORD appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt.  Live in the land I will tell you about.  26:3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you.  For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.  26:4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands.  In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, 26:5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

Genesis 26:6 Isaac lived in Gerar.  26:7 The men of the place asked him about his wife.  He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."  26:8 It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.  26:9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife.  Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'"  Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

Genesis 26:10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us?  One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"  26:11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

Genesis 26:12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted.  the LORD blessed him.  26:13 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.  26:14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household.  The Philistines envied him.  26:15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.  26:16 Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."  Genesis 26:17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

Genesis 26:18 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.  He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.  26:19 Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.  26:20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours."  He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.  26:21 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also.  He called its name Sitnah.  26:22 He left that place, and dug another well.  They didn't argue over that one.  He called it Rehoboth.  He said, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

Genesis 26:23 He went up from there to Beersheba.  26:24 The LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father.  Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."  26:25 He built an altar there, and called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there.  There Isaac's servants dug a well.

Genesis 26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.  26:27 Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"  26:28 They said, "We saw plainly that the LORD was with you.  We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you, 26:29 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.'  You are now the blessed of the LORD."

Genesis 26:30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.  26:31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another.  Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.  26:32 It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."  26:33 He called it Shibah.  Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

Genesis 26:34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.  26:35 They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.


Genesis 27:1 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?"  He said to him, "Here I am."  27:2 He said, "See now, I am old.  I don't know the day of my death.  27:3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.  27:4 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."

Genesis 27:5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son.  Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.  27:6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, 27:7 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before the LORD before my death.'  27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.  27:9 Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats.  I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.  27:10 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."

Genesis 27:11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.  27:12 What if my father touches me?  I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."  27:13 His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son.  Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."

Genesis 27:14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother.  His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.  27:15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.  27:16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.  27:17 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.  27:18 He came to his father, and said, "My father?"  He said, "Here I am.  Who are you, my son?"

Genesis 27:19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn.  I have done what you asked me to do.  Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."  27:20 Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?"  He said, "Because the LORD your God gave me success."

Genesis 27:21 Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."  27:22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father.  He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."  27:23 He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands.  So he blessed him.  27:24 He said, "Are you really my son Esau?"  He said, "I am."

Genesis 27:25 He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you."  He brought it near to him, and he ate.  He brought him wine, and he drank.  27:26 His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."  27:27 He came near, and kissed him.  He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said,

"Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed.  27:28 God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.  27:29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you.  Be lord over your brothers.  Let your mother's sons bow down to you.  Cursed be everyone who curses you.  Blessed be everyone who blesses you."

Genesis 27:30 It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.  27:31 He also made savory food, and brought it to his father.  He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."  27:32 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?"  He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

Genesis 27:33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him?  Yes, he will be blessed."  27:34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."  27:35 He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."

Genesis 27:36 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob?  For he has supplanted me these two times.  He took away my birthright.  See, now he has taken away my blessing."  He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"  27:37 Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants.  With grain and new wine have I sustained him.  What then will I do for you, my son?"

Genesis 27:38 Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father?  Bless me, even me also, my father."  Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.  27:39 Isaac his father answered him,

"Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above. 27:40 By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."

Genesis 27:41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him.  Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand.  Then I will kill my brother Jacob."  27:42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah.  She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.  27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice.  Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.  27:44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away; 27:45 until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him.  Then I will send, and get you from there.  Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

Genesis 27:46 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, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"


Genesis 28:1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.  28:2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father.  Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.  28:3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples, 28:4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."  28:5 Isaac sent Jacob away.  He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

Genesis 28:6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him 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," 28:7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.  28:8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father.  28:9 Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

Genesis 28:10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.  28:11 He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set.  He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.  28:12 He dreamed.  Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven.  Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.  28:13 Behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac.  The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.  28:14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south.  In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.  28:15 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land.  For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."

Genesis 28:16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I didn't know it."  28:17 He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place!  This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."

Genesis 28:18 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.  28:19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.  28:20 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, 28:21 so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and the LORD will be my God, 28:22 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house.  Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."


Genesis 29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.  29:2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it.  For out of that well they watered the flocks.  The stone on the well's mouth was large.  29:3 There all the flocks were gathered.  They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.  29:4 Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?"  They said, "We are from Haran."

Genesis 29:5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?"  They said, "We know him."  29:6 He said to them, "Is it well with him?"  They said, "It is well.  See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."  29:7 He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together.  Water the sheep, and go and feed them."  29:8 They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth.  Then we water the sheep."

Genesis 29:9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.  29:10 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.  29:11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.  29:12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son.  She ran and told her father.

Genesis 29:13 It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house.  Jacob told Laban all these things.  29:14 Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh."  He lived with him for a month.  29:15 Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing?  Tell me, what will your wages be?"

Genesis 29:16 Laban had two daughters.  The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.  29:17 Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.  29:18 Jacob loved Rachel.  He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

Genesis 29:19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man.  Stay with me."  29:20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel.  They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.  29:21 Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

Genesis 29:22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.  29:23 It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him.  He went in to her.  29:24 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.  29:25 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah.  He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me?  Didn't I serve with you for Rachel?  Why then have you deceived me?"

Genesis 29:26 Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.  29:27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."  29:28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week.  He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.  29:29 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.  29:30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

Genesis 29:31 The LORD saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.  29:32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben.  For she said, "Because the LORD has looked at my affliction.  For now my husband will love me."  29:33 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also."  She named him Simeon.  29:34 She conceived again, and bore a son.  She said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons."  Therefore was his name called Levi.  29:35 She conceived again, and bore a son.  She said, "This time will I praise the LORD."  Therefore she named him Judah.  Then she stopped bearing.


Genesis 30:1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister.  She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."  30:2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

Genesis 30:3 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah.  Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."  30:4 She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.  30:5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.  30:6 Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son."  Therefore called she his name Dan.  30:7 Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.  30:8 Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed."  She named him Naphtali.

Genesis 30:9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.  30:10 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son.  30:11 Leah said, "How fortunate!"  She named him Gad.  30:12 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a second son.  30:13 Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy."  She named him Asher.

Genesis 30:14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah.  Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

Genesis 30:15 She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband?  Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?"  Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."

Genesis 30:16 Jacob came from 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 mandrakes."  He lay with her that night.  30:17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.  30:18 Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband."  She named him Issachar.  30:19 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.  30:20 Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry.  Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons."  She named him Zebulun.  30:21 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

Genesis 30:22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.  30:23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach."  30:24 She named him Joseph, saying, "May the LORD add another son to me."

Genesis 30:25 It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.  30:26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you."

Genesis 30:27 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."  30:28 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."

Genesis 30:29 He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.  30:30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude.  the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned.  Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

Genesis 30:31 He said, "What shall I give you?"  Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything.  If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.  30:32 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats.  This will be my hire.  30:33 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you.  Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."

Genesis 30:34 Laban said, "Behold, let it be according to your word."  30:35 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.  30:36 He set three day's journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

Genesis 30:37 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.  30:38 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink.  They conceived when they came to drink.  30:39 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.  30:40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.  30:41 It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; 30:42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in.  So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.  30:43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.


Genesis 31:1 He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's.  From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."  31:2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.  31:3 The LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

Genesis 31:4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock, 31:5 and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.  31:6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.  31:7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.  31:8 If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled.  If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.  31:9 Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.  31:10 It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.  31:11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'  31:12 He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.  31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me.  Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"

Genesis 31:14 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?  31:15 Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners?  For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.  31:16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's.  Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

Genesis 31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels, 31:18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.  31:19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

Genesis 31:20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him that he was running away.  31:21 So he fled with all that he had.  He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.  31:22 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.  31:23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven day's journey.  He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.  31:24 God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."

Genesis 31:25 Laban caught up with Jacob.  Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.  31:26 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?  31:27 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp; 31:28 and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters?  Now have you done foolishly.  31:29 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'  31:30 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"

Genesis 31:31 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'  31:32 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live.  Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it."  For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.

Genesis 31:33 Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them.  He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.  31:34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them.  Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find them.  31:35 She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for I'm having my period."  He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.

Genesis 31:36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban.  Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass?  What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?  31:37 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff?  Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

Genesis 31:38 "These twenty years I have been with you.  Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.  31:39 That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you.  I bore its loss.  Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.  31:40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.  31:41 These twenty years I have been in your house.  I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.  31:42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty.  God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."

Genesis 31:43 Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?  31:44 Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."

Genesis 31:45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.  31:46 Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones."  They took stones, and made a heap.  They ate there by the heap.  31:47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.  31:48 Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day."  Therefore it was named Galeed 31:49 and Mizpah, for he said, "The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.  31:50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."  31:51 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.  31:52 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.  31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us."  Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.  31:54 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread.  They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.  31:55 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them.  Laban departed and returned to his place.


Genesis 32:1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.  32:2 When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army."  He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Genesis 32:3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.  32:4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says.  I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.  32:5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants.  I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"  32:6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau.  Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."

Genesis 32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed.  He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies; 32:8 and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."  32:9 Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,' 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.  32:11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.  32:12 You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"

Genesis 32:13 He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother: 32:14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 32:15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.  32:16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."  32:17 He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you?  Where are you going?  Whose are these before you?'  32:18 Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's.  It is a present sent to my lord, Esau.  Behold, he also is behind us.'"  32:19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.  32:20 You shall say, 'Not only that, but 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."

Genesis 32:21 So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the camp.  32:22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.  32:23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.  32:24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.  32:25 When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.  32:26 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks."  Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."

Genesis 32:27 He said to him, "What is your name?"  He said, "Jacob."  32:28 He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."  32:29 Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name."  He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?"  He blessed him there.

Genesis 32:30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."  32:31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.  32:32 Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.


Genesis 33:1 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men.  He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.  33:2 He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.  33:3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Genesis 33:4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.  33:5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?"  He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."  33:6 Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.  33:7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves.  After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

Genesis 33:8 Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?"  Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."  33:9 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."

Genesis 33:10 Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.  33:11 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough."  He urged him, and he took it.

Genesis 33:12 Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."

Genesis 33:13 Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.  33:14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."

Genesis 33:15 Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me."  He said, "Why?  Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."  33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.  33:17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock.  Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

Genesis 33:18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.  33:19 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.  33:20 He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.


Genesis 34:1 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.  34:2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her.  He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.  34:3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.  34:4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."

Genesis 34:5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field.  Jacob held his peace until they came.  34:6 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.  34:7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it.  The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing ought not to be done.  34:8 Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter.  Please give her to him as a wife.  34:9 Make marriages with us.  Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.  34:10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you.  Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."

Genesis 34:11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.  34:12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."

Genesis 34:13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, 34:14 and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.  34:15 Only on this condition will we consent to you.  If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; 34:16 then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.  34:17 But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone."

Genesis 34:18 Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.  34:19 The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.  34:20 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying, 34:21 "These men are peaceful 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.  34:22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.  34:23 Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours?  Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

Genesis 34:24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.  34:25 It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.  34:26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.  34:27 Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.  34:28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field, 34:29 and all their wealth.  They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.  34:30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites.  I am few in number.  They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."  34:31 They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"


Genesis 35:1 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there.  Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."  35:2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.  35:3 Let us arise, and go up to Bethel.  I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."

Genesis 35:4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.  35:5 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.  35:6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.  35:7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.  35:8 Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

Genesis 35:9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.  35:10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob.  Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel."  He named him Israel.  35:11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty.  Be fruitful and multiply.  A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.  35:12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."

Genesis 35:13 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.  35:14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone.  He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.  35:15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."

Genesis 35:16 They traveled from Bethel.  There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed.  She had hard labor.  35:17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."

Genesis 35:18 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.  35:19 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).  35:20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave.  The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.  35:21 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.  35:22 It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.  35:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.  35:24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.  35:25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.  35:26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher.  These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

Genesis 35:27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.  35:28 The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.  35:29 Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days.  Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.


Genesis 36:1 Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).  36:2 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; 36:3 and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.  36:4 Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz.  Basemath bore Reuel.  36:5 Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.  These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.  36:6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.  36:7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their livestock.  36:8 Esau lived in the hill country of Seir.  Esau is Edom.

Genesis 36:9 This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir: 36:10 these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.  36:11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.  36:12 Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz, Amalek.  These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.  36:13 These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.  These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.  36:14 These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

Genesis 36:15 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, 36:16 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.  36:17 These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.  36:18 These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.  36:19 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.

Genesis 36:20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 36:21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.  These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.  36:22 The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman.  Lotan's sister was Timna.  36:23 These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.  36:24 These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.  This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.  36:25 These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.  36:26 These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.  36:27 These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.  36:28 These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.  36:29 These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, 36:30 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.

Genesis 36:31 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.  36:32 Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom.  The name of his city was Dinhabah.  36:33 Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.  36:34 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.  36:35 Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place.  The name of his city was Avith.  36:36 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.  36:37 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.  36:38 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor reigned in his place.  36:39 Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place.  The name of his city was Pau.  His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

Genesis 36:40 These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, 36:41 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, 36:42 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, 36:43 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram.  These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession.  This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.


Genesis 37:1 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.  37:2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob.  Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers.  He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives.  Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.  37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.  37:4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

Genesis 37:5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.  37:6 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: 37:7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."

Genesis 37:8 His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us?  Or will you indeed have dominion over us?"  They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.  37:9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."  37:10 He told it to his father and to his brothers.  His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed?  Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"  37:11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

Genesis 37:12 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.  37:13 Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem?  Come, and I will send you to them."  He said to him, "Here I am."

Genesis 37:14 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again."  So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.  37:15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field.  The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

Genesis 37:16 He said, "I am looking for my brothers.  Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."

Genesis 37:17 The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'"  Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.  37:18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.  37:19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.  37:20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.'  We will see what will become of his dreams."

Genesis 37:21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."  37:22 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood.  Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"--that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.  37:23 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him; 37:24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit.  The pit was empty.  There was no water in it.

Genesis 37:25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.  37:26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?  37:27 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh."  His brothers listened to him.  37:28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver.  They brought Joseph into Egypt.

Genesis 37:29 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.  37:30 He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"  37:31 They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.  37:32 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this.  Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."

Genesis 37:33 He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat.  An evil animal has devoured him.  Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."  37:34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.  37:35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted.  He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning."  His father wept for him.  37:36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.


Genesis 38:1 It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.  38:2 Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua.  He took her, and went in to her.  38:3 She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.  38:4 She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.  38:5 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.  38:6 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.  38:7 Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD.  The LORD killed him.  38:8 Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."  38:9 Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.  38:10 The thing which he did was evil in the sight of the LORD, and he killed him also.  38:11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;"  for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers."  Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

Genesis 38:12 After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died.  Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.  38:13 It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."  38:14 She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.  38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.  38:16 He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law.  She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

Genesis 38:17 He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock."  She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"  38:18 He said, "What pledge will I give you?"  She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand."  He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.

Genesis 38:19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.  38:20 Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.  38:21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?"  They said, "There has been no prostitute here."  38:22 He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"  38:23 Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed.  Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven't found her."

Genesis 38:24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution."  Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burnt."  38:25 When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child."  She also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet, and the cords, and the staff."

Genesis 38:26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son."  He knew her again no more.  38:27 It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.  38:28 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."  38:29 It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?"  Therefore his name was called Perez.  38:30 Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.


Genesis 39:1 Joseph was brought down to Egypt.  Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.  39:2 The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man.  He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.  39:3 His master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did prosper in his hand.  39:4 Joseph found favor in his sight.  He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.  39:5 It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.  39:6 He left all that he had in Joseph's hand.  He didn't concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate.  Joseph was well-built and handsome.  39:7 It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."

Genesis 39:8 But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.  39:9 He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife.  How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"

Genesis 39:10 As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn't listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.  39:11 About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.  39:12 She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!"  He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.  39:13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside, 39:14 she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us.  He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.  39:15 It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."  39:16 She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.  39:17 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me, 39:18 and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."

Genesis 39:19 It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me,"  that his wrath was kindled.  39:20 Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.  39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.  39:22 The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison.  Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.  39:23 The keeper of the prison didn't look after anything that was under his hand, because the LORD was with him; and that which he did, the LORD made it prosper.


Genesis 40:1 It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.  40:2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.  40:3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.  40:4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them.  They stayed in prison many days.  40:5 They both dreamed a dream, 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.  40:6 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.  40:7 He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"

Genesis 40:8 They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it."  Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God?  Please tell it to me."

Genesis 40:9 The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me, 40:10 and in the vine were three branches.  It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.  40:11 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."

Genesis 40:12 Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.  40:13 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office.  You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.  40:14 But remember me when it will be well with you, and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.  40:15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."

Genesis 40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.  40:17 In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."

Genesis 40:18 Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation.  The three baskets are three days.  40:19 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."  40:20 It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.  40:21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand; 40:22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.  40:23 Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot him.


Genesis 41:1 It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.  41:2 Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.  41:3 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.  41:4 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle.  So Pharaoh awoke.  41:5 He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.  41:6 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.  41:7 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears.  Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.  41:8 It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men.  Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:9 Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.  41:10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.  41:11 We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he.  We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.  41:12 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams.  To each man according to his dream he interpreted.  41:13 It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."

Genesis 41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon.  He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.  41:15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.  I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."  41:16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me.  God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."

Genesis 41:17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river: 41:18 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek.  They fed in the marsh grass, 41:19 and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.  41:20 The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle, 41:21 and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning.  So I awoke.  41:22 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good: 41:23 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.  41:24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain.  I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."

Genesis 41:25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one.  What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.  41:26 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years.  The dream is one.  41:27 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.  41:28 That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh.  What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.  41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.  41:30 There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt.  The famine will consume the land, 41:31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.  41:32 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass."

Genesis 41:33 "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.  41:34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years.  41:35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.  41:36 The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."

Genesis 41:37 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.  41:38 Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"  41:39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.  41:40 You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled.  Only in the throne I will be greater than you."  41:41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."  41:42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck, 41:43 and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had.  They cried before him, "Bow the knee!"  He set him over all the land of Egypt.  41:44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."  41:45 Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife.  Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt.  Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.  41:47 In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.  41:48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.  41:49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.  41:50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.  41:51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."  41:52 The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

Genesis 41:53 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.  41:54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said.  There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.  41:55 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."  41:56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth.  Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians.  The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.  41:57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.


Genesis 42:1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"  42:2 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."  42:3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.  42:4 But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."  42:5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.  42:6 Joseph was the governor over the land.  It was he who sold to all the people of the land.  Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.  42:7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them.  He said to them, "Where did you come from?"  They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

Genesis 42:8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.  42:9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies!  You have come to see the nakedness of the land."  42:10 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.  42:11 We are all one man's sons; we are honest men.  Your servants are not spies."

Genesis 42:12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"  42:13 They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

Genesis 42:14 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!'  42:15 By this you shall be tested.  By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.  42:16 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."  42:17 He put them all together into custody for three days.

Genesis 42:18 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.  42:19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of  your houses.  42:20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your  words be verified, and you won't die."  They did so.  42:21 They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen.  Therefore this distress has come upon us."  42:22 Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen?  Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."  42:23 They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.  42:24 He turned himself away from them, and wept.  Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.  42:25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way.  So it was done to them.

Genesis 42:26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.  42:27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money.  Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.  42:28 He said to his brothers, "My money is restored!  Behold, it is in my sack!"  Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"  42:29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying, 42:30 "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.  42:31 We said to him, 'We are honest men.  We are no spies.  42:32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'  42:33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.  42:34 Bring your youngest brother to me.  Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men.  So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'

Genesis 42:35 It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man's bundle of money was in his sack.  When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.  42:36 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children!  Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away.  All these things are against me."

Genesis 42:37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you.  Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again."  42:38 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left.  If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."


Genesis 43:1 The famine was severe in the land.  43:2 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 more food."

Genesis 43:3 Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'  43:4 If you'll send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy you food, 43:5 but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"

Genesis 43:6 Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"  43:7 They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive?  Have you another brother?'  We just answered his questions.  Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"

Genesis 43:8 Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we'll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.  43:9 I'll be collateral for him.  From my hand will you require him.  If I don't bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever, 43:10 for if we hadn't delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now."

Genesis 43:11 Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so, then do this.  Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds; 43:12 and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks.  Perhaps it was an oversight.  43:13 Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.  43:14 May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin.  If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."

Genesis 43:15 The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.  43:16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon."

Genesis 43:17 The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph's house.  43:18 The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, we're brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys."  43:19 They came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house, 43:20 and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.  43:21 When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight.  We have brought it back in our hand.  43:22 We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food.  We don't know who put our money in our sacks."

Genesis 43:23 He said, "Peace be to you.  Don't be afraid.  Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks.  I received your money."  He brought Simeon out to them.  43:24 The man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet.  He gave their donkeys fodder.  43:25 They prepared the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

Genesis 43:26 When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to him to the earth.  43:27 He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke?  Is he yet alive?"

Genesis 43:28 They said, "Your servant, our father, is well.  He is still alive."  They bowed down humbly.  43:29 He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?"  He said, "God be gracious to you, my son."  43:30 Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep.  He entered into his room, and wept there.  43:31 He washed his face, and came out.  He controlled himself, and said, "Serve the meal."

Genesis 43:32 They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.  43:33 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.  43:34 He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs.  They drank, and were merry with him.


Genesis 44:1 He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in his sack's mouth.  44:2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money."  He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.  44:3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.  44:4 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men.  When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?  44:5 Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines?  You have done evil in so doing.'"  44:6 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.

Genesis 44:7 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these?  Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!  44:8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sack's mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan.  How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?  44:9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."

Genesis 44:10 He said, "Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be blameless."  44:11 Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.  44:12 He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest.  The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.  44:13 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

Genesis 44:14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there.  They fell on the ground before him.  44:15 Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done?  Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

Genesis 44:16 Judah said, "What will we tell my lord?  What will we speak?  Or how will we clear ourselves?  God has found out the iniquity of your servants.  Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."  44:17 He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so.  The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."

Genesis 44:18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.  44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'  44:20 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.'  44:21 You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'  44:22 We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'  44:23 You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'  44:24 It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.  44:25 Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'  44:26 We said, 'We can't go down.  If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.'

Gen 44:27 Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons: 44:28 and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.  44:29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'  44:30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy's life; 44:31 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die.  Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.  44:32 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'  44:33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.  44:34 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?--lest I see the evil that will come on my father."


Genesis 45:1 Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause everyone to go out from me!"  No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.  45:2 He wept aloud.  The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.  45:3 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph!  Does my father still live?"  His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.  45:4 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please."  They came near.  "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.  45:5 Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.  45:6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

Genesis 45:7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.  45:8 So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.  45:9 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt.  Come down to me.  Don't wait.  45:10 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.  45:11 There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'  45:12 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.  45:13 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen.  You shall hurry and bring my father down here."  45:14 He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.  45:15 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them.  After that his brothers talked with him.

Genesis 45:16 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come."  It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.  45:17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this.  Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.  45:18 Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'  45:19 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.  45:20 Also, don't concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours."

Genesis 45:21 The sons of Israel did so.  Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.  45:22 He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.  45:23 He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.  45:24 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed.  He said to them, "See that you don't quarrel on the way."

Genesis 45:25 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.  45:26 They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt."  His heart fainted, for he didn't believe them.  45:27 They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them.  When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.  45:28 Israel said, "It is enough.  Joseph my son is still alive.  I will go and see him before I die."


Genesis 46:1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.  46:2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!"  He said, "Here I am."

Genesis 46:3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father.  Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.  46:4 I will go down with you into Egypt.  I will also surely bring you up again.  Joseph will close your eyes."

Genesis 46:5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.  46:6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt; Jacob, and all his seed with him, 46:7 his sons, and his son's sons with him, his daughters, and his son's daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.

Genesis 46:8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.  46:9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.  46:10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.  46:11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.  46:12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.  The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.  46:13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.  46:14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.  46:15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah.  All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

Genesis 46:16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.  46:17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister.  The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.  46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

Genesis 46:19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.  46:20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.  46:21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.  46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

Genesis 46:23 The son of Dan: Hushim.  46:24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.  46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.  46:26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's son's wives, all the souls were sixty-six.  46:27 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.

Genesis 46:28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.  46:29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen.  He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.  46:30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

Genesis 46:31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.  46:32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'  46:33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?' 46:34 that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."


Genesis 47:1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen."  47:2 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.  47:3 Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?"  They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers."  47:4 They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servant's flocks.  For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan.  Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

Genesis 47:5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.  47:6 The land of Egypt is before you.  Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land.  Let them dwell in the land of Goshen.  If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock."

Genesis 47:7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.  47:8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"  47:9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years.  Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."  47:10 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

Genesis 47:11 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.  47:12 Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

Genesis 47:13 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.  47:14 Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.  47:15 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence?  For our money fails."

Genesis 47:16 Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone."  47:17 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.  47:18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's.  There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.  47:19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land?  Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh.  Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

Genesis 47:20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's.  47:21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.  47:22 Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them.  That is why they didn't sell their land.  47:23 Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh.  Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.  47:24 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones."

Genesis 47:25 They said, "You have saved our lives!  Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."  47:26 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth.  Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's.

Genesis 47:27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.  47:28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years.  So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.  47:29 The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me.  Please don't bury me in Egypt, 47:30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place."  He said, "I will do as you have said."  47:31 He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him.  Israel bowed himself on the bed's head.


Genesis 48:1 It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick."  He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.  48:2 Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.  48:3 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 48:4 and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.'  48:5 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.  48:6 Your issue, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours.  They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.  48:7 As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)."

Genesis 48:8 Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?"  48:9 Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here."  He said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them."  48:10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see.  He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.  48:11 Israel said to Joseph, "I didn't think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your seed also."  48:12 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.  48:13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near to him.  48:14 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.  48:15 He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my lifelong to this day, 48:16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac.  Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."

Genesis 48:17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him.  He held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.  48:18 Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."

Genesis 48:19 His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know.  He also will become a people, and he also will be great.  However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations."  48:20 He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'"  He set Ephraim before Manasseh.  48:21 Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.  48:22 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."


Genesis 49:1 Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.  49:2  Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob.  Listen to Israel, your father.

49:3 "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might,
and the beginning of my strength;
excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

49:4  Boiling over as water, you shall not excel;
because you went up to your father's bed,
then defiled it.  He went up to my couch.

49:5  "Simeon and Levi are brothers.
Their swords are weapons of violence.

49:6  My soul, don't come into their council.
My glory, don't be united to their assembly;
for in their anger they killed men.
In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

49:7  Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce;
and their wrath, for it was cruel.
I will divide them in Jacob,
and scatter them in Israel.

49:8 "Judah, your brothers will praise you.
Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies.
Your father's sons will bow down before you.

49:9  Judah is a lion's cub.
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness.
Who will rouse him up?

49:10 The scepter will not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,
until he comes to whom it belongs.
To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

49:11 Binding his foal to the vine,
his donkey's colt to the choice vine;
he has washed his garments in wine,
his robes in the blood of grapes.

49:12 His eyes will be red with wine,
his teeth white with milk.

49:13 "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea.
He will be for a haven of ships.
His border will be on Sidon.

49:14 "Issachar is a strong donkey,
lying down between the saddlebags.

49:15 He saw a resting place, that it was good,
the land, that it was pleasant.
He bows his shoulder to the burden,
and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

49:16 "Dan will judge his people,
as one of the tribes of Israel.

49:17 Dan will be a serpent in the way,
an adder in the path,
That bites the horse's heels,
so that his rider falls backward.

49:18 I have waited for your salvation, LORD.

49:19 "A troop will press on Gad,
but he will press on their heel.

49:20 "Asher's food will be rich.
He will yield royal dainties.

49:21 "Naphtali is a doe set free,
who bears beautiful fawns.

49:22 "Joseph is a fruitful vine,
a fruitful vine by a spring.
His branches run over the wall.

49:23 The archers have severely grieved him,
shot at him, and persecuted him:

49:24 But his bow remained strong.
The arms of his hands were made strong,
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
(from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

49:25 even by the God of your father, who will help you;
by the Almighty, who will bless you,
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lies below,
blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

49:26 The blessings of your father have prevailed
above the blessings of your ancestors,
above the boundaries of the ancient hills.
They will be on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the head of him who is separated
from his brothers.

49:27 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.
In the morning he will devour the prey.
At evening he will divide the spoil.

Genesis 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them.  He blessed everyone according to his blessing.  49:29 He instructed 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, 49:30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.  49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife.  There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah: 49:32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth."  49:33 When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.


Genesis 50:1 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.  50:2 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.  50:3 Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm.  The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

Genesis 50:4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 50:5 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying.  Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan."  Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"

Genesis 50:6 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."

Genesis 50:7 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt, 50:8 all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house.  Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.  50:9 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen.  It was a very great company.  50:10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation.  He mourned for his father seven days.  50:11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians."  Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.  50:12 His sons did to him just as he commanded them, 50:13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.  50:14 Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

Genesis 50:15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him."  50:16 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying, 50:17 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.'"  Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father."  Joseph wept when they spoke to him.  50:18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."  50:19 Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?  50:20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.  50:21 Now therefore don't be afraid.  I will nourish you and your little ones."  He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

Genesis 50:22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house.  Joseph lived one hundred ten years.  50:23 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation.  The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees.  50:24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."  50:25 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."  50:26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.




Exodus

Ex. 1:1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): 1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 1:4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.  1:5 All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.  1:6 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.  1:7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Ex. 1:8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph.  1:9 He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.  1:10 Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land."  1:11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens.  They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Rameses.  1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out.  They were grieved because of the children of Israel.  1:13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, 1:14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Ex. 1:15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, 1:16 and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."  1:17 But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.  1:18 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?"  1:19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."  1:20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.  1:21 It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.

Ex. 1:22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."


Ex. 2:1 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.  2:2 The woman conceived, and bore a son.  When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.  2:3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch.  She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.  2:4 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.  2:5 Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river.  Her maidens walked along by the riverside.  She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.  2:6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried.  She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrew's children."

Ex. 2:7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"  2:8 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go."  The maiden went and called the child's mother.  2:9 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages."  The woman took the child, and nursed it.  2:10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son.  She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

Ex. 2:11 It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens.  He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.  2:12 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

Ex. 2:13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other.  He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"  2:14 He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us?  Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?"  Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."  2:15 Now 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.

Ex. 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters.  They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.  2:17 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.  2:18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"

Ex. 2:19 They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."  2:20 He said to his daughters, "Where is he?  Why is it that you have left the man?  Call him, that he may eat bread."

Ex. 2:21 Moses was content to dwell with the man.  He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.  2:22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

Ex. 2:23 It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.  2:24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.  2:25 God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.


Ex. 3:1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.  3:2 The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.  He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.  3:3 Moses said, "I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt."  3:4 When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses!  Moses!"  He said, "Here I am."

Ex. 3:5 He said, "Don't come close.  Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."  3:6 Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."  Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.

Ex. 3:7 The LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.  3:8 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.  3:9 Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me.  Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.  3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."

Ex. 3:11 Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?"  3:12 He said, "Certainly I will be with you.  This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."

Ex. 3:13 Moses said to God, "Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you;' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' What should I tell them?"

Ex. 3:14 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM,"  and he said, "You shall tell the children of Israel this: 'I AM has sent me to you.'"

Ex. 3:15 God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, 'The LORD, 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 memorial to all generations.  3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt; 3:17 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'

Ex. 3:18 They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us.  Now please let us go three day's journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD, our God.' 3:19 I know that the king of Egypt won't give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.  3:20 I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that he will let you go.  3:21 I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.  3:22 But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters.  You shall plunder the Egyptians."


Ex. 4:1 Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'The LORD has not appeared to you.'"  4:2 The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?"  He said, "A rod."  4:3 He said, "Throw it on the ground."  He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.  Ex. 4:4 The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail."  He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

Ex. 4:5 "That they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."  4:6 The LORD said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak."  He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.  4:7 He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again."  He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

Ex. 4:8 "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.  4:9 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land.  The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."

Ex. 4:10 Moses said to the LORD, "O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."  4:11 The LORD said to him, "Who made man's mouth?  Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind?  Isn't it I, the LORD?  4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."

Ex. 4:13 He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."  4:14 The anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite?  I know that he can speak well.  Also, behold, he comes out to meet you.  When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.  4:15 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth.  I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.  4:16 He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.  4:17 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."

Ex. 4:18 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 whether they are still alive."  Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."

Ex. 4:19 The LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."  4:20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt.  Moses took God's rod in his hand.  4:21 The LORD said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.  4:22 You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, Israel is my son, my firstborn, 4:23 and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;"  and you have refused to let him go.  Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

Ex. 4:24 It happened on the way at a lodging place, that the LORD met Moses and wanted to kill him.  4:25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."  4:26 So he let him alone.  Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood,"  because of the circumcision.

Ex. 4:27 The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses."  He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.  4:28 Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.  4:29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.  4:30 Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.  4:31 The people believed, and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.


Ex. 5:1 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"  5:2 Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go?  I don't know the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go."

Ex. 5:3 They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us.  Please let us go three day's journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."

Ex. 5:4 The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work?  Get back to your burdens!"  5:5 Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens."  5:6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, 5:7 "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before.  Let them go and gather straw for themselves.  5:8 The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them.  You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.' 5:9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."

Ex. 5:10 The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will not give you straw.  5:11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.'"  5:12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.  5:13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"  5:14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"

Ex. 5:15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?  5:16 No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."  5:17 But he said, "You are idle!  You are idle!  Therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.' 5:18 Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!"

Ex. 5:19 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!"  5:20 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came out from Pharaoh: 5:21 and they said to them, "May the LORD look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

Ex. 5:22 Moses returned to the LORD, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people?  Why is it that you have sent me?  5:23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people; neither have you delivered your people at all."


 Ex. 6:1 The LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land."

Ex. 6:2 God spoke to Moses, and said to him, "I am the LORD; 6:3 and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name the LORD I was not known to them.  6:4 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.  6:5 Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.  6:6 Therefore tell the children of Israel, 'I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: 6:7 and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.  6:8 I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am the LORD.'"

Ex. 6:9 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.  6:10 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6:11 "Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land."

Ex. 6:12 Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, "Behold, the children of Israel haven't listened to me.  How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?"  6:13 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

Ex. 6:14 These are the heads of their father's houses.  The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.  6:15 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.  6:16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.  6:17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.  6:18 The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.  6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi.  These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.  6:20 Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.  6:21 The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.  6:22 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri.

Ex. 6:23 Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.  6:24 The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.  6:25 Eleazar Aaron's son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas.  These are the heads of the father's houses of the Levites according to their families.  6:26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, "Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies."  6:27 These are those who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt.  These are that Moses and Aaron.

Ex. 6:28 It happened on the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 6:29 that the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "I am the LORD.  Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you."  6:30 Moses said before the LORD, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?"


Ex. 7:1 The LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.  7:2 You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.  7:3 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.  7:4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.  7:5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them."

Ex. 7:6 Moses and Aaron did so.  As the LORD commanded them, so they did.  7:7 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.  Ex. 7:8 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 7:9 "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then you shall tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'"

Ex. 7:10 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.  7:11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers.  They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.  7:12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.  7:13 Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as the LORD had spoken.

Ex. 7:14 The LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn.  He refuses to let the people go.  7:15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning.  Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river's bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.  7:16 You shall tell him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and behold, until now you haven't listened."  7:17 Thus says the LORD, "In this you shall know that I am the LORD.  Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.  7:18 The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river."'"  7:19 The LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"

Ex. 7:20 Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD 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 that were in the river were turned to blood.  7:21 The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn't drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.  7:22 The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as the LORD had spoken.  7:23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn't even take this to heart.  7:24 All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.  7:25 Seven days were fulfilled, after the LORD had struck the river.


Ex. 8:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what the LORD says, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.  8:2 If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs: 8:3 and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs: 8:4 and the frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants."'"  8:5 The LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.'"  8:6 Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.  8:7 The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.

Ex. 8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat the LORD, that he take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD."  8:9 Moses said to Pharaoh, "I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only."  8:10 He said, "Tomorrow."  He said, "Be it according to your word, that you may know that there is none like the LORD our God.  8:11 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."

Ex. 8:12 Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.  8:13 The LORD did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.  8:14 They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.  8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn't listen to them, as the LORD had spoken.

Ex. 8:16 The LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.'"  8:17 They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.  8:18 The magicians tried with their enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn't.  There were lice on man, and on animal.  8:19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God:"  and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as the LORD had spoken.

Ex. 8:20 The LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, 'This is what the LORD says, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.  8:21 Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.  8:22 I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.  8:23 I will put a division between my people and your people: by tomorrow shall this sign be."'"  8:24 The LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servant's houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.

Ex. 8:25 Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!"  8:26 Moses said, "It isn't appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God.  Behold, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and won't they stone us?  8:27 We will go three day's journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us."

Ex. 8:28 Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away.  Pray for me."  8:29 Moses said, "Behold, I go out from you, and I will pray to the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don't let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD."  8:30 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the LORD.  8:31 The LORD did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people.  There remained not one.  8:32 Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn't let the people go.


Ex. 9:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.  9:2 For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still, 9:3 behold, the hand of the LORD is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.  9:4 The LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel."'"  9:5 The LORD appointed a set time, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land."  9:6 The LORD did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.  9:7 Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead.  But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn't let the people go.

Ex. 9:8 The LORD said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.  9:9 It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking out with boils on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt."

Ex. 9:10 They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking out with boils on man and on animal.  9:11 The magicians couldn't stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians, and on all the Egyptians.  9:12 the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn't listen to them, as the LORD had spoken to Moses.

Ex. 9:13 The LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.  9:14 For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.  9:15 For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth; 9:16 but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth; 9:17 as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.  9:18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.  9:19 Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter.  Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn't brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die."'"

Ex. 9:20 Those who feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.  9:21 Whoever didn't respect the word of the LORD left his servants and his livestock in the field.

Ex. 9:22 The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt."  9:23 Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and the LORD sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth.  The LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.  9:24 So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.  9:25 The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.  9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

Ex. 9:27 Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time.  The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.  9:28 Pray to the LORD; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail.  I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."  9:29 Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to the LORD.  The thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is the LORD's.  9:30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you don't yet fear the LORD God."

Ex. 9:31 The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.  9:32 But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.  9:33 Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.  9:34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.  9:35 The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn't let the children of Israel go, just as the LORD had spoken through Moses.


Ex. 10:1 The LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in their midst, 10:2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am the LORD."

Ex. 10:3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me?  Let my people go, that they may serve me.  10:4 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, 10:5 and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth.  They shall eat the residue 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.  10:6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your father's fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'"  He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

Ex. 10:7 Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us?  Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD, their God.  Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"  10:8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve the LORD your God; but who are those who will go?"

Ex. 10:9 Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to the LORD."  10:10 He said to them, "The LORD be with you if I will let you go with your little ones!  See, evil is clearly before your faces.  10:11 Not so!  Go now you who are men, and serve the LORD; for that is what you desire!"  They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

Ex. 10:12 The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left."  10:13 Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.  10:14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt.  They were very grievous.  Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.  10:15 For they covered the surface 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.  There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.  10:16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said,  "I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.  10:17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to the LORD your God, that he may also take away from me this death."

Ex. 10:18 He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the LORD.  10:19 The LORD turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea.  There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.  10:20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go.

Ex. 10:21 The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."  10:22 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.  10:23 They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

Ex. 10:24 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve the LORD.  Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind.  Let your little ones also go with you."  10:25 Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.  10:26 Our livestock also shall go with us.  Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve the LORD our God; and we don't know with what we must serve the LORD, until we come there."

Ex. 10:27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go.  10:28 Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me!  Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"  10:29 Moses said, "You have spoken well.  I will see your face again no more."


Ex. 11:1 The LORD said to Moses, "Yet one plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go.  When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.  11:2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold."  11:3 The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians.  Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

Ex. 11:4  Moses said, "This is what the LORD says: 'About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt, 11:5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of livestock.  11:6 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor shall be any more.  11:7 But against any of the children of Israel a dog won't even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.  11:8 All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, "Get out, with all the people who follow you;"  and after that I will go out.'"  He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

Ex. 11:9 The LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."  11:10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go out of his land.


Ex. 12:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 12:2 "This month shall be to you the beginning of months.  It shall be the first month of the year to you.  12:3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their father's houses, a lamb for a household; 12:4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.  12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old.  You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: 12:6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.  12:7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.  12:8 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread.  They shall eat it with bitter herbs.  12:9 Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.  12:10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.  12:11 This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's Passover.  12:12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal.  Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.  12:13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.  12:14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.'"

Ex. 12:15 "'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast 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.  12:16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.  12:17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.  12:18 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.  12:19 There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.  12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened.  In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"

Ex. 12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.  12:22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.  12:23 For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.  12:24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.  12:25 It shall happen when you have come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.  12:26 It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?' 12:27 that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of the LORD's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'"  The people bowed their heads and worshiped.  12:28 The children of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Ex. 12:29 It happened at midnight, that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.  12:30 Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.  12:31 He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said!  12:32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"

Ex. 12:33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."  12:34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.  12:35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.  12:36 The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked.  They despoiled the Egyptians.

Ex. 12:37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.  12:38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.  12:39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.  12:40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.  12:41 It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.  12:42 It is a night to be much observed to the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt.  This is that night of the LORD, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

Ex. 12:43 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover.  No foreigner shall eat of it, 12:44 but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.  12:45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.  12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry out anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.  12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.  12:48 When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.  12:49 One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you."  12:50 All the children of Israel did so.  As the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.  12:51 It happened the same day, that the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.


Ex. 13:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 13:2 "Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal.  It is mine."

Ex. 13:3 Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place.  No leavened bread shall be eaten.  13:4 This day you go out in the month Abib.  13:5 It shall be, when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.  13:6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.  13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall yeast be seen with you, in all your borders.  13:8 You shall tell your son in that day, saying, 'It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.' 13:9 It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.  13:10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year."

Ex. 13:11 "It shall be, when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you, 13:12 that you shall set apart to the LORD all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal.  The males shall be the LORD's.  13:13 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.  13:14 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage; 13:15 and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal.  Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.' 13:16 It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt."

Ex. 13:17 It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"  13:18 but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.  13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you."  13:20 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.  13:21 The LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night: 13:22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart from before the people.


Ex. 14:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 14:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon.  You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.  14:3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land.  The wilderness has shut them in.' 14:4 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD."  They did so.

Ex. 14:5 It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"  14:6 He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him; 14:7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.  14:8 The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.  14:9 The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

Ex. 14:10 When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid.  The children of Israel cried out to the LORD.  14:11 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness?  Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?  14:12 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."

Ex. 14:13 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid.  Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.14:14 The LORD will fight for you, and you shall be still."

Ex. 14:15 The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me?  Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.  14:16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.  14:17 I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.  14:18 The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen."  14:19 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.  14:20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn't come near the other all the night.

Ex. 14:21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.  14:22 The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.  14:23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.  14:24 It happened in the morning watch, that the LORD looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.  14:25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians!"

Ex. 14:26 The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen."  14:27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it.  The LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.  14:28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the sea.  There remained not so much as one of them.  14:29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.  14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.  14:31 Israel saw the great work which the LORD did to the Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD; and they believed in the LORD, and in his servant Moses.


Ex. 15:1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and said,

"I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously.
The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

15:2 The LORD is my strength and song.
He has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise him;
my father's God, and I will exalt him.

15:3 The LORD is a man of war.
The LORD is his name.

15:4 He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea.
His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

15:5  The deeps cover them.
They went down into the depths like a stone.

15:6 Your right hand, LORD, is glorious in power.
Your right hand, LORD, dashes the enemy in pieces.

15:7 In the greatness of your excellency,
you overthrow those who rise up against you.
You send forth your wrath.  It consumes them as stubble.

15:8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up.
The floods stood upright as a heap.
The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

15:9 The enemy said, 'I will pursue.  I will overtake.
I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them.
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'

15:10 You blew with your wind.
The sea covered them.
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

15:11 Who is like you, LORD, among the gods?
Who is like you, glorious in holiness,
fearful in praises, doing wonders?

15:12 You stretched out your right hand.
The earth swallowed them.

15:13 "You, in your loving kindness,
have led the people that you have redeemed.
You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.

15:14 The peoples have heard.  They tremble.
Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

15:15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.
Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab.
All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.

15:16 Terror and dread falls on them.
By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone;
until your people pass over, LORD,
until the people pass over who you have purchased.

15:17 You shall bring them in,
and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,
the place, LORD, which you have made for yourself to dwell in;
the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.

15:18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever."

Ex. 15:19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.  15:20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.  15:21 Miriam answered them,

"Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously.
The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."

Ex. 15:22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.  15:23 When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter.  Therefore its name was called Marah.  15:24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"  15:25 Then he cried to the LORD.  The LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet.  There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them; 15:26 and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you."

Ex. 15:27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.


Ex. 16:1 They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.  16:2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; 16:3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

Ex. 16:4 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.  16:5 It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."

Ex. 16:6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, then you shall know that the LORD has brought you out from the land of Egypt; 16:7 and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of the LORD; because he hears your murmurings against the LORD.  Who are we, that you murmur against us?"  16:8 Moses said, "Now the LORD shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because the LORD hears your murmurings which you murmur against him.  And who are we?  Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD."  16:9 Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your murmurings.'"  16:10 It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.  16:11 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 16:12 "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.  Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am the LORD your God.'"

Ex. 16:13 It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.  16:14 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.  16:15 When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?"  For they didn't know what it was.  Moses said to them, "It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.  16:16 This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent."  16:17 The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.  16:18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack.  They gathered every man according to his eating.  16:19 Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."  16:20 Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.  16:21 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating.  When the sun grew hot, it melted.  16:22 It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

Ex. 16:23 He said to them, "This is that which the LORD has spoken, ' Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD.  Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'"  16:24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.  16:25 Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD.  Today you shall not find it in the field.  16:26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath.  In it there shall be none."  16:27 It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.  16:28 The LORD said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?  16:29 Behold, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days.  Everyone stay in his place.  Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."  16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

Ex. 16:31 The house of Israel called its name manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.  16:32 Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, ' Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'"  16:33 Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept throughout your generations."  16:34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.  16:35 The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land.  They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.  16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.


Ex. 17:1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the LORD's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.  17:2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink."  Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me?  Why do you test the LORD?"

Ex. 17:3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"  17:4 Moses cried to the LORD, saying, "What shall I do with these people?  They are almost ready to stone me."

Ex. 17:5 The LORD said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.  17:6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb.  You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink."  Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.  17:7 He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us, or not?"

Ex. 17:8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.  17:9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek.  Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand."  17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.  17:11 It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.  17:12 But Mose's hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it.  Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side.  His hands were steady until sunset.  17:13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.  17:14 The LORD said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."  17:15 Moses built an altar, and called its name the LORD our Banner.  17:16 He said, "The LORD has sworn: 'The LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'"


Ex. 18:1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Mose's father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.  18:2 Jethro, Mose's father-in-law, received Zipporah, Mose's wife, after he had sent her away, 18:3 and her two sons.  The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".  18:4 The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword."  18:5 Jethro, Mose's father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.  18:6 He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her."

Ex. 18:7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him.  They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.  18:8 Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how the LORD delivered them.  18:9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.  18:10 Jethro said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.  18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."  18:12 Jethro, Mose's father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God.  Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Mose's father-in-law before God.

Ex. 18:13 It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.  18:14 When Mose's father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people?  Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?"

Ex. 18:15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.  18:16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."  18:17 Mose's father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good.  18:18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you.  You are not able to perform it yourself alone.  18:19 Listen now to my voice.  I will give you counsel, and God be with you.  You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.  18:20 You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.  18:21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.  18:22 Let them judge the people at all times.  It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves.  So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.  18:23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."

Ex. 18:24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.  18:25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.  18:26 They judged the people at all times.  They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.  18:27 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.


Ex. 19:1 In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.  19:2 When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.  19:3 Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: 19:4 ' You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagle's wings, and brought you to myself.  19:5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; 19:6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."

Ex. 19:7 Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD commanded him.  19:8 All the people answered together, and said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do."  Moses reported the words of the people to the LORD.

Ex. 19:9 The LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever."  Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.  19:10 The LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments, 19:11 and be ready against the third day; for on the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.  19:12 You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border.  Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.  19:13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."

Ex. 19:14 Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.  19:15 He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day.  Don't have sexual relations with a woman."  19:16 It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.  19:17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.  19:18 Mount Sinai, all of it smoked, because the LORD descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. 19:19 When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.  19:20 The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain.  The LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

Ex. 19:21 The LORD said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.  19:22 Let the priests also, who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth on them."

Ex. 19:23 Moses said to the LORD, "The people can't come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, 'Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.'"  19:24 The LORD said to him, "Go down and you shall bring Aaron up with you, but don't let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest he break forth on them."  9:25 So Moses went down to the people, and told them.


Ex. 20:1 God spoke all these words, saying, 20:2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Ex. 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before me.

Ex. 20:4 "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 20:5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, 20:6 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Ex. 20:7 "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

Ex. 20:8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.  20:9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work, 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God.  You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; 20:11 for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

Ex. 20:12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Ex. 20:13 "You shall not murder.

Ex. 20:14 "You shall not commit adultery.

Ex. 20:15 "You shall not steal.

Ex. 20:16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Ex. 20:17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house.  You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

Ex. 20:18 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking.  When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.  20:19 They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."

Ex. 20:20 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."  20:21 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

Ex. 20:22 The LORD said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.  20:23 You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.  20:24 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle.  In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.  20:25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.  20:26 Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'


Ex. 21:1 "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

Ex. 21:2 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.  21:3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself.  If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.  21:4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.  21:5 But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children.  I will not go out free;' 21:6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

Ex. 21:7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.  21:8 If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed.  He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.  21:9 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.  21:10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.  21:11 If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

Ex. 21:12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, 21:13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.  21:14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

Ex. 21:15 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

Ex. 21:16 "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Ex. 21:17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Ex. 21:18 "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed; 21:19 if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

Ex. 21:20 "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.  21:21 Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

Ex. 21:22 "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.  21:23 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 21:25 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

Ex. 21:26 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.  21:27 If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

Ex. 21:28 "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.  21:29 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.  21:30 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.  21:31 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.  21:32 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

Ex. 21:33 "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it, 21:34 the owner of the pit shall make it good.  He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

Ex. 21:35 "If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.  21:36 Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.


Ex. 22:1 "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.  22:2 If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.  22:3 If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution.  If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.  22:4 If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

Ex. 22:5 "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

Ex. 22:6 "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

Ex. 22:7 "If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.  22:8 If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods.  22:9 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties shall come before God.  He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

Ex. 22:10 "If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it; 22:11 the oath of the LORD shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.  22:12 But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.  22:13 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence.  He shall not make good that which was torn.

Ex. 22:14 "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.  22:15 If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good.  If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

Ex. 22:16 "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.  22:17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Ex. 22:18 "You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

Ex. 22:19 "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.

Ex. 22:20 "He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.

Ex. 22:21 "You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Ex. 22:22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.  22:23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; 22:24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Ex. 22:25 "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.  22:26 If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, 22:27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin.  What would he sleep in?  It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

Ex. 22:28 "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Ex. 22:29 "You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses.

"You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.  22:30 You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep.  Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

Ex. 22:31 "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field.  You shall cast it to the dogs.


Ex. 23:1 "You shall not spread a false report.  Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Ex. 23:2 "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice; 23:3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

Ex. 23:4 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.  23:5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

Ex. 23:6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Ex. 23:7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

Ex. 23:8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

Ex. 23:9 "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Ex. 23:10 "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, 23:11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat.  In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

Ex. 23:12 "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

Ex. 23:13 "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.

Ex. 23:14 "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.  23:15 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread.  Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.  23:16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.  23:17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord the LORD.

Ex. 23:18 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.  23:19 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God.  "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Ex. 23:20 "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.  23:21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice.  Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.  23:22 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.  23:23 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.  23:24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

Ex. 23:25 You shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.  23:26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land.  I will fulfill the number of your days.  23:27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.  23:28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.  23:29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.  23:30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.  23:31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.  23:32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.  23:33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."


Ex. 24:1 He said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.  24:2 Moses alone shall come near to the LORD, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."  24:3 Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which the LORD has spoken will we do."

Ex. 24:4 Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.  24:5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to the LORD.  24:6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.  24:7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that the LORD has spoken will we do, and be obedient."  24:8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words."

Ex. 24:9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.  24:10 They saw the God of Israel.  Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.  24:11 He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel.  They saw God, and ate and drank.

Ex. 24:12 The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."

Ex. 24:13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God's Mountain.  24:14 He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you.  Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you.  Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."

Ex. 24:15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.  24:16 The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days.  The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.  24:17 The appearance of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.  24:18 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.


Ex. 25:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 25:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me.  From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.  25:3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass, 25:4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat's hair, 25:5 ram's skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, 25:6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, 25:7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.  25:8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.  25:9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

Ex. 25:10 "They shall make an ark of acacia wood.  Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.  25:11 You shall overlay it with pure gold.  You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.  25:12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet.  Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.  25:13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.  25:14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.  25:15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark.  They shall not be taken from it.  25:16 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.  25:17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold.  Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.  25:18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold.  You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.  25:19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end.  You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.  25:20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another.  The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.  25:21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.  25:22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

Ex. 25:23 "You shall make a table of acacia wood.  Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.  25:24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.  25:25 You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it.  You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.  25:26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.  25:27 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.  25:28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.  25:29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with.  You shall make them of pure gold.  25:30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

Ex. 25:31 "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold.  Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.  25:32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side; 25:33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand; 25:34 and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers; 25:35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand.  25:36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.  25:37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.  25:38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.  25:39 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.  25:40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.


Ex. 26:1 "Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim.  The work of the skillful workman you shall make them.  26:2 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.  26:3 Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.  26:4 You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling; and likewise you shall make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling.  26:5 You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling.  The loops shall be opposite one to another.  26:6 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be a unit.

Ex. 26:7 "You shall make curtains of goat's hair for a covering over the tabernacle.  You shall make them eleven curtains.  26:8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.  26:9 You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.  26:10 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling.  26:11 You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.  26:12 The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.  26:13 The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.  26:14 You shall make a covering for the tent of ram's skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

Ex. 26:15 "You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.  26:16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board.  26:17 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.  26:18 You shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.  26:19 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.  26:20 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards, 26:21 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.  26:22 For the far part of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.  26:23 You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.  26:24 They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.  26:25 There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

Ex. 26:26 "You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 26:27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far part westward.  26:28 The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.  26:29 You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold.  26:30 You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.

Ex. 26:31 "You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim.  The work of the skillful workman shall it be made.  26:32 You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.  26:33 You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.  26:34 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.  26:35 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.

Ex. 26:36 "You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.  26:37 You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.


Ex. 27:1 "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits.  27:2 You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass.  27:3 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.  27:4 You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.  27:5 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.  27:6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.  27:7 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it.  27:8 You shall make it with hollow planks.  They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.

Ex. 27:9 "You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side: 27:10 and its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.  27:11 Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.  27:12 For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.  27:13 The breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.  27:14 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.  27:15 For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.  27:16 For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.  27:17 All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.  27:18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.  27:19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

Ex. 27:20 "You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.  27:21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.


Ex. 28:1 "Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.  28:2 You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.  28:3 You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.  28:4 These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.  28:5 They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.

Ex. 28:6 "They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.  28:7 It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.  28:8 The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.  28:9 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel: 28:10 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.  28:11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.  28:12 You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD on his two shoulders for a memorial.  28:13 You shall make settings of gold, 28:14 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.

Ex. 28:15 "You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.  28:16 It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth.  28:17 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row; 28:18 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; 28:19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 28:20 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.  28:21 The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.  28:22 You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.  28:23 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.  28:24 You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.  28:25 The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.  28:26 You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.  28:27 You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.  28:28 They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.  28:29 Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.  28:30 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before the LORD continually.

Ex. 28:31 "You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.  28:32 It shall have a hole for the head in its midst: it shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.  28:33 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between and around them: 28:34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.  28:35 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before the LORD, and when he comes out, that he not die.

Ex. 28:36 "You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY TO THE LORD.' 28:37 You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash; on the front of the sash it shall be.  28:38 It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.  28:39 You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.

Ex. 28:40 "You shall make coats for Aaron's sons, and you shall make sashes for them and you shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty.  28:41 You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.  28:42 You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach: 28:43 They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.


Ex. 29:1 "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull and two rams without blemish, 29:2 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.  29:3 You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.  29:4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.  29:5 You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod; 29:6 and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.  29:7 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.  29:8 You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.  29:9 You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Ex. 29:10 "You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.  29:11 You shall kill the bull before the LORD, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  29:12 You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.  29:13 You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.  29:14 But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin offering.

Ex. 29:15 "You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.  29:16 You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.  29:17 You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.  29:18 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to the LORD; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Ex. 29:19 "You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.  29:20 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.  29:21 You shall take of the blood that is 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 made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his son's garments with him.  29:22 Also you shall take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration), 29:23 and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.  29:24 You shall put all of this in Aaron's hands, and in his son's hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.  29:25 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Ex. 29:26 "You shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be your portion.  29:27 You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons: 29:28 and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering: and it shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to the LORD.

Ex. 29:29 "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.  29:30 Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.

Ex. 29:31 "You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place.  29:32 Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  29:33 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.  29:34 If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

Ex. 29:35 "You shall do so to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you.  You shall consecrate them seven days.  29:36 Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.  29:37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

Ex. 29:38 "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.  29:39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening: 29:40 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.  29:41 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.  29:42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.  29:43 There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.  29:44 I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office.  29:45 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.  29:46 They shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.


Ex. 30:1 "You shall make an altar to burn incense on.  You shall make it of acacia wood.  30:2 Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit.  It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits.  Its horns shall be of one piece with it.  30:3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.  30:4 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.  30:5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.  30:6 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.  30:7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning.  When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.  30:8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.  30:9 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.  30:10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations.  It is most holy to the LORD."

Ex. 30:11 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 30:12 "When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.  30:13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to the LORD.  30:14 Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to the LORD.  30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.  30:16 You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for your souls."

Ex. 30:17 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 30:18 "You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of brass, in which to wash.  You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.  30:19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.  30:20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the LORD.  30:21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."

Ex. 30:22 Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 30:23 "Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty; 30:24 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.  30:25 You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.  30:26 You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, 30:27 the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense, 30:28 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.  30:29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy.  Whatever touches them shall be holy.  30:30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.  30:31 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.  30:32 It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make any like it, according to its composition: it is holy.  It shall be holy to you.  30:33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'"

Ex. 30:34 The LORD said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: there shall be an equal weight of each; 30:35 and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy: 30:36 and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you.  It shall be to you most holy.  30:37 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for the LORD.  30:38 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people."


Ex. 31:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 31:2 "Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: 31:3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship, 31:4 to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 31:5 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.  31:6 I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you: 31:7 the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, 31:8 the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its vessels, the altar of incense, 31:9 the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base, 31:10 the finely worked garments--the holy garments for Aaron the priest--the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office, 31:11 the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do."

Ex. 31:12 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 31:13 "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.  31:14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you.  Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.  31:15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD.  Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.  31:16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.  31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"

Ex. 31:18 He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God's finger.


Ex. 32:1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."

Ex. 32:2 Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."  32:3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.  32:4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

Ex. 32:5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD."  32:6 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.

Ex. 32:7 The LORD spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!  32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them.  They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

Ex. 32:9 The LORD said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.  32:10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

Ex. 32:11 Moses begged the LORD his God, and said, "LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?  32:12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.  32:13 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 sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

Ex. 32:14 The LORD repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

Ex. 32:15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.  32:16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

Ex. 32:17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."  32:18 He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear."  32:19 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Mose's anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.  32:20 He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

Ex. 32:21 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"  32:22 Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot.  You know the people, that they are set on evil.  32:23 For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.' 32:24 I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."

Ex. 32:25 When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies), 32:26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on the LORD's side, come to me!"  All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.  32:27 He said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"  32:28 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.  32:29 Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day."

Ex. 32:30 It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin.  Now I will go up to the LORD.  Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."  32:31 Moses returned to the LORD, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.  32:32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."

Ex. 32:33 The LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.  32:34 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you.  Behold, my angel shall go before you.  Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."  32:35 The LORD struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.


Ex. 33:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.' 33:2 I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 33:3 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."

Ex. 33:4 When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.  33:5 The LORD said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people.  If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you.  Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"  33:6 The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

Ex. 33:7 Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The Tent of Meeting."  It happened that everyone who sought the LORD went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.  33:8 It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.  33:9 It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses.  33:10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.  33:11 The LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.  He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.

Ex. 33:12 Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me.  Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.' 33:13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."

Ex. 33:14 He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."  33:15 He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here.  33:16 For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people?  Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"

Ex. 33:17 The LORD said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."

Ex. 33:18 He said, "Please show me your glory."  33:19 He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you.  I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy."  33:20 He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live."  33:21 The LORD also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.  33:22 It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by; 33:23 then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen."


Ex. 34:1 The LORD said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.  34:2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.  34:3 No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."

Ex. 34:4 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.  34:5 The LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.  34:6 The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, "the LORD!  the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, 34:7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."

Ex. 34:8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.  34:9 He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."

Ex. 34:10 He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of the LORD; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.  34:11 Observe that which I command you this day.  Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.  34:12 Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you: 34:13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim; 34:14 for you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Ex. 34:15 "Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice; 34:16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

Ex. 34:17 "You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

Ex. 34:18 "You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread.  Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.

Ex. 34:19 "All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.  34:20 The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck.  All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem.  No one shall appear before me empty.

Ex. 34:21 "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

Ex. 34:22 "You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end.  34:23 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord the LORD, the God of Israel.  34:24 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before the LORD, your God, three times in the year.

Ex. 34:25 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to the morning.

Ex. 34:26 "You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the LORD your God.

"You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

Ex. 34:27 The LORD said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."  34:28 He was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water.  He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Ex. 34:29 It happened, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Mose's hand, when he came down from the mountain, that Moses didn't know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.  34:30 When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.  34:31 Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.  34:32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all of the commandments that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.  34:33 When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.  34:34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.  34:35 The children of Israel saw Mose's face, that the skin of Mose's face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.


Ex. 35:1 Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, "These are the words which the LORD has commanded, that you should do them.  35:2 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to the LORD: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.  35:3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.'"

Ex. 35:4 Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying, 35:5 'Take from among you an offering to the LORD.  Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, the LORD's offering: gold, silver, brass, 35:6 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat's hair, 35:7 ram's skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, 35:8 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, 35:9 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

Ex. 35:10 "'Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that the LORD has commanded: 35:11 the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; 35:12 the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen; 35:13 the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show bread; 35:14 the lampstand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the light; 35:15 and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle; 35:16 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, it poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base; 35:17 the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court; 35:18 the pins of the tabernacle, the pins of the court, and their cords; 35:19 the finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.'"

Ex. 35:20 All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.  35:21 They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought the LORD's offering, for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.  35:22 They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to the LORD.  35:23 Everyone, with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat's hair, ram's skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them.  35:24 Everyone who offered an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD's offering; and everyone, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.  35:25 All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.  35:26 All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goat's hair.  35:27 The rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastplate; 35:28 and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.  35:29 The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to the LORD; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by Moses.

Ex. 35:30 Moses said to the children of Israel, "Behold, the LORD has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.  35:31 He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship; 35:32 and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass, 35:33 in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.  35:34 He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.  35:35 He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.


Ex. 36:1 "Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD has commanded."

Ex. 36:2 Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it: 36:3 and they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it.  They brought yet to him freewill offerings every morning.  36:4 All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which they did.  36:5 They spoke to Moses, saying, "The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded to make."

Ex. 36:6 Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary."  So the people were restrained from bringing.  36:7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.

Ex. 36:8 All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, they made them.  36:9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits.  All the curtains had one measure.  36:10 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.  36:11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling.  Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the second coupling.  36:12 He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling.  The loops were opposite one to another.  36:13 He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.

Ex. 36:14 He made curtains of goat's hair for a covering over the tabernacle.  He made them eleven curtains.  36:15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain.  The eleven curtains had one measure.  36:16 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.  36:17 He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outmost in the second coupling.  36:18 He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.  36:19 He made a covering for the tent of ram's skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

Ex. 36:20 He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.  36:21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.  36:22 Each board had two tenons, joined one to another.  He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.  36:23 He made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward.  36:24 He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.  36:25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards, 36:26 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.  36:27 For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.  36:28 He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.  36:29 They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring.  He did this to both of them in the two corners.  36:30 There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.

Ex. 36:31 He made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 36:32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.  36:33 He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.  36:34 He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

Ex. 36:35 He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim.  He made it the work of a skillful workman.  36:36 He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold.  Their hooks were of gold.  He cast four sockets of silver for them.  36:37 He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer; 36:38 and the five pillars of it with their hooks.  He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of brass.


Ex. 37:1 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood.  Its length was two and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.  37:2 He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it around it.  37:3 He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet; even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.  37:4 He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.  37:5 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.  37:6 He made a mercy seat of pure gold.  Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.  37:7 He made two cherubim of gold.  He made them of beaten work, at the two ends of the mercy seat; 37:8 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end.  He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.  37:9 The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another.  The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.

Ex. 37:10 He made the table of acacia wood.  Its length was two cubits, and its breadth was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.  37:11 He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.  37:12 He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.  37:13 He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet.  37:14 The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.  37:15 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.  37:16 He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.

Ex. 37:17 He made the lampstand of pure gold.  He made the lampstand of beaten work.  Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.  37:18 There were six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side: 37:19 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.  37:20 In the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers; 37:21 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.  37:22 Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it.  The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.  37:23 He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold.  37:24 He made it of a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels.

Ex. 37:25 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood.  It was square: its length was a cubit, and its breadth a cubit.  Its height was two cubits.  Its horns were of one piece with it.  37:26 He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns.  He made a gold molding around it.  37:27 He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles with which to carry it.  37:28 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.  37:29 He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.


Ex. 38:1 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood.  It was square.  Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.  38:2 He made its horns on its four corners.  Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.  38:3 He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans.  He made all its vessels of brass.  38:4 He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.  38:5 He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles.  38:6 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass.  38:7 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it.  He made it hollow with planks.

Ex. 38:8 He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Ex. 38:9 He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits; 38:10 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.  38:11 For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.  38:12 For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.  38:13 For the east side eastward fifty cubits.  38:14 The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three; 38:15 and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.  38:16 All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.  38:17 The sockets for the pillars were of brass.  The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.  38:18 The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.  Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court.  38:19 Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.  38:20 All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of brass.

Ex. 38:21 This is the amount of material used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.  38:22 Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.  38:23 With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.

Ex. 38:24 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.  38:25 The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: 38:26 a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.  38:27 The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.  38:28 Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.  38:29 The brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels.  38:30 With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar, 38:31 the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins around the court.


Ex. 39:1 Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Ex. 39:2 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.  39:3 They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.  39:4 They made shoulder straps for it, joined together.  At the two ends it was joined together.  39:5 The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Ex. 39:6 They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.  39:7 He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Ex. 39:8 He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.  39:9 It was square.  They made the breastplate double.  Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.  39:10 They set in it four rows of stones.  A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row; 39:11 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; 39:12 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 39:13 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper.  They were enclosed in gold settings.  39:14 The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.  39:15 They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.  39:16 They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.  39:17 They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.  39:18 The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front.  39:19 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.  39:20 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.  39:21 They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Ex. 39:22 He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.  39:23 The opening of the robe in its midst was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.  39:24 They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.  39:25 They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates; 39:26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Ex. 39:27 They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons, 39:28 and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen, 39:29 and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Ex. 39:30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: "HOLY TO THE LORD."  39:31 They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Ex. 39:32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished.  The children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; so they did.  39:33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, 39:34 the covering of ram's skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen, 39:35 the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat, 39:36 the table, all its vessels, the show bread, 39:37 the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light, 39:38 the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent, 39:39 the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base, 39:40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting, 39:41 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.  39:42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.  39:43 Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.


Ex. 40:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 40:2 "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.  40:3 You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.  40:4 You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it.  You shall bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps.  40:5 You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

Ex. 40:6 "You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.  40:7 You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.  40:8 You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.

Ex. 40:9 "You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture: and it will be holy.  40:10 You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy.  40:11 You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.

Ex. 40:12 "You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.  40:13 You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.  40:14 You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.  40:15 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.  Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations."  40:16 Moses did so.  According to all that the LORD commanded him, so he did.

Ex. 40:17 It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was raised up.  40:18 Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.  40:19 He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as the LORD commanded Moses.  40:20 He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.  40:21 He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as the LORD commanded Moses.  40:22 He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside of the veil.  40:23 He set the bread in order on it before the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.  40:24 He put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.  40:25 He lit the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.  40:26 He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil; 40:27 and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as the LORD commanded Moses.  40:28 He put up the screen of the door to the tabernacle.  40:29 He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as the LORD commanded Moses.  40:30 He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.  40:31 Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.  40:32 When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as the LORD commanded Moses.  40:33 He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court.  So Moses finished the work.

Ex. 40:34 Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.  40:35 Moses wasn't able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and the LORD's glory filled the tabernacle.  40:36 When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys; 40:37 but if the cloud wasn't taken up, then they didn't travel until the day that it was taken up.  40:38 For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.




Leviticus

Lev. 1:1 The LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying, 1:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When anyone of you offers an offering to the LORD, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock.  1:3 If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish.  He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before the LORD.  1:4 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.  1:5 He shall kill the bull before the LORD.  Aaron's sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  1:6 He shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces.  1:7 The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire; 1:8 and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar; 1:9 but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water.  The priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.

Lev. 1:10 "'If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep, or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without blemish.  1:11 He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the LORD.  Aaron's sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.  1:12 He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat.  The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar, 1:13 but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water.  The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar.  It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.

Lev. 1:14 "'If his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.  1:15 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 out on the side of the altar; 1:16 and he shall take away its crop with its filth, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.  1:17 He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart.  The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire.  It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.


Lev. 2:1 "'When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.  2:2 He shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests; and he shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its  oil, with all its frankincense; and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the  LORD.  2:3 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his son's.  It is a most holy thing of the offerings of the LORD made  by fire.

Lev. 2:4 "'When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.  2:5 If your offering is a meal offering of the griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.  2:6 You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it.  It is a meal offering.  2:7 If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.  2:8 You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to the LORD: and it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.  2:9 The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.  2:10 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his son's.  It is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.

Lev. 2:11 "'No meal offering, which you shall offer to the LORD, shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to the LORD.  2:12 As an offering of firstfruits you shall offer them to the LORD: but they shall not ascend for a pleasant aroma on the altar.  2:13 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering.  With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

Lev. 2:14 "'If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.  2:15 You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it: it is a meal offering.  2:16 The priest shall burn as its memorial, part of its bruised grain, and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense: it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.


Lev. 3:1 "'If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings; if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.  3:2 He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron's sons, the priests shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.  3:3 He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, 3:4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.  3:5 Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.

Lev. 3:6 "'If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD is from the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.  3:7 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the LORD; 3:8 and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.  3:9 He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards, 3:10 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.  3:11 The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to the LORD.

Lev. 3:12 "'If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD: 3:13 and he shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.  3:14 He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, 3:15 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.  3:16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is the LORD's.

Lev. 3:17 "'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"


Lev. 4:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 4:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them: 4:3 if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering.  4:4 He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before the LORD; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before the LORD.  4:5 The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.  4:6 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the veil of the sanctuary.  4:7 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out all of rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  4:8 He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering off of it; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, 4:9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away, 4:10 as it is taken off of the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings.  The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.  4:11 The bull's skin, all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung, 4:12 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 wood with fire.  Where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

Lev. 4:13 "'If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and are guilty; 4:14 when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.  4:15 The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD; and the bull shall be killed before the LORD.  4:16 The anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting: 4:17 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, before the veil.  4:18 He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  4:19 All its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar.  4:20 Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.  4:21 He shall carry forth the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull.  It is the sin offering for the assembly.

Lev. 4:22 "'When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which the LORD his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty; 4:23 if his sin, in which he has sinned, is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish.  4:24 He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD.  It is a sin offering.  4:25 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering.  He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.  4:26 All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.

Lev. 4:27 "'If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and is guilty; 4:28 if his sin, which he has sinned, is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned.  4:29 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.  4:30 The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.  4:31 All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from off of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to the LORD; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

Lev. 4:32 "'If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish.  4:33 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.  4:34 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.  4:35 All its fat he shall take away, like the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of the LORD made by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.


Lev. 5:1 "'If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn't report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Lev. 5:2 "'Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.

Lev. 5:3 "'Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.

Lev. 5:4 "'Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these.  5:5 It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned: 5:6 and he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.

Lev. 5:7 "'If he can't afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.  5:8 He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.  5:9 He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar.  It is a sin offering.  5:10 He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.

Lev. 5:11 "'But if he can't afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering.  He shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.  5:12 He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of the LORD made by fire.  It is a sin offering.  5:13 The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest's, as the meal offering.'"

Lev. 5:14 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 5:15 "If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.  5:16 He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.

Lev. 5:17 "If anyone sins, and does any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done; though he didn't know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.  5:18 He shall bring a ram without blemish from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn't know it, and he will be forgiven.  5:19 It is a trespass offering.  He is certainly guilty before the LORD.


Lev. 6:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6:2 "If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against the LORD, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor, 6:3 or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a man does, sinning therein; 6:4 then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, 6:5 or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it.  To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.  6:6 He shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.  6:7 The priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.

Lev. 6:8 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6:9 "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.  6:10 The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen breeches upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.  6:11 He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.  6:12 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning: and he shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.  6:13 Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.

Lev. 6:14 "'This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.  6:15 He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial, to the LORD.  6:16 That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat.  It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place.  They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.  6:17 It shall not be baked with yeast.  I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire.  It is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.  6:18 Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of the LORD made by fire.  Whoever touches them shall be holy.

Lev. 6:19 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6:20 "This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to the LORD in the day when he is anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.  6:21 It shall be made with oil in a griddle.  When it is soaked, you shall bring it in.  You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to the LORD.  6:22 The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it.  By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burnt to the LORD.  6:23 Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned.  It shall not be eaten.

Lev. 6:24 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6:25 "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 the LORD.  It is most holy.  6:26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it.  It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.  6:27 Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy.  When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.  6:28 But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.  6:29 Every male among the priests shall eat of it: it is most holy.  6:30 No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with fire.


Lev. 7:1 "'This is the law of the trespass offering.  It is most holy.  7:2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar.  7:3 He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards, 7:4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away; 7:5 and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to the LORD: it is a trespass offering.  7:6 Every male among the priests may eat of it.  It shall be eaten in a holy place.  It is most holy.

Lev. 7:7 "'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them.  The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.  7:8 The priest who offers any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.  7:9 Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest's who offers it.  7:10 Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.

Lev. 7:11 "'This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to the LORD.  7:12 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.  7:13 With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving.  7:14 Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to the LORD.  It shall be the priest's who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.  7:15 The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering.  He shall not leave any of it until the morning.

Lev. 7:16 "'But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten: 7:17 but what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.  7:18 If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it.  It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.

Lev. 7:19 "'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten.  It shall be burned with fire.  As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it; 7:20 but the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to the LORD, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.  7:21 When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to the LORD, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Lev. 7:22 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 7:23 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat.  7:24 The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.  7:25 For whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.  7:26 You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.  7:27 Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Lev. 7:28 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 7:29 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the LORD shall bring his offering to the LORD out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.  7:30 With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire.  He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.  7:31 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his son’s.  7:32 The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.  7:33 He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion.  7:34 For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.'"

Lev. 7:35 This is the anointing portion of Aaron, and the anointing portion of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to the LORD in the priest's office; 7:36 which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them.  It is their portion forever throughout their generations.  7:37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings; 7:38 which the LORD commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.


Lev. 8:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 8:2 "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; 8:3 and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting."

Lev. 8:4 Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  8:5 Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded to be done." 8:6 Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.  8:7 He put the coat on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened it to him with it.  8:8 He placed the breastplate on him; and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim.  8:9 He set the turban on his head; and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.  8:10 Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.  8:11 He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.  8:12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.  8:13 Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with coats, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Lev. 8:14 He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.  8:15 He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.  8:16 He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it on the altar.  8:17 But the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.  8:18 He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.  8:19 He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.  8:20 He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.  8:21 He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar.  It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma.  It was an offering made by fire to the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Lev. 8:22 He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.  8:23 He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.  8:24 He brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.  8:25 He took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh; 8:26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and on the right thigh.  8:27 He put all these in Aaron's hands and in his son's hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.  8:28 Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering.  They were a consecration for a pleasant aroma.  It was an offering made by fire to the LORD.  8:29 Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD.  It was Mose's portion of the ram of consecration, as the LORD commanded Moses.  8:30 Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his son's garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his son's garments with him.

Lev. 8:31 Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, "Boil the flesh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall eat it.' 8:32 What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire.  8:33 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.  8:34 What has been done this day, so the LORD has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.  8:35 You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep the LORD's command, that you don't die: for so I am commanded." 8:36 Aaron and his sons did all the things which the LORD commanded by Moses.


Lev. 9:1 It happened on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel; 9:2 and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.  9:3 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering; 9:4 and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today the LORD appears to you.'"

Lev. 9:5 They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.  9:6 Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD commanded that you should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear to you." 9:7 Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as the LORD commanded."

Lev. 9:8 So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.  9:9 The sons of Aaron presented 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 base of the altar: 9:10 but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.  9:11 The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.  9:12 He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.  9:13 They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head: and he burned them upon the altar.  9:14 He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.  9:15 He presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.  9:16 He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.  9:17 He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.  9:18 He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar, 9:19 and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver: 9:20 and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar: 9:21 and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses commanded.  9:22 Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.

Lev. 9:23 Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.  9:24 There came forth fire from before the LORD, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.


Lev. 10:1 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them.  10:2 And fire came forth from before the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.  10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD spoke of, saying,

'I will show myself holy to those who come near me,
and before all the people I will be glorified.'"

Aaron held his peace.  10:4 Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp."  10:5 So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.

Lev. 10:6 Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD has kindled.  10:7 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of the LORD is on you."  They did according to the word of Moses.

Lev. 10:8 The LORD spoke to Aaron, saying, 10:9 "Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you don't die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations: 10:10 and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean; 10:11 and that you are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them by Moses."

Lev. 10:12 Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy; 10:13 and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your son's portion, of the offerings of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.  10:14 The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your son's portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.  10:15 The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be yours, and your son's with you, as a portion forever; as the LORD has commanded."

Lev. 10:16 Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned: and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying, 10:17 "Why haven't you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD? 10:18 Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary: you certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded."  10:19 Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such things as these have happened to me: and if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the sight of the LORD?"  10:20 When Moses heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.


Lev. 11:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, 11:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.  11:3 Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.

Lev. 11:4 "'Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.  11:5 The coney, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.  11:6 The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn't part the hoof, she is unclean to you.  11:7 The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn't chew the cud, he is unclean to you.  11:8 Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

Lev. 11:9 "'These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.  11:10 All that don't have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you, 11:11 and you detest them.  You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.  11:12 Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.

Lev. 11:13 "'These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture, 11:14 and the red kite, any kind of black kite, 11:15 any kind of raven, 11:16 the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk, 11:17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, 11:18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, 11:19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

Lev. 11:20 "'All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.  11:21 Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth.  11:22 Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.  11:23 But all winged creeping things which have four feet, are an abomination to you.

Lev. 11:24 "'By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.  11:25 Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

Lev. 11:26 "'Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you.  Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.  11:27 Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you.  Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.  11:28 He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.  They are unclean to you.

Lev. 11:29 "'These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, 11:30 the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.  11:31 These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep.  Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.  11:32 On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.  11:33 Every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.  11:34 All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.  11:35 Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.  11:36 Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is a gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.  11:37 If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.  11:38 But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

Lev. 11:39 "'If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.  11:40 He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.  He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

Lev. 11:41 "'Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination.  It shall not be eaten.  11:42 Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.  11:43 You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.  11:44 For I am the LORD your God.  Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.  11:45 For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God.  You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Lev. 11:46 "'This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, 11:47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.


Lev. 12:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 12:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.  12:3 In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.  12:4 She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days.  She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.  12:5 But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.

Lev. 12:6 "'When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering: 12:7 and he shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood.  This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.  12:8 If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.


Lev. 13:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 13:2 "When a man shall have a rising in his body's skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons, the priests: 13:3 and the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body: and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body's skin, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.  13:4 If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn't turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.  13:5 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and, behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.  13:6 The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean.  It is a scab.  He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.  13:7 But if the scab spreads on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.  13:8 The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean.  It is leprosy.

Lev. 13:9 "When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest; 13:10 and the priest shall examine him.  Behold, if there is a white rising in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the rising, 13:11 it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean.  He shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.

Lev. 13:12 "If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest; 13:13 then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague.  It has all turned white: he is clean.  13:14 But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.  13:15 The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean.  It is leprosy.  13:16 Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest; 13:17 and the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague.  He is clean.

Lev. 13:18 "When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed, 13:19 and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest; 13:20 and the priest shall examine it; and behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean.  It is the plague of leprosy.  It has broken out in the boil.  13:21 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn't deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.  13:22 If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean.  It is a plague.  13:23 But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

Lev. 13:24 "Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white, 13:25 then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin; it is leprosy.  It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean.  It is the plague of leprosy.  13:26 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn't lower than the skin, but is faded; then the priest shall isolate him seven days.  13:27 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day.  If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean.  It is the plague of leprosy.  13:28 If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar from the burn.

Lev. 13:29 "When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard, 13:30 then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.  13:31 If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate him the person infected with itching seven days.  13:32 On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn't spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn't deeper than the skin, 13:33 then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch; and the priest shall shut him up who has the itch seven more days.  13:34 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn't spread in the skin, and its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean.  He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.  13:35 But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing, 13:36 then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean.  13:37 But if in his eyes the itch is arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the itch is healed, he is clean.  The priest shall pronounce him clean.

Lev. 13:38 "When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots; 13:39 then the priest shall examine them; and behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.

Lev. 13:40 "If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald.  He is clean.  13:41 If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald.  He is clean.  13:42 But if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.  13:43 Then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, 13:44 he is a leprous man.  He is unclean.  The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean.  His plague is on his head.

Lev. 13:45 "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose.  He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!' 13:46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean.  He is unclean.  He shall dwell alone.  Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.

Lev. 13:47 "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment; 13:48 whether it is in warp, or woof; of linen, or of wool; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin; 13:49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.  13:50 The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days.  13:51 He shall examine the plague on the seventh day.  If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew.  It is unclean.  13:52 He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a destructive mildew.  It shall be burned in the fire.

Lev. 13:53 "If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn't spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; 13:54 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and he shall isolate it seven more days.  13:55 Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn't changed its color, and the plague hasn't spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire.  It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.  13:56 If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof: 13:57 and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading.  You shall burn with fire that in which the plague is.  13:58 The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean."

Lev. 13:59 This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.


Lev. 14:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 14:2 "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing.  He shall be brought to the priest, 14:3 and the priest shall go forth out of the camp.  The priest shall examine him, and behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper, 14:4 then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.  14:5 The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.  14:6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.  14:7 He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.

Lev. 14:8 "He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean.  After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.  14:9 It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off.  He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.

Lev. 14:10 "On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.  14:11 The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Lev. 14:12 "The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.  14:13 He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering.  It is most holy.  14:14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.  14:15 The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.  14:16 The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.  14:17 The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.  14:18 The rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD.

Lev. 14:19 "The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering; 14:20 and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar.  The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

Lev. 14:21 "If he is poor, and can't afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil; 14:22 and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

Lev. 14:23 "On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before the LORD.  14:24 The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.  14:25 He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering.  The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.  14:26 The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand; 14:27 and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.  14:28 Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who 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.  14:29 The rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.  14:30 He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is able to afford, 14:31 even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering.  The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the LORD.  14:32 This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing.

Lev. 14:33 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 14:34 "When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession, 14:35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, 'There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.' 14:36 The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.  14:37 He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall; 14:38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.  14:39 The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look.  If the plague has spread in the walls of the house, 14:40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city: 14:41 and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.  14:42 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.

Lev. 14:43 "If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered; 14:44 then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house.  It is unclean.  14:45 He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar.  He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.  14:46 Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.  14:47 He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

Lev. 14:48 "If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn't spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.  14:49 To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.  14:50 He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.  14:51 He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.  14:52 He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet; 14:53 but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field.  So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.

Lev. 14:54 This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch, 14:55 and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house, 14:56 and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot; 14:57 to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean.  This is the law of leprosy.


Lev. 15:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 15:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.  15:3 This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

Lev. 15:4 "'Every bed whereon he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.  15:5 Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.  15:6 He who sits on anything whereon the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Lev. 15:7 "'He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Lev. 15:8 "'If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Lev. 15:9 "'Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean.  15:10 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening.  He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Lev. 15:11 "'Whoever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe  himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Lev. 15:12 "'The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

Lev. 15:13 "'When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

Lev. 15:14 "'On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest: 15:15 and the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.  The priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.

Lev. 15:16 "'If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.  15:17 Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.  15:18 If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Lev. 15:19 "'If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.

Lev. 15:20 "'Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean.  Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.  15:21 Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.  15:22 Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.  15:23 If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.

Lev. 15:24 "'If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lies shall be unclean.

Lev. 15:25 "'If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period; all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: she is unclean.  15:26 Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period: and everything whereon she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.  15:27 Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and e unclean until the evening.

Lev. 15:28 "'But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.  15:29 On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.  15:30 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 the LORD for the uncleanness of her discharge.

Lev. 15:31 "'Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.

Lev. 15:32 This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby; 15:33 and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.


Lev. 16:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the LORD, and died; 16:2 and the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

Lev. 16:3 "Herewith shall Aaron come into the sanctuary: with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.  16:4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban.  They are the holy garments.  He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.  16:5 He shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

Lev. 16:6 "Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.  16:7 He shall take the two goats, and set them before the LORD at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  16:8 Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.  16:9 Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the LORD, and offer him for a sin offering.  16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement for him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness.

Lev. 16:11 "Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.  16:12 He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil: 16:13 and he shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he will not die.  16:14 He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

Lev. 16:15 "Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 16:16 and he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells with them in the midst of their uncleanness.  16:17 No one shall be in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.

Lev. 16:18 "He shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull's blood, and some of the goat's blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.  16:19 He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

Lev. 16:20 "When he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.  16:21 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.  16:22 The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.

Lev. 16:23 "Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.  16:24 Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.  16:25 The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.

Lev. 16:26 "He who lets the goat go for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.  16:27 The 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 be carried forth outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.  16:28 He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

Lev. 16:29 "It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you: 16:30 for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before the LORD.  16:31 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.  16:32 The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father's place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.  16:33 Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.  16:34 "This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins."  It was done as the LORD commanded Moses.


Lev. 17:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 17:2 "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: 'This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, 17:3 Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, 17:4 and hasn't brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD: blood shall be imputed to that man.  He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.  17:5 This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the LORD, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to the LORD.  17:6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the LORD at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to the LORD.  17:7 They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute.  This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.'

Lev. 17:8 "You shall say to them, 'Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, 17:9 and doesn't bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to sacrifice it to the LORD; that man shall be cut off from his people.

Lev. 17:10 "'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.  17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.  17:12 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, "No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood."

Lev. 17:13 "'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.  17:14 For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, "You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood.  Whoever eats it shall be cut off."

Lev. 17:15 "'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.  17:16 But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.


Lev. 18:1 The LORD said to Moses, 18:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'I am the LORD your God.  18:3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.  18:4 You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am the LORD your God.  18:5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

Lev. 18:6 "'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.

Lev. 18:7 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother.  You shall not uncover her nakedness.

Lev. 18:8 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.

Lev. 18:9 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.

Lev. 18:10 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.

Lev. 18:11 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.

Lev. 18:12 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman.

Lev. 18:13 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.

Lev. 18:14 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt.

Lev. 18:15 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife.  You shall not uncover her nakedness.

Lev. 18:16 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.

Lev. 18:17 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter.  You shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

Lev. 18:18 "'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

Lev. 18:19 "'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

Lev. 18:20 "'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

Lev. 18:21 "'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

Lev. 18:22 "'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman.  That is detestable.

Lev. 18:23 "'You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.

Lev. 18:24 "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.  18:25 The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.  18:26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you; 18:27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled); 18:28 that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Lev. 18:29 "'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.  18:30 Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am the LORD your God.


Lev. 19:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 19:2 "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy.

Lev. 19:3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father.  You shall keep my Sabbaths.  I am the LORD your God.

Lev. 19:4 "'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves.  I am the LORD your God.

Lev. 19:5 "'When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.  19:6 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 with fire.  19:7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination.  It will not be accepted; 19:8 but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of the LORD, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Lev. 19:9 "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.  19:10 You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner.  I am the LORD your God.

Lev. 19:11 "'You shall not steal.

"'You shall not lie.

"'You shall not deceive one another.

Lev. 19:12 "'You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God.  I am the LORD.

Lev. 19:13 "'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him.

"'The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Lev. 19:14 "'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God.  I am the LORD.

Lev. 19:15 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

Lev. 19:16 "'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people.

"'You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor.  I am the LORD.

Lev. 19:17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart.  You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Lev. 19:18 "'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself.  I am the LORD.

Lev. 19:19 "'You shall keep my statutes.

"'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals.

"'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed;

"'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of material.

Lev. 19:20 "'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished.  They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.  19:21 He shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.  19:22 The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he has committed: and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.

Lev. 19:23 "'When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden.  Three years shall they be forbidden to you.  It shall not be eaten.  19:24 But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to the LORD.  19:25 In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you.  I am the LORD your God.

Lev. 19:26 "'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.

Lev. 19:27 "'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.

Lev. 19:28 "'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you.  I am the LORD.

Lev. 19:29 "'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

Lev. 19:30 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am the LORD.

Lev. 19:31 "'Don't turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards.  Don't seek them out, to be defiled by them.  I am the LORD your God.

Lev. 19:32 "'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God.  I am the LORD.

Lev. 19:33 "'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.  19:34 The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt.  I am the LORD your God.

Lev. 19:35 "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.  19:36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin.  I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Lev. 19:37 "'You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them.  I am the LORD.


Lev. 20:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 20:2 "Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, 'Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death.  The people of the land shall stone him with stones.  20:3 I also will set my face against that person, 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.  20:4 If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don't put him to death; 20:5 then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.

Lev. 20:6 "'The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

Lev. 20:7 "'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God.  20:8 You shall keep my statutes, and do them.  I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

Lev. 20:9 "'For everyone 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 upon him.

Lev. 20:10 "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Lev. 20:11 "'The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Lev. 20:12 "'If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.

Lev. 20:13 "'If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Lev. 20:14 "'If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.

Lev. 20:15 "'If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.

Lev. 20:16 "'If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman, and the animal: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Lev. 20:17 "'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

Lev. 20:18 "'If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

Lev. 20:19 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity.  20:20 If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

Lev. 20:21 "'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

Lev. 20:22 "'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.  20:23 You shall not walk in the customs of the nations, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.  20:24 But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

Lev. 20:25 "'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.  20:26 You shall be holy to me: for I, the LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

Lev. 20:27 "'A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.


Lev. 21:1 The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, 'A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people; 21:2 except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother, 21:3 and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.  21:4 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

Lev. 21:5 "'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.  21:6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

Lev. 21:7 "'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.  21:8 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.

Lev. 21:9 "'The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burned with fire.

Lev. 21:10 "'He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, nor tear his clothes; 21:11 neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 21:12 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him.  I am the LORD.

Lev. 21:13 "'He shall take a wife in her virginity.  21:14 A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.  21:15 He shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.

Lev. 21:16 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 21:17 "Say to Aaron, 'None of your seed throughout their generations who has a blemish, may approach to offer the bread of his God.  21:18 For whatever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity, 21:19 or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand, 21:20 or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles; 21:21 no man of the seed of Aaron the priest who has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire.  Since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.  21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.  21:23 He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them."  21:24 So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.


Lev. 22:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 22:2 "Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name.  I am the LORD.  22:3 Tell them, 'If anyone of all your seed throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel make holy to the LORD, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me.  I am the LORD.

Lev. 22:4 "'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean.  Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him; 22:5 or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has; 22:6 the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.  22:7 When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.  22:8 That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it.  I am the LORD.

Lev. 22:9 "'They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it.  I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

Lev. 22:10 "'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.  22:11 But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.  22:12 If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.  22:13 But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.

Lev. 22:14 "'If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.  22:15 The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the LORD, 22:16 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

Lev. 22:17 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 22:18 "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, 'Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to the LORD for a burnt offering; 22:19 that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.  22:20 But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Lev. 22:21 '"Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; no blemish shall be therein.  22:22 Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running sore, you shall not offer these to the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to the LORD.  22:23 Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.  22:24 That which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut, you shall not offer to the LORD; neither shall you do thus in your land.  22:25 Neither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them.  There is a blemish in them.  They shall not be accepted for you.

Lev. 22:26 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 22:27 "When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, then it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to the LORD.  22:28 Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day.

Lev. 22:29 "When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the LORD, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.  22:30 It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning.  I am the LORD.

Lev. 22:31 "Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them.  I am the LORD.  22:32 You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel.  I am the LORD who makes you holy, 22:33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God.  I am the LORD.


Lev. 23:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'The set feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.

Lev. 23:3 "'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work.  It is a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings.

Lev. 23:4 "'These are the set feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.  23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is the LORD's Passover.  23:6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD.  Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.  23:7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation.  You shall do no regular work.  23:8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD seven days.  In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.

Lev. 23:9 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23:10 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest: 23:11 and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you.  On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.  23:12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to the LORD.  23:13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.  23:14 You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God.  This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Lev. 23:15 "'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed: 23:16 even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to the LORD.  23:17 You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour.  They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to the LORD.  23:18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams.  They shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to the LORD.  23:19 You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.  23:20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs.  They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.  23:21 You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

Lev. 23:22 "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner.  I am the LORD your God.

Lev. 23:23 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23:24 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.  23:25 You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Lev. 23:26 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23:27 "However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.  23:28 You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.  23:29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.  23:30 Whoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.  23:31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.  23:32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves.  In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.

Lev. 23:33 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23:34 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to the LORD.  23:35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.  23:36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.  On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.  It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.

Lev. 23:37 "'These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day; 23:38 besides the Sabbaths of the LORD, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD.

Lev. 23:39 "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.  23:40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.  23:41 You shall keep it a feast to the LORD seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.  23:42 You shall dwell in booths seven days.  All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in booths, 23:43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.  I am the LORD your God.'"  23:44 Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of the LORD.


Lev. 24:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24:2 "Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.  24:3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.  24:4 He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.

Lev. 24:5 "You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.  24:6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.  24:7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD.  24:8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually.  It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.  24:9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute."

Lev. 24:10 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.  24:11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses.  His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.  24:12 They put him in custody, until the will of the LORD should be declared to them.

Lev. 24:13 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24:14 "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.  24:15 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.  24:16 He who blasphemes the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

Lev. 24:17 "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.  24:18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.  24:19 If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him: 24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.  24:21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.  24:22 You shall have one kind of law, for the foreigner as well as the native-born: for I am the LORD your God.

Lev. 24:23 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought out him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones.  The children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.


Lev. 25:1 The LORD said to Moses in Mount Sinai, 25:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD.  25:3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits; 25:4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD.  You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.  25:5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather.  It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.  25:6 The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.  25:7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

Lev. 25:8 "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.  25:9 Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month.  On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.  25:10 You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.  It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.  25:11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you.  In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.  25:12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you.  You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

Lev. 25:13 "'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.  25:14 If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.  25:15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor.  According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.  25:16 According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.  25:17 You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.

Lev. 25:18 "'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.  25:19 The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.  25:20 If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year?  Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;" 25:21 then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.  25:22 You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.

Lev. 25:23 "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.  25:24 In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

Lev. 25:25 "'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.  25:26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it; 25:27 then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.  25:28 But if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

Lev. 25:29 "'If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold.  For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.  25:30 If it isn't redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations.  It shall not be released in the Jubilee.  25:31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

Lev. 25:32 "'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.  25:33 The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.  25:34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

Lev. 25:35 "'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him.  He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.  25:36 Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.  25:37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.  25:38 I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

Lev. 25:39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.  25:40 As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee: 25:41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.  25:42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.  They shall not be sold as slaves.  25:43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

Lev. 25:44 "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.  25:45 Moreover of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.  25:46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

Lev. 25:47 "'If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger's family; 25:48 after he is sold he may be redeemed.  One of his brothers may redeem him; 25:49 or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.  25:50 He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.  25:51 If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.  25:52 If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.  25:53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.  25:54 If he isn't redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.  25:55 For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.  I am the LORD your God.


Lev. 26:1 "'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.

Lev. 26:2 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary.  I am the LORD.

Lev. 26:3 "'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 26:4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.  26:5 Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

Lev. 26:6 "'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.  26:7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.  26:8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

Lev. 26:9 "'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.  26:10 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.  26:11 I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you.  26:12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.  26:13 I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.

Lev. 26:14 "'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments; 26:15 and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant; 26:16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.  26:17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies.  Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

Lev. 26:18 "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.  26:19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass; 26:20 and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Lev. 26:21 "'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.  26:22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.

Lev. 26:23 "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me; 26:24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.  26:25 I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.  26:26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Lev. 26:27 "'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me; 26:28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.  26:29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.  26:30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.  26:31 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.  26:32 I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.  26:33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.  26:34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies land.  Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.  26:35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.

Lev. 26:36 "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues.  26:37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.  26:38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up.  26:39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

Lev. 26:40 "'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me, 26:41 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity; 26:42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.  26:43 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.  26:44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God; 26:45 but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God.  I am the LORD.

Lev. 26:46 These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.


Lev. 27:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 27:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When a man makes a vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by your valuation.  27:3 Your valuation shall be of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.  27:4 If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.  27:5 If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.  27:6 If the person is from a month old even to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.  27:7 If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.  27:8 But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him.

Lev. 27:9 "'If it is an animal, of which men offer an offering to the LORD, all that any man gives of such to the LORD becomes holy.  27:10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy.  27:11 If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to the LORD, then he shall set the animal before the priest; 27:12 and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad.  As you the priest values it, so shall it be.  27:13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.

Lev. 27:14 "'When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand.  27:15 If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.

Lev. 27:16 "'If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.  27:17 If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.  27:18 But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.  27:19 If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.  27:20 If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more; 27:21 but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a field devoted; it shall be owned by the priests.

Lev. 27:22 "'If he dedicates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession, 27:23 then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to the LORD.  27:24 In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.  27:25 All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.

Lev. 27:26 "'Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a firstborn to the LORD, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep, it is the LORD's.  27:27 If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it: or if it isn't redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

Lev. 27:28 "'Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to the LORD of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.

Lev. 27:29 "'No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

Lev. 27:30 "'All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD's.  It is holy to the LORD.  27:31 If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it.  27:32 All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the LORD.  27:33 He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy.  It shall not be redeemed.

Lev. 27:34 These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.




Numbers

Num. 1:1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 1:2 "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their father's houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one; 1:3 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.  You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.  1:4 With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his father's house.  1:5 These are the names of the men who shall stand with you:  Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.  1:6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.  1:7 Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.  1:8 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.  1:9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.  1:10 Of the children of Joseph:  Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud.  Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.  1:11 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.  1:12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.  1:13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.  1:14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.  1:15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan."

Num. 1:16 These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.  1:17 Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.  1:18 They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their father's houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.  1:19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

Num. 1:20 The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their father's houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:21 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

Num. 1:22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their father's houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:23 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

Num. 1:24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their father's houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:25 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

Num. 1:26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their father's houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:27 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were sixty-four thousand six hundred.

Num. 1:28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their father's houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:29 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

Num. 1:30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their father's houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:31 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

Num. 1:32 Of the children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their father's houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out  to war; 1:33 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.  1:34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their father's houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:35 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

Num. 1:36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their father's houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 1:37 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

Num. 1:38 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their father's houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war; 1:39 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

Num. 1:40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their father's houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war; 1:41 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.

Num. 1:42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their father's houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war; 1:43 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

Num. 1:44 These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his father's house.  1:45 So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their father's houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel; 1:46 even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

Num. 1:47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.  1:48 For the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 1:49 "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel; 1:50 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it.  They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.  1:51 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up.  The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.  1:52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.  1:53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."

Num. 1:54 Thus the children of Israel did.  According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they did.


Num. 2:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2:2 "The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their father's houses: at a distance from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp around it.  2:3 Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.  2:4 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.  2:5 Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.  2:6 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.  2:7 The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.  2:8 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.  2:9 All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions.  They shall set out first.

Num. 2:10 "On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions.  The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.  2:11 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.  2:12 Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon.  The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.  2:13 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.  2:14 The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.  2:15 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.  2:16 All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies.  They shall set out second.

Num. 2:17 "Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps.  As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.

Num. 2:18 "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.  2:19 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred.  2:20 Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.  2:21 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.  2:22 The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.  2:23 His army, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.  2:24 All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions.  They shall set out third.

Num. 2:25 "On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.  2:26 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.  2:27 Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.  2:28 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.  2:29 The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.  2:30 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.  2:31 All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred.  They shall set out last by their standards.

Num. 2:32 These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their father's houses.  All who were numbered of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.  2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.  2:34 Thus the children of Israel did.  According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their father's houses.


Num. 3:1 Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.  3:2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Num. 3:3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.  3:4 Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children.  Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.

Num. 3:5 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 3:6 "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.  3:7 They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.  3:8 They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.  3:9 You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons.  They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.  3:10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood.  The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

Num. 3:11 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 3:12 "Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine: 3:13 for all the firstborn are mine.  On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal.  They shall be mine.  I am the LORD."

Num. 3:14 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 3:15 "Count the children of Levi by their father's houses, by their families.  You shall count every male from a month old and upward."

Num. 3:16 Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.  3:17 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.  3:18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.  3:19 The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.  3:20 The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi.  These are the families of the Levites according to their father's houses.

Num. 3:21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.  3:22 Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.  3:23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.  3:24 The prince of the father's house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.  3:25 The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting, 3:26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.

Num. 3:27 Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.  3:28 According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.  3:29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.  3:30 The prince of the father's house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.  3:31 Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.  3:32 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.

Num. 3:33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites.  These are the families of Merari.  3:34 Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.  3:35 The prince of the father's house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail.  They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.  3:36 The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service, 3:37 the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.

Num. 3:38 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel.  The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.  3:39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

Num. 3:40 The LORD said to Moses, "Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.  3:41 You shall take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel."  3:42 Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.  3:43 All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

Num. 3:44 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 3:45 "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine.  I am the LORD.  3:46 For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites, 3:47 you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs): 3:48 and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons."  3:49 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites; 3:50 from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: 3:51 and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.


Num. 4:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 4:2 "Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their father's houses, 4:3 from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

Num. 4:4 "This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things.  4:5 When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it, 4:6 and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.

Num. 4:7 "On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.  4:8 They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

Num. 4:9 "They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.  4:10 They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.

Num. 4:11 "On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

Num. 4:12 "They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.

Num. 4:13 "They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.  4:14 They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.

Num. 4:15 "When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die.  These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.

Num. 4:16 "The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the requirements of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings.

Num. 4:17 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 4:18 "Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites; 4:19 but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden; 4:20 but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die."

Num. 4:21 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 4:22 "Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their father's houses, by their families; 4:23 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

Num. 4:24 "This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens: 4:25 they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting, 4:26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them.  Therein shall they serve.  4:27 At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.  4:28 This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting: and their duty shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Num. 4:29 "As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their father's houses; 4:30 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.  4:31 This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, 4:32 and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden.  4:33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Num. 4:34 Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their father's houses, 4:35 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting.  4:36 Those who were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty.  4:37 These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.

Num. 4:38 Those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families, and by their father's houses, 4:39 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, 4:40 even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their father's houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.  4:41 These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD.

Num. 4:42 Those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their father's houses, 4:43 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, 4:44 even those who were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred.  4:45 These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.  4:46 All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their father's houses, 4:47 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting, 4:48 even those who were numbered of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty.  4:49 According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden.  Thus were they numbered by him, as the LORD commanded Moses.


Num. 5:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 5:2 "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.  5:3 You shall put both male and female outside of the camp; that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell."  5:4 The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as the LORD spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Num. 5:5 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 5:6 "Speak to the children of Israel: 'When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against the LORD, and that soul is guilty; 5:7 then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.  5:8 But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to the LORD shall be the priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.  5:9 Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.  5:10 Every man's holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.'"

Num. 5:11 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 5:12 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: 'If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him, 5:13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act; 5:14 and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled: 5:15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal.  He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.  5:16 The priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD; 5:17 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.  5:18 The priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy.  The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.  5:19 The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, "If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.  5:20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"  5:21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, "The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell; 5:22 and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away."  The woman shall say, "Amen, Amen."

Num. 5:23 "'The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.  5:24 He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.  5:25 The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.  5:26 The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.  5:27 When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.  5:28 If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.  5:29 This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled; 5:30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.  5:31 The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.'"


Num. 6:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: 'When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD, 6:3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink.  He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.  6:4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.

Num. 6:5 "'All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to the LORD.  He shall be holy.  He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

Num. 6:6 "'All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.  6:7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation to God is on his head.  6:8 All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

Num. 6:9 "'If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing.  On the seventh day he shall shave it.  6:10 On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.  6:11 The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.  6:12 He shall separate to the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

Num. 6:13 "'This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting, 6:14 and he shall offer his offering to the LORD, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings, 6:15 and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings.  6:16 The priest shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.  6:17 He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread.  The priest shall offer also its meal offering, and its drink offering.  6:18 The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.  6:19 The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the head of his separation; 6:20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.  This is holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered.  After that the Nazirite may drink wine.  6:21 This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, and of his offering to the LORD for his separation, besides that which he is able to get.  According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.

Num. 6:22 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6:23 "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'This is how you shall bless the children of Israel. You shall tell them,

6:24  'The LORD bless you, and keep you.

6:25  The LORD make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.

6:26  The LORD lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.'”

Num. 6:27 "So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them."


Num. 7:1 It happened on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them; 7:2 that the princes of Israel, the heads of their father's houses, offered.  These were the princes of the tribes.  These are they who were over those who were numbered: 7:3 and they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented them before the tabernacle.  7:4 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 7:5 "Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service."

Num. 7:6 Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.  7:7 He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service: 7:8 and he gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.  7:9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.

Num. 7:10 The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes gave their offerings before the altar.  7:11 The LORD said to Moses, "They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar."

Num. 7:12 He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah, 7:13 and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7:14 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7:15 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:16 one male goat for a sin offering; 7:17 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old.  This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

Num. 7:18 On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, gave his offering.  7:19 He offered for his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7:20 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7:21 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:22 one male goat for a sin offering; 7:23 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old.  This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.

Num. 7:24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun 7:25 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7:26 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7:27 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:28 one male goat for a sin offering; 7:29 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old.  This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

Num. 7:30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben 7:31 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7:32 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7:33 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:34 one male goat for a sin offering; 7:35 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old.  This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Num. 7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon 7:37 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7:38 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7:39 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:40 one male goat for a sin offering; 7:41 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

Num. 7:42 On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad 7:43 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7:44 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7:45 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:46 one male goat for a sin offering; 7:47 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old.  This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

Num. 7:48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim 7:49 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7:50 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7:51 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:52 one male goat for a sin offering; 7:53 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old.  This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.

Num. 7:54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh 7:55 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7:56 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7:57 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:58 one male goat for a sin offering; 7:59 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old.  This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

Num. 7:60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin 7:61 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7:62 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7:63 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:64 one male goat for a sin offering; 7:65 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old.  This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.

Num. 7:66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan 7:67 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7:68 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7:69 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:70 one male goat for a sin offering; 7:71 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old.  This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

Num. 7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher 7:73 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7:74 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense; 7:75 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:76 one male goat for a sin offering; 7:77 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old.  This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.

Num. 7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali 7:79 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering; 7:80 one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; 7:81 one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 7:82 one male goat for a sin offering; 7:83 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old.  This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.

Num. 7:84 This was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles; 7:85 each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; 7:86 the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels; 7:87 all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and the male goats for a sin offering twelve; 7:88 and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty.  This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.

Num. 7:89 When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spoke to him.


Num. 8:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 8:2 "Speak to Aaron, and tell him, 'When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.'"  8:3 Aaron did so.  He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lampstand, as the LORD commanded Moses.  8:4 This was the workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold.  From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

Num. 8:5 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 8:6 "Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.  8:7 You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.  8:8 Then let them take a young bull, and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.  8:9 You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting.  You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.  8:10 You shall present the Levites before the LORD.  The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites, 8:11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of the LORD.

Num. 8:12 "The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.  8:13 You shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.  8:14 Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

Num. 8:15 "After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.  8:16 For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.  8:17 For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal.  On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.  8:18 I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.  8:19 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary."

Num. 8:20 Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites.  According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.  8:21 The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before the LORD; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.  8:22 After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

Num. 8:23 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 8:24 "This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting; 8:25 and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more, 8:26 but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall do no service.  You shall do thus to the Levites concerning their duties."


Num. 9:1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 9:2 "Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.  9:3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season; according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."

Num. 9:4 Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover.  9:5 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai.  According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.  9:6 There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.  9:7 Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man.  Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Israel?"  9:8 Moses answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you."

Num. 9:9 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 9:10 "Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to the LORD.  9:11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.  9:12 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it.  According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.  9:13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people.  Because he didn't offer the offering of the LORD in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

Num. 9:14 "'If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to the LORD; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do.  You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.'"

Num. 9:15 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.  9:16 So it was continually.  The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.  9:17 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.  9:18 At the commandment of the LORD, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of the LORD they encamped.  As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.  9:19 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the LORD's command, and didn't travel.

Num. 9:20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they traveled.  9:21 Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled: or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.  9:22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.  9:23 At the commandment of the LORD they encamped, and at the commandment of the LORD they traveled.  They kept the LORD's command, at the commandment of the LORD by Moses.


Num. 10:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10:2 "Make two trumpets of silver.  You shall make them of beaten work.  You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.  10:3 When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  10:4 If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.  10:5 When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.  10:6 When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward.  They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.  10:7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.

Num. 10:8 "The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets.  This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.  10:9 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets.  Then you will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

Num. 10:10 "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God.  I am the LORD your God."

Num. 10:11 It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.  10:12 The children of Israel went forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.  10:13 They first went forward according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.

Num. 10:14 First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies.  Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.  10:15 Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar.  10:16 Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.  10:17 The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.  10:18 The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies.  Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.  10:19 Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.  10:20 Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.

Num. 10:21 The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary.  The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.

Num. 10:22 The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies.  Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.  10:23 Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.  10:24 Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.

Num. 10:25 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies.  Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.  10:26 Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.  10:27 Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.  10:28 Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.

Num. 10:29 Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Mose's father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place of which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.'  Come with us, and we will treat you well; for the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel."  10:30 He said to him, "I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives."  10:31 He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.  10:32 It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good the LORD does to us, we will do the same to you."

Num. 10:33 They set forward from the Mount of the LORD three day's journey.  The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three day's journey, to seek out a resting place for them.  10:34 The cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.  10:35 It happened, when the ark went forward, that Moses said, "Rise up, LORD, and let your enemies be scattered!  Let those who hate you flee before you!"  10:36 When it rested, he said, "Return, LORD, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel."


Num. 11:1 The people were complaining in the ears of the LORD.  When the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled; and the LORD's fire burnt among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.  11:2 The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated.  11:3 The name of that place was called Taberah, because the LORD's fire burnt among them.

Num. 11:4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give us flesh to eat?  11:5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; 11:6 but now we have lost our appetite.  There is nothing at all except this manna to look at."  11:7 The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium.  11:8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it.  Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.  11:9 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

Num. 11:10 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.  11:11 Moses said to the LORD, "Why have you treated with your servant so badly?  Why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?  11:12 Have I conceived all this people?  Have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?'  11:13 Where could I get meat to give to all this people?  For they weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'  11:14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.  11:15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness."

Num. 11:16 The LORD said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.  11:17 I will come down and talk with you there.  I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.

Num. 11:18 "Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat?  For it was well with us in Egypt."  Therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and you will eat.  11:19 You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, 11:20 but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'"

Num. 11:21 Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, 'I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.'  11:22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them?  Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?"  11:23 The LORD said to Moses, "Has the LORD's hand grown short?  Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not."

Num. 11:24 Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.  11:25 The LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.

Num. 11:26 But two men remained in the camp.  The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.  11:27 A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"  11:28 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, "My lord Moses, forbid them!"  11:29 Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake?  I wish that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!"

Num. 11:30 Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.  11:31 A wind from the LORD went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.  11:32 The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails.  He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp.  11:33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

Num. 11:34 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.  11:35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.


Num. 12:1 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.  12:2 They said, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only with Moses?  Hasn't he spoken also with us?"  And the LORD heard it.

Num. 12:3 Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth.  12:4 The LORD spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, "You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!"  The three of them came out.  12:5 The LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.  12:6 He said, "Hear now my words.  If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision.  I will speak with him in a dream.  12:7 My servant Moses is not so.  He is faithful in all my house.  12:8 With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see the LORD's form.  Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?"  12:9 The anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.  12:10 The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow.  Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.

Num. 12:11 Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, please don't count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.  12:12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb."  12:13 Moses cried to the LORD, saying, "Heal her, God, I beg you!"  12:14 The LORD said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days?  Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again."  12:15 Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again.  12:16 Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.


Num. 13:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 13:2 "Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel.  Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them."

Num. 13:3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.  13:4 These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.  13:5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.  13:6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.  13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.  13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.  13:9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.  13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.  13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.  13:12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.  13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.  13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.  13:15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.  13:16 These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land.  Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.

Num. 13:17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, "Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country: 13:18 and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; 13:19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; 13:20 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not.  Be courageous, and bring of the fruit of the land."  Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.

Num. 13:21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.  13:22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there.  (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 13:23 They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two.  They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.  13:24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.  13:25 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.  13:26 They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.  13:27 They told him, and said, "We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is its fruit.  13:28 However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large.  Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.  13:29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan."

Num. 13:30 Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it."  13:31 But the men who went up with him said, "We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we."  13:32 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.  13:33 There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."


Num. 14:1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.  14:2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt!  or would that we had died in this wilderness!  14:3 Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword?  Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"  14:4 They said one to another, "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."

Num. 14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.  14:6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes: 14:7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.  14:8 If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.  14:9 Only don't rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us.  Don't fear them."

Num. 14:10 But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones.  The glory of the LORD appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.  14:11 The LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me?  and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?  14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

Num. 14:13 Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them; 14:14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land.  They have heard that you the LORD are in the midst of this people; for you the LORD are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.  14:15 Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, 14:16 'Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.'  14:17 Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying, 14:18 'The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.'  14:19 Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."

Num. 14:20 The LORD said, "I have pardoned according to your word: 14:21 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD; 14:22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice; 14:23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it: 14:24 but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.  14:25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

14:26 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 14:27 "How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me?  I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.  14:28 Tell them, 'As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you: 14:29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me, 14:30 surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.  14:31 But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.  14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.  14:33 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.  14:34 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.'  14:35 I, the LORD, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die."  14:36 The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, 14:37 even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.  14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

Num. 14:39 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.  14:40 They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, "Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned."  14:41 Moses said, "Why now do you disobey the commandment of the LORD, since it shall not prosper?  14:42 Don't go up, for the LORD isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.  14:43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you."  14:44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, didn't depart out of the camp.  14:45 Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.


Num. 15:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 15:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you, 15:3 and will make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock; 15:4 then he who offers his offering shall offer to the LORD a meal offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of  oil: 15:5 and wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin, you shall prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

Num. 15:6 "'Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil: 15:7 and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.  15:8 When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to the LORD; 15:9 then shall he offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil: 15:10 and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.  15:11 Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.  15:12 According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number.

Num. 15:13 "'All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.  15:14 If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD; as you do, so he shall do.  15:15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before the LORD.  15:16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.

Num. 15:17 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 15:18 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land where I bring you, 15:19 then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to the LORD.  15:20 Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering: as the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.  15:21 Of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD a wave offering throughout your generations.

Num. 15:22 "'When you shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which the LORD has spoken to Moses, 15:23 even all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations; 15:24 then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to the LORD, with the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.  15:25 The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error: 15:26 and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.

Num. 15:27 "'If one person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.  15:28 The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly, before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.  15:29 You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.

Num. 15:30 "'But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.  15:31 Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.

Num. 15:32 While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.  15:33 Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.  15:34 They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

Num. 15:35 The LORD said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp."  15:36 All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Num. 15:37 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 15:38 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue: 15:39 and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute; 15:40 that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.  15:41 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God."


Num. 16:1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: 16:2 and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown; 16:3 and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, "You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and the LORD is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of the LORD?"

Num. 16:4 When Moses heard it, he fell on his face: 16:5 and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, "In the morning the LORD will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he shall choose he will cause to come near to him.  16:6 Do this: take censers, Korah, and all his company; 16:7 and put fire in them, and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD chooses, he shall be holy.  You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!"

Num. 16:8 Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi!  16:9 Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them; 16:10 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you?  and do you seek the priesthood also?  16:11 Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against the LORD: and Aaron, what is he that you murmur against him?"

Num. 16:12 Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, "We won't come up: 16:13 is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?  16:14 Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men?  We won't come up."  16:15 Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, "Don't respect their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them."  16:16 Moses said to Korah, "You and all your company go before the LORD, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow: 16:17 and each man take his censer, and put incense on them, and each man bring before the LORD his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer."  16:18 They each took his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.  16:19 Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.

Num. 16:20 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 16:21 "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!"  16:22 They fell on their faces, and said, "God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?"

Num. 16:23 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 16:24 "Speak to the congregation, saying, 'Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!'"  16:25 Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.  16:26 He spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!"

Num. 16:27 So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.  16:28 Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.  16:29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hasn't sent me.  16:30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD."

Num. 16:31 It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was under them; 16:32 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.  16:33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.  16:34 All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!"  16:35 Fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

Num. 16:36 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 16:37 "Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire yonder; for they are holy, 16:38 even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel."  16:39 Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, 16:40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before the LORD; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD spoke to him by Moses.  16:41 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the LORD's people!"  16:42 It happened, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the Tent of Meeting: and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.  16:43 Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of Meeting.  16:44 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 16:45 "Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!"  They fell on their faces.

Num. 16:46 Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from the LORD!  The plague has begun."  16:47 Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague has begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.  16:48 He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.  16:49 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.  16:50 Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the plague was stayed.


Num. 17:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 17:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each father's house, of all their princes according to their father's houses, twelve rods: write every man's name on his rod.  17:3 You shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their father's houses.  17:4 You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.  17:5 It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you."

Num. 17:6 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their father's houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.  17:7 Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tent of the testimony.  17:8 It happened on the next day, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.  17:9 Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.  17:10 The LORD said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die."  17:11 Moses did so.  As the LORD commanded him, so he did.

Num. 17:12 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, we perish!  We are undone!  We are all undone!  17:13 Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, dies!  Will we all perish?"


Num. 18:1 The LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.  18:2 Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony.  18:3 They shall keep your commands, and the duty of all the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.  18:4 They shall be joined to you, and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.

Num. 18:5 "You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of the altar; that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.  18:6 I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to the LORD, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.  18:7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

Num. 18:8 The LORD spoke to Aaron, "I, behold, I have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.  18:9 This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.  18:10 You shall eat of it like the most holy things.  Every male shall eat of it.  It shall be holy to you.

Num. 18:11 "This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel.  I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever.  Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

Num. 18:12 "All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to the LORD, to you have I given them.  18:13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

Num. 18:14 "Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.  18:15 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to the LORD, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.  18:16 You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).  18:17 But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat.  They are holy.  You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to the LORD.  18:18 Their flesh shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.  18:19 All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the LORD, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD to you and to your seed with you."

Num. 18:20 The LORD said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them.  I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel."

Num. 18:21 "To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.  18:22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.  18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.  18:24 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, 'Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.'"

Num. 18:25 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 18:26 "Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, 'When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.  18:27 Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.  18:28 Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to the LORD of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give the LORD's wave offering to Aaron the priest.  18:29 Out of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of the LORD, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.'"

Num. 18:30 "Therefore you shall tell them, 'When you heave its best from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.  18:31 You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.  18:32 You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best: and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.'"


Num. 19:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 19:2 "This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded: Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and which was never yoked.  19:3 You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face: 19:4 and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.  19:5 One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: 19:6 and the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.  19:7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.  19:8 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

Num. 19:9 "A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin offering.  19:10 He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.

Num. 19:11 "He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days: 19:12 the same shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn't purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.  19:13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.

Num. 19:14 "This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.  19:15 Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

Num. 19:16 "Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Num. 19:17 "For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel: 19:18 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave: 19:19 and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.  19:20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.  19:21 It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

Num. 19:22 "Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.


Num. 20:1 The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.  20:2 There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.  20:3 The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!  20:4 Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?  20:5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place?  It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink."

Num. 20:6 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.  20:7 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 20:8 "Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink."

Num. 20:9 Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.  20:10 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you water out of this rock for you?"  20:11 Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.  20:12 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."

Num. 20:13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.  20:14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying:

"Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us: 20:15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers: 20:16 and when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.  20:17 Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border."

Num. 20:18 Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you."

Num. 20:19 The children of Israel said to him,

"We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I give its price: let me only, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet."

Num. 20:20 He said, "You shall not pass through."  Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.  20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.

Num. 20:22 They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.  20:23 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying, 20:24 "Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.  20:25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor; 20:26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be taken, and shall die there."

Num. 20:27 Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.  20:28 Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.  20:29 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.


Num. 21:1 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.  21:2 Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, "If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities."  21:3 The LORD listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Hormah.

Num. 21:4 They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.  21:5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?  For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."

Num. 21:6 The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.  21:7 The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD, and against you.  Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us."  Moses prayed for the people.

Num. 21:8 The LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."  21:9 Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.  21:10 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.  21:11 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.  21:12 From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.  21:13 From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.  21:14 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD, "Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon, 21:15 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab."

Num. 21:16 From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water."  21:17 Then sang Israel this song:

"Spring up, well; sing to it:
21:18 the well, which the princes dug,
which the nobles of the people dug,
with the scepter, and with their poles."

From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah; 21:19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; 21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.  21:21 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

21:22 "Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border."

Num. 21:23 Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.  21:24 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.  21:25 Israel took all these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns.  21:26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.  21:27 Therefore those who speak in proverbs say,

"Come to Heshbon.
Let the city of Sihon be built and established;

21:28 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
a flame from the city of Sihon.
It has devoured Ar of Moab,
The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

21:29 Woe to you, Moab!
You are undone, people of Chemosh!
He has given his sons as fugitives,
and his daughters into captivity,
to Sihon king of the Amorites.

21:30 We have shot at them.
Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.
We have laid waste even to Nophah,
Which reaches to Medeba."

Num. 21:31 Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.  21:32 Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its towns, and drove out the Amorites who were there.  21:33 They turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

Num. 21:34 The LORD said to Moses, "Don't fear him: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon."  21:35 So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.


Num. 22:1 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.  22:2 Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.  22:3 Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.  22:4 Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field."

Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.  22:5 He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, "Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt.  Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.  22:6 Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed."

Num. 22:7 The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.  22:8 He said to them, "Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak to me."  The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.  22:9 God came to Balaam, and said, "Who are these men with you?"  22:10 Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me, 22:11 'Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.'"

Num. 22:12 God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them.  You shall not curse the people; for they are blessed."  22:13 Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land; for the LORD refuses to permit me to go with you."  22:14 The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."  22:15 Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.  22:16 They came to Balaam, and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, 'Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me: 22:17 for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do.  Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.'"

Num. 22:18 Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.  22:19 Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will speak to me more."  22:20 God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do."

Num. 22:21 Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.  22:22 God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of the LORD placed himself in the way for an adversary against him.  Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.  22:23 The donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.  22:24 Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.  22:25 The donkey saw the angel of the LORD, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he struck her again.

Num. 22:26 The angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.  22:27 The donkey saw the angel of the LORD, and she lay down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.  22:28 The LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam,

"What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?"

Num. 22:29 Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you."  22:30 The donkey said to Balaam,

"Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life
long to this day?  Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?"

He said, "No."  22:31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.  22:32 The angel of The LORD said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times?  Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me: 22:33 and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times.  Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive."

Num. 22:34 Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, "I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me.  Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again."  22:35 The angel of The LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak."  So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.  22:36 When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.  22:37 Balak said to Balaam, "Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you?  Why didn't you come to me?  Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?"

Num. 22:38 Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything?  The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak."  22:39 Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.  22:40 Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.  22:41 It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.


Num. 23:1 Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."  23:2 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.  23:3 Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps the LORD will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you."  He went to a bare height.  23:4 God met Balaam: and he said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar."

Num. 23:5 The LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."  23:6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.  23:7 He took up his parable, and said,

"From Aram has Balak brought me,
the king of Moab from the mountains of the East.
Come, curse Jacob for me.
Come, defy Israel.

23:8  How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?

23:9  For from the top of the rocks I see him.
From the hills I see him.
Behold, it is a people that dwells alone,
and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob,
or number the fourth part of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous!
Let my last end be like his!"

Num. 23:11 Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me?  I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether."  23:12 He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD puts in my mouth?"

Num. 23:13 Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there."  23:14 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.  23:15 He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet over there."

Num. 23:16 The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this."  23:17 He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him.  Balak said to him, "What has The LORD spoken?"  23:18 He took up his parable, and said,

"Rise up, Balak, and hear!
Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie,
nor the son of man, that he should repent.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

23:20 Behold, I have received a command to bless.
He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.

23:21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob.
Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel.
the LORD his God is with him.
The shout of a king is among them.

23:22 God brings them out of Egypt.
He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

23:23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob;
Neither is there any divination with Israel.
Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,
What has God done!

23:24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness,
As a lion he lifts himself up.
He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey,
and drinks the blood of the slain."

Num. 23:25 Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all."  23:26 But Balaam answered Balak, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'All that the LORD speaks, that I must do?'"  23:27 Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there."

Num. 23:28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.  23:29 Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."  23:30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.


Num. 24:1 When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.  24:2 Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.  24:3 He took up his parable, and said,

"Balaam the son of Beor says,
the man whose eye was closed says;

24:4  he says, who hears the words of God,
who sees the vision of the Almighty,
falling down, and having his eyes open:

24:5  How goodly are your tents, Jacob,
and your tents, Israel!

24:6  As valleys they are spread forth,
as gardens by the riverside,
as aloes which the LORD has planted,
as cedar trees beside the waters.

24:7  Water shall flow from his buckets.
His seed shall be in many waters.
His king shall be higher than Agag.
His kingdom shall be exalted.

24:8  God brings him out of Egypt.
He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
He shall eat up the nations his adversaries,
shall break their bones in pieces,
and pierce them with his arrows.

24:9  He crouched, he lay down as a lion,
as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
Everyone who blesses you is blessed.
Everyone who curses you is cursed."

Num. 24:10 Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.  24:11 Therefore now flee you to your place!  I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, the LORD has kept you back from honor."

Num. 24:12 Balaam said to Balak, "Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying, 24:13 'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own mind.  I will say what the LORD say's?  24:14 Now, behold, I go to my people: come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days."  24:15 He took up his parable, and said,

"Balaam the son of Beor says,
the man whose eye was closed says;

24:16 he says, who hears the words of God,
knows the knowledge of the Most High,
and who sees the vision of the Almighty,
Falling down, and having his eyes open:

24:17 I see him, but not now.
I see him, but not near.
A star will come out of Jacob.
A scepter will rise out of Israel,
and shall strike through the corners of Moab,
and break down all the sons of Sheth.

24:18 Edom shall be a possession.
Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession,
while Israel does valiantly.

24:19 Out of Jacob shall one have dominion,
and shall destroy the remnant from the city."

24:20 He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said,
"Amalek was the first of the nations,
But his latter end shall come to destruction."

24:21 He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said,
"Your dwelling place is strong.
Your nest is set in the rock.

24:22 Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted,
until Asshur carries you away captive."

24:23 He took up his parable, and said,
"Alas, who shall live when God does this?

24:24 But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim.
They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber.
He also shall come to destruction."

Num. 24:25 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.


Num. 25:1 Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab: 25:2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.  25:3 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.  25:4 The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to the LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel."

Num. 25:5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor."

Num. 25:6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.  25:7 When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; 25:8 and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body.  So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.  25:9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.  25:10 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 25:11 "Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.  25:12 Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace: 25:13 and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.'"

Num. 25:14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a father's house among the Simeonites.  25:15 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a father's house in Midian.

Num. 25:16 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 25:17 "Harass the Midianites, and strike them; 25:18 for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor."


Num. 26:1 It happened after the plague, that The LORD spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, 26:2 "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their father's houses, all who are able to go forth to war in Israel."  26:3 Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 26:4 "Take a census, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel."

These are those that came out of the land of Egypt.  26:5 Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites; 26:6 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.  26:7 These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.  26:8 The sons of Pallu: Eliab.  26:9 The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram.  These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD, 26:10 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.  26:11 Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn't die.

Num. 26:12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites; 26:13 of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.  26:14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.

Num. 26:15 The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites; 26:16 of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites; 26:17 of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.  26:18 These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

Num. 26:19 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.  26:20 The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.  26:21 The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.  26:22 These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.

Num. 26:23 The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites; 26:24 of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.  26:25 These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.

Num. 26:26 The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.  26:27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred.

Num. 26:28 The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.  26:29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.  26:30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites; 26:31 and Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites; 26:32 and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.  26:33 Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.  26:34 These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.  26:35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.  26:36 These are the sons of Shuthelah: of  Eran, the family of the Eranites.  26:37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred.  These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

Num. 26:38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites; 26:39 of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.  26:40 The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.  26:41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.

Num. 26:42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites.  These are the families of Dan after their families.  26:43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.

Num. 26:44 The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.  26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.  26:46 The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.  26:47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.

Num. 26:48 The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites; 26:49 of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.  26:50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.

Num. 26:51 These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.  26:52 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 26:53 "To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.  26:54 To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: to everyone according to those who were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given.  26:55 Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.  26:56 According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer."

Num. 26:57 These are those who were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.  26:58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites.  Kohath became the father of Amram.  26:59 The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.  26:60 To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.  26:61 Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.  26:62 Those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.  26:63 These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.  26:64 But among these there was not a man of them who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.  26:65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness.  There was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.


Num. 27:1 Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.  27:2 They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying, 27:3 "Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.  27:4 Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son?  Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father."

Num. 27:5 Moses brought their cause before the LORD.  27:6 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 27:7 "The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: you shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.  27:8 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.  27:9 If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.  27:10 If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers.  27:11 If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute and ordinance, as the LORD commanded Moses.'"

Num. 27:12 The LORD said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.  27:13 When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered; 27:14 because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes."  (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

Num. 27:15 Moses spoke to the LORD, saying, 27:16 "Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, 27:17 who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD not be as sheep which have no shepherd."

Num. 27:18 The LORD said to Moses, "Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him; 27:19 and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight.  27:20 You shall put of your honor on him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.  27:21 He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation."

Num. 27:22 Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: 27:23 and he laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as the LORD spoke by Moses.


Num. 28:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 28:2 "Command the children of Israel, and tell them, 'My offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to me, you shall observe to offer to me in their due season.'  28:3 You shall tell them, 'This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: male lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.  28:4 You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening; 28:5 with the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.  28:6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.  28:7 Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb.  You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD in the holy place.  28:8 The other lamb you shall offer at evening: as the meal offering of the morning, and as the drink offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.

Num. 28:9 "'On the Sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and the drink offering of it: 28:10 this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it.

Num. 28:11 "'In the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; 28:12 and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram; 28:13 and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.  28:14 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.  28:15 One male goat for a sin offering to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it.

Num. 28:16 "'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the LORD's Passover.  28:17 On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.  28:18 In the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work; 28:19 but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish; 28:20 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: you shall offer three tenth parts for a bull, and two tenth parts for the ram.  28:21 You shall offer a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; 28:22 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.  28:23 You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.  28:24 In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it.  28:25 On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work.

Num. 28:26 "'Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to the LORD in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work; 28:27 but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; 28:28 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, 28:29 a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; 28:30 one male goat, to make atonement for you.  28:31 Besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, you shall offer them (they shall be to you without blemish), and their drink offerings.


Num. 29:1 "'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.  29:2 You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; 29:3 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram, 29:4 and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; 29:5 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you; 29:6 besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Num. 29:7 "'On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall do no kind of work; 29:8 but you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish; 29:9 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, 29:10 a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs: 29:11 one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings.

Num. 29:12 "'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days: 29:13 and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD; thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish; 29:14 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams, 29:15 and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs; 29:16 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

Num. 29:17 "'On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; 29:18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:19 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings.

Num. 29:20 "'On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; 29:21 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:22 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

Num. 29:23 "'On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; 29:24 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:25 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

Num. 29:26 "'On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; 29:27 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:28 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

Num. 29:29 "'On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; 29:30 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:31 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offerings of it.

Num. 29:32 "'On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; 29:33 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:34 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

Num. 29:35 "'On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work; 29:36 but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; 29:37 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance: 29:38 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

Num. 29:39 "'You shall offer these to the LORD in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.

Num. 29:40 Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.


Num. 30:1 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.  30:2 When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Num. 30:3 "Also when a woman vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth, 30:4 and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.  30:5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

Num. 30:6 "If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul, 30:7 and her husband hears it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand.  30:8 But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: and the LORD will forgive her.

Num. 30:9 "But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.

Num. 30:10 "If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, 30:11 and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and didn't disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.  30:12 But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband has made them void; and the LORD will forgive her.  30:13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.  30:14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her: he has established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.  30:15 But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.

Num. 30:16 These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.


Num. 31:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 31:2 "Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites.  Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

Num. 31:3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD's vengeance on Midian.  31:4 Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war."  31:5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.  31:6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.  31:7 They warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they killed every male.  31:8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.  31:9 The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.  31:10 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.  31:11 They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.  31:12 They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.  31:13 Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.  31:14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.  31:15 Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?  31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD.  31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.  31:18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Num. 31:19 "Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.  31:20 As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goat's hair, and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves."

Num. 31:21 Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, "This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses: 31:22 however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 31:23 everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.  31:24 You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp."

Num. 31:25 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 31:26 "Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the father's households of the congregation; 31:27 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.  31:28 Levy a tribute to the LORD of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.  31:29 Take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for the LORD's wave offering.  31:30 Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the tabernacle of the LORD."  31:31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

Num. 31:32 Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, 31:33 and seventy-two thousand head of cattle, 31:34 and sixty-one thousand donkeys, 31:35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.  31:36 The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep: 31:37 and the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.  31:38 The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which the LORD's tribute was seventy-two.  31:39 The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which the LORD's tribute was sixty-one.  31:40 The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom the LORD's tribute was thirty-two persons.

Num. 31:41 Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD's wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.  31:42 Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred 31:43 (now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, 31:44 and thirty-six thousand head of cattle, 31:45 and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, 31:46 and sixteen thousand persons), 31:47 even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Num. 31:48 The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses; 31:49 and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.  31:50 We have brought the LORD's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD."

Num. 31:51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.  31:52 All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.  31:53 (The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.) 31:54 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.


Num. 32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock; 32:2 the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying, 32:3 "Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 32:4 the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock."  32:5 They said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Jordan."

Num. 32:6 Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?  32:7 Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?  32:8 Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.  32:9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.  32:10 The LORD's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying, 32:11 'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: 32:12 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have followed the LORD completely.'  32:13 The LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.  32:14 Behold, you have risen up in your father's place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.  32:15 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people."

Num. 32:16 They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones: 32:17 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.  32:18 We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.  32:19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward."

Num. 32:20 Moses said to them, "If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war, 32:21 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him, 32:22 and the land is subdued before the LORD; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards the LORD, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before the LORD.  32:23 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out.  32:24 Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth."

Num. 32:25 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do as my lord commands.  32:26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead; 32:27 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord says."

Num. 32:28 So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the father's households of the tribes of the children of Israel.  32:29 Moses said to them, "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: 32:30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."

Num. 32:31 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, "As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do.  32:32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan."

Num. 32:33 Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.  32:34 The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, 32:35 and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah, 32:36 and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.  32:37 The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, 32:38 and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.  32:39 The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.  32:40 Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.  32:41 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth Jair.  32:42 Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.


Num. 33:1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.  33:2 Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.  33:3 They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, 33:4 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck among them: on their gods also the LORD executed judgments.  33:5 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.  33:6 They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.

Num. 33:7 They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon: and they encamped before Migdol.  33:8 They traveled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three day's journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.  33:9 They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there.  33:10 They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.  33:11 They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.  33:12 They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.  33:13 They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.  33:14 They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.  33:15 They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.

Num. 33:16 They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.  33:17 They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.  33:18 They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.  33:19 They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez.  33:20 They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah.  33:21 They traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.  33:22 They traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.  33:23 They traveled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher.  33:24 They traveled from Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.  33:25 They traveled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.  33:26 They traveled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.  33:27 They traveled from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.  33:28 They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.  33:29 They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.  33:30 They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.  33:31 They traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan.  33:32 They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad.  33:33 They traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.  33:34 They traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah.  33:35 They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber.  33:36 They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh).

Num. 33:37 They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.  33:38 Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.  33:39 Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor.  33:40 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.  33:41 They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.  33:42 They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.  33:43 They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.  33:44 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab.  33:45 They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad.  33:46 They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim.  33:47 They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.  33:48 They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.  33:49 They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.

Num. 33:50 The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 33:51 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, "When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 33:52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.  33:53 You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given given the land to you to possess it.  33:54 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his.  You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

Num. 33:55 "But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell.  33:56 It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you."


Num. 34:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 34:2 "Command the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders), 34:3 then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward; 34:4 and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out of it shall be southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon; 34:5 and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.

Num. 34:6 "'For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border: this shall be your west border.

Num. 34:7 "'This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for you Mount Hor; 34:8 from Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad; 34:9 and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar Enan: this shall be your north border.

Num. 34:10 "'You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham; 34:11 and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward; 34:12 and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the Salt Sea.  This shall be your land according to its borders around it.

Num. 34:13 Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, "This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; 34:14 for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their father's houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their father's houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance: 34:15 the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.

Num. 34:16 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 34:17 "These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.  34:18 You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.  34:19 These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.  34:20 Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.  34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.  34:22 Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.  34:23 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.  34:24 Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.  34:25 Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.  34:26 Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.  34:27 Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.  34:28 Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud."  34:29 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.


Num. 35:1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 35:2 "Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and you shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.  35:3 The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their animals.

Num. 35:4 "The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.  35:5 You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst.  This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

Num. 35:6 "The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.  35:7 All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.  35:8 Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.

Num. 35:9 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 35:10 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 35:11 then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.  35:12 The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.  35:13 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.  35:14 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.  35:15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

Num. 35:16 "'But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.  35:17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.  35:18 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.  35:19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.  35:20 If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, 35:21 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

Num. 35:22 "'But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait, 35:23 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; 35:24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances; 35:25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

Num. 35:26 "'But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees, 35:27 and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood, 35:28 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.

Num. 35:29 "'These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Num. 35:30 "'Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die. 35:31 Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.  35:32 You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

Num. 35:33 "'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.  35:34 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, the LORD, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.


Num. 36:1 The heads of the father's households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the father's households of the children of Israel: 36:2 and they said, "the LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.  36:3 If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.  36:4 When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

Num. 36:5 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.  36:6 This is the thing which the LORD does command concerning the  daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.  36:7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.  36:8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.  36:9 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.

Num. 36:10 The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses: 36:11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brother's sons.  36:12 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

Num. 36:13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which the LORD commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.




Deuteronomy

Deut. 1:1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.  1:2 It is eleven day's  journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.  1:3 It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them; 1:4 after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.  1:5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 1:6 "The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, 'You have lived long enough in this mountain: 1:7 turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.  1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.'"

Deut. 1:9 I spoke to you at that time, saying, "I am not able to bear you myself alone: 1:10 The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.  1:11 The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you! 1:12 How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?  1:13 Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."

Deut. 1:14 You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good to do."  1:15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.  1:16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, "Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.  1:17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's.  The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it."  1:18 I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

Deut. 1:19 We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.  1:20 I said to you, "You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives to us.  1:21 Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed."

Deut. 1:22 You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

Deut. 1:23 The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe: 1:24 and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.  1:25 They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, "It is a good land which the LORD our God gives to us."

Deut. 1:26 Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God: 1:27 and you murmured in your tents, and said, "Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.  1:28 Where are we going up?  Our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'"

Deut. 1:29 Then I said to you, "Don't dread, neither be afraid of them.  1:30 The LORD your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 1:31 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that the LORD your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place."

Deut. 1:32 Yet in this thing you didn't believe the LORD your God, 1:33 who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.  1:34 The LORD heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying, 1:35 "Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers, 1:36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has wholly followed the LORD."

Deut. 1:37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, "You also shall not go in there: 1:38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.  1:39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.  1:40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

Deut. 1:41 Then you answered and said to me, "We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us."  Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.

Deut. 1:42 The LORD said to me, "Tell them, 'Don't go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.'"

Deut. 1:43 So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.  1:44 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.  1:45 You returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD didn't listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you.  1:46 So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.


Deut. 2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.  2:2 The LORD spoke to me, saying, 2:3 "You have encircled this mountain long enough.  Turn northward.  2:4 Command the people, saying, 'You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore; 2:5 don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.  2:6 You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.'"

Deut. 2:7 For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.

Deut. 2:8 So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber.  We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

Deut. 2:9 The LORD said to me, "Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession."

Deut. 2:10 (The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim: 2:11 these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.  2:12 The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.)

Deut. 2:13 "Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered."  We went over the brook Zered.  2:14 The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD swore to them.  2:15 Moreover the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.  2:16 So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 2:17 that the LORD spoke to me, saying, 2:18 "You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab: 2:19 and when you come near over against the children of Ammon, don't bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession."

Deut. 2:20 (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, 2:21 a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place; 2:22 as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day: 2:23 and the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.)

Deut. 2:24 "Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.  2:25 This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you."

Deut. 2:26 I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 2:27 "Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.  2:28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet, 2:29 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us."  2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the LORD your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day.

Deut. 2:31 The LORD said to me, "Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land."  2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.  2:33 The LORD our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people.  2:34 We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining: 2:35 only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.  2:36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; the LORD our God delivered up all before us: 2:37 only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn't come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the LORD our God forbade us.


Deut. 3:1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.  3:2 The LORD said to me, "Don't fear him; for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon."

Deut. 3:3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him until none was left to him remaining.  3:4 We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.  3:5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.  3:6 We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.  3:7 But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.  3:8 We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.  3:9 (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.) 3:10 We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.  3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon?  nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.)

Deut. 3:12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, and its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites: 3:13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, even all Bashan.  (The same is called the land of Rephaim.  3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.) 3:15 I gave Gilead to Machir.  3:16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 3:17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

Deut. 3:18 I commanded you at that time, saying, "The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.  3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you, 3:20 until the LORD gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God gives them beyond the Jordan: then you shall return every man to his possession, which I have given you."

Deut. 3:21 I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, "Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings: so shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms where you go over.  3:22 You shall not fear them; for the LORD your God, he it is who fights for you."

Deut. 3:23 I begged the LORD at that time, saying, 3:24 "LORD, LORD, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty acts?  3:25 Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon."

Deut. 3:26 But the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and didn't listen to me; and the LORD said to me, "Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter.  3:27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan.  3:28 But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see."  3:29 So we stayed in the valley over against Beth Peor.


Deut. 4:1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.  4:2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.  4:3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.  4:4 But you who were faithful to the LORD your God are all alive this day.  4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.  4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."  4:7 For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as the LORD our God is whenever we call on him?  4:8 What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

Deut. 4:9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children; 4:10 the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, "Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children."  4:11 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.  4:12 The LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.  4:13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.

Deut. 4:14 The LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.  4:15 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no kind of form on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.  4:16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 4:17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, 4:18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; 4:19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.  4:20 But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

Deut. 4:21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance: 4:22 but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.

Deut. 4:23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.  4:24 For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.  4:25 When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger; 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.  4:27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where the LORD shall lead you away. 4:28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

Deut. 4:29 But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.  4:30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the LORD your God, and listen to his voice: 4:31 for the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

Deut. 4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?  4:33 Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?  4:34 Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?  4:35 It was shown to you so that you might know that the LORD is God.  There is no one else besides him.  4:36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.  4:37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; 4:38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day.

Deut. 4:39 Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is none else.  4:40 You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD your God gives you, forever.

Deut. 4:41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; 4:42 that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: 4:43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.  4:44 This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: 4:45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt, 4:46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt.  4:47 They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; 4:48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon), 4:49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.


Deut. 5:1 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.  5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.  5:3 The LORD didn't make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.  5:4 The LORD spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, 5:5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of the LORD: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;) saying, 5:6 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."

Deut. 5:7 "You shall have no other gods before me."

Deut. 5:8 "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5:9 you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me; 5:10 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments."

Deut. 5:11 "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain."

Deut. 5:12 "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.  5:13 You shall labor six days, and do all your work; 5:14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.  5:15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day."

Deut. 5:16 "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you."

Deut. 5:17 "You shall not murder."

Deut. 5:18 "Neither shall you commit adultery."

Deut. 5:19 "Neither shall you steal."

Deut. 5:20 "Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor."

Deut. 5:21 "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."

Deut. 5:22 These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more.  He wrote them on two tablets of stone, and gave them to me.  5:23 It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 5:24 and you said, "Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does speak with man, and he lives.  5:25 Now therefore why should we die?  For this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.  5:26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?  5:27 Go near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and tell us all that the LORD our God shall tell you; and we will hear it, and do it."

Deut. 5:28 The LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and the LORD said to me, "I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you: they have well said all that they have spoken.  5:29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!"

Deut. 5:30 "Go tell them, Return to your tents.  5:31 But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it."

Deut. 5:32 You shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.  5:33 You shall walk in all the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.


Deut. 6:1 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; 6:2 that you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.  6:3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deut. 6:4 Hear, Israel: "The LORD is our God; the LORD is one: 6:5 and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might."  6:6 These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; 6:7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.  6:8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.  6:9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.

Deut. 6:10 It shall be, when the LORD your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build, 6:11 and houses full of all good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full; 6:12 then beware lest you forget the LORD, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.  6:13 You shall fear the LORD your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.  6:14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you; 6:15 for the LORD your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.  6:16 You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.  6:17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.  6:18 You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers, 6:19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

Deut. 6:20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, "What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our God has commanded you mean?"  6:21 then you shall tell your son, "We were Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; 6:22 and the LORD showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes; 6:23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.  6:24 The LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.  6:25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us."


Deut. 7:1 When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you; 7:2 and when the LORD your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them; 7:3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.  7:4 For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.  7:5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.

Deut. 7:6 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.  7:7 The LORD didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples: 7:8 but because the LORD loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.  7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations, 7:10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.

Deut. 7:11 You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.  7:12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers: 7:13 and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.  7:14 You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.  7:15 The LORD will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.  7:16 You shall consume all the peoples whom the LORD your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.

Deut. 7:17 If you shall say in your heart, "These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?"  7:18 you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt; 7:19 the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out: so shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.  7:20 Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left and hide themselves perish from before you.

Deut. 7:21 You shall not be scared of them; for the LORD your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.  7:22 The LORD your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.  7:23 But the LORD your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.  7:24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: no man shall be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.  7:25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire.  You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.  7:26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it.  You shall utterly detest it, and you  shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.


Deut. 8:1 You shall observe to do all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.  8:2 You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.  8:3 He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.  8:4 Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.

Deut. 8:5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.  8:6 You shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.  8:7 For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; 8:8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; 8:9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.  8:10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.

Deut. 8:11 Beware lest you forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day: 8:12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein; 8:13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; 8:14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; 8:15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint; 8:16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end: 8:17 and lest you say in your heart, "My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth."  8:18 But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.

Deut. 8:19 It shall be, if you shall forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.  8:20 As the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of the LORD your God.


Deut. 9:1 Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky, 9:2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, "Who can stand before the sons of Anak?"  9:3 Know therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as the LORD has spoken to you.

Deut. 9:4 Don't say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, "For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land;"  because the LORD drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.  9:5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.  9:6 Know therefore, that the LORD your God doesn't give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deut. 9:7 Remember, don't forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.  9:8 Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.  9:9 When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.  9:10 The LORD delivered to me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the LORD spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

Deut. 9:11 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant.  9:12 The LORD said to me, "Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image."

Deut. 9:13 Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people: 9:14 let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they."

Deut. 9:15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.  9:16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made yourselves a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.  9:17 I took hold of the two tablets, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.  9:18 I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.  9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you.  But the LORD listened to me that time also.  9:20 The LORD was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

9:21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.  9:22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.  9:23 When the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, "Go up and possess the land which I have given you;"  then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you didn't believe him, nor listen to his voice.  9:24 You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.  9:25 So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.  9:26 I prayed to the LORD, and said, "LORD LORD, don't destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.  9:27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin, 9:28 lest the land you brought us out from say, 'Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.'  9:29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm."


Deut. 10:1 At that time the LORD said to me, "Cut two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.  10:2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark."  10:3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.  10:4 He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them to me.  10:5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the LORD commanded me.

Deut. 10:6 (The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah.  There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his place.  10:7 From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.  10:8 At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.  10:9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD your God spoke to him.) 10:10 I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and the LORD listened to me that time also; the LORD would not destroy you.  10:11 The LORD said to me, "Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them."

Deut. 10:12 Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 10:13 to keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?  10:14 Behold, to the LORD your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.  10:15 Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.  10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.  10:17 For the LORD your God, he is God of gods, and LORD of LORDs, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't respect persons, nor takes reward.  10:18 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.  10:19 Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.  10:20 You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.  10:21 He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.  10:22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.


Deut. 11:1 Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.  11:2 Know this day: for I don't speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, 11:3 and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; 11:4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day; 11:5 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; 11:6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel: 11:7 but your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which he did.  11:8 Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it; 11:9 and that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deut. 11:10 For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, that you came out from, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; 11:11 but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water of the rain of the sky, 11:12 a land which the LORD your God cares for: the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.  11:13 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 11:14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.  11:15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

Deut. 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 11:17 and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.  11:18 Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.  11:19 You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.  11:20 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates; 11:21 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.  11:22 For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him; 11:23 then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.  11:24 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.  11:25 No man shall be able to stand before you: the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.

Deut. 11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 11:27 the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day; 11:28 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.  11:29 It shall happen, when the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.  11:30 Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?  11:31 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.  11:32 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.


Deut. 12:1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.  12:2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree: 12:3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.  12:4 You shall not do so to the LORD your God.  12:5 But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come; 12:6 and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock: 12:7 and there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.  12:8 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes; 12:9 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God gives you.

12:10 But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety; 12:11 then it shall happen that to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD.  12:12 You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Deut. 12:13 Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; 12:14 but in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.  12:15 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.  12:16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.  12:17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand; 12:18 but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hand to.  12:19 Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

Deut. 12:20 When the LORD your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, "I want to eat meat,"  because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.  12:21 If the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.  12:22 Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.  12:23 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.  12:24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.  12:25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.

Deut. 12:26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which the LORD shall choose: 12:27 and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God; and you shall eat the flesh.  12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

Deut. 12:29 When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; 12:30 take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods?  I will do likewise."  12:31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.  12:32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.


Deut. 13:1 If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder, 13:2 and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, "Let us go after other gods"  (which you have not known) "and let us serve them;"  13:3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.  13:4 You shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.  13:5 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in.  So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

Deut. 13:6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods,"  which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; 13:7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; 13:8 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him: 13:9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.  13:10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.  13:11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.

Deut. 13:12 If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which the LORD your God gives you to dwell there, saying, 13:13 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods,"  which you have not known; 13:14 then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you, 13:15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.  13:16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to the LORD your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.  13:17 Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand; that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers; 13:18 when you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.


Deut. 14:1 You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.  14:2 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.  14:3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.  14:4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 14:5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois.  14:6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.  14:7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you.  14:8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

Deut. 14:9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat; 14:10 and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.  14:11 Of all clean birds you may eat.  14:12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey, 14:13 and the red kite, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind, 14:14 and every raven after its kind, 14:15 and the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind, 14:16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl, 14:17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant, 14:18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.  14:19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.  14:20 Of all clean birds you may eat.  14:21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God.  You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Deut. 14:22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year.  14:23 You shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.  14:24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God shall choose, to set his name there, when the LORD your God shall bless you; 14:25 then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose: 14:26 and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.  14:27 The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Deut. 14:28 At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates: 14:29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.


Deut. 15:1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.  15:2 This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because the LORD's release has been proclaimed.  15:3 Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.  15:4 However there shall be no poor with you; (for the LORD will surely bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;) 15:5 if only you diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.  15:6 For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.

Deut. 15:7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; 15:8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.  15:9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;"  and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.  15:10 You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.  15:11 For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

Deut. 15:12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.  15:13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty: 15:14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.  15:15 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.  15:16 It shall be, if he tells you, "I will not go out from you;"  because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you; 15:17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever.  Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.  15:18 It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.

Deut. 15:19 All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to the LORD your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.  15:20 You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.  15:21 If it has any blemish, is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.  15:22 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.  15:23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.


Deut. 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God; for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.  16:2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.  16:3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it.  You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.  16:4 No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.  16:5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which the LORD your God gives you; 16:6 but at the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.  16:7 You shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.  16:8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread.  On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; you shall do no work.  16:9 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to number seven weeks.

Deut. 16:10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as the LORD your God blesses you: 16:11 and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.  16:12 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.  16:13 You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress: 16:14 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.  16:15 You shall keep a feast to the LORD your God seven days in the place which the LORD shall choose; because the LORD your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

Deut. 16:16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: 16:17 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you.

Deut. 16:18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.  16:19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.  16:20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.  16:21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourselves.  16:22 Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which the LORD your God hates.


Deut. 17:1 You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, or anything evil; for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.  17:2 If there is found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant, 17:3 and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded; 17:4 and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel, 17:5 then you shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.  17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.  17:7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.  So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

17:8 If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which the LORD your God shall choose; 17:9 and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.  17:10 You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which the LORD shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you: 17:11 according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.  17:12 The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.  17:13 All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

Deut. 17:14 When you have come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, "I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me;"  17:15 you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom the LORD your God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.  17:16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because the LORD has said to you, "You shall not go back that way again."  17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.  17:18 It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites: 17:19 and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; 17:20 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.


Deut. 18:1 The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.  18:2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: the LORD is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.  18:3 This shall be the priest's  due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.  18:4 The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.  18:5 For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.  18:6 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which the LORD shall choose; 18:7 then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD.  18:8 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.

Deut. 18:9 When you have come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.  18:10 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, 18:11 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.  18:12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you.  18:13 You shall be perfect with the LORD your God.  18:14 For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do.  18:15 The LORD your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me.  You shall listen to him.  18:16 This is according to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, "Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die."

Deut. 18:17 The LORD said to me, "They have well said that which they have spoken.  18:18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.  18:19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.  18:20 But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die."  18:21 If you say in your heart, "How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?"  18:22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.


Deut. 19:1 When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations, whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses; 19:2 you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess it.  19:3 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which the LORD your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.  19:4 This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; 19:5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live: 19:6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.  19:7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.

Deut. 19:8 If the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; 19:9 if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three: 19:10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

Deut. 19:11 But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities; 19:12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.  19:13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.  19:14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.

Deut. 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.  19:16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, 19:17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; 19:18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; 19:19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.  19:20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.  19:21 Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


Deut. 20:1 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.  20:2 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, 20:3 and shall tell them, "Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them; 20:4 for the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you."

Deut. 20:5 The officers shall speak to the people, saying, "What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it?  Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.  20:6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit?  Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.  20:7 What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her?  Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her."  20:8 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, "What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted?  Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart."  20:9 It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.

Deut. 20:10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.  20:11 It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.  20:12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it: 20:13 and when the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword: 20:14 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.  20:15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Deut. 20:16 But of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; 20:17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the LORD your God has commanded you; 20:18 that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against the LORD your God.  20:19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?  20:20 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.


Deut. 21:1 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him; 21:2 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain: 21:3 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke; 21:4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.  21:5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.  21:6 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; 21:7 and they shall answer and say, "Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.  21:8 Forgive, LORD, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel."  The blood shall be forgiven them.  21:9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.

Deut. 21:10 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive, 21:11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife; 21:12 then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 21:13 and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.  21:14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

Deut. 21:15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated; 21:16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn: 21:17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

Deut. 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them; 21:19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place; 21:20 and they shall tell the elders of his city, "This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard."  21:21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Deut. 21:22 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree; 21:23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

Deut. 22:1 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.  22:2 If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.  22:3 So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.  22:4 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

Deut. 22:5 A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.

Deut. 22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young: 22:7 you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

Deut. 22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.

Deut. 22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.  22:10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.  22:11 You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.  22:12 You shall make yourselves fringes on the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.

Deut. 22:13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her, 22:14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;"  22:15 then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate; 22:16 and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, "I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her; 22:17 and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, 'I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;'  and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity."  They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.  22:18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; 22:19 and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.  22:20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady; 22:21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

Deut. 22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.  22:23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 22:24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.  22:25 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die: 22:26 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter; 22:27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.

Deut. 22:28 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

Deut. 22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.


Deut. 23:1 He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD.  23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of the LORD.  23:3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of the LORD forever: 23:4 because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.  23:5 Nevertheless the LORD your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you.  23:6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.  23:7 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.  23:8 The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of the LORD.

Deut. 23:9 When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.  23:10 If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp.  He shall not come within the camp: 23:11 but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.  23:12 You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you shall go forth abroad: 23:13 and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you: 23:14 for the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

Deut. 23:15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you: 23:16 he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.

Deut. 23:17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.  23:18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

Deut. 23:19 You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest: 23:20 to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

Deut. 23:21 When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.  23:22 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.  23:23 That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to the LORD your God, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth.

Deut. 23:24 When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.  23:25 When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.


Deut. 24:1 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.  24:2 When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.  24:3 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; 24:4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

Deut. 24:5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Deut. 24:6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.

Deut. 24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you

Deut. 24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do -according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.  24:9 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.

Deut. 24:10 When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.  24:11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.  24:12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge; 24:13 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

Deut. 24:14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates: 24:15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

Deut. 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Deut. 24:17 You shall not deprive the foreigner, or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow's clothing in pledge; 24:18 but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.  24:19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.  24:20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.  24:21 When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.  24:22 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.


Deut. 25:1 If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked; 25:2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.  25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.

Deut. 25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.  25:5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.  25:6 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

Deut. 25:7 If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me."  25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, "I don't want to take her;"  25:9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, "So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house."  25:10 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.

Deut. 25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets; 25:12 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

Deut. 25:13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.  25:14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.  25:15 You shall have a perfect and just weight.  You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.  25:16 For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

Deut. 25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt; 25:18 how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear God.  25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.


Deut. 26:1 It shall be, when you have come in to the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein, 26:2 that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that the LORD your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.  26:3 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, "I profess this day to the LORD your God, that I am come to the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us."  26:4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.  26:5 You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, "A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.  26:6 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage: 26:7 and we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression; 26:8 and the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders; 26:9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.  26:10 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, LORD, have given me."  You shall set it down before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.  26:11 You shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.

Deut. 26:12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.  26:13 You shall say before the LORD your God, "I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 26:14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me.  26:15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey."

Deut. 26:16 This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul.  26:17 You have declared the LORD this day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice: 26:18 and the LORD has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments; 26:19 and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.


Deut. 27:1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.  27:2 It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: 27:3 and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over; that you may go in to the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.  27:4 It shall be, when you have passed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.  27:5 There you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron on them.  27:6 You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to the LORD your God: 27:7 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God.  27:8 You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly."

Deut. 27:9 Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, "Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God.  27:10 You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day."

Deut. 27:11 Moses commanded the people the same day, saying, 27:12 "These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.  27:13 These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.  27:14 The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

Deut. 27:15 'Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.'  All the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

Deut. 27:16 'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.'  All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Deut. 27:17 'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.'  All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Deut. 27:18 'Cursed is he who makes the blind to wander out of the way.'  All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Deut. 27:19 'Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.'  All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Deut. 27:20 'Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.'  All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Deut. 27:21 'Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.'  All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Deut. 27:22 'Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother.'  All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Deut. 27:23 'Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.'  All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Deut. 27:24 'Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.'  All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Deut. 27:25 'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.'  All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Deut. 27:26 'Cursed is he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them.'  All the people shall say, 'Amen.'"


Deut. 28:1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that the LORD your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth: 28:2 and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God.

Deut. 28:3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.

Deut. 28:4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

Deut. 28:5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.

Deut. 28:6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.

Deut. 28:7 The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you.  They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.

Deut. 28:8 The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Deut. 28:9 The LORD will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways.

Deut. 28:10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of you.

Deut. 28:11 The LORD will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

Deut. 28:12 The LORD will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.

Deut. 28:13 The LORD will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do, 28:14 and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Deut. 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.

Deut. 28:16 You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.

Deut. 28:17 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.

Deut. 28:18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.

Deut. 28:19 You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out.

Deut. 28:20 The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

Deut. 28:21 The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.

Deut. 28:22 The LORD will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

Deut. 28:23 Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.

Deut. 28:24 The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

Deut. 28:25 The LORD will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deut. 28:26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

Deut. 28:27 The LORD will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.

Deut. 28:28 The LORD will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;  28:29 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.

Deut. 28:30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.

Deut. 28:31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.

Deut. 28:32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.

Deut. 28:33 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always; 28:34 so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

Deut. 28:35 The LORD will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

Deut. 28:36 The LORD will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.

Deut. 28:37 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where the LORD shall lead you away.

Deut. 28:38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Deut. 28:39 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor harvest; for the worm shall eat them.

Deut. 28:40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.

Deut. 28:41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.

Deut. 28:42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.

Deut. 28:43 The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.  28:44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

Deut. 28:45 All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you: 28:46 and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.  28:47 Because you didn't serve the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; 28:48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.

Deut. 28:49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand; 28:50 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not respect the person of the old, nor show favor to the young, 28:51 and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.  28:52 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.  28:53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.  28:54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining; 28:55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.  28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 28:57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

Deut. 28:58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD YOUR GOD; 28:59 then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance.  28:60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cling to you.  28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring them on you, until you are destroyed.  28:62 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of the LORD your God.

Deut. 28:63 It shall happen that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.  28:64 The LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.  28:65 Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul; 28:66 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.  28:67 In the morning you shall say, "I wish it were evening!"  and at evening you shall say, "I wish it were morning!"  for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.  28:68 The LORD will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.


Deut. 29:1 These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.  29:2 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; 29:3 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders: 29:4 but the LORD has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.  29:5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.  29:6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am the LORD your God.  29:7 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them: 29:8 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

Deut. 29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.  29:10 You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, 29:11 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water; 29:12 that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this day; 29:13 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.  29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, 29:15 but with him who stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day 29:16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed; 29:17 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); 29:18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; 29:19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry."  29:20 The LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.  29:21 The LORD will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

Deut. 29:22 The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick; 29:23 and that the whole land of it is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 29:24 even all the nations shall say, "Why has the LORD done thus to this land?  What does the heat of this great anger mean?"

Deut. 29:25 Then men shall say, "Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, 29:26 and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them: 29:27 therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book; 29:28 and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day."

Deut. 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.


Deut. 30:1 It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has driven you, 30:2 and shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; 30:3 that then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where the LORD your God has scattered you.  30:4 If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will the LORD your God gather you, and from there he will bring you back: 30:5 and the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.  30:6 The LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.  30:7 The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.  30:8 You shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.  30:9 The LORD your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers; 30:10 if you shall obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

Deut. 30:11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.  30:12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?"  30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?"  30:14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.  30:15 Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; 30:16 in that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

Deut. 30:17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 30:18 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.  30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed; 30:20 to love the LORD your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.


Deut. 31:1 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.  31:2 He said to them, "I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and the LORD has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.'  31:3 The LORD your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them.  Joshua shall go over before you, as the LORD has spoken.  31:4 The LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.  31:5 The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.  31:6 Be strong and courageous, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for the LORD your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you."

Deut. 31:7 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous: for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.  31:8 The LORD, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid, neither be dismayed."

Deut. 31:9 Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.  31:10 Moses commanded them, saying, "At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents, 31:11 when all Israel has come to appear before the LORD your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.  31:12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law; 31:13 and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it."

Deut. 31:14 The LORD said to Moses, "Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him."  Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

Deut. 31:15 The LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.  31:16 The LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.  31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, 'Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?'  31:18 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.

Deut. 31:19 "Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.  31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.  31:21 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore."  31:22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

Deut. 31:23 He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, "Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you."

Deut. 31:24 It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 31:25 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, 31:26 "Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.  31:27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?  31:28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.  31:29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands."

Deut. 31:30 Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.


Deut. 32:1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak.
Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain.
My speech shall condense as the dew,
as the small rain on the tender grass,
as the showers on the herb.

32:3 For I will proclaim the name of the LORD.
Ascribe greatness to our God!

32:4 The Rock, his work is perfect,
for all his ways are justice:
a God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
just and right is he.

32:5 They have dealt corruptly with him.
They are not his children, because of their defect.
They are a perverse and crooked generation.

32:6 Do you thus requite the LORD,
foolish people and unwise?
Isn't he your father who has bought you?
He has made you, and established you.

32:7 Remember the days of old.
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you;
your elders, and they will tell you.

32:8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he separated the children of men,
he set the bounds of the peoples
according to the number of the children of Israel.

32:9 For the LORD's portion is his people.
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

32:10 He found him in a desert land,
in the waste howling wilderness.
He surrounded him.
He cared for him.
He kept him as the apple of his eye.

32:11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest,
that flutters over her young,
he spread abroad his wings, he took them,
he bore them on his feathers.

32:12 The LORD alone led him.
There was no foreign god with him.

32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth.
He ate the increase of the field.
He caused him to suck honey out of the rock,
oil out of the flinty rock;

32:14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock,
with fat of lambs,
rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
with the finest of the wheat.
Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

32:15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.
You have grown fat.
You have grown thick.
You have become sleek.
Then he forsook God who made him,
and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

32:16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods.
They provoked him to anger with abominations.

32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods that they didn't know,
to new gods that came up recently,
which your fathers didn't dread.

32:18 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,
and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

32:19 The LORD saw and abhorred,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

32:20 He said, "I will hide my face from them.
I will see what their end shall be;
for they are a very perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.

32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.
I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people.
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

32:22 For a fire is kindled in my anger,
Burns to the lowest Sheol,
Devours the earth with its increase,
and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

32:23 "I will heap evils on them.
I will spend my arrows on them.

32:24 They shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction.
I will send the teeth of animals on them,
With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

32:25 Outside the sword shall bereave,
and in the rooms, terror;
on both young man and virgin,
The nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

32:26 I said, I would scatter them afar.
I would make their memory to cease from among men;

32:27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,
lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted,
the LORD has not done all this.'"

32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel.
There is no understanding in them.

32:29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,
that they would consider their latter end!

32:30 How could one chase a thousand,
and two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
and the LORD had delivered them up?

32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock,
even our enemies themselves being judges.

32:32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
of the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are grapes of gall,
Their clusters are bitter.

32:33 Their wine is the poison of serpents,
The cruel venom of asps.

32:34 "Isn't this laid up in store with me,
sealed up among my treasures?

32:35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
at the time when their foot slides;
for the day of their calamity is at hand.
The things that are to come on them shall make haste."

32:36 For the LORD will judge his people,
and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone,
There is none remaining, shut up or left at large.

32:37 He will say, "Where are their gods,
The rock in which they took refuge;

32:38 Which ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you!
Let them be your protection.

32:39 "See now that I, even I, am he,
There is no god with me.
I kill, and I make alive.
I wound, and I heal.
There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven,
And say, As I live forever,

32:41 if I whet my glittering sword,
My hand take hold on judgment;
I will render vengeance to my adversaries,
and will recompense those who hate me.

32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood.
My sword shall devour flesh with the blood
of the slain and the captives,
from the head of the leaders of the enemy."

32:43 Rejoice, you nations, with his people,
for he will avenge the blood of his servants.
He will render vengeance to his adversaries,
And will make expiation for his land, for his people.

Deut. 32:44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.  32:45 Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel; 32:46 He said to them, "Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.  32:47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it."

Deut. 32:48 The LORD spoke to Moses that same day, saying, 32:49 "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession; 32:50 and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people: 32:51 because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.  32:52 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel."


Deut. 33:1 This is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.  33:2 He said,

"The LORD came from Sinai,
And rose from Seir to them.
He shone forth from Mount Paran.
He came from the ten thousands of holy ones.
At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

33:3 Yes, he loves the people.
All his saints are in your hand.
They sat down at your feet;
each receives your words.

33:4 Moses commanded us a law,
An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

33:5 He was king in Jeshurun,
When the heads of the people were gathered,
All the tribes of Israel together.

33:6 "Let Reuben live, and not die;
Nor let his men be few."

33:7 This is for Judah.  He said,
"Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah.
Bring him in to his people.
With his hands he contended for himself.
You shall be a help against his adversaries."

33:8 Of Levi he said,
"Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one,
whom you proved at Massah,
with whom you strove at the waters of Meribah;

33:9 who said of his father, and of his mother,
'I have not seen him;'
Neither did he acknowledge his brothers,
Nor did he know his own children:
For they have observed your word,
and keep your covenant.

33:10 They shall teach Jacob your ordinances,
and Israel your law.
They shall put incense before you,
and whole burnt offering on your altar.

33:11 LORD, bless his substance.
Accept the work of his hands.
Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him,
of those who hate him, that they not rise again."

33:12 Of Benjamin he said,
"The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him.
He covers him all the day long.
He dwells between his shoulders."

33:13 Of Joseph he said,
"His land is blessed by the LORD,
for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew,
for the deep that couches beneath,

33:14 for the precious things of the fruits of the sun,
for the precious things of the growth of the moons,

33:15 for the chief things of the ancient mountains,
for the precious things of the everlasting hills,

33:16 for the precious things of the earth and its fullness,
the good will of him who lived in the bush.
Let this come on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the head of him
who was separate from his brothers.

33:17 The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his.
His horns are the horns of the wild ox.
With them he shall push all of the peoples,
to the ends of the earth:
They are the ten thousands of Ephraim.
They are the thousands of Manasseh."

33:18 Of Zebulun he said,
"Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out;
and Issachar, in your tents.

33:19 They shall call the peoples to the mountain.
There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness,
for they shall draw out the abundance of the seas,
the hidden treasures of the sand."

33:20 Of Gad he said,
"He who enlarges Gad is blessed.
He dwells as a lioness,
and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.

33:21 He provided the first part for himself,
for there was the lawgiver's portion reserved.
He came with the heads of the people.
He executed the righteousness of the LORD,
His ordinances with Israel."

33:22 Of Dan he said,
"Dan is a lion's cub
that leaps out of Bashan."

33:23 Of Naphtali he said,
"Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
full of the blessing of the LORD,
Possess the west and the south."

33:24 Of Asher he said,
"Asher is blessed with children.
Let him be acceptable to his brothers.
Let him dip his foot in oil.

33:25 Your bars shall be iron and brass.
As your days, so your strength will be.

33:26 "There is none like God, Jeshurun,
who rides on the heavens for your help,
In his excellency on the skies.

33:27 The eternal God is your dwelling place.
Underneath are the everlasting arms.
He thrust out the enemy from before you,
and said, 'Destroy!'

33:28 Israel dwells in safety;
the fountain of Jacob alone,
In a land of grain and new wine.
Yes, his heavens drop down dew.

33:29 You are happy, Israel.
Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD,
the shield of your help,
the sword of your excellency!
Your enemies shall submit themselves to you.
You shall tread on their high places."


Deut. 34:1 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.  The LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan, 34:2 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the hinder sea, 34:3 and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.  34:4 The LORD said to him, "This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.'  I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."

Deut. 34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.  34:6 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to this day.  34:7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.  34:8 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.  34:9 Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him: and the children of Israel listened to him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.  34:10 There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, 34:11 in all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, 34:12 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses worked in the sight of all Israel.