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1GenesisGn111In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.
2GenesisGn112And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.
3GenesisGn113And God said: Be light made. And light was made.
4GenesisGn114And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness.
5GenesisGn115And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day.
6GenesisGn116And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7GenesisGn117And God made a firmament, and divided the waters that were under the firmament, from those that were above the firmament, and it was so.
8GenesisGn118And God called the firmament, Heaven; and the evening and morning were the second day.
9GenesisGn119God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.
10GenesisGn1110And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11GenesisGn1111And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.
12GenesisGn1112And the earth brought forth the green herb, and such as yieldeth seed according to its kind, and the tree that beareth fruit, having seed each one according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
13GenesisGn1113And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14GenesisGn1114And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:
15GenesisGn1115To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the earth, and it was so done.
16GenesisGn1116And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars.
17GenesisGn1117And he set them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the earth.
18GenesisGn1118And to rule the day and the night, and to divide the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19GenesisGn1119And the evening and morning were the fourth day.
20GenesisGn1120God also said: let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the firmament of heaven.
21GenesisGn1121And God created the great whales, and every living and moving creature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and every winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
22GenesisGn1122And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.
23GenesisGn1123And the evening and morning were the fifth day.
24GenesisGn1124And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to their kinds. And it was so done.
25GenesisGn1125And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26GenesisGn1126And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
27GenesisGn1127And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.
28GenesisGn1128And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
29GenesisGn1129And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat:
30GenesisGn1130And to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they may have to feed upon. And it was so done.
31GenesisGn1131And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.
32GenesisGn121So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them.
33GenesisGn122And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
34GenesisGn123And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
35GenesisGn124These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth:
36GenesisGn125And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.
37GenesisGn126But a spring rose out of the earth, watering all the surface of the earth.
38GenesisGn127And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
39GenesisGn128And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.
40GenesisGn129And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
41GenesisGn1210And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.
42GenesisGn1211The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.
43GenesisGn1212And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone.
44GenesisGn1213And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia.
45GenesisGn1214And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
46GenesisGn1215And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.
47GenesisGn1216And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat:
48GenesisGn1217But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.
49GenesisGn1218And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.
50GenesisGn1219And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name.
51GenesisGn1220And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself.
52GenesisGn1221Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it.
53GenesisGn1222And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam.
54GenesisGn1223And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
55GenesisGn1224Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.
56GenesisGn1225And they were both naked: to wit, Adam and his wife: and were not ashamed.
57GenesisGn131Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?
58GenesisGn132And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat:
59GenesisGn133But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.
60GenesisGn134And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.
61GenesisGn135For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.
62GenesisGn136And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.
63GenesisGn137And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons.
64GenesisGn138And when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise at the afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise.
65GenesisGn139And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou?
66GenesisGn1310And he said: I heard thy voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.
67GenesisGn1311And he said to him: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat?
68GenesisGn1312And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
69GenesisGn1313And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.
70GenesisGn1314And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
71GenesisGn1315I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.
72GenesisGn1316To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.
73GenesisGn1317And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.
74GenesisGn1318Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth.
75GenesisGn1319In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.
76GenesisGn1320And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.
77GenesisGn1321And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
78GenesisGn1322And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.
79GenesisGn1323And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.
80GenesisGn1324And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
81GenesisGn141And Adam knew Eve his wife; who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a man through God.
82GenesisGn142And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman.
83GenesisGn143And it came to pass after many days, that Cain offered, of the fruits of the earth, gifts to the Lord.
84GenesisGn144Abel also offered of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat: and the Lord had respect to Abel, and to his offerings.
85GenesisGn145But to Cain and his offerings he had no respect: and Cain was exceeding angry, and his countenance fell.
86GenesisGn146And the Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy countenance fallen?
87GenesisGn147If thou do well, shalt thou not receive? but if ill, shall not sin forthwith be present at the door? but the lust thereof shall be under thee, and thou shalt have dominion over it.
88GenesisGn148And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.
89GenesisGn149And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he answered: I know not: am I my brother's keeper?
90GenesisGn1410And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth.
91GenesisGn1411Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand.
92GenesisGn1412When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.
93GenesisGn1413And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.
94GenesisGn1414Behold thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face I shall be hid, and I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth: every one therefore that findeth me, shall kill me.
95GenesisGn1415And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.
96GenesisGn1416And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden.
97GenesisGn1417And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth Henoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son Henoch.
98GenesisGn1418And Henoch begot Irad, and Irad begot Maviael, and Maviael begot Mathusael, and Mathusael begot Lamech,
99GenesisGn1419Who took two wives: the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Sella.
100GenesisGn1420And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of herdsmen.
101GenesisGn1421And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of them that play upon the harp and the organs.
102GenesisGn1422Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and artificer in every work of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was Noema.
103GenesisGn1423And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.
104GenesisGn1424Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech seventy times sevenfold.
105GenesisGn1425Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, and called his name Seth, saying: God hath given me another seed for Abel, whom Cain slew.
106GenesisGn1426But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos: this man began to call upon the name of the Lord.
107GenesisGn151This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.
108GenesisGn152He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
109GenesisGn153And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his own image and likeness, and called his name Seth.
110GenesisGn154And the days of Adam, after he begot Seth, were eight hundred years: and he begot sons and daughters.
111GenesisGn155And all the time that Adam lived, came to nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
112GenesisGn156Seth also lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enos.
113GenesisGn157And Seth lived after he begot Enos, eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
114GenesisGn158And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
115GenesisGn159And Enos lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.
116GenesisGn1510After whose birth he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
117GenesisGn1511And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.
118GenesisGn1512And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Malaleel.
119GenesisGn1513And Cainan lived after he begot Malaleel, eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters.
120GenesisGn1514And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.
121GenesisGn1515And Malaleel lived sixty-five years and begot Jared.
122GenesisGn1516And Malaleel lived after he begot Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
123GenesisGn1517And all the days of Malaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.
124GenesisGn1518And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Henoch.
125GenesisGn1519And Jared lived after he begot Henoch, eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
126GenesisGn1520And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.
127GenesisGn1521And Henoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Mathusala.
128GenesisGn1522And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala, three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
129GenesisGn1523And all the days of Henoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
130GenesisGn1524And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him.
131GenesisGn1525And Mathusala lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech.
132GenesisGn1526And Mathlusala lived after he begot Lamech, seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.
133GenesisGn1527And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.
134GenesisGn1528And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son.
135GenesisGn1529And he called his name Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us from the works and labours of our hands on the earth, which the Lord hath cursed.
136GenesisGn1530And Lamech lived after he begot Noe, five hundred and ninety-five years, and begot sons and daughters.
137GenesisGn1531And all the days of Lamech came to seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died. And Noe, when he was five hundred years old, begot Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
138GenesisGn161And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
139GenesisGn162The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.
140GenesisGn163And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
141GenesisGn164Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.
142GenesisGn165And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
143GenesisGn166It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,
144GenesisGn167He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.
145GenesisGn168But Noe found grace before the Lord.
146GenesisGn169These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.
147GenesisGn1610And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
148GenesisGn1611And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.
149GenesisGn1612And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth),
150GenesisGn1613He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.
151GenesisGn1614Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without.
152GenesisGn1615And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
153GenesisGn1616Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make it.
154GenesisGn1617Behold, I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed.
155GenesisGn1618And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.
156GenesisGn1619And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female.
157GenesisGn1620Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.
158GenesisGn1621Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.
159GenesisGn1622And Noe did all things which God commanded him.
160GenesisGn171And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.
161GenesisGn172Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.
162GenesisGn173But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.
163GenesisGn174For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.
164GenesisGn175And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.
165GenesisGn176And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
166GenesisGn177And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
167GenesisGn178And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,
168GenesisGn179Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.
169GenesisGn1710And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
170GenesisGn1711In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:
171GenesisGn1712And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
172GenesisGn1713In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth, his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark.
173GenesisGn1714They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth, according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly,
174GenesisGn1715Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.
175GenesisGn1716And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.
176GenesisGn1717And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.
177GenesisGn1718For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.
178GenesisGn1719And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.
179GenesisGn1720The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.
180GenesisGn1721And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.
181GenesisGn1722And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.
182GenesisGn1723And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.
183GenesisGn1724And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
184GenesisGn181And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated:
185GenesisGn182The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
186GenesisGn183And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.
187GenesisGn184And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.
188GenesisGn185And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
189GenesisGn186And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of the ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven:
190GenesisGn187Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon the earth.
191GenesisGn188He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.
192GenesisGn189But she not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark.
193GenesisGn1810And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
194GenesisGn1811And she came to him in the evening carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth.
195GenesisGn1812And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him.
196GenesisGn1813Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.
197GenesisGn1814In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried.
198GenesisGn1815And God spoke to Noe, saying:
199GenesisGn1816Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of thy sons with thee.
200GenesisGn1817All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.
201GenesisGn1818So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.
202GenesisGn1819And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according to their kinds went out of the ark.
203GenesisGn1820And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.
204GenesisGn1821And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.
205GenesisGn1822All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.
206GenesisGn191And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.
207GenesisGn192And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.
208GenesisGn193And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:
209GenesisGn194Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
210GenesisGn195For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.
211GenesisGn196Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.
212GenesisGn197But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.
213GenesisGn198Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:
214GenesisGn199Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:
215GenesisGn1910And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all birds, as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts of the earth.
216GenesisGn1911I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth.
217GenesisGn1912And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations.
218GenesisGn1913I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me and between the earth.
219GenesisGn1914And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds:
220GenesisGn1915And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.
221GenesisGn1916And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.
222GenesisGn1917And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant, which I have established, between me and all flesh upon the earth.
223GenesisGn1918And the sons of Noe, who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.
224GenesisGn1919These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.
225GenesisGn1920And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.
226GenesisGn1921And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.
227GenesisGn1922Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father's nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.
228GenesisGn1923But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
229GenesisGn1924And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,
230GenesisGn1925He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
231GenesisGn1926And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.
232GenesisGn1927May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.
233GenesisGn1928And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
234GenesisGn1929And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
235GenesisGn1101These are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood.
236GenesisGn1102The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras.
237GenesisGn1103And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez and Riphath and Thogorma.
238GenesisGn1104And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.
239GenesisGn1105By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.
240GenesisGn1106And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.
241GenesisGn1107And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabatacha. The sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.
242GenesisGn1108Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.
243GenesisGn1109And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.
244GenesisGn11010And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar.
245GenesisGn11011Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.
246GenesisGn11012Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this is the great city.
247GenesisGn11013And Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim and Laabim, Nephthuim.
248GenesisGn11014And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom came forth the Philistines, and the Capthorim.
249GenesisGn11015And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, the Hethite,
250GenesisGn11016And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite.
251GenesisGn11017The Hevite and Aracite: the Sinite,
252GenesisGn11018And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite: and afterwards the families of the Chanaanites were spread abroad.
253GenesisGn11019And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa.
254GenesisGn11020These are the children of Cham in their kindreds and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations.
255GenesisGn11021Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.
256GenesisGn11022The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
257GenesisGn11023The sons of Aram: Us, and Hull, and Gether; and Mes.
258GenesisGn11024But Arphaxad begot Sale, of whom was born Heber.
259GenesisGn11025And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days was the earth divided: and his brother's name Jectan.
260GenesisGn11026Which Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, Jare,
261GenesisGn11027And Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla,
262GenesisGn11028And Ebal, and Abimael, Saba,
263GenesisGn11029And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Jectan.
264GenesisGn11030And their dwelling was from Messa as we go on as far as Sephar, a mountain in the east.
265GenesisGn11031These are the children of Sem according to their kindreds and tongues, and countries in their nations.
266GenesisGn11032These are the families of Noe, according to their people and nations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood.
267GenesisGn1111And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.
268GenesisGn1112And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.
269GenesisGn1113And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:
270GenesisGn1114And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
271GenesisGn1115And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.
272GenesisGn1116And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.
273GenesisGn1117Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.
274GenesisGn1118And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.
275GenesisGn1119And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.
276GenesisGn11110These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood.
277GenesisGn11111And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
278GenesisGn11112And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale.
279GenesisGn11113And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
280GenesisGn11114Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber.
281GenesisGn11115And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three years: and begot sons and daughters.
282GenesisGn11116And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
283GenesisGn11117And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty years: and begot sons and daughters.
284GenesisGn11118Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
285GenesisGn11119And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
286GenesisGn11120And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Sarug.
287GenesisGn11121And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
288GenesisGn11122And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot Nachor.
289GenesisGn11123And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
290GenesisGn11124And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.
291GenesisGn11125And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
292GenesisGn11126And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aran.
293GenesisGn11127And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot.
294GenesisGn11128And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees.
295GenesisGn11129And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor's wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melcha and father of Jescha.
296GenesisGn11130And Sarai was barren, and had no children.
297GenesisGn11131And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.
298GenesisGn11132And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran.
299GenesisGn1121And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
300GenesisGn1122And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.
301GenesisGn1123I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
302GenesisGn1124So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.
303GenesisGn1125And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,
304GenesisGn1126Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.
305GenesisGn1127And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
306GenesisGn1128And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.
307GenesisGn1129And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.
308GenesisGn11210And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.
309GenesisGn11211And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:
310GenesisGn11212And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.
311GenesisGn11213Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.
312GenesisGn11214And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.
313GenesisGn11215And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.
314GenesisGn11216And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels.
315GenesisGn11217But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram's wife.
316GenesisGn11218And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
317GenesisGn11219For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
318GenesisGn11220And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him away and his wife, and all that he had.
319GenesisGn1131And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him into the south.
320GenesisGn1132And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.
321GenesisGn1133And he returned by the way, that he came, from the south to Bethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai,
322GenesisGn1134In the place of the altar which he had made before, and there he called upon the name of the Lord.
323GenesisGn1135But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, and tents.
324GenesisGn1136Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, and they could not dwell together.
325GenesisGn1137Whereupon also there arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram and of Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite and the Pherezite dwelled in that country.
326GenesisGn1138Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren.
327GenesisGn1139Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me, I pray thee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou choose the right hand, I will pass to the left.
328GenesisGn11310And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.
329GenesisGn11311And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other.
330GenesisGn11312Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan: and Lot abode in the towns, that were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom.
331GenesisGn11313And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.
332GenesisGn11314And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him: Lift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west.
333GenesisGn11315All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.
334GenesisGn11316And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.
335GenesisGn11317Arise and walk through the land in the length, and the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee.
336GenesisGn11318So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.
337GenesisGn1141And it came to pass at that time, that Amraphel, king of Sennaar, and Arioch, king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor, king of the Elamites, and Thadal, king of nations,
338GenesisGn1142Made war against Bara, king of Sodom, and against Bersa, king of Gomorrha, and against Sennaab, king of Adama, and against Semeber, king of Seboim, and against the king of Bala, which is Segor.
339GenesisGn1143All these came together into the woodland vale, which now is the salt sea.
340GenesisGn1144For they had served Chodorlahomor twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they revolted from him.
341GenesisGn1145And in the fourteenth year came Chodorlahomor, and the kings that were with him: and they smote the Raphaim in Astarothcarnaim, and the Zuzim with them, and the Emim in Save of Cariathaim.
342GenesisGn1146And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir, even to the plains of Pharan, which is in the wilderness.
343GenesisGn1147And they returned, and came to the fountain of Misphat, the same is Cades: and they smote all the country of the Amalecites, and the Amorrhean that dwelt in Asasonthamar.
344GenesisGn1148And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha, and the king of Adama, and the king of Seboim, and the king of Bala, which is Segor, went out: and they set themselves against them in battle array, in the woodland vale:
345GenesisGn1149To wit, against Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Pontus: four kings against five.
346GenesisGn11410Now the woodland vale had many pits of slime. And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha turned their backs, and were overthrown there: and they that remained, fled to the mountain.
347GenesisGn11411And they took all the substance of the Sodomites, and Gomorrhites, and all their victuals, and went their way:
348GenesisGn11412And Lot also, the son of Abram's brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his substance.
349GenesisGn11413And behold one, that had escaped, told Abram the Hebrew, who dwelt in the vale of Mambre the Amorrhite, the brother of Escol, and the brother of Aner: for these had made a league with Abram.
350GenesisGn11414Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was taken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, well appointed: and pursued them to Dan.
351GenesisGn11415And dividing his company, he rushed upon them in the night, and defeated them: and pursued them as far as Hoba, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
352GenesisGn11416And he brought back all the substance, and Lot his brother, with his substance, the women also, and the people.
353GenesisGn11417And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from the slaughter of Chodorlahomor, and of the kings that were with him in the vale of Save, which is the king's vale.
354GenesisGn11418But Melchisedech, the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the most high God,
355GenesisGn11419Blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram by the most high God, who created heaven and earth.
356GenesisGn11420And blessed be the most high God, by whose protection, the enemies are in thy hands. And he gave him the tithes of all.
357GenesisGn11421And the king of Sodom said to Abram: Give me the persons, and the rest take to thyself.
358GenesisGn11422And he answered him: I lift up my hand to the Lord God the most high, the possessor of heaven and earth,
359GenesisGn11423That from the very woof thread unto the shoe latchet, I will not take of any things that are thine, lest thou say: I have enriched Abram.
360GenesisGn11424Except such things as the young men have eaten, and the shares of the men that came with me, Aner, Escol, and Mambre: these shall take their shares.
361GenesisGn1151Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.
362GenesisGn1152And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.
363GenesisGn1153And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir.
364GenesisGn1154And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying : He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir.
365GenesisGn1155And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.
366GenesisGn1156Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
367GenesisGn1157And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.
368GenesisGn1158But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?
369GenesisGn1159And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years. and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.
370GenesisGn11510And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other: but the birds he divided not.
371GenesisGn11511And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
372GenesisGn11512And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.
373GenesisGn11513And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.
374GenesisGn11514But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.
375GenesisGn11515And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.
376GenesisGn11516But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.
377GenesisGn11517And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace, and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.
378GenesisGn11518That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.
379GenesisGn11519The Cineans, and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,
380GenesisGn11520And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also,
381GenesisGn11521And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.
382GenesisGn1161Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,
383GenesisGn1162She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request,
384GenesisGn1163She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife.
385GenesisGn1164And he went in to her. But she perceiving that she was with child, despised her mistress.
386GenesisGn1165And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child, despiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee.
387GenesisGn1166And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted her, she ran away.
388GenesisGn1167And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,
389GenesisGn1168He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.
390GenesisGn1169And the angel of the Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hand.
391GenesisGn11610And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.
392GenesisGn11611And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.
393GenesisGn11612He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against all men, and all men's hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against all his brethren.
394GenesisGn11613And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou the God who hast seen me. For she said: Verily, here have I seen the hinder parts of him that seeth me.
395GenesisGn11614Therefore she called that well, the well of him that liveth and seeth me. The same is between Cades and Barad.
396GenesisGn11615And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: who called his name Ismael.
397GenesisGn11616Abram was four score and six years old when Agar brought him forth Ismael.
398GenesisGn1171And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.
399GenesisGn1172And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.
400GenesisGn1173Abram fell flat on his face.
401GenesisGn1174And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
402GenesisGn1175Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.
403GenesisGn1176And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
404GenesisGn1177And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
405GenesisGn1178And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.
406GenesisGn1179Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
407GenesisGn11710This is my covenant which you shall observe between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male-kind of you shall be circumcised.
408GenesisGn11711And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you.
409GenesisGn11712An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every manchild in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant, shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock:
410GenesisGn11713And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.
411GenesisGn11714The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.
412GenesisGn11715God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.
413GenesisGn11716And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.
414GenesisGn11717Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?
415GenesisGn11718And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.
416GenesisGn11719And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.
417GenesisGn11720And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
418GenesisGn11721But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.
419GenesisGn11722And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.
420GenesisGn11723And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.
421GenesisGn11724Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.
422GenesisGn11725And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision.
423GenesisGn11726The self-same day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.
424GenesisGn11727And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers, were circumcised with him.
425GenesisGn1181And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day.
426GenesisGn1182And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men standing near to him: and as soon as he saw them, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground.
427GenesisGn1183And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant.
428GenesisGn1184But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the tree.
429GenesisGn1185And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart, afterwards you shall pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your servant. And they said: Do as thou hast spoken.
430GenesisGn1186Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make haste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the hearth.
431GenesisGn1187And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf, very tender and very good, and gave it to a young man, who made haste and boiled it.
432GenesisGn1188He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and set before them: but he stood by them under the tree.
433GenesisGn1189And when they had eaten, they said to him: Where is Sara thy wife? He answered: Lo she is in the tent.
434GenesisGn11810And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.
435GenesisGn11811Now they were both old, and far advanced in years, and it had ceased to be with Sara after the manner of women.
436GenesisGn11812And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my lord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure?
437GenesisGn11813And the Lord said to Abraham: Why did Sara laugh, saying: Shall I, who am an old woman, bear a child indeed?
438GenesisGn11814Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son.
439GenesisGn11815Sara denied, saying: I did not laugh: for she was afraid. But the Lord said: Nay; but thou didst laugh.
440GenesisGn11816And when the men rose up from thence, they turned their eyes towards Sodom: and Abraham walked with them, bringing them on the way.
441GenesisGn11817And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham what I am about to do:
442GenesisGn11818Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?
443GenesisGn11819For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.
444GenesisGn11820And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.
445GenesisGn11821I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.
446GenesisGn11822And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord.
447GenesisGn11823And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?
448GenesisGn11824If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?
449GenesisGn11825Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.
450GenesisGn11826And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.
451GenesisGn11827And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.
452GenesisGn11828What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.
453GenesisGn11829And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty.
454GenesisGn11830Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak: What if thirty shall be found there? He answered: I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
455GenesisGn11831Seeing, saith he, I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord: What if twenty be found there? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty.
456GenesisGn11832I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if ten shall be found there? And he said: I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.
457GenesisGn11833And the Lord departed, after he had left speaking to Abraham: and Abraham returned to his place.
458GenesisGn1191And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground.
459GenesisGn1192And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in to the house of your servant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall go on your way. And they said: No, but we will abide in the street.
460GenesisGn1193He pressed them very much to turn in unto him: and when they were come into his house, he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate:
461GenesisGn1194But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house, both young and old, all the people together.
462GenesisGn1195And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came in to thee at night? bring them out hither, that we may know them:
463GenesisGn1196Lot went out to them, and shut the door after him, and said:
464GenesisGn1197Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.
465GenesisGn1198I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.
466GenesisGn1199But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them. And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.
467GenesisGn11910And behold the men put out their hand, and drew in Lot unto them, and shut the door.
468GenesisGn11911And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.
469GenesisGn11912And they said to Lot: Hast thou here any of thine? son in law, or sons, or daughters, all that are thine bring them out of this city:
470GenesisGn11913For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.
471GenesisGn11914So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.
472GenesisGn11915And when it was morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and the two daughters that thou hast: lest thou also perish in the wickedness of the city.
473GenesisGn11916And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.
474GenesisGn11917And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.
475GenesisGn11918And Lot said to them: I beseech thee, my Lord,
476GenesisGn11919Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die.
477GenesisGn11920There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?
478GenesisGn11921And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.
479GenesisGn11922Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.
480GenesisGn11923The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor.
481GenesisGn11924And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
482GenesisGn11925And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.
483GenesisGn11926And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statue of salt.
484GenesisGn11927And Abraham got up early in the morning, and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord:
485GenesisGn11928He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that country: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace.
486GenesisGn11929Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.
487GenesisGn11930And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode in the mountain, and his two daughters with him (for he was afraid to stay in Segor) and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.
488GenesisGn11931And the elder said to the younger: Our father is old, and there is no man left on the earth, to come in unto us after the manner of the whole earth.
489GenesisGn11932Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
490GenesisGn11933And they made their father drink wine that night: and the elder went in, and lay with her father: but he perceived not, neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.
491GenesisGn11934And the next day the elder said to the younger: Behold I lay last night with my father, let us make him drink wine also to night, and thou shalt lie with him, that we may save seed of our father.
492GenesisGn11935They made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in, and lay with him: and neither then did he perceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.
493GenesisGn11936So the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
494GenesisGn11937And the elder bore a son, and she called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
495GenesisGn11938The younger also bore a son, and she called his name Ammon; that is, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.
496GenesisGn1201Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.
497GenesisGn1202And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her.
498GenesisGn1203And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.
499GenesisGn1204Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just?
500GenesisGn1205Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and she say, He is my brother? in the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands have I done this.
501GenesisGn1206And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I suffered thee not to touch her.
502GenesisGn1207Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.
503GenesisGn1208And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the night, called all his servants: and spoke all these words in their hearing, and all the men were exceedingly afraid.
504GenesisGn1209And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and said to him: What hast thou done to us? what have we offended thee in, that thou hast brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done to us what thou oughtest not to do.
505GenesisGn12010And again he expostulated with him, and said: What sawest thou, that thou hast done this?
506GenesisGn12011Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife:
507GenesisGn12012Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.
508GenesisGn12013And after God brought me out of my father's house, I said to her: Thou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall come, thou shalt say that I am thy brother.
509GenesisGn12014And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gave to Abraham: and restored to him Sara his wife,
510GenesisGn12015And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee.
511GenesisGn12016And to Sara he said: Behold I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, this shall serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to all that are with thee, and whithersoever thou shalt go: and remember thou wast taken.
512GenesisGn12017And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bore children:
513GenesisGn12018For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, on account of Sara, Abraham's wife.
514GenesisGn1211And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.
515GenesisGn1212And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.
516GenesisGn1213And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac.
517GenesisGn1214And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,
518GenesisGn1215When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born.
519GenesisGn1216And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me.
520GenesisGn1217And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age?
521GenesisGn1218And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.
522GenesisGn1219And when Sara had seen the son of Agar, the Egyptian, playing with Isaac, her son, she said to Abraham:
523GenesisGn12110Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.
524GenesisGn12111Abraham took this grievously for his son.
525GenesisGn12112And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
526GenesisGn12113But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.
527GenesisGn12114So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.
528GenesisGn12115And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there.
529GenesisGn12116And she went her way, and sat over against him a great way off, as far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept.
530GenesisGn12117And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.
531GenesisGn12118Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand, for I will make him a great nation.
532GenesisGn12119And God opened her eyes: and she saw a well of water, and went and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.
533GenesisGn12120And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young man, an archer.
534GenesisGn12121And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
535GenesisGn12122At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army, said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.
536GenesisGn12123Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.
537GenesisGn12124And Abraham said: I will swear.
538GenesisGn12125And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.
539GenesisGn12126And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou didst not tell me, and I heard not of it till today.
540GenesisGn12127Then Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made a league.
541GenesisGn12128And Abraham set apart seven ewelambs of the flock.
542GenesisGn12129And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewelambs which thou hast set apart?
543GenesisGn12130But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.
544GenesisGn12131Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.
545GenesisGn12132And they made a league for the well of oath.
546GenesisGn12133And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.
547GenesisGn12134And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.
548GenesisGn1221After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.
549GenesisGn1222He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision; and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee.
550GenesisGn1223So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass, and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.
551GenesisGn1224And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar off.
552GenesisGn1225And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass; I and the boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have worshipped, will return to you.
553GenesisGn1226And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword. And as they two went on together,
554GenesisGn1227Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou, son? Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the holocaust?
555GenesisGn1228And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an holocaust, my son. So they went on together.
556GenesisGn1229And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.
557GenesisGn12210And he put forth his hand, and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.
558GenesisGn12211And behold, an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.
559GenesisGn12212And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.
560GenesisGn12213Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram, amongst the briers, sticking fast by the horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son.
561GenesisGn12214And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon, even to this day, it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.
562GenesisGn12215And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, saying:
563GenesisGn12216By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:
564GenesisGn12217I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.
565GenesisGn12218And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.
566GenesisGn12219Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there.
567GenesisGn12220After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother.
568GenesisGn12221Hus, the firstborn, and Buz, his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians,
569GenesisGn12222And Cased, and Azau, and Pheldas, and Jedlaph,
570GenesisGn12223And Bathuel, of whom was born Rebecca: these eight did Melcha bear to Nachor, Abraham's brother.
571GenesisGn12224And his concubine, named Roma, bore Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas, and Maacha.
572GenesisGn1231And Sara lived a hundred and twenty-seven years.
573GenesisGn1232And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.
574GenesisGn1233And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying:
575GenesisGn1234I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.
576GenesisGn1235The children of Heth answered, saying:
577GenesisGn1236My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our principal sepulchres: and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre.
578GenesisGn1237Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth:
579GenesisGn1238And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.
580GenesisGn1239That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a burying place.
581GenesisGn12310Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:
582GenesisGn12311Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou rather hearken to what I say: The field I deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein; in the presence of the children of my people, bury thy dead.
583GenesisGn12312Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
584GenesisGn12313And he spoke to Ephron, in the presence of the people: I beseech thee to hear me: I will give money for the field; take it, and so will I bury my dead in it.
585GenesisGn12314And Ephron answered:
586GenesisGn12315My lord, hear me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth four hundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but what is this? bury thy dead.
587GenesisGn12316And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver, of common current money.
588GenesisGn12317And the field that before was Ephron's, wherein was the double cave, looking towards Mambre, both it and the cave, and all the trees thereof, in all its limits round about,
589GenesisGn12318Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.
590GenesisGn12319And so Abraham buried Sara, his wife, in the double cave of the field, that looked towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of Chanaan.
591GenesisGn12320And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.
592GenesisGn1241Now Abraham was old, and advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed him in all things.
593GenesisGn1242And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over all he had: Put thy hand under my thigh,
594GenesisGn1243That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:
595GenesisGn1244But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.
596GenesisGn1245The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place from whence thou camest out?
597GenesisGn1246And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither.
598GenesisGn1247The Lord God of heaven, who took me out of my father's house, and out of my native country, who spoke to me, and swore to me, saying: To thy seed will I give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son.
599GenesisGn1248But if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by the oath: only bring not my son back thither again.
600GenesisGn1249The servant, therefore, put his hand under the thigh of Abraham, his lord, and swore to him upon his word.
601GenesisGn12410And he took ten camels of his master's herd, and departed, carrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forward and went on to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor.
602GenesisGn12411And when he had made the camels lie down without the town, near a well of water, in the evening, at the time when women are wont to come out to draw water, he said:
603GenesisGn12412O Lord, the God of my master, Abraham, meet me today, I beseech thee, and shew kindness to my master, Abraham.
604GenesisGn12413Behold, I stand nigh the spring of water, and the daughters of the inhabitants of this city will come out to draw water:
605GenesisGn12414Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this, I shall understand that thou hast shewn kindness to my master.
606GenesisGn12415He had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:
607GenesisGn12416An exceeding comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not known to man: and she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher, and was coming back.
608GenesisGn12417And the servant ran to meet her, and said: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher.
609GenesisGn12418And she answered: Drink, my lord. And quickly she let down the pitcher upon her arm, and gave him drink.
610GenesisGn12419And when he had drunk, she said: I will draw water for thy camels also, till they all drink.
611GenesisGn12420And pouring out the pitcher into the troughs, she ran back to the well to draw water; and having drawn, she gave to all the camels.
612GenesisGn12421But he musing, beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.
613GenesisGn12422And after that the camels had drunk, the man took out golden earrings, weighing two sicles; and as many bracelets, of ten sicles weight.
614GenesisGn12423And he said to her: Whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there any place in thy father's house to lodge?
615GenesisGn12424And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, whom she bore to Nachor.
616GenesisGn12425And she said, moreover, to him: We have good store of both straw and hay, and a large place to lodge in.
617GenesisGn12426The man bowed himself down, and adored the Lord,
618GenesisGn12427Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my master's brother.
619GenesisGn12428Then the maid ran, and told in her mother's house all that she had heard.
620GenesisGn12429And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban, who went out in haste to the man, to the well.
621GenesisGn12430And when he had seen the earrings and bracelets in his sister's hands, and had heard all that she related, saying, Thus and thus the man spoke to me: he came to the man who stood by the camels, and near to the spring of water,
622GenesisGn12431And said to him: Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; why standest thou without? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.
623GenesisGn12432And he brought him into his lodging; and he unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and hay, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men that were come with him.
624GenesisGn12433And bread was set before him. But he said: I will not eat, till I tell my message. He answered him: Speak.
625GenesisGn12434And he said: I am the servant of Abraham:
626GenesisGn12435And the Lord hath blessed my master wonderfully, and he is become great: and he hath given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, men servants and women servants, camels and asses.
627GenesisGn12436And Sara, my master's wife, hath borne my master a son in her old age, and he hath given him all that he had.
628GenesisGn12437And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell:
629GenesisGn12438But thou shalt go to my father's house, and shalt take a wife of my own kindred for my son:
630GenesisGn12439But I answered my master: What if the woman will not come with me?
631GenesisGn12440The Lord, said he, in whose sight I walk, will send his angel with thee, and will direct thy way: and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my own kindred, and of my father's house.
632GenesisGn12441But thou shalt be clear from my curse, when thou shalt come to my kindred, if they will not give thee one.
633GenesisGn12442And I came today to the well of water, and said: O Lord God of my master, Abraham, if thou hast prospered my way, wherein I now walk,
634GenesisGn12443Behold, I stand by the well of water, and the virgin, that shall come out to draw water, who shall hear me say: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher:
635GenesisGn12444And shall say to me: Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman, whom the Lord hath prepared for my master's son.
636GenesisGn12445And whilst I pondered these things secretly with myself, Rebecca appeared, coming with a pitcher, which she carried on her shoulder: and she went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her: Give me a little to drink.
637GenesisGn12446And she speedily let down the pitcher from her shoulder, and said to me: Both drink thou, and to thy camels I will give drink. I drank, and she watered the camels.
638GenesisGn12447And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him. So I put earrings on her to adorn her face, and I put bracelets on her hands.
639GenesisGn12448And falling down, I adored the Lord, blessing the Lord God of my master, Abraham, who hath brought me the straight way to take the daughter of my master's brother for his son.
640GenesisGn12449Wherefore, if you do according to mercy and truth with my master, tell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also, that I may go to the right hand, or to the left.
641GenesisGn12450And Laban and Bathuel answered: The word hath proceeded from the Lord: we cannot speak any other thing to thee but his pleasure.
642GenesisGn12451Behold, Rebecca is before thee, take her and go thy way, and let her be the wife of thy master's son, as the Lord hath spoken.
643GenesisGn12452Which when Abraham's servant heard, falling down to the ground, he adored the Lord.
644GenesisGn12453And bringing forth vessels of silver and gold, and garments, he gave them to Rebecca, for a present. He offered gifts also to her brothers, and to her mother.
645GenesisGn12454And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and lodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me depart, that I may go to my master.
646GenesisGn12455And her brother and mother answered: Let the maid stay, at least, ten days with us, and afterwards she shall depart.
647GenesisGn12456Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way: send me away, that I may go to my master.
648GenesisGn12457And they said: Let us call the maid, and ask her will.
649GenesisGn12458And they called her, and when she was come, they asked: Wilt thou go with this man? She said: I will go.
650GenesisGn12459So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his company.
651GenesisGn12460Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.
652GenesisGn12461So Rebecca and her maids, being set upon camels, followed the man: who with speed returned to his master.
653GenesisGn12462At the same time, Isaac was walking along the way to the well which is called Of the living and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south country:
654GenesisGn12463And he was gone forth to meditate in the field, the day being now well spent: and when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw camels coming afar off.
655GenesisGn12464Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac, lighted off the camel,
656GenesisGn12465And said to the servant: Who is that man who cometh towards us along the field? And he said to her: That man is my master. But she quickly took her cloak, and covered herself.
657GenesisGn12466And the servant told Isaac all that he had done.
658GenesisGn12467Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her to wife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was occasioned by his mother's death.
659GenesisGn1251And Abraham married another wife named Cetura:
660GenesisGn1252Who bore him Zamram, and Jecsan, and Madan, and Madian, and Jesboc, and Sue.
661GenesisGn1253Jecsan also begot Saba, and Dadan. The children of Dadan were Assurim, and Latusim, and Loomim.
662GenesisGn1254But of Madian was born Epha, and Opher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaa: all these were the children of Cetura.
663GenesisGn1255And Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac:
664GenesisGn1256And to the children of the concubines he gave gifts, and separated them from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the east country.
665GenesisGn1257And the days of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five years.
666GenesisGn1258And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long time, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.
667GenesisGn1259And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, which was situated in the field of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite, over against Mambre,
668GenesisGn12510Which he had bought of the children of Heth: there was he buried, and Sara his wife.
669GenesisGn12511And after his death, God blessed Isaac his son, who dwelt by the well named Of the living and seeing.
670GenesisGn12512These are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraham, whom Agar the Egyptian, Sara's servant, bore unto him:
671GenesisGn12513And these are the names of his children according to their calling and generations. The firstborn of Ismael was Nabajoth, then Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mabsam,
672GenesisGn12514And Masma, and Duma, and Massa,
673GenesisGn12515Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and Naphis, and Cedma.
674GenesisGn12516These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.
675GenesisGn12517And the years of Ismael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven, and decaying he died, and was gathered unto his people.
676GenesisGn12518And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards Egypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence of all his brethren.
677GenesisGn12519These also are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac:
678GenesisGn12520Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.
679GenesisGn12521And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.
680GenesisGn12522But the children struggled in her womb, and she said: If it were to be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to consult the Lord.
681GenesisGn12523And he answering, said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.
682GenesisGn12524And when her time was come to be delivered, behold twins were found in her womb.
683GenesisGn12525He that came forth first was red, and hairy like a skin: and his name was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his brother's foot in his hand: and therefore he was called Jacob.
684GenesisGn12526Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto him.
685GenesisGn12527And when they were grown up, Esau became a skilful hunter, and a husbandman: but Jacob, a plain man, dwelt in tents.
686GenesisGn12528Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.
687GenesisGn12529And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,
688GenesisGn12530Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.
689GenesisGn12531And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.
690GenesisGn12532He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me?
691GenesisGn12533Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold his first birthright.
692GenesisGn12534And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went on his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.
693GenesisGn1261And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestines, to Gerara.
694GenesisGn1262And the Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee.
695GenesisGn1263And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.
696GenesisGn1264And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
697GenesisGn1265Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.
698GenesisGn1266So Isaac abode in Gerara.
699GenesisGn1267And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister: for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would kill him because of her beauty.
700GenesisGn1268And when very many days were passed, and he abode there, Abimelech, king of the Palestines, looking out through a window, saw him playing with Rebecca, his wife.
701GenesisGn1269And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her sake.
702GenesisGn12610And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:
703GenesisGn12611He that shall touch this man's wife, shall surely be put to death.
704GenesisGn12612And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
705GenesisGn12613And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great.
706GenesisGn12614And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,
707GenesisGn12615Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:
708GenesisGn12616Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.
709GenesisGn12617So he departed, and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell there:
710GenesisGn12618And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, and which, after his death, the Philistines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names, by which his father before had called them.
711GenesisGn12619And they digged in the torrent, and found living water:
712GenesisGn12620But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.
713GenesisGn12621And they digged also another; and for that they quarrelled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.
714GenesisGn12622Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not; therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth.
715GenesisGn12623And he went up from that place to Bersabee,
716GenesisGn12624Where the Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father, do not fear, for I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
717GenesisGn12625And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent; and commanded his servants to dig a well.
718GenesisGn12626To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers, came from Gerara,
719GenesisGn12627Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?
720GenesisGn12628And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,
721GenesisGn12629That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing of thine, nor have done any thing to hurt thee; but with peace have sent thee away, increased with the blessing of the Lord.
722GenesisGn12630And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:
723GenesisGn12631Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.
724GenesisGn12632And behold, the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.
725GenesisGn12633Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.
726GenesisGn12634And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place.
727GenesisGn12635And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.
728GenesisGn1271Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he answered: Here I am.
729GenesisGn1272And his father said to him, Thou seest that I am old, and know not the day of my death.
730GenesisGn1273Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow, and go abroad; and when thou hast taken something by hunting,
731GenesisGn1274Make me a savoury meat thereof, as thou knowest I like, and bring it that I may eat: and my soul may bless thee, before I die.
732GenesisGn1275And when Rebecca had heard this, and he was gone into the field to fulfil his father's commandment,
733GenesisGn1276She said to her son Jacob: I heard thy father talking with Esau, thy brother, and saying to him:
734GenesisGn1277Bring me of thy hunting, and make me meats that I may eat, and bless thee in the sight of the Lord, before I die.
735GenesisGn1278Now therefore, my son, follow my counsel:
736GenesisGn1279And go thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that I may make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth.
737GenesisGn12710Which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless thee before he die.
738GenesisGn12711And he answered her: Thou knowest that Esau, my brother, is a hairy man, and I am smooth:
739GenesisGn12712If my father should feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing.
740GenesisGn12713And his mother said to him: Upon me be this curse, my son: only hear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things which I have said.
741GenesisGn12714He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew his father liked.
742GenesisGn12715And she put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at home with her:
743GenesisGn12716And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and covered the bare of his neck.
744GenesisGn12717And she gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that she had baked.
745GenesisGn12718Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he answered: I hear. Who art thou, my son?
746GenesisGn12719And Jacob said: I am Esau, thy firstborn: I have done as thou didst command me: arise, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
747GenesisGn12720And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly, my son? He answered: It was the will of God, that what I sought came quickly in my way:
748GenesisGn12721And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or no.
749GenesisGn12722He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands, are the hands of Esau.
750GenesisGn12723And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the elder. Then blessing him,
751GenesisGn12724He said: Art thou my son Esau? He answered: I am.
752GenesisGn12725Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my soul may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he offered him wine also, which after he had drunk,
753GenesisGn12726He said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son.
754GenesisGn12727He came near, and kissed him. And immediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said: Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord hath blessed.
755GenesisGn12728God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine.
756GenesisGn12729And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and let thy mother's children bow down before thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled with blessings.
757GenesisGn12730Isaac had scarce ended his words, when, Jacob being now gone out abroad, Esau came,
758GenesisGn12731And brought in to his father meats, made of what he had taken in hunting, saying: Arise, my father, and eat of thy son's venison; that thy soul may bless me.
759GenesisGn12732And Isaac said to him: Why! who art thou? He answered: I am thy firstborn son, Esau.
760GenesisGn12733Isaac was struck with fear, and astonished exceedingly; and wondering beyond what can be believed, said: Who is he then that even now brought me venison that he had taken, and I ate of all before thou camest? and I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed.
761GenesisGn12734Esau having heard his father's words, roared out with a great cry; and, being in a consternation, said: Bless me also, my father.
762GenesisGn12735And he said: Thy brother came deceitfully and got thy blessing.
763GenesisGn12736But he said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath supplanted me lo this second time: My birthright he took away before, and now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he said to his father: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?
764GenesisGn12737Isaac answered: I have appointed him thy lord, and have made all his brethren his servants: I have established him with corn and wine, and after this, what shall I do more for thee, my son?
765GenesisGn12738And Esau said to him: Hast thou only one blessing, father? I beseech thee bless me also. And when he wept with a loud cry,
766GenesisGn12739Isaac being moved, said to him: In the fat of the earth, and in the dew of heaven from above,
767GenesisGn12740Shall thy blessing be. Thou shalt live by the sword, and shalt serve thy brother: and the time shall come, when thou shalt shake off and loose his yoke from thy neck.
768GenesisGn12741Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.
769GenesisGn12742These things were told to Rebecca: and she sent and called Jacob, her son, and said to him: Behold Esau, thy brother, threateneth to kill thee.
770GenesisGn12743Now therefore, my son, hear my voice, arise and flee to Laban, my brother, to Haran:
771GenesisGn12744And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, till the wrath of thy brother be assuaged,
772GenesisGn12745And his indignation cease, and he forget the things thou hast done to him: afterwards I will send, and bring thee from thence hither. Why shall I be deprived of both my sons in one day?
773GenesisGn12746And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.
774GenesisGn1281And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:
775GenesisGn1282But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban, thy uncle.
776GenesisGn1283And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.
777GenesisGn1284And give the blessings of Araham to thee, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he promised to thy grandfather.
778GenesisGn1285And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother to Rebecca, his mother.
779GenesisGn1286And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan:
780GenesisGn1287And that Jacob obeying his parents, was gone into Syria:
781GenesisGn1288Experiencing also, that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Chanaan:
782GenesisGn1289He went to Ismael, and took to wife, besides them he had before, Maheleth, the daughter of Ismael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nabajoth.
783GenesisGn12810But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.
784GenesisGn12811And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under his head, slept in the same place.
785GenesisGn12812And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it.
786GenesisGn12813And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.
787GenesisGn12814And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED.
788GenesisGn12815And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.
789GenesisGn12816And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.
790GenesisGn12817And trembling, he said: How terrible is this place? this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.
791GenesisGn12818And Jacob arising in the morning, took the stone which he had laid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the top of it.
792GenesisGn12819And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.
793GenesisGn12820And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
794GenesisGn12821And I shall return prosperously to my father's house: the Lord shall be my God:
795GenesisGn12822And this stone, which I have set up for a title, shall be called the house of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will offer tithes to thee.
796GenesisGn1291Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.
797GenesisGn1292And he saw a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lying by it: for the beasts were watered out of it, and the mouth thereof was closed with a great stone.
798GenesisGn1293And the custom was, when all the sheep were gathered together, to roll away the stone, and after the sheep were watered, to put it on the mouth of the well again.
799GenesisGn1294And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? They answered: Of Haran.
800GenesisGn1295And he asked them, saying: Know you Laban, the son of Nachor? They said: We know him.
801GenesisGn1296He said: Is he in health? He is in health, say they: and behold, Rachel, his daughter, cometh with his flock.
802GenesisGn1297And Jacob said: There is yet much day remaining, neither is it time to bring the flocks into the folds again: first give the sheep drink, and so lead them back to feed.
803GenesisGn1298They answered: We cannot, till all the cattle be gathered together, and we remove the stone from the well's mouth, that we may water the flocks.
804GenesisGn1299They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she fed the flock.
805GenesisGn12910And when Jacob saw her, and knew her to be his cousin german, and that they were the sheep of Laban, his uncle: he removed the stone wherewith the well was closed.
806GenesisGn12911And having watered the flock, he kissed her: and lifting up his voice wept.
807GenesisGn12912And he told her that he was her father's brother, and the son of Rebecca: but she went in haste and told her father.
808GenesisGn12913Who, when he heard that Jacob his sister's son was come, ran forth to meet him: and embracing him, and heartily kissing him, brought him into his house. And when he had heard the causes of his journey,
809GenesisGn12914He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,
810GenesisGn12915He said to him: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me without wages? Tell me what wages thou wilt have.
811GenesisGn12916Now he had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lia; and the younger was called Rachel.
812GenesisGn12917But Lia was blear-eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance.
813GenesisGn12918And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter.
814GenesisGn12919Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me.
815GenesisGn12920So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.
816GenesisGn12921And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
817GenesisGn12922And he, having invited a great number of his friends to the feast, made the marriage.
818GenesisGn12923And at night he brought in Lia, his daughter, to him,
819GenesisGn12924Giving his daughter a handmaid, named Zelpha. Now when Jacob had gone in to her according to custom, when morning was come he saw it was Lia.
820GenesisGn12925And he said to his father-in-law: What is it that thou didst mean to do? did not I serve thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me?
821GenesisGn12926Laban answered: It is not the custom in this place, to give the younger in marriage first.
822GenesisGn12927Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her also, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years.
823GenesisGn12928He yielded to his pleasure: and after the week was past, he married Rachel:
824GenesisGn12929To whom her father gave Bala, for her servant.
825GenesisGn12930And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.
826GenesisGn12931And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.
827GenesisGn12932And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben, saying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me.
828GenesisGn12933And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the Lord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she called his name Simeon.
829GenesisGn12934And she conceived the third time, and bore another son, and said: Now also my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons: and therefore she called his name Levi.
830GenesisGn12935The fourth time she conceived and bore a son, and said: Now will I praise the Lord: and for this she called him Juda. And she left bearing.
831GenesisGn1301And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.
832GenesisGn1302And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?
833GenesisGn1303But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.
834GenesisGn1304And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,
835GenesisGn1305When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.
836GenesisGn1306And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan.
837GenesisGn1307And again Bala conceived, and bore another,
838GenesisGn1308For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali.
839GenesisGn1309Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing, gave Zelpha, her handmaid, to her husband.
840GenesisGn13010And when she had conceived, and brought forth a son,
841GenesisGn13011She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.
842GenesisGn13012Zelpha also bore another.
843GenesisGn13013And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.
844GenesisGn13014And Ruben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes.
845GenesisGn13015She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandrakes.
846GenesisGn13016And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.
847GenesisGn13017And God heard her prayers; and she conceived: and bore a fifth son:
848GenesisGn13018And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.
849GenesisGn13019And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son,
850GenesisGn13020And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.
851GenesisGn13021After whom she bore a daughter, named Dina.
852GenesisGn13022The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.
853GenesisGn13023And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach.
854GenesisGn13024And she called his name Joseph: saying: The Lord give me also another son.
855GenesisGn13025And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.
856GenesisGn13026Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.
857GenesisGn13027Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned, by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.
858GenesisGn13028Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.
859GenesisGn13029But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands.
860GenesisGn13030Thou hadst but little before I came to thee, and now thou art become rich: and the Lord hath blessed thee at my coming. It is reasonable, therefore, that I should now provide also for my own house.
861GenesisGn13031And Laban said: What shall I give thee? But he said: I require nothing; but if thou wilt do what I demand, I will feed and keep thy sheep again.
862GenesisGn13032Go round through all thy flocks, and separate all the sheep of divers colours, and speckled; and all that is brown and spotted, and of divers colours, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall be my wages.
863GenesisGn13033And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when the time of the bargain shall come; and all that is not of divers colours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accuse me of theft.
864GenesisGn13034And Laban said: I like well what thou demandest.
865GenesisGn13035And he separated the same day the she-goats, and the sheep, and the he-goats, and the rams of divers colours, and spotted; and all the flock of one colour, that is, of white and black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons.
866GenesisGn13036And he set the space of three days journey betwixt himself and his son-in-law, who fed the rest of his flock.
867GenesisGn13037And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane-trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off, in the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts that were whole, remained green: and by this means the colour was divers.
868GenesisGn13038And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out; that when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods before their eyes, and in the sight of them might conceive.
869GenesisGn13039And it came to pass, that in the very heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and speckled.
870GenesisGn13040And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams; and all the white and the black were Laban's, and the rest were Jacob's, when the flocks were separated one from the other.
871GenesisGn13041So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they might conceive while they were looking upon them.
872GenesisGn13042But when the later coming was, and the last conceiving, he did not put them. And those that were lateward, became Laban's; and they of the first time, Jacob's.
873GenesisGn13043And the man was enriched exceedingly, and he had many flocks, maid-servants and men-servants, camels and asses.
874GenesisGn1311But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and being enriched by his substance is become great.
875GenesisGn1312And perceiving also, that Laban's countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day.
876GenesisGn1313Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.
877GenesisGn1314He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,
878GenesisGn1315And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.
879GenesisGn1316And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power.
880GenesisGn1317Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.
881GenesisGn1318If at any time, he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white one for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.
882GenesisGn1319And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.
883GenesisGn13110For after the time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep, that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.
884GenesisGn13111And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob. And I answered: Here I am.
885GenesisGn13112And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.
886GenesisGn13113I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.
887GenesisGn13114And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house?
888GenesisGn13115Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?
889GenesisGn13116But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.
890GenesisGn13117Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.
891GenesisGn13118And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land of Chanaan.
892GenesisGn13119At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.
893GenesisGn13120And Jacob would not confess to his father-in-law that he was flying away.
894GenesisGn13121And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and having passed the river, was going on towards mount Galaad,
895GenesisGn13122It was told Laban on the third day, that Jacob fled.
896GenesisGn13123And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.
897GenesisGn13124And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
898GenesisGn13125Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he, with his brethren, had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount of Galaad.
899GenesisGn13126And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword?
900GenesisGn13127Why wouldst thou run away privately, and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps?
901GenesisGn13128Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters; thou hast done foolishly; and now indeed,
902GenesisGn13129It is in my power to return thee evil; but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
903GenesisGn13130Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?
904GenesisGn13131Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear lest thou wouldst take away thy daughters by force.
905GenesisGn13132But, whereas, thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and if thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he said this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols.
906GenesisGn13133So Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both the handmaids, and found them not. And when he was entered into Rachel's tent,
907GenesisGn13134She, in haste, hid the idols under the camel's furniture, and sat upon them: and when he had searched all the tent, and found nothing,
908GenesisGn13135She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain.
909GenesisGn13136And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me,
910GenesisGn13137And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them judge between me and thee.
911GenesisGn13138Have I, therefore, been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat:
912GenesisGn13139Neither did I shew thee that which the beast had torn; I made good all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it of me:
913GenesisGn13140Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.
914GenesisGn13141And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.
915GenesisGn13142Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.
916GenesisGn13143Laban answered him: The daughters are mine, and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do to my children, and grandchildren?
917GenesisGn13144Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.
918GenesisGn13145And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title.
919GenesisGn13146And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they, gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.
920GenesisGn13147And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.
921GenesisGn13148And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.
922GenesisGn13149The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.
923GenesisGn13150If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.
924GenesisGn13151And he said again to Jacob: Behold this heap, and the stone which I have set up between me and thee,
925GenesisGn13152Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or thou shalt pass beyond it thinking harm to me.
926GenesisGn13153The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac:
927GenesisGn13154And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:
928GenesisGn13155But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to his place.
929GenesisGn1321Jacob also went on the journey he had begun: and the angels of God met him.
930GenesisGn1322And when he saw them, he said: These are the camps of God, and he called the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, Camps.
931GenesisGn1323And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom:
932GenesisGn1324And he commanded them, saying: Thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau: Thus saith thy brother Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and have been with him until this day:
933GenesisGn1325I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants, and womenservants: and now I send a message to my lord, that I may find favour in thy sight.
934GenesisGn1326And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau, thy brother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men.
935GenesisGn1327Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies,
936GenesisGn1328Saying: If Esau come to one company, and destroy it, the other company that is left, shall escape.
937GenesisGn1329And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee.
938GenesisGn13210I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.
939GenesisGn13211Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him; lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children.
940GenesisGn13212Thou didst say, that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
941GenesisGn13213And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau,
942GenesisGn13214Two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
943GenesisGn13215Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she-asses, and ten of their foals.
944GenesisGn13216And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove.
945GenesisGn13217And he commanded the first, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau, and he ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose are these before thee?
946GenesisGn13218Thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob's: he hath sent them as a present to my lord Esau; and he cometh after us.
947GenesisGn13219In like manner he commanded the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when ye find him.
948GenesisGn13220And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us; for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before, and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.
949GenesisGn13221So the presents went before him, but himself lodged that night in the camp.
950GenesisGn13222And rising early, he took his two wives and his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc.
951GenesisGn13223And when all things were brought over that belonged to him,
952GenesisGn13224He remained alone; and behold, a man wrestled with him till morning.
953GenesisGn13225And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.
954GenesisGn13226And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
955GenesisGn13227And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.
956GenesisGn13228But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?
957GenesisGn13229Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place.
958GenesisGn13230And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.
959GenesisGn13231And immediately the sun rose upon him, after he was past Phanuel; but he halted on his foot.
960GenesisGn13232Therefore the children of Israel, unto this day, eat not the sinew, that shrank in Jacob's thigh: because he touched the sinew of his thigh and it shrank.
961GenesisGn1331And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men: and he divided the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids.
962GenesisGn1332And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.
963GenesisGn1333And he went forward and bowed down with his face to the ground seven times, until his brother came near.
964GenesisGn1334Then Esau ran to meet his brother, and embraced him: and clasping him fast about the neck, and kissing him, wept.
965GenesisGn1335And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women and their children, and said: What mean these? And do they belong to thee? He answered: They are the children which God hath given to me, thy servant.
966GenesisGn1336Then the handmaids and their children came near and bowed themselves.
967GenesisGn1337Lia also, with her children, came near and bowed down in like manner; and last of all, Joseph and Rachel bowed down.
968GenesisGn1338And Esau said: What are the droves that I met? He answered: That I might find favour before my lord.
969GenesisGn1339But he said: I have plenty, my brother, keep what is thine for thyself.
970GenesisGn13310And Jacob said: Do not so I beseech thee, but if I have found favour in thy eyes, receive a little present at my hands: for I have seen thy face, as if I should have seen the countenance of God: be gracious to me,
971GenesisGn13311And take the blessing which I have brought thee, and which God hath given me, who giveth all things. He took it with much ado at his brother's earnest pressing him,
972GenesisGn13312And said: Let us go on together, and I will accompany thee in thy journey.
973GenesisGn13313And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with me tender children, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I should cause to be overdriven, in one day all the flocks will die.
974GenesisGn13314May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir.
975GenesisGn13315Esau answered: I beseech thee, that some of the people, at least, who are with me, may stay to accompany thee in the way. And he said: There is no necessity: I want nothing else but only to find favour, my lord, in thy sight.
976GenesisGn13316So Esau returned that day, the way that he came, to Seir.
977GenesisGn13317And Jacob came to Socoth: where having built a house, and pitched tents, he called the name of the place Socoth, that is, Tents.
978GenesisGn13318And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town.
979GenesisGn13319And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for a hundred lambs.
980GenesisGn13320And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.
981GenesisGn1341And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see the women of that country.
982GenesisGn1342And when Sichem the son of Hemor the Hevite, the prince of that land, saw her, he was in love with her: and took her away, and lay with her, ravishing the virgin.
983GenesisGn1343And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words.
984GenesisGn1344And going to Hemor his father, he said: Get me this damsel to wife.
985GenesisGn1345But when Jacob had heard this, his sons being absent, and employed in feeding the cattle, he held his peace till they came back.
986GenesisGn1346And when Hemor the father of Sichem was come out to speak to Jacob,
987GenesisGn1347Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob's daughter.
988GenesisGn1348And Hemor spoke to them: The soul of my son Sichem has a longing for your daughter: give her him to wife:
989GenesisGn1349And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters.
990GenesisGn13410And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it.
991GenesisGn13411Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me find favour in your sight, and whatsoever you shall appoint I will give:
992GenesisGn13412Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.
993GenesisGn13413The sons of Jacob answered Sichem and his father deceitfully, being enraged at the deflowering of their sister:
994GenesisGn13414We cannot do what you demand, nor give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; which with us is unlawful and abominable.
995GenesisGn13415But in this we may be allied with you, if you will be like us, and all the male sex among you be circumcised:
996GenesisGn13416Then will we mutually give and take your daughters, and ours; and we will dwell with you, and will be one people:
997GenesisGn13417But if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart.
998GenesisGn13418Their offer pleased Hemor, and Sichem, his son:
999GenesisGn13419And the young man made no delay, but forthwith fulfilled what was required: for he loved the damsel exceedingly, and he was the greatest man in all his father's house.
1000GenesisGn13420And going into the gate of the city, they spoke to the people:
1001GenesisGn13421These men are peaceable, and are willing to dwell with us: let them trade in the land, and till it, which being large and wide wanteth men to till it: we shall take their daughters for wives, and we will give them ours.
1002GenesisGn13422One thing there is for which so great a good is deferred: We must circumcise every male among us, following the manner of the nation.
1003GenesisGn13423And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, shall be ours; only in this let us condescend, and by dwelling together, we shall make one people.
1004GenesisGn13424And they all agreed, and circumcised all the males.
1005GenesisGn13425And behold the third day, when the pain of the wound was greatest: two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina, taking their swords, entered boldly into the city and slew all the men.
1006GenesisGn13426And they killed also Hemor and Sichem, and took away their sister Dina out of Sichem's house.
1007GenesisGn13427And when they were gone out, the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain; and plundered the city in revenge of the rape.
1008GenesisGn13428And they took their sheep, and their herds, and their asses, wasting all they had in their houses and in their fields.
1009GenesisGn13429And their children and wives they took captive.
1010GenesisGn13430And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house shall be destroyed.
1011GenesisGn13431They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?
1012GenesisGn1351In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother.
1013GenesisGn1352And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments.
1014GenesisGn1353Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained me in my journey.
1015GenesisGn1354So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.
1016GenesisGn1355And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.
1017GenesisGn1356And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him.
1018GenesisGn1357And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.
1019GenesisGn1358At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.
1020GenesisGn1359And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,
1021GenesisGn13510Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel.
1022GenesisGn13511And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.
1023GenesisGn13512And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
1024GenesisGn13513And he departed from him.
1025GenesisGn13514But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had spoken to him: pouring drink-offerings upon it, and pouring oil thereon:
1026GenesisGn13515And calling the name of that place Bethel.
1027GenesisGn13516And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,
1028GenesisGn13517By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.
1029GenesisGn13518And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand.
1030GenesisGn13519So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, this is Bethlehem.
1031GenesisGn13520And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulchre: this is the pillar of Rachel's monument, to this day.
1032GenesisGn13521Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.
1033GenesisGn13522And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and slept with Bala the concubine of his father: which he was not ignorant of. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
1034GenesisGn13523The sons of Lia: Ruben the first born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Juda, and Issachar, and Zabulon.
1035GenesisGn13524The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
1036GenesisGn13525The sons of Bala, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Nephthali.
1037GenesisGn13526The sons of Zelpha, Lia's handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.
1038GenesisGn13527And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron: wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
1039GenesisGn13528And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.
1040GenesisGn13529And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
1041GenesisGn1361And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom.
1042GenesisGn1362Esau took wives of the daughters of Chanaan: Ada the daughter of Elon the Hethite, and Oolibama the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sebeon the Hevite:
1043GenesisGn1363And Basemath, the daughter of Ismael, sister of Nabajoth.
1044GenesisGn1364And Ada bore Eliphaz: Basemath bore Rahuel.
1045GenesisGn1365Oolibama bore Jehus, and Ihelon, and Core. These are the sons of Esau, that were born to him in the land of Chanaan.
1046GenesisGn1366And Esau took his wives, and his sons and daughters, and every soul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and all that he was able to acquire in the land of Chanaan: and went into another country, and departed from his brother Jacob.
1047GenesisGn1367For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together: neither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the multitude of their flocks.
1048GenesisGn1368And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: he is Edom.
1049GenesisGn1369And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in mount Seir.
1050GenesisGn13610And these the names of his sons: Eliphaz the son of Ada, the wife of Esau: and Rahuel, the son of Basemath, his wife.
1051GenesisGn13611And Eliphaz had sons: Theman, Omar, Sepho, and Gatham and Cenez.
1052GenesisGn13612And Thamna was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau: and she bore him Amalech. These are the sons of Ada, the wife of Esau.
1053GenesisGn13613And the sons of Rahuel were Nahath and Zara, Samma and Meza. These were the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
1054GenesisGn13614And these were the sons of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sebeon, the wife of Esau, whom she bore to him, Jehus, and Ihelon, and Core.
1055GenesisGn13615These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: duke Theman, duke Omar, duke Sepho, duke Cenez,
1056GenesisGn13616Duke Core, duke Gatham, duke Amalech: these are the sons of Eliphaz, in the land of Edom, and these the sons of Ada.
1057GenesisGn13617And these were the sons of Rahuel, the son of Esau: duke Nahath, duke Zara, duke Samma, duke Meza. And these are the dukes of Rahuel, in the land of Edom: these the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
1058GenesisGn13618And these the sons of Oolibama, the wife of Esau: duke Jehus, duke Ihelon, duke Core. These are the dukes of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, and wife of Esau.
1059GenesisGn13619These are the sons of Esau, and these the dukes of them: the same is Edom.
1060GenesisGn13620These are the sons of Seir, the Horrite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, and Sobal, and Sebeon, and Ana,
1061GenesisGn13621And Dison, and Eser, and Disan. These are dukes of the Horrites, the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.
1062GenesisGn13622And Lotan had sons: Hori and Heman. And the sister of Lotan was Thamna.
1063GenesisGn13623And these the sons of Sobal: Alvan, and Manahat, and Ebal, and Sepho, and Onam.
1064GenesisGn13624And these the sons of Sebeon: Aia and Ana. This is Ana that found the hot waters in the wilderness, when he fed the asses of Sebeon, his father:
1065GenesisGn13625And he had a son Dison, and a daughter Oolibama.
1066GenesisGn13626And these were the sons of Dison: Hamdan, and Eseban, and Jethram, and Charan.
1067GenesisGn13627These also were the sons of Eser: Balaan, and Zavan, and Acan.
1068GenesisGn13628And Dison had sons: Hus and Aram.
1069GenesisGn13629These were dukes of the Horrites: duke Lotan, duke Sobal, duke Sebeon, duke Ana,
1070GenesisGn13630Duke Dison, duke Eser, duke Disan: these were dukes of the Horrites that ruled in the land of Seir.
1071GenesisGn13631And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king, were these:
1072GenesisGn13632Bela the son of Beor, and the name of his city Denaba.
1073GenesisGn13633And Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zara, of Bosra, reigned in his stead.
1074GenesisGn13634And when Jobab was dead, Husam, of the land of the Themanites, reigned in his stead.
1075GenesisGn13635And after his death, Adad, the son of Badad, reigned in his stead, who defeated the Madianites in the country of Boab; and the name of his city was Avith.
1076GenesisGn13636And when Adad was dead, there reigned in his stead, Semla, of Masreca.
1077GenesisGn13637And he being dead, Saul, of the river Rohoboth, reigned in his stead.
1078GenesisGn13638And when he also was dead, Balanan, the son of Achobor, succeeded to the kingdom.
1079GenesisGn13639This man also being dead, Adar reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Phau: and his wife was called Meetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezaab.
1080GenesisGn13640And these are the names of the dukes of Esau in their kindreds, and places, and callings: duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke Jetheth,
1081GenesisGn13641Duke Oolibama, duke Ela, duke Phinon,
1082GenesisGn13642Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,
1083GenesisGn13643Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram: these are the dukes of Edom dwelling in the land of their government; the same is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
1084GenesisGn1371And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan, wherein his father sojourned.
1085GenesisGn1372And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father's wives: and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.
1086GenesisGn1373Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.
1087GenesisGn1374And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated hem, and could not speak peaceably to him.
1088GenesisGn1375Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.
1089GenesisGn1376And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.
1090GenesisGn1377I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf.
1091GenesisGn1378His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.
1092GenesisGn1379He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.
1093GenesisGn13710And when he had told this to his father, and brethren, his father rebuked him and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?
1094GenesisGn13711His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.
1095GenesisGn13712And when his brethren abode in Sechem, feeding their father's flocks,
1096GenesisGn13713Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered:
1097GenesisGn13714I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:
1098GenesisGn13715And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.
1099GenesisGn13716But he answered: I seek my brethren, tell me where they feed the flocks.
1100GenesisGn13717And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.
1101GenesisGn13718And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him:
1102GenesisGn13719And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh.
1103GenesisGn13720Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him:
1104GenesisGn13721And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, and said:
1105GenesisGn13722Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him to his father.
1106GenesisGn13723And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours:
1107GenesisGn13724And cast him into an old pit where there was not water.
1108GenesisGn13725And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.
1109GenesisGn13726And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?
1110GenesisGn13727It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words.
1111GenesisGn13728And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver: and they led him into Egypt.
1112GenesisGn13729And Ruben returning to the pit, found not the boy:
1113GenesisGn13730And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear, and whither shall I go?
1114GenesisGn13731And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed:
1115GenesisGn13732Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.
1116GenesisGn13733And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son's coat, an evil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph.
1117GenesisGn13734And tearing his garments, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.
1118GenesisGn13735And all his children being gathered together to comfort their father in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go down to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,
1119GenesisGn13736The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, captain of the soldiers.
1120GenesisGn1381At that time Juda went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Odollamite, named Hiras.
1121GenesisGn1382And he saw there the daughter of a man of Chanaan, called Sue: and taking her to wife, he went in unto her.
1122GenesisGn1383And she conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Her.
1123GenesisGn1384And conceiving again, she bore a son, and called him Onan.
1124GenesisGn1385She bore also a third: whom she called Sela. After whose birth, she ceased to bear any more.
1125GenesisGn1386And Juda took a wife for Her, his first born, whose name was Thamar.
1126GenesisGn1387And Her, the first born of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the Lord: and was slain by him.
1127GenesisGn1388Juda, therefore, said to Onan his son: Go in to thy brother's wife and marry her, that thou mayst raise seed to thy brother.
1128GenesisGn1389He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother's wife, he spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children should be born in his brother's name.
1129GenesisGn13810And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing:
1130GenesisGn13811Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his daughter-in-law: Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was afraid lest he also might die, as his brethren did. She went her way, and dwelt in her father's house.
1131GenesisGn13812And after many days were past: the daughter of Sue the wife of Juda died: and when he had taken comfort after his mourning, he went up to Thamnas, to the shearers of his sheep, he and Hiras the Odollamite, the shepherd of his flock.
1132GenesisGn13813And it was told Thamar that her father-in-law was come up to Thamnas to shear his sheep.
1133GenesisGn13814And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.
1134GenesisGn13815When Juda saw her, he thought she was a harlot: for she had covered her face, lest she should be known.
1135GenesisGn13816And going to her, he said: Suffer me to lie with thee: for he knew her not to be his daughter-in-law. And she answered: What wilt thou give me to enjoy my company?
1136GenesisGn13817He said: I will send thee a kid out of the flock. And when she said again: I will suffer what thou wilt, if thou give me a pledge, till thou send what thou promisest.
1137GenesisGn13818Juda said: What wilt thou have for a pledge? She answered: Thy ring and bracelet, and the staff which thou holdest in thy hand. The woman therefore at one copulation conceived.
1138GenesisGn13819And she arose and went her way: and putting off the apparel which she had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood.
1139GenesisGn13820And Juda sent a kid by his shepherd, the Odollamite, that he might receive the pledge again, which he had given to the woman: but he, not finding her,
1140GenesisGn13821Asked the men of that place: Where is the woman that sat in the cross way? And when they all made answer: There was no harlot in this place,
1141GenesisGn13822He returned to Juda, and said to him: I have not found her; moreover, the men of that place said to me, that there never sat a harlot there.
1142GenesisGn13823Juda said: Let her take it to herself, surely she cannot charge us with a lie, I sent the kid which I promised: and thou didst not find her.
1143GenesisGn13824And behold, after three months, they told Juda, saying: Thamar, thy daughter-in-law, hath played the harlot, and she appeareth to have a big belly. And Juda said: Bring her out that she may be burnt.
1144GenesisGn13825But when she was led to execution, she sent to her father in law, saying: By the man, to whom these things belong, I am with child. See whose ring, and bracelet, and staff this is.
1145GenesisGn13826But he acknowledging the gifts, said: She is juster than I: because I did not give her to Sela, my son. However he knew her no more.
1146GenesisGn13827And when she was ready to be brought to bed, there appeared twins in her womb: and in the very delivery of the infants, one put forth a hand, whereon the midwife tied a scarlet thread, saying:
1147GenesisGn13828This shall come forth the first.
1148GenesisGn13829But he drawing back his hand, the other came forth: and the woman said: Why is the partition divided for thee? and therefore called his name Phares.
1149GenesisGn13830Afterwards his brother came out, on whose hand was the scarlet thread: and she called his name Zara.
1150GenesisGn1391And Joseph was brought into Egypt, and Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, chief captain of the army, an Egyptian, bought him of the Ismaelites, by whom he was brought.
1151GenesisGn1392And the Lord was with him, and he was a prosperous man in all things: and he dwelt in his master's house:
1152GenesisGn1393Who knew very well that the Lord was with him, and made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
1153GenesisGn1394And Joseph found favour in the sight of his master, and ministered to him: and being set over all by him, he governed the house committed to him, and all things that were delivered to him:
1154GenesisGn1395And the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and multiplied all his substance, both at home and in the fields.
1155GenesisGn1396Neither knew he any other thing, but the bread which he ate. And Joseph was of a beautiful countenance, and comely to behold.
1156GenesisGn1397And after many days, his mistress cast her eyes on Joseph, and said: Lie with me.
1157GenesisGn1398But he in no wise consenting to that wicked act said to her: Behold, my master hath delivered all things to me, and knoweth not what he hath in his own house:
1158GenesisGn1399Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he hath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife; how then can I do this wicked thing, and sin against my God?
1159GenesisGn13910With such words as these day by day, both the woman was importunate with the young man, and he refused the adultery.
1160GenesisGn13911Now it happened on a certain day, that Joseph went into the house, and was doing some business, without any man with him:
1161GenesisGn13912And she catching the skirt of his garment, said: Lie with me. But he leaving the garment in her hand, fled, and went out.
1162GenesisGn13913And when the woman saw the garment in her hands, and herself disregarded,
1163GenesisGn13914She called to her the men of her house, and said to them: See, he hath brought in a Hebrew, to abuse us: he came in to me, to lie with me; and when I cried out,
1164GenesisGn13915And he heard my voice, he left the garment that I held, and got him out.
1165GenesisGn13916For a proof therefore of her fidelity, she kept the garment, and shewed it to her husband when he returned home:
1166GenesisGn13917And said: The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought, came to me to abuse me.
1167GenesisGn13918And when he heard me cry, he left the garment which I held, and fled out.
1168GenesisGn13919His master hearing these things, and giving too much credit to his wife's words, was very angry,
1169GenesisGn13920And cast Joseph into the prison, where the king's prisoners were kept, and he was there shut up.
1170GenesisGn13921But the Lord was with Joseph, and having mercy upon him gave him favour in the sight of the chief keeper of the prison:
1171GenesisGn13922Who delivered into his hand all the prisoners that were kept in custody: and whatsoever was done, was under him.
1172GenesisGn13923Neither did he himself know any thing, having committed all things to him: for the Lord was with him, and made all that he did to prosper.
1173GenesisGn1401After this, it came to pass, that two eunuchs, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, offended their lord.
1174GenesisGn1402And Pharao being angry with them, (now the one was chief butler, the other chief baker,)
1175GenesisGn1403He sent them to the prison of the commander of the soldiers, in which Joseph also was prisoner.
1176GenesisGn1404But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, and he served them. Some little time passed, and they were kept in custody.
1177GenesisGn1405And they both dreamed a dream the same night, according to the interpretation agreeing to themselves:
1178GenesisGn1406And when Joseph was come into them in the morning, and saw them sad,
1179GenesisGn1407He asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than usual?
1180GenesisGn1408They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:
1181GenesisGn1409The chief butler first told his dream: I saw before me a vine,
1182GenesisGn14010On which were three branches, which by little and little sent out buds, and after the blossoms brought forth ripe grapes:
1183GenesisGn14011And the cup of Pharao was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into the cup which I held, and I gave the cup to Pharao.
1184GenesisGn14012Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three branches, are yet three days:
1185GenesisGn14013After which Pharao will remember thy service, and will restore thee to thy former place: and thou shalt present him the cup according to thy office, as before thou was wont to do.
1186GenesisGn14014Only remember me when it shall be well with thee, and do me this kindness: to put Pharao in mind to take me out of this prison:
1187GenesisGn14015For I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here without any fault was cast into the dungeon.
1188GenesisGn14016The chief baker seeing that he had wisely interpreted the dream, said: I also dreamed a dream, That I had three baskets of meal upon my head:
1189GenesisGn14017And that in one basket which was uppermost, I carried all meats that are made by the art of baking, and that the birds ate out of it.
1190GenesisGn14018Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three baskets, are yet three days:
1191GenesisGn14019After which Pharao will take thy head from thee, and hang thee on a cross, and the birds shall tear thy flesh.
1192GenesisGn14020The third day after this was the birthday of Pharao: and he made a great feast for his servants, and at the banquet remembered the chief butler, and the chief baker.
1193GenesisGn14021And he restored the one to his place, to present him the cup:
1194GenesisGn14022The other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the interpreter might be shewn.
1195GenesisGn14023But the chief butler, when things prospered with him, forgot his interpreter.
1196GenesisGn1411After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,
1197GenesisGn1412Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.
1198GenesisGn1413Other seven also came up out of the river, ill-favoured, and lean fleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:
1199GenesisGn1414And they devoured them, whose bodies were very beautiful and well conditioned. So Pharao awoke.
1200GenesisGn1415He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk full and fair:
1201GenesisGn1416Then seven other ears sprung up thin and blasted,
1202GenesisGn1417And devoured all the beauty of the former. Pharao awaked after his rest:
1203GenesisGn1418And when morning was come, being struck with fear, he sent to all the interpreters of Egypt, and to all the wise men: and they being called for, he told them his dream, and there was not any one that could interpret it.
1204GenesisGn1419Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my sin:
1205GenesisGn14110The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the chief baker to be cast into the prison of the captain of the soldiers.
1206GenesisGn14111Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things to come.
1207GenesisGn14112There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same captain of the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams,
1208GenesisGn14113And we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.
1209GenesisGn14114Forthwith at the king's command Joseph was brought out of the prison, and they shaved him: and changing his apparel brought him in to him.
1210GenesisGn14115And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one that can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at interpreting them:
1211GenesisGn14116Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.
1212GenesisGn14117So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river,
1213GenesisGn14118And seven kine came up out of the river, exceeding beautiful and full of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.
1214GenesisGn14119And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very ill-favoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Egypt:
1215GenesisGn14120And they devoured and consumed the former,
1216GenesisGn14121And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill-favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again,
1217GenesisGn14122And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew up upon one stalk, full and very fair.
1218GenesisGn14123Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stalk:
1219GenesisGn14124And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it.
1220GenesisGn14125Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.
1221GenesisGn14126The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven years of plenty: and both contain the same meaning of the dream.
1222GenesisGn14127And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them, and the seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind, are seven years of famine to come:
1223GenesisGn14128Which shall be fulfilled in this order.
1224GenesisGn14129Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenty in the whole land of Egypt:
1225GenesisGn14130After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land,
1226GenesisGn14131And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty.
1227GenesisGn14132And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of God cometh to pass, and is fulfilled speedily.
1228GenesisGn14133Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of Egypt:
1229GenesisGn14134That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather into barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven fruitful years,
1230GenesisGn14135That shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up, under Pharao's hands, and be reserved in the cities.
1231GenesisGn14136And let it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to come, which shall oppress Egypt, and the land shall not be consumed with scarcity.
1232GenesisGn14137The counsel pleased Pharao, and all his servants.
1233GenesisGn14138And he said to them: Can we find such another man, that is full of the spirit of God?
1234GenesisGn14139He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath shewn thee all that thou hast said, can I find one wiser and one like unto thee?
1235GenesisGn14140Thou shalt be over my house, and at the commandment of thy mouth all the people shall obey: only in the kingly throne will I be above thee.
1236GenesisGn14141And again Pharao said to Joseph: Behold, I have appointed thee over the whole land of Egypt.
1237GenesisGn14142And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his hand: and he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about his neck.
1238GenesisGn14143And he made him go up into his second chariot, the crier proclaiming that all should bow their knee before him, and that they should know he was made governor over the whole land of Egypt.
1239GenesisGn14144And the king said to Joseph: I am Pharao: without thy commandment no man shall move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
1240GenesisGn14145And he turned his name, and called him in the Egyptian tongue the saviour of the world. And he gave him to wife Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis. Then Joseph went out to the land of Egypt.
1241GenesisGn14146(Now he was thirty years old when he stood before king Pharao), and he went round all the countries of Egypt.
1242GenesisGn14147And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corn being bound up into sheaves, was gathered together into the barns of Egypt.
1243GenesisGn14148And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city.
1244GenesisGn14149And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.
1245GenesisGn14150And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore unto him.
1246GenesisGn14151And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house.
1247GenesisGn14152And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty.
1248GenesisGn14153Now when the seven years of plenty that had been in Egypt were passed:
1249GenesisGn14154The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had foretold, began to come: and the famine prevailed in the whole world, but there was bread in all the land of Egypt.
1250GenesisGn14155And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried to Pharao, for food. And he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all that he shall say to you.
1251GenesisGn14156And the famine increased daily in all the land: and Joseph opened all the barns, and sold to the Egyptians: for the famine had oppressed them also.
1252GenesisGn14157And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.
1253GenesisGn1421And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless?
1254GenesisGn1422I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: Go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.
1255GenesisGn1423So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:
1256GenesisGn1424Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.
1257GenesisGn1425And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.
1258GenesisGn1426And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him,
1259GenesisGn1427And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.
1260GenesisGn1428And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.
1261GenesisGn1429And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the land.
1262GenesisGn14210But they said: It is not so, my lord; but thy servants are come to buy food.
1263GenesisGn14211We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.
1264GenesisGn14212And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.
1265GenesisGn14213But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.
1266GenesisGn14214He saith, This is it that I said: You are spies.
1267GenesisGn14215I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao, you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.
1268GenesisGn14216Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.
1269GenesisGn14217So he put them in prison three days.
1270GenesisGn14218And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.
1271GenesisGn14219If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.
1272GenesisGn14220And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.
1273GenesisGn14221And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.
1274GenesisGn14222And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy; and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.
1275GenesisGn14223And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.
1276GenesisGn14224And he turned himself away a little while, and wept: and returning, he spoke to them.
1277GenesisGn14225And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he commanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put every man's money again in their sacks, and to give them besides provisions for the way: and they did so.
1278GenesisGn14226But they having loaded their asses with the corn went their way.
1279GenesisGn14227And one of them opening his sack, to give his beast provender in the inn, saw the money in the sack's mouth,
1280GenesisGn14228And said to his brethren: My money is given me again; behold it is in the sack. And they were astonished, and troubled, and said to one another: What is this that God hath done unto us?
1281GenesisGn14229And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Chanaan, and they told him all things that had befallen them, saying:
1282GenesisGn14230The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the country.
1283GenesisGn14231And we answered him: We are peaceable men, and we mean no plot.
1284GenesisGn14232We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living, the youngest is with our father in the land of Chanaan.
1285GenesisGn14233And he said to us: Hereby shall I know that you are peaceable men: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take ye necessary provision for your houses, and go your ways,
1286GenesisGn14234And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may know you are not spies: and you may receive this man again, that is kept in prison: and afterwards may have leave to buy what you will.
1287GenesisGn14235When they had told this, they poured out their corn, and every man found his money tied in the mouth of his sack: and all being astonished together,
1288GenesisGn14236Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.
1289GenesisGn14237And Ruben answered him: Kill my two sons, if I bring him not again to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will restore him to thee.
1290GenesisGn14238But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.
1291GenesisGn1431In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.
1292GenesisGn1432And when they had eaten up all the corn, which they had brought out of Egypt, Jacob said to his sons: Go again, and buy us a little food.
1293GenesisGn1433Juda answered: The man declared unto us with the attestation of an oath, saying: You shall not see my face, unless you bring your youngest brother with you.
1294GenesisGn1434If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will set out together, and will buy necessaries for thee.
1295GenesisGn1435But if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the man, as we have often said, declared unto us, saying: You shall not see my face without your youngest brother.
1296GenesisGn1436Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery, in that you told him you had also another brother.
1297GenesisGn1437But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would say: Bring hither your brother with you?
1298GenesisGn1438And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.
1299GenesisGn1439I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.
1300GenesisGn14310If delay had not been made, we had been here again the second time.
1301GenesisGn14311Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you will: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh, turpentine, and almonds.
1302GenesisGn14312And take with you double money, and carry back what you found in your sacks, lest perhaps it was done by mistake.
1303GenesisGn14313And take also your brother, and go to the man.
1304GenesisGn14314And may my almighty God make him favourable to you: and send back with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as for me I shall be desolate without children.
1305GenesisGn14315So the men took the presents, and double money, and Benjamin: and went down into Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
1306GenesisGn14316And when he had seen them, and Benjamin with them, he commanded the steward of his house, saying: Bring in the men into the house, and kill victims, and prepare a feast: because they shall eat with me at noon.
1307GenesisGn14317He did as he was commanded, and brought the men into the house.
1308GenesisGn14318And they being much afraid, said there one to another: Because of the money, which we carried back the first time in our sacks, we are brought in: that he may bring upon us a false accusation, and by violence make slaves of us and our asses.
1309GenesisGn14319Wherefore, going up to the steward of the house, at the door,
1310GenesisGn14320They said: Sir, we desire thee to hear us. We came down once before to buy food:
1311GenesisGn14321And when we had bought, and were come to the inn, we opened our sacks, and found our money in the mouths of the sacks: which we have now brought again in the same weight.
1312GenesisGn14322And we have brought other money besides, to buy what we want: we cannot tell who put it in our bags.
1313GenesisGn14323But he answered: Peace be with you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks. For the money, which you gave me, I have for good. And he brought Simeon out to them.
1314GenesisGn14324And having brought them into the house, he fetched water, and they washed their feet, and he gave provender to their asses.
1315GenesisGn14325But they made ready the presents, against Joseph came at noon: for they had heard that they should eat bread there.
1316GenesisGn14326Then Joseph came in to his house, and they offered him the presents, holding them in their hands; and they bowed down with their face to the ground.
1317GenesisGn14327But he courteously saluting them again, asked them, saying: Is the old man your father in health, of whom you told me? Is he yet living?
1318GenesisGn14328And they answered: Thy servant our father, is in health; he is yet living. And bowing themselves, they made obeisance to him.
1319GenesisGn14329And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw Benjamin, his brother by the same mother, and said: Is this your young brother, of whom you told me? And he said: God be gracious to thee, my son.
1320GenesisGn14330And he made haste, because his heart was moved upon his brother, and tears gushed out: and going into his chamber, he wept.
1321GenesisGn14331And when he had washed his face, coming out again, he refrained himself, and said: Set bread on the table.
1322GenesisGn14332And when it was set on, for Joseph apart, and for his brethren apart, for the Egyptians also that ate with him apart, (for it is unlawful for the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews, and they think such a feast profane):
1323GenesisGn14333They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his age. And they wondered very much;
1324GenesisGn14334Taking the messes which they received of him: and the greater mess came to Benjamin, so that it exceeded by five parts. And they drank, and were merry with him.
1325GenesisGn1441And Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying: Fill their sacks with corn, as much as they can hold: and put the money of every one in the top of his sack.
1326GenesisGn1442And in the mouth of the younger's sack put my silver cup, and the price which he gave for the wheat. And it was so done.
1327GenesisGn1443And when the morning arose, they were sent away with their asses.
1328GenesisGn1444And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone forward a little way: Joseph sending for the steward of his house, said: Arise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken them, say to them: Why have you returned evil for good?
1329GenesisGn1445The cup which you have stolen, is that in which my lord drinketh, and in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing.
1330GenesisGn1446He did as he had commanded him. And having overtaken them, he spoke to them the same words.
1331GenesisGn1447And they answered: Why doth our lord speak so, as though thy servants had committed so heinous a fact?
1332GenesisGn1448The money, that we found in the top of our sacks, we brought back to thee from the land of Chanaan: how then should it be that we should steal out of thy lord's house, gold or silver?
1333GenesisGn1449With whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou seekest, let him die, and we will be the bondmen of my lord.
1334GenesisGn14410And he said to them: Let it be according to your sentence: with whomsoever it shall be found, let him be my servant, and you shall be blameless.
1335GenesisGn14411Then they speedily took down their sacks to the ground, and every man opened his sack.
1336GenesisGn14412Which when he had searched, beginning at the eldest, and ending at the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.
1337GenesisGn14413Then they rent their garments, and loading their asses again, returned into the town.
1338GenesisGn14414And Juda at the head of his brethren went in to Joseph (for he was not yet gone out of the place) and they all together fell down before him on the ground.
1339GenesisGn14415And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining.
1340GenesisGn14416And Juda said to him: What shall we answer my lord? or what shall we say, or be able justly to allege? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are all bondmen to my lord, both we, and he with whom the cup was found.
1341GenesisGn14417Joseph answered: God forbid that I should do so: he that stole the cup, he shall be my bondman: and go you away free to your father.
1342GenesisGn14418Then Juda coming nearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy servant: for after Pharao thou art.
1343GenesisGn14419My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a father or a brother.
1344GenesisGn14420And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly.
1345GenesisGn14421And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to me, and I will set my eyes on him.
1346GenesisGn14422We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot leave his father: for if he leave him, he will die.
1347GenesisGn14423And thou saidst to thy servants: Except your youngest brother come with you, you shall see my face no more.
1348GenesisGn14424Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we told him all that my lord had said.
1349GenesisGn14425And our father said: Go again, and buy us a little wheat.
1350GenesisGn14426And we said to him: We cannot go: if our youngest brother go down with us, we will set out together: otherwise, without him we dare not see the man's face.
1351GenesisGn14427Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore me two.
1352GenesisGn14428One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him; and hitherto he appeareth not.
1353GenesisGn14429If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.
1354GenesisGn14430Therefore, if I shall go to thy servant, our father, and the boy be wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him,)
1355GenesisGn14431And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.
1356GenesisGn14432Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever.
1357GenesisGn14433Therefore I, thy servant, will stay instead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren.
1358GenesisGn14434For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.
1359GenesisGn1451Joseph could no longer refrain himself before many that stood by: whereupon he commanded that all should go out, and no stranger be present at their knowing one another.
1360GenesisGn1452And he lifted up his voice with weeping, which the Egyptians, and all the house of Pharao heard.
1361GenesisGn1453And he said to his brethren: I am Joseph: Is my father yet living? His brethren could not answer him, being struck with exceeding great fear.
1362GenesisGn1454And he said mildly to them: Come nearer to me. And when they were come near him, he said: I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
1363GenesisGn1455Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you sold me into these countries: for God sent me before you into Egypt for your preservation.
1364GenesisGn1456For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.
1365GenesisGn1457And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.
1366GenesisGn1458Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God: who hath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whole house, and governor in all the land of Egypt.
1367GenesisGn1459Make haste, and go ye up to my father, and say to him: Thus saith thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt; come down to me, linger not.
1368GenesisGn14510And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gessen: and thou shalt be near me, thou and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, thy sheep, and thy herds, and all things that thou hast.
1369GenesisGn14511And there I will feed thee, (for there are yet five years of famine remaining) lest both thou perish, and thy house, and all things that thou hast.
1370GenesisGn14512Behold, your eyes, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, see that it is my mouth that speaketh to you.
1371GenesisGn14513You shall tell my father of all my glory, and all things that you have seen in Egypt: make haste and bring him to me.
1372GenesisGn14514And falling upon the neck of his brother Benjamin, he embraced him and wept: and Benjamin in like manner wept also on his neck.
1373GenesisGn14515And Joseph kissed all his brethren, and wept upon every one of them: after which they were emboldened to speak to him.
1374GenesisGn14516And it was heard, and the fame was spread abroad in the king's court: The brethren of Joseph are come; and Pharao with all his family was glad.
1375GenesisGn14517And he spoke to Joseph that he should give orders to his brethren, saying: Load your beasts, and go into the land of Chanaan,
1376GenesisGn14518And bring away from thence your father and kindred, and come to me; and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, that you may eat the marrow of the land.
1377GenesisGn14519Give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt, for the carriage of their children and their wives; and say: Take up your father, and make haste to come with all speed:
1378GenesisGn14520And leave nothing of your household stuff; for all the riches of Egypt shall be yours.
1379GenesisGn14521And the sons of Israel did as they were bid. And Joseph gave them wagons according to Pharao's commandment: and provisions for the way.
1380GenesisGn14522He ordered also to be brought out for every one of them two robes: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, with five robes of the best:
1381GenesisGn14523Sending to his father as much money and raiment; adding besides, ten he-asses, to carry off all the riches of Egypt, and as many she-asses, carrying wheat and bread for the journey.
1382GenesisGn14524So he sent away his brethren, and at their departing said to them: Be not angry in the way.
1383GenesisGn14525And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Chanaan, to their father Jacob.
1384GenesisGn14526And they told him, saying: Joseph, thy son, is living; and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.
1385GenesisGn14527They, on the other side, told the whole order of the thing. And when he saw the wagons, and all that he had sent, his spirit revived,
1386GenesisGn14528And he said: It is enough for me if Joseph, my son, be yet living: I will go and see him before I die.
1387GenesisGn1461And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the well of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,
1388GenesisGn1462He heard him, by a vision in the night, calling him, and saying to him: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am.
1389GenesisGn1463God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father; fear not, go down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there.
1390GenesisGn1464I will go down with thee thither, and will bring thee back again from thence: Joseph also shall put his hands upon thy eyes.
1391GenesisGn1465And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath: and his sons took him up, with their children and wives in the wagons, which Pharao had sent to carry the old man,
1392GenesisGn1466And all that he had in the land of Chanaan: and he came into Egypt with all his seed;
1393GenesisGn1467His sons, and grandsons, daughters, and all his offspring together.
1394GenesisGn1468And these are the names of the children of Israel, that entered into Egypt, he and his children. His firstborn Ruben,
1395GenesisGn1469The sons of Ruben: Henoch and Phallu, and Hesron and Charmi.
1396GenesisGn14610The sons of Simeon: Jamuel and Jamin and Ahod, and Jachin and Sohar, and Saul, the son of a woman of Chanaan.
1397GenesisGn14611The sons of Levi: Gerson and Caath, and Merari.
1398GenesisGn14612The sons of Juda: Her and Onan, and Sela, and Phares and Zara. And Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to Phares: Hesron and Hamul.
1399GenesisGn14613The sons of Issachar: Thola and Phua, and Job and Semron.
1400GenesisGn14614The sons of Zabulon: Sared, and Elon, and Jahelel.
1401GenesisGn14615These are the sons of Lia, whom she bore in Mesopotamia of Syria, with Dina, his daughter. All the souls of her sons and daughters, thirty-three.
1402GenesisGn14616The sons of Gad: Sephion and Haggi, and Suni and Esebon, and Heri and Arodi, and Areli.
1403GenesisGn14617The sons of Aser: Jamne and Jesua, and Jessuri and Beria, and Sara their sister. The sons of Beria: Heber and Melchiel.
1404GenesisGn14618These are the sons of Zelpha, whom Laban gave to Lia, his daughter. And these she bore to Jacob, sixteen souls.
1405GenesisGn14619The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
1406GenesisGn14620And sons were born to Joseph, in the land of Egypt, whom Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore him: Manasses and Ephraim.
1407GenesisGn14621The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Bechor, and Asbel and Gera, and Naaman and Echi, and Ross and Mophim, and Ophim and Ared.
1408GenesisGn14622These are the sons of Rachel, whom she bore to Jacob: all the souls, fourteen.
1409GenesisGn14623The sons of Dan: Husim.
1410GenesisGn14624The sons of Nephthali: Jaziel and Guni, and Jeser and Sallem.
1411GenesisGn14625These are the sons of Bala, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter: and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls, seven.
1412GenesisGn14626All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six.
1413GenesisGn14627And the sons of Joseph, that were born to him in the land of Egypt, two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, that entered into Egypt, were seventy.
1414GenesisGn14628And he sent Juda before him to Joseph, to tell him; and that he should meet him in Gessen.
1415GenesisGn14629And when he was come thither, Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet his father in the same place: and seeing him, he fell upon his neck, and embracing him, wept.
1416GenesisGn14630And the father said to Joseph: Now shall I die with joy, because I have seen thy face, and leave thee alive.
1417GenesisGn14631And Joseph said to his brethren, and to all his father's house: I will go up, and will tell Pharao, and will say to him: My brethren, and my father's house, that were in the land of Chanaan, are come to me:
1418GenesisGn14632And the men are shepherds, and their occupation is to feed cattle; their flocks, and herds, and all they have, they have brought with them.
1419GenesisGn14633And when he shall call you, and shall say: What is your occupation?
1420GenesisGn14634You shall answer: We, thy servants, are shepherds, from our infancy until now, both we and our fathers. And this you shall say, that you may dwell in the land of Gessen, because the Egyptians have all shepherds in abomination.
1421GenesisGn1471Then Joseph went in and told Pharao, saying: My father and brethren, their sheep and their herds, and all that they possess, are come out of the land of Chanaan: and behold they stay in the land of Gessen.
1422GenesisGn1472Five men also, the last of his brethren, he presented before the king:
1423GenesisGn1473And he asked them: What is your occupation? They answered: We, thy servants, are shepherds, both we and our fathers.
1424GenesisGn1474We are come to sojourn in thy land, because there is no grass for the flocks of thy servants, the famine being very grievous in the land of Chanaan: and we pray thee to give orders that we thy servants may be in the land of Gessen.
1425GenesisGn1475The king therefore said to Joseph: Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee.
1426GenesisGn1476The land of Egypt is before thee: and make them dwell in the best place, and give them the land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there are industrious men among them, make them rulers over my cattle.
1427GenesisGn1477After this Joseph brought in his father to the king, and presented him before him: and he blessed him.
1428GenesisGn1478And being asked by him: How many are the days of the years of thy life?
1429GenesisGn1479He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.
1430GenesisGn14710And blessing the king, he went out.
1431GenesisGn14711But Joseph gave a possession to his father and his brethren in Egypt, in the best place of the land, in Ramesses, as Pharao had commanded.
1432GenesisGn14712And he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing food to every one.
1433GenesisGn14713For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land, more especially of Egypt and Chanaan;
1434GenesisGn14714Out of which he gathered up all the money for the corn which they bought, and brought it in to the king's treasure.
1435GenesisGn14715And when the buyers wanted money, all Egypt came to Joseph, saying: Give us bread: why should we die in thy presence, having now no money?
1436GenesisGn14716And he answered them: Bring me your cattle, and for them I will give you food, if you have no money.
1437GenesisGn14717And when they had brought them, he gave them food in exchange for their horses, and sheep, and oxen, and asses: and he maintained them that year for the exchange of their cattle.
1438GenesisGn14718And they came the second year, and said to him: We will not hide from our lord, how that our money is spent, and our cattle also are gone: neither art thou ignorant that we have nothing now left but our bodies and our lands.
1439GenesisGn14719Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thine, both we and our lands: buy us to be the king's servants, and give us seed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness.
1440GenesisGn14720So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, every man selling his possessions, because of the greatness of the famine. And he brought it into Pharao's hands:
1441GenesisGn14721And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,
1442GenesisGn14722Except the land of the priests, which had been given them by the king: to whom also a certain allowance of food was given out of the public stores, and therefore they were not forced to sell their possessions.
1443GenesisGn14723Then Joseph said to the people: Behold, as you see, both you and your lands belong to Pharao; take seed and sow the fields,
1444GenesisGn14724That you may have corn. The fifth part you shall give to the king; the other four you shall have for seed, and for food for your families and children.
1445GenesisGn14725And they answered: our life is in thy hand; only let my lord look favourably upon us, and we will gladly serve the king.
1446GenesisGn14726From that time unto this day, in the whole land of Egypt, the fifth part is paid to the kings, and it is become as a law, except the land of the priests, which was free from this covenant.
1447GenesisGn14727So Israel dwelt in Egypt, that is, in the land of Gessen, and possessed it; and grew, and was multiplied exceedingly.
1448GenesisGn14728And he lived in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life came to a hundred and forty-seven years.
1449GenesisGn14729And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called his son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew me this kindness and truth, not to bury me in Egypt.
1450GenesisGn14730But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt take me away out of this land, and bury me in the burying place of my ancestors. And Joseph answered him: I will do what thou hast commanded.
1451GenesisGn14731And he said: Swear then to me. And as he was swearing, Israel adored God, turning to the bed's head.
1452GenesisGn1481After these things, it was told Joseph that his father was sick; and he set out to go to him, taking his two sons Manasses and Ephraim.
1453GenesisGn1482And it was told the old man: Behold thy son Joseph cometh to thee. And being strengthened, he sat on his bed.
1454GenesisGn1483And when Joseph was come in to him, he said: God almighty appeared to me at Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, and he blessed me,
1455GenesisGn1484And said: I will cause thee to increase and multiply, and I will make of thee a multitude of people: and I will give this land to thee, and to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
1456GenesisGn1485So thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came hither to thee, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses shall be reputed to me as Ruben and Simeon.
1457GenesisGn1486But the rest whom thou shalt have after them, shall be thine, and shall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions.
1458GenesisGn1487For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the land of Chanaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethlehem.
1459GenesisGn1488Then seeing his sons, he said to him: Who are these?
1460GenesisGn1489He answered: They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said: Bring them to me, that I may bless them.
1461GenesisGn14810For Israel's eyes were dim by reason of his great age, and he could not see clearly. And when they were brought to him, he kissed and embraced them,
1462GenesisGn14811And said to his son: I am not deprived of seeing thee; moreover God hath shewn me thy seed.
1463GenesisGn14812And when Joseph had taken them from his father's lap, he bowed down with his face to the ground.
1464GenesisGn14813And he set Ephraim on his right hand, that is, towards the left hand of Israel; but Manasses on his left hand, to wit, towards his father's right hand, and brought them near to him.
1465GenesisGn14814But he, stretching forth his right hand, put it upon the head of Ephraim, the younger brother; and the left upon the head of Manasses, who was the elder, changing his hands.
1466GenesisGn14815And Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, and said: God, in whose sight my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, God that feedeth me from my youth until this day:
1467GenesisGn14816The angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these boys: and let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.
1468GenesisGn14817And Joseph seeing that his father had put his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, was much displeased: and taking his father's hand, he tried to lift it from Ephraim's head, and to remove it to the head of Manasses.
1469GenesisGn14818And he said to his father: It should not be so, my father; for this is the firstborn, put thy right hand upon his head.
1470GenesisGn14819But he refusing, said: I know, my son, I know: and this also shall become a people, and shall be multiplied; but his younger brother shall be greater than he; and his seed shall grow into nations.
1471GenesisGn14820And he blessed them at that time, saying: In thee shall Israel be blessed, and it shall be said: God do to thee as to Ephraim, and as to Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses.
1472GenesisGn14821And he said to Joseph, his son: Behold I die, and God will be with you, and will bring you back into the land of your fathers.
1473GenesisGn14822I give thee a portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorrhite with my sword and bow.
1474GenesisGn1491And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days.
1475GenesisGn1492Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel, your father:
1476GenesisGn1493Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of my sorrow; excelling in gifts, greater in command.
1477GenesisGn1494Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.
1478GenesisGn1495Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity waging war.
1479GenesisGn1496Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall.
1480GenesisGn1497Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.
1481GenesisGn1498Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hand shall be on the necks of thy enemies; the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee.
1482GenesisGn1499Juda is a lion's whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him?
1483GenesisGn14910The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.
1484GenesisGn14911Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass, O my son, to the vine. He shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape.
1485GenesisGn14912His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
1486GenesisGn14913Zabulon shall dwell on the seashore, and in the road of ships, reaching as far as Sidon.
1487GenesisGn14914Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders.
1488GenesisGn14915He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.
1489GenesisGn14916Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.
1490GenesisGn14917Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, that his rider may fall backward.
1491GenesisGn14918I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.
1492GenesisGn14919Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall be girded backward.
1493GenesisGn14920Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.
1494GenesisGn14921Nephthali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.
1495GenesisGn14922Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the daughters run to and fro upon the wall;
1496GenesisGn14923But they that held darts, provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him.
1497GenesisGn14924His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.
1498GenesisGn14925The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
1499GenesisGn14926The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come: may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.
1500GenesisGn14927Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the morning shall eat the prey, and in the evening shall divide the spoil.
1501GenesisGn14928All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: these things their father spoke to them, and he blessed every one with their proper blessings.
1502GenesisGn14929And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hethite,
1503GenesisGn14930Over against Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, which Abraham bought together with the field, of Ephron the Hethite, for a possession to bury in.
1504GenesisGn14931There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried with Rebecca, his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried.
1505GenesisGn14932And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was gathered to his people.
1506GenesisGn1501And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face, weeping and kissing him.
1507GenesisGn1502And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.
1508GenesisGn1503And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.
1509GenesisGn1504And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharao: If I have found favour in your sight, speak in the ears of Pharao:
1510GenesisGn1505For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die; thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.
1511GenesisGn1506And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.
1512GenesisGn1507So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.
1513GenesisGn1508And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.
1514GenesisGn1509He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great company.
1515GenesisGn15010And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.
1516GenesisGn15011And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.
1517GenesisGn15012So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.
1518GenesisGn15013And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a burying place, of Ehpron, the Hethite, over against Mambre.
1519GenesisGn15014And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had buried his father.
1520GenesisGn15015Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him.
1521GenesisGn15016And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,
1522GenesisGn15017That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept.
1523GenesisGn15018And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We are thy servants.
1524GenesisGn15019And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?
1525GenesisGn15020You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.
1526GenesisGn15021Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.
1527GenesisGn15022And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's house; and lived a hundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the sons of Manasses, were born on Joseph's knees.
1528GenesisGn15023After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
1529GenesisGn15024And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, carry my bones with you out of this place:
1530GenesisGn15025And he died, being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed, he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.
1531ExodusEx211These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in every man with his household:
1532ExodusEx212Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,
1533ExodusEx213Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,
1534ExodusEx214Dan, and Nephthali, Gad and Aser.
1535ExodusEx215And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.
1536ExodusEx216After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,
1537ExodusEx217The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.
1538ExodusEx218In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:
1539ExodusEx219And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.
1540ExodusEx2110Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.
1541ExodusEx2111Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses.
1542ExodusEx2112But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied and increased.
1543ExodusEx2113And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:
1544ExodusEx2114And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.
1545ExodusEx2115And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,
1546ExodusEx2116Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.
1547ExodusEx2117But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.
1548ExodusEx2118And the king called for them and said: What is it that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?
1549ExodusEx2119They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skilful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.
1550ExodusEx2120Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.
1551ExodusEx2121And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.
1552ExodusEx2122Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.
1553ExodusEx221After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of his own kindred.
1554ExodusEx222And she conceived, and bore a son: and seeing him a goodly child, hid him three months.
1555ExodusEx223And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,
1556ExodusEx224His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.
1557ExodusEx225And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought,
1558ExodusEx226She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.
1559ExodusEx227And the child's sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?
1560ExodusEx228She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.
1561ExodusEx229And Pharao's daughter said to her: Take this child, and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao's daughter.
1562ExodusEx2210And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.
1563ExodusEx2211In those days, after Moses was grown up, he went out to his brethren: and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking one of the Hebrews, his brethren.
1564ExodusEx2212And when he had looked about this way and that way, and saw no one there, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
1565ExodusEx2213And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?
1566ExodusEx2214But he answered: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us? wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian? Moses feared, and said: How is this come to be known?
1567ExodusEx2215And Pharao heard of this word, and sought to kill Moses: but he fled from his sight, and abode in the land of Madian, and he sat down by a well.
1568ExodusEx2216And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw water: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water their father's flocks.
1569ExodusEx2217And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses arose, and defending the maids, watered their sheep.
1570ExodusEx2218And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are ye come sooner than usual?
1571ExodusEx2219They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the shepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink.
1572ExodusEx2220But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread.
1573ExodusEx2221And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:
1574ExodusEx2222And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.
1575ExodusEx2223Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.
1576ExodusEx2224And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
1577ExodusEx2225And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them.
1578ExodusEx231Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.
1579ExodusEx232And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire, and was not burnt.
1580ExodusEx233And Moses said: I will go, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
1581ExodusEx234And when the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he called to him out of the midst of the bush. and said: Moses, Moses. And he answered: Here I am.
1582ExodusEx235And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet; for the place, whereon thou standest, is holy ground.
1583ExodusEx236And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst not look at God.
1584ExodusEx237And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works;
1585ExodusEx238And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.
1586ExodusEx239For the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have seen their affliction, wherewith they are oppressed by the Egyptians.
1587ExodusEx2310But come, and I will send thee to Pharao, that thou mayst bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.
1588ExodusEx2311And Moses said to God: Who am I that I should go to Pharao, and should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
1589ExodusEx2312And he said to him: I will be with thee; and this thou shalt have for a sign that I have sent thee: When thou shalt have brought my people out of Egypt, thou shalt offer sacrifice to God upon this mountain.
1590ExodusEx2313Moses said to God: Lo, I shall go to the children of Israel, and say to them: The God of your fathers hath sent me to you. If they shall say to me: What is his name? What shall I say to them?
1591ExodusEx2314God said to Moses: I AM WHO AM. He said: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: HE WHO IS, hath sent me to you.
1592ExodusEx2315And God said again to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you; this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
1593ExodusEx2316Go and gather together the ancients of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying: Visiting I have visited you; and I have seen all that hath befallen you in Egypt.
1594ExodusEx2317And I have said the word to bring you forth out of the affliction of Egypt, into the land of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a land that floweth with milk and honey.
1595ExodusEx2318
1596ExodusEx2319But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, but by a mighty hand.
1597ExodusEx2320For I will stretch forth my hand, and will strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst of them: after these he will let you go.
1598ExodusEx2321And I will give favour to this people, in the sight of the Egyptians: and when you go forth, you shall not depart empty:
1599ExodusEx2322But every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that is in her house, vessels of silver and of gold, and raiment: and you shall put them on your sons and daughters, and shall spoil Egypt.
1600ExodusEx241Moses answered, and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee.
1601ExodusEx242Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod.
1602ExodusEx243And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down, and it was turned into a serpent, so that Moses fled from it.
1603ExodusEx244And the Lord said: Put out thy hand, and take it by the tail. He put forth his hand, and took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod.
1604ExodusEx245That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to thee.
1605ExodusEx246And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow.
1606ExodusEx247And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and brought it out again, and it was like the other flesh.
1607ExodusEx248If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the former sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign.
1608ExodusEx249But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor hear thy voice: take of the river water, and pour it out upon the dry land, and whatsoever thou drawest out of the river, shall be turned into blood.
1609ExodusEx2410Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before; and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue.
1610ExodusEx2411The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?
1611ExodusEx2412Go therefore, and I will be in thy mouth; and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.
1612ExodusEx2413But he said: I beseech thee, Lord, send whom thou wilt send.
1613ExodusEx2414The Lord being angry at Moses, said: Aaron the Levite is thy brother, I know that he is eloquent: behold he cometh forth to meet thee, and seeing thee, shall be glad at heart.
1614ExodusEx2415Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his month, and will shew you what you must do.
1615ExodusEx2416He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God.
1616ExodusEx2417And take this rod in thy hand. wherewith thou shalt do the signs.
1617ExodusEx2418And Jethro said to him: Go in peace.
1618ExodusEx2419And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into Egypt; for they are all dead that sought thy life.
1619ExodusEx2420Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass; and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.
1620ExodusEx2421And the Lord said to him as he was returning into Egypt: See that thou do all the wonders before Pharao, which I have put in thy hand: I shall harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.
1621ExodusEx2422And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.
1622ExodusEx2423I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and thou wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.
1623ExodusEx2424And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and would have killed him.
1624ExodusEx2425Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.
1625ExodusEx2426And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.
1626ExodusEx2427And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the desert to meet Moses. And he went forth to meet him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.
1627ExodusEx2428And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs that he had commanded.
1628ExodusEx2429And they came together, and they assembled all the ancients of the children of Israel.
1629ExodusEx2430And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses: and he wrought the signs before the people.
1630ExodusEx2431And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction: and falling down they adored.
1631ExodusEx251After these things, Moses and Aaron went in, and said to Pharao: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Let my people go, that they may sacrifice to me in the desert.
1632ExodusEx252But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
1633ExodusEx253And they said: The God of the Hebrews hath called us, to go three days' journey into the wilderness, and to sacrifice to the Lord our God; lest a pestilence or the sword fall upon us.
1634ExodusEx254The king of Egypt said to them: Why do you Moses and Aaron draw off the people from their works? Get you gone to your burdens.
1635ExodusEx255And Pharao said: The people of the land are numerous; you see that the multitude is increased; how much more if you give them rest from their works?
1636ExodusEx256Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and the task-masters of the people, saying:
1637ExodusEx257You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before; but let them go and gather straw.
1638ExodusEx258And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, and therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
1639ExodusEx259Let them be oppressed with works, and let them fulfil them; that they may not regard lying words.
1640ExodusEx2510And the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters, went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao: I allow you no straw;
1641ExodusEx2511Go, and gather it where you can find it; neither shall any thing of your work be diminished.
1642ExodusEx2512And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.
1643ExodusEx2513And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfil your work every day, as before ye were wont to do, when straw was given you.
1644ExodusEx2514And they that were over the works of the children of Israel, were scourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the task of bricks, both yesterday and to day, as before?
1645ExodusEx2515And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy servants?
1646ExodusEx2516Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before; behold we, thy servants, are beaten with whips, and thy people is unjustly dealt withal.
1647ExodusEx2517And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.
1648ExodusEx2518
1649ExodusEx2519And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day.
1650ExodusEx2520And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood over against them as they came out from Pharao:
1651ExodusEx2521And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because you have, made our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants, and you have given him a sword, to kill us.
1652ExodusEx2522And Moses returned to the Lord, and said: Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people? wherefore hast thou sent me?
1653ExodusEx2523For since the time that I went in to Pharao to speak in thy name, he hath afflicted thy people: and thou hast not delivered them.
1654ExodusEx261And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord
1655ExodusEx262That appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty: and my name ADONAI I did not shew them.
1656ExodusEx263And I made a covenant with them, to give them the land of Chanaan, the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers.
1657ExodusEx264I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, wherewith the Egyptians have oppressed them: and I have remembered my covenant.
1658ExodusEx265Therefore say to the children of Israel: I am the Lord who will bring you out from the work-prison of the Egyptians, and will deliver you from bondage: and redeem you with a high arm, and great judgments.
1659ExodusEx266And I will take you to myself for my people, I will be your God: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the work-prison of the Egyptians:
1660ExodusEx267And brought you into the land, concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and I will give it you to possess: I am the Lord.
1661ExodusEx268And Moses told all this to the children of Israel: but they did not hearken to him, for anguish of spirit, and most painful work.
1662ExodusEx269And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
1663ExodusEx2610Go in, and speak to Pharao king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
1664ExodusEx2611Moses answered before the Lord: Behold the children of Israel do not hearken to me: and how will Pharao hear me, especially as I am of uncircumcised lips?
1665ExodusEx2612And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and he gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharao the king of Egypt, that they should bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
1666ExodusEx2613These are the heads of their houses by their families. The sons of Ruben the firstborn of Israel: Henoch and Phallu, Hesron and Charmi.
1667ExodusEx2614These are the kindreds of Ruben. The sons of Simeon, Jamuel and Jamin, and Ahod, and Jachin, and Soar, and Saul the son of a Chanaanitess: these are the families of Simeon.
1668ExodusEx2615And these are the names of the sons of Levi by their kindreds: Gerson, and Caath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven.
1669ExodusEx2616The sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei, by their kindreds.
1670ExodusEx2617And the years of Caath's life, were a hundred and thirty-three.
1671ExodusEx2618The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. These are the kindreds of Levi by their families.
1672ExodusEx2619And Amram took to wife Jochabed his aunt by the father's side: and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of Amram's life, were a hundred and thirty-seven.
1673ExodusEx2620The sons also of Isaar: Core, and Nepheg, and Zechri.
1674ExodusEx2621The sons also of Oziel: Mizael, and Elizaphan, and Sethri.
1675ExodusEx2622And Aaron took to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Aminadab, sister of Nahason, who bore him Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.
1676ExodusEx2623The sons also of Core: Aser, and Elcana, and Abiasaph. These are the kindreds of the Corites.
1677ExodusEx2624But Eleazar the son of Aaron took a wife of the daughters of Phutiel: and she bore him Phinees. These are the heads of the Levitical families by their kindreds.
1678ExodusEx2625These are Aaron and Moses, whom the Lord commanded to bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.
1679ExodusEx2626These are they that speak to Pharao, king of Egypt, in order to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron,
1680ExodusEx2627In the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt.
1681ExodusEx2628And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord; speak thou to Pharao, king of Egypt, all that I say to thee.
1682ExodusEx2629And Moses said before the Lord: Lo I am of uncircumcised lips, how will Pharao hear me?
1683ExodusEx271And the Lord said to Moses: Behold, I have appointed thee the god of Pharao; and Aaron, thy brother, shall be thy prophet.
1684ExodusEx272Thou shalt speak to him all that I command thee; and he shall speak to Pharao, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
1685ExodusEx273But I shall harden his heart, and shall multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.
1686ExodusEx274And he will not hear you: and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and will bring forth my army and my people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, by very great judgments.
1687ExodusEx275And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, who have stretched forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought forth the children of Israel out of the midst of them.
1688ExodusEx276And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded; so did they.
1689ExodusEx277And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharao.
1690ExodusEx278And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron:
1691ExodusEx279When Pharao shall say to you, Shew signs; thou shalt say to Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharao, and it shall be turned into a serpent.
1692ExodusEx2710So Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharao, and did as the Lord had commanded. And Aaron took the rod before Pharao and his servants, and it was turned into a serpent.
1693ExodusEx2711And Pharao called the wise men and the magicians; and they also by Egyptian enchantments and certain secrets, did in like manner.
1694ExodusEx2712And they every one cast down their rods, and they were turned into serpents: but Aaron's rod devoured their rods.
1695ExodusEx2713And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did not hearken to them, as the Lord had commanded.
1696ExodusEx2714And the Lord said to Moses: Pharao's heart is hardened, he will not let the people go.
1697ExodusEx2715Go to him in the morning, behold he will go out to the waters: and thou shalt stand to meet him on the ' bank of the river: and thou shalt take in thy hand the rod that was turned into a serpent.
1698ExodusEx2716And thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews sent me to thee, saying: Let my people go to sacrifice to me in the desert: and hitherto thou wouldst not hear.
1699ExodusEx2717Thus therefore saith the Lord: In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord: behold I will strike with the rod, that is in my hand, the water of the river, and it shall be turned into blood.
1700ExodusEx2718
1701ExodusEx2719The Lord also said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Take thy rod; and stretch forth thy hand upon the waters of Egypt, and upon their rivers, and streams and pools, and all the ponds of waters, that they may be turned into blood: and let blood be in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and of stone.
1702ExodusEx2720And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded: and lifting up the rod, he struck the water of the river before Pharao and his servants: and it was turned into blood.
1703ExodusEx2721And the fishes that were in the river died; and the river corrupted, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river, and there was blood in all the land of Egypt.
1704ExodusEx2722And the magicians of the Egyptians with their enchantments did in like manner; and Pharao's heart was hardened, neither did he hear them, as the Lord had commanded.
1705ExodusEx2723And he turned himself away, and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to it this time also.
1706ExodusEx2724And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
1707ExodusEx2725And seven days were fully ended, after that the Lord struck the river.
1708ExodusEx281And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.
1709ExodusEx282But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will strike all thy coasts with frogs.
1710ExodusEx283And the river shall bring forth an abundance of frogs; which shall come up and enter into thy house, and thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the houses of thy servants, and to thy people, and into thy ovens, and into the remains of thy meats:
1711ExodusEx284And the frogs shall come in to thee, and to thy people, and to all thy servants.
1712ExodusEx285And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron: Stretch forth thy hand upon the streams, and upon the rivers and the pools, and bring forth frogs upon the land of Egypt.
1713ExodusEx286And Aaron stretched forth his hand upon the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
1714ExodusEx287And the magicians also, by their enchantments, did in like manner, and they brought forth frogs upon the land of Egypt.
1715ExodusEx288But Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Pray ye to the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.
1716ExodusEx289And Moses said to Pharao: Set me a time when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs may be driven away from thee and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy people; and may remain only in the river.
1717ExodusEx2810And he answered: To morrow. But he said: I will do according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like to the Lord our God.
1718ExodusEx2811And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy people; and shall remain only in the river.
1719ExodusEx2812And Moses and Aaron went forth from Pharao: and Moses cried to the Lord for the promise, which he had made to Pharao concerning the frogs.
1720ExodusEx2813And the Lord did according to the word of Moses: and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields:
1721ExodusEx2814And they gathered them together into immense heaps, and the land was corrupted.
1722ExodusEx2815And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own heart, and did not hear them, as the Lord had commanded.
1723ExodusEx2816And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron: Stretch forth thy rod, and strike the dust of the earth; and may there be sciniphs in all the land of Egypt.
1724ExodusEx2817And they did so. And Aaron stretched forth his hand, holding the rod; and he struck the dust of the earth, and there came sciniphs on men and on beasts: all the dust of the earth was turned into sciniphs through all the land of Egypt.
1725ExodusEx2818
1726ExodusEx2819And the magicians said to Pharao: This is the finger of God. And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had commanded.
1727ExodusEx2820The Lord also said to Moses: Arise early, and stand before Pharao; for he will go forth to the waters: and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.
1728ExodusEx2821But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will send in upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy houses, all kind of flies: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with flies of divers kinds, and the whole land wherein they shall be.
1729ExodusEx2822And I will make the land of Gessen wonderful in that day, so that flies shall not be there: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.
1730ExodusEx2823And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.
1731ExodusEx2824And the Lord did so. And there came a very grievous swarm of flies into the houses of Pharao and of his servants, and into all the land of Egypt: and the land was corrupted by this kind of flies.
1732ExodusEx2825And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go and sacrifice to your God in this land.
1733ExodusEx2826And Moses said: It cannot be so: for we shall sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: now if we kill those things which the Egyptians worship, in their presence, they will stone us.
1734ExodusEx2827We will go three days' journey into the wilderness; and we will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
1735ExodusEx2828And Pharao said: I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, but go no farther: pray for me.
1736ExodusEx2829And Moses said: I will go out from thee, and will pray to the Lord: and the flies shall depart from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people to morrow: but do not deceive any more, in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.
1737ExodusEx2830So Moses went out from Pharao, and prayed to the Lord.
1738ExodusEx2831And he did according to his word: and he took away the flies from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people: there was not left so much as one.
1739ExodusEx2832And Pharao's heart was hardened, so that neither this time would he let the people go.
1740ExodusEx291And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and speak to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.
1741ExodusEx292But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:
1742ExodusEx293Behold my hand shall be upon thy fields; and a very grievous murrain upon thy horses, and asses, and camels, and oxen, and sheep.
1743ExodusEx294And the Lord will make a wonderful difference between the possessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, that nothing at all shall die of those things that belong to the children of Israel.
1744ExodusEx295And the Lord appointed a time, saying: To morrow will the Lord do this thing in the land.
1745ExodusEx296The Lord therefore did this thing the next day: and all the beasts of the Egyptians died, but of the beasts of the children of Israel there died not one.
1746ExodusEx297And Pharao sent to see; and there was not any thing dead of that which Israel possessed. And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
1747ExodusEx298And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Take to you handfuls of ashes out of the chimney, and let Moses sprinkle it in the air in the presence of Pharao.
1748ExodusEx299And be there dust upon all the land of Egypt: for there shall be boils and swelling blains both in men and beasts, in the whole land of Egypt.
1749ExodusEx2910And they took ashes out of the chimney, and stood before Pharao, and Moses sprinkled it in the air; and there came boils with swelling blains in men and beasts.
1750ExodusEx2911Neither could the magicians stand before Moses, for the boils that were upon them, and in all the land of Egypt.
1751ExodusEx2912And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.
1752ExodusEx2913And the Lord said to Moses: Arise in the morning, and stand before Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.
1753ExodusEx2914For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayst know that there is none like me in all the earth.
1754ExodusEx2915For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth.
1755ExodusEx2916And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth.
1756ExodusEx2917Dost thou yet hold back my people; and wilt thou not let them go?
1757ExodusEx2918
1758ExodusEx2919Send therefore now presently, and gather together thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for men and beasts, and all things that shall be found abroad, and not gathered together out of the fields which the hail shall fall upon, shall die.
1759ExodusEx2920He that feared the word of the Lord among Pharao's servants, made his servants and his cattle flee into houses:
1760ExodusEx2921But he that regarded not the word of the Lord, left his servants, and his cattle in the fields.
1761ExodusEx2922And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, that there may be hail in the whole land of Egypt upon men, and upon beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Egypt.
1762ExodusEx2923And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
1763ExodusEx2924And the hail and fire mixt with it drove on together: and it was of so great bigness, as never before was seen in the whole land of Egypt since that nation was founded.
1764ExodusEx2925And the hail destroyed through all the land of Egypt all things that were in the fields, both man and beast: and the hail smote every herb of the field, and it broke every tree of the country.
1765ExodusEx2926Only in the land of Gessen, where the children of Israel were, the hail fell not.
1766ExodusEx2927And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, saying to them: I have sinned this time also, the Lord is just: I and my people, are wicked.
1767ExodusEx2928Pray ye to the Lord that the thunderings of God and the hail may cease: that I may let you go, and that ye may stay here no longer.
1768ExodusEx2929Moses said: As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch forth my hands to the Lord, and the thunders shall cease, and the hail shall be no more: that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord's:
1769ExodusEx2930But I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet fear the Lord God.
1770ExodusEx2931The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled;
1771ExodusEx2932But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward.
1772ExodusEx2933And when Moses was gone from Pharao out of the city, he stretched forth his hands to the Lord: and the thunders and the hail ceased, neither did there drop any more rain upon the earth.
1773ExodusEx2934And Pharao seeing that the rain, and the hail, and the thunders were ceased, increased his sin:
1774ExodusEx2935And his heart was hardened, and the heart of his servants, and it was made exceeding hard: neither did he let the children of Israel go, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.
1775ExodusEx2101And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao; for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants: that I may work these my signs in him,
1776ExodusEx2102And thou mayst tell in the ears of thy sons, and of thy grandsons, how often I have plagued the Egyptians, and wrought my signs amongst them: and you may know that I am the Lord.
1777ExodusEx2103Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to submit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me.
1778ExodusEx2104But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I will bring in to-morrow the locusts into thy coasts;
1779ExodusEx2105To cover the face of the earth, that nothing thereof may appear, but that which the hail hath left may be eaten: for they shall feed upon all the trees that spring in the fields.
1780ExodusEx2106And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of thy servants, and of all the Egyptians: such a number as thy fathers have not seen, nor thy grandfathers, from the time they were first upon the earth, until this present day. And he turned himself away, and went forth from Pharao.
1781ExodusEx2107And Pharao's servants said to him: How long shall we endure this scandal? Iet the men go to sacrifice to the Lord their God. Dost thou not see that Egypt is undone?
1782ExodusEx2108And they called back Moses, and Aaron, to Pharao; and he said to them: Go, sacrifice to the Lord your God: who are they that shall go?
1783ExodusEx2109Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord our God.
1784ExodusEx21010And Pharao answered: So be the Lord with you, as I shall let you and your children go: who can doubt but that you intend some great evil?
1785ExodusEx21011It shall not be so. but go ye men only, and sacrifice to the Lord: for this yourselves also desired. And immediately they were cast out from Pharao's presence.
1786ExodusEx21012And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand upon the land of Egypt unto the locust, that it come upon it, and devour every herb that is left after the hail.
1787ExodusEx21013And Moses stretched forth his rod upon the land of Egypt: and the Lord brought a burning wind all that day, and night; and when it was morning, the burning wind raised the locusts.
1788ExodusEx21014And they came up over the whole land of Egypt; and rested in all the coasts of the Egyptians, innumerable, the like as had not been before that time, nor shall be hereafter.
1789ExodusEx21015And they covered the whole face of the earth, wasting all things. And the grass of the earth was devoured, and what fruits soever were on the trees, which the hail had left; and there remained not any thing that was green on the trees, or in the herbs of the earth, in all Egypt.
1790ExodusEx21016Wherefore Pharao in haste called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
1791ExodusEx21017But now forgive me my sin this time also, and pray to the Lord your God, that he take away from me this death.
1792ExodusEx21018And Moses going forth from the presence of Pharao, prayed to the Lord:
1793ExodusEx21019And he made a very strong wind to blow from the west, and it took the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea: there remained not so much as one in all the coasts of Egypt.
1794ExodusEx21020And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he let the children of Israel go.
1795ExodusEx21021And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out thy hand towards heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may be felt.
1796ExodusEx21022And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven: and there came horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
1797ExodusEx21023No man saw his brother, nor moved himself out of the place where he was: but wheresoever the children of Israel dwelt, there was light.
1798ExodusEx21024And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go, sacrifice to the Lord: let your sheep only, and herds remain, let your children go with you.
1799ExodusEx21025Moses said: Thou shalt give us also sacrifices and burnt-offerings, to the Lord our God.
1800ExodusEx21026All the flocks shall go with us; there shall not a hoof remain of them: for they are necessary for the service of the Lord our God: especially as we know not what must be offered, till we come to the very place.
1801ExodusEx21027And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he would not let them go.
1802ExodusEx21028And Pharao said to Moses: Get thee from me, and beware thou see not my face any more: in what day soever thou shalt come in my sight, thou shalt die.
1803ExodusEx21029Moses answered: So shall it be as thou hast spoken, I will not see thy face anymore.
1804ExodusEx2111And the Lord said to Moses: Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharao and Egypt, and after that he shall let you go, and thrust you out.
1805ExodusEx2112Therefore thou shalt tell all the people, that every man ask of his friend, and every woman of her neighbour, vessels of silver and of gold.
1806ExodusEx2113And the Lord will give favour to his people in the sight of the Egyptians. And Moses was a very great man in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharao's servants, and of all the people.
1807ExodusEx2114And he said: Thus saith the Lord: At midnight I will enter into Egypt:
1808ExodusEx2115And every firstborn in the land of the Egyptians shall die, from the firstborn of Pharao who sitteth on his throne, even to the firstborn of the handmaid that is at the mill, and all the firstborn of beasts.
1809ExodusEx2116And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as neither hath been before, nor shall be hereafter.
1810ExodusEx2117But with all the children of Israel there shall not a dog make the least noise, from man even to beast; that you may know how wonderful a difference the Lord maketh between the Egyptians and Israel.
1811ExodusEx2118And all these thy servants shall come down to me, and shall worship me, saying: Go forth thou, and all the people that is under thee: after that we will go out.
1812ExodusEx2119And he went out from Pharao exceeding angry. But the Lord said to Moses: Pharao will not hear you, that many signs may be done in the land of Egypt.
1813ExodusEx21110And Moses and Aaron did all the wonders that are written, before Pharao. And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
1814ExodusEx2121And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:
1815ExodusEx2122This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first in the months of the year.
1816ExodusEx2123Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses.
1817ExodusEx2124But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb.
1818ExodusEx2125And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year; according to which rite also you shall take a kid.
1819ExodusEx2126And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening.
1820ExodusEx2127And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
1821ExodusEx2128And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce.
1822ExodusEx2129You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted at the fire; you shall eat the head with the feet and entrails thereof.
1823ExodusEx21210Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning. If there be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire.
1824ExodusEx21211And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat in haste; for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the Lord.
1825ExodusEx21212And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will kill every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast: and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments; I am the Lord.
1826ExodusEx21213And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where you shall be; and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you; and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I shall strike the land of Egypt.
1827ExodusEx21214And this day shall be for a memorial to you; and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord in your generations, with an everlasting observance.
1828ExodusEx21215Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel.
1829ExodusEx21216The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh day shall be kept with the like solemnity: you shall do no work in them, except those things that belong to eating.
1830ExodusEx21217And you shall observe the feast of the unleavened bread: for in this same day I will bring forth your army out of the land of Egypt, and you shall keep this day in your generations by a perpetual observance.
1831ExodusEx21218
1832ExodusEx21219Seven days there shall not be found any leaven in your houses: he that shall eat leavened bread, his soul shall perish out of the assembly of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land.
1833ExodusEx21220You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.
1834ExodusEx21221And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and said to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and sacrifice the Phase.
1835ExodusEx21222And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood that is at the door, and sprinkle the transom of the door therewith, and both the door cheeks: let none of you go out of the door of his house till morning.
1836ExodusEx21223For the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians: and when he shall see the blood on the transom, and on both the posts, he will pass over the door of the house, and not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses and to hurt you.
1837ExodusEx21224Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee and thy children for ever.
1838ExodusEx21225And when you have entered into the land which the Lord will give you, as he hath promised, you shall observe these ceremonies.
1839ExodusEx21226And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service?
1840ExodusEx21227You shall say to them: It is the victim of the passage of the Lord, when he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, striking the Egyptians, and saving our houses. And the people bowing themselves, adored.
1841ExodusEx21228And the children of Israel going forth, did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
1842ExodusEx21229And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle.
1843ExodusEx21230And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead.
1844ExodusEx21231And Pharao calling Moses and Aaron, in the night, said: Arise and go forth from among my people, you and the children of Israel: go, sacrifice to the Lord as you say.
1845ExodusEx21232Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you demanded, and departing bless me.
1846ExodusEx21233And the Egyptians pressed the people to go forth out of the land speedily, saying: We shall all die.
1847ExodusEx21234The people therefore took dough before it was leavened; and tying it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders.
1848ExodusEx21235And the children of Israel did as Moses had commanded: and they asked of the Egyptians vessels of silver and gold, and very much raiment.
1849ExodusEx21236And the Lord gave favour to the people in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them: and they stripped the Egyptians.
1850ExodusEx21237And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.
1851ExodusEx21238And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.
1852ExodusEx21239And they baked the meal, which a little before they had brought out of Egypt in dough: and they made hearth cakes unleavened: for it could not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing them to depart, and not suffering them to make any stay; neither did they think of preparing any meat.
1853ExodusEx21240And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
1854ExodusEx21241Which being expired, the same day all the army of the Lord went forth out of the land of Egypt.
1855ExodusEx21242This is the observable night of the Lord, when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: this night all the children of Israel must observe in their generations.
1856ExodusEx21243And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the Phase; no foreigner shall eat of it.
1857ExodusEx21244But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.
1858ExodusEx21245The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.
1859ExodusEx21246In one house shall it be eaten, neither shall you carry forth of the flesh thereof out of the house, neither shall you break a bone thereof.
1860ExodusEx21247All the assembly of the children of Israel shall keep it.
1861ExodusEx21248And if any stranger be willing to dwell among you, and to keep the Phase of the Lord, all his males shall first be circumcised, and then shall he celebrate it according to the manner: and he shall be as he that is born in the land: but if any man be uncircumcised, he shall not eat thereof.
1862ExodusEx21249The same law shall be to him that is born in the land, and to the proselyte that sojourneth with you.
1863ExodusEx21250And all the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
1864ExodusEx21251And the same day the Lord brought forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.
1865ExodusEx2131And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
1866ExodusEx2132Sanctify unto me every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, as well of men as of beasts: for they are all mine.
1867ExodusEx2133And Moses said to the people: Remember this day in which you came forth out of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage, for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought you forth out of this place: that you eat no leavened bread.
1868ExodusEx2134This day you go forth in the month of new corn.
1869ExodusEx2135And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to thy fathers that he would give thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey, thou shalt celebrate this manner of sacred rites in this month.
1870ExodusEx2136Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be the solemnity of the Lord.
1871ExodusEx2137Unleavened bread shall you eat seven days: there shall not be seen any thing leavened with thee, nor in all thy coasts.
1872ExodusEx2138And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is what the Lord did to me when I came forth out of Egypt.
1873ExodusEx2139And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a memorial before thy eyes; and that the law of the Lord be always in thy mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
1874ExodusEx21310Thou shalt keep this observance at the set time from days to days.
1875ExodusEx21311And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the Chanaanite, as he swore to thee and thy fathers, and shall give it thee:
1876ExodusEx21312Thou shalt set apart all that openeth the womb for the Lord, and all that is first brought forth of thy cattle: whatsoever thou shalt have of the male sex, thou shalt consecrate to the Lord.
1877ExodusEx21313The firstborn of an ass thou shalt change for a sheep: and if thou do not redeem it, thou shalt kill it. And every firstborn of men thou shalt redeem with a price.
1878ExodusEx21314And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What is this? thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
1879ExodusEx21315For when Pharao was hardened, and would not let us go, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of beasts: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the womb of the male sex, and all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.
1880ExodusEx21316And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a thing hung between thy eyes, for a remembrance: because the Lord hath brought us forth out of Egypt by a strong hand.
1881ExodusEx21317And when Pharao had sent out the people, the Lord led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, which is near; thinking lest perhaps they would repent, if they should see wars arise against them, and would return into Egypt.
1882ExodusEx21318
1883ExodusEx21319And Moses took Joseph's bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you.
1884ExodusEx21320And marching from Socoth, they encamped in Etham, in the utmost coasts of the wilderness.
1885ExodusEx21321And the Lord went before them to shew the way, by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire; that he might be the guide of their journey at both times.
1886ExodusEx21322There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the people.
1887ExodusEx2141And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
1888ExodusEx2142Speak to the children of Israel: Let them turn and encamp over against Phihahiroth, which is between Magdal and the sea over against Beelsephon: you shall encamp before it upon the sea.
1889ExodusEx2143And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are straitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in.
1890ExodusEx2144And I shall harden his heart and he will pursue you: and I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in all his army: and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.
1891ExodusEx2145And it was told the king of the Egyptians that the people was fled: and the heart of Pharao and of his servants was changed with regard to the people, and they said: What meant we to do, that we let Israel go from serving us?
1892ExodusEx2146So he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him.
1893ExodusEx2147And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots that were in Egypt: and the captains of the whole army.
1894ExodusEx2148And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharao, king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; but they were gone forth in a mighty hand.
1895ExodusEx2149And when the Egyptians followed the steps of them who were gone before, they found them encamped at the sea side: all Pharao's horse and chariots and the whole army were in Phihahiroth, before Beelsephon.
1896ExodusEx21410And when Pharao drew near, the children of Israel lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians behind them: and they feared exceedingly, and cried to the Lord.
1897ExodusEx21411And they said to Moses: Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt, therefore thou hast brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst thou do this, to lead us out of Egypt?
1898ExodusEx21412Is not this the word that we spoke to thee in Egypt, saying: Depart from us, that we may serve the Egyptians? for it was much better to serve them, than to die in the wilderness.
1899ExodusEx21413And Moses said to the people: Fear not: stand, and see the great wonders of the Lord, which he will do this day; for the Egyptians, whom you see now, you shall see no more for ever.
1900ExodusEx21414The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.
1901ExodusEx21415And the Lord said to Moses: Why criest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel to go forward.
1902ExodusEx21416But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and divide it: that the children of Israel may go through the midst of the sea on dry ground.
1903ExodusEx21417And I will harden the heart of the Egyptians to pursue you: and I will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his host, and in his chariots and in his horsemen.
1904ExodusEx21418
1905ExodusEx21419And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removing, went behind them: and together with him the pillar of the cloud, leaving the forepart,
1906ExodusEx21420Stood behind, between the Egyptians' camp and the camp of Israel: and it was a dark cloud, and enlightening the night, so that they could not come at one another all the night.
1907ExodusEx21421And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night, and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.
1908ExodusEx21422And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea dried up; for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their left.
1909ExodusEx21423And the Egyptians pursuing went in after them, and all Pharao's horses, his chariots and horsemen, through the midst of the sea.
1910ExodusEx21424And now the morning watch was come, and behold the Lord looking upon the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, slew their host.
1911ExodusEx21425And overthrew the wheels of the chariots, and they were carried into the deep. And the Egyptians said: Let us flee from Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against us.
1912ExodusEx21426And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and horsemen.
1913ExodusEx21427And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it returned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the middle of the waves.
1914ExodusEx21428And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the army of Pharao, who had come into the sea after them, neither did there so much as one of them remain.
1915ExodusEx21429But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea upon dry land, and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand and on the left:
1916ExodusEx21430And the Lord delivered Israel in that day out of the hands of the Egyptians.
1917ExodusEx21431And they saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore, and the mighty hand that the Lord had used against them: and the people feared the Lord, and they believed the Lord, and Moses his servant.
1918ExodusEx2151Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the Lord, and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea.
1919ExodusEx2152The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God, and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him.
1920ExodusEx2153The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is his name.
1921ExodusEx2154Pharao's chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea: his chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea.
1922ExodusEx2155The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.
1923ExodusEx2156Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnified in strength: thy right hand, O Lord, hath slain the enemy.
1924ExodusEx2157And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy adversaries: thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble.
1925ExodusEx2158And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in the midst of the sea.
1926ExodusEx2159The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.
1927ExodusEx21510Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.
1928ExodusEx21511Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to thee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praise-worthy, doing wonders?
1929ExodusEx21512Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them.
1930ExodusEx21513In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy habitation.
1931ExodusEx21514Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim.
1932ExodusEx21515Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the stout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff.
1933ExodusEx21516Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm: let them become immoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass by: until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed.
1934ExodusEx21517Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most firm habitation, which thou hast made, O Lord; thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
1935ExodusEx21518
1936ExodusEx21519For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea: and the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea: but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst thereof.
1937ExodusEx21520So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances.
1938ExodusEx21521And she began the song to them, saying: Let us sing to the Lord, for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and his rider he hath thrown into the sea.
1939ExodusEx21522And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went forth into the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the wilderness, and found no water.
1940ExodusEx21523And they came into Mara, and they could not drink the waters of Mara because they were bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable to the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness.
1941ExodusEx21524And the people murmured against Moses, saying: What shall we drink?
1942ExodusEx21525But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,
1943ExodusEx21526Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do what is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his precepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer.
1944ExodusEx21527And the children of Israel came into Elim, where there were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped by the waters.
1945ExodusEx2161And they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out of the land of Egypt.
1946ExodusEx2162And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
1947ExodusEx2163And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the fleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?
1948ExodusEx2164And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you; let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or not.
1949ExodusEx2165But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be double to that they were wont to gather every day.
1950ExodusEx2166And Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Egypt:
1951ExodusEx2167And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring against the Lord: but as for us, what are we, that you mutter against us?
1952ExodusEx2168And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your murmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord.
1953ExodusEx2169Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole congregation of the children of Israel: Come before the Lord; for he hath heard your murmuring.
1954ExodusEx21610And when Aaron spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, they looked towards the wilderness; and behold the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud.
1955ExodusEx21611And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
1956ExodusEx21612I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.
1957ExodusEx21613So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.
1958ExodusEx21614And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground.
1959ExodusEx21615And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
1960ExodusEx21616This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: Let every one gather of it as much as is enough to eat; a gomor for every man, according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall you take of it.
1961ExodusEx21617And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less.
1962ExodusEx21618
1963ExodusEx21619And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the morning.
1964ExodusEx21620And they hearkened not to him, but some of them left until the morning, and it began to be full of worms, and it putrified, and Moses was angry with them.
1965ExodusEx21621Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted.
1966ExodusEx21622But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much, that is, two gomors every man: and all the rulers of the multitude came, and told Moses.
1967ExodusEx21623And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To morrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever work is to be done, do it; and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them; and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.
1968ExodusEx21624And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not putrify, neither was there worm found in it.
1969ExodusEx21625And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field.
1970ExodusEx21626Gather it six days; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.
1971ExodusEx21627And the seventh day came; and some of the people going forth to gather, found none.
1972ExodusEx21628And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?
1973ExodusEx21629See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this reason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man stay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.
1974ExodusEx21630And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.
1975ExodusEx21631And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey.
1976ExodusEx21632And Moses said: This is the word which the Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter; that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the wilderness when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt.
1977ExodusEx21633And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel, and put manna into it, as much as a gomor can hold; and lay it up before the Lord, to keep unto your generations,
1978ExodusEx21634As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.
1979ExodusEx21635And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.
1980ExodusEx21636Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.
1981ExodusEx2171Then all the multitude of the children of Israel setting forward from the desert of Sin, by their mansions, according to the word of the Lord, encamped in Raphidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
1982ExodusEx2172And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord?
1983ExodusEx2173So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?
1984ExodusEx2174And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.
1985ExodusEx2175And the Lord said to Moses: Go before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst strike the river, and go.
1986ExodusEx2176Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb, and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:
1987ExodusEx2177And he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?
1988ExodusEx2178And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim.
1989ExodusEx2179And Moses said to Josue: Choose out men; and go out and fight against Amalec: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, having the rod of God in my hand.
1990ExodusEx21710Josue did as Moses had spoken, and he fought against Amalec; but Moses, and Aaron, and Hur, went up upon the top of the hill.
1991ExodusEx21711And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame; but if he let them down a little, Amalec overcame.
1992ExodusEx21712And Moses's hands were heavy: so they took a stone, and put under him, and he sat on it: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands on both sides. And it came to pass, that his hands were not weary until sunset.
1993ExodusEx21713And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of the sword.
1994ExodusEx21714And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the ears of Josue; for I will destroy the memory of Amalec from under heaven.
1995ExodusEx21715And Moses built an altar; and called the name thereof, The Lord, my exaltation, saying:
1996ExodusEx21716Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation.
1997ExodusEx2181And when Jethro the priest of Madian, the kinsman of Moses, had heard all the things that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought forth Israel out of Egypt:
1998ExodusEx2182He took Sephora, the wife of Moses, whom he had sent back:
1999ExodusEx2183And her two sons, of whom one was called Gersam: his father saying, I have been a stranger in a foreign country.
2000ExodusEx2184And the other Eliezer: For the God of my father, said he, is my helper, and hath delivered me from the sword of Pharao.
2001ExodusEx2185And Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, came with his sons, and his wife to Moses into the desert, where he was camped by the mountain of God.
2002ExodusEx2186And he sent word to Moses, saying: I Jethro, thy kinsman, come to thee, and thy wife, and thy two sons with her.
2003ExodusEx2187And he went out to meet his kinsman, and worshipped and kissed him: and they saluted one another with words of peace. And when he was come into the tent,
2004ExodusEx2188Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharao, and the Egyptians in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had befallen them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them.
2005ExodusEx2189And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things that the Lord had done to Israel, because he had delivered them out of the hands of the Egyptians.
2006ExodusEx21810And he said: Blessed is the Lord, who hath delivered his people out of the hand of Egypt.
2007ExodusEx21811Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because they dealt proudly against them.
2008ExodusEx21812So Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, offered holocausts and sacrifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to eat bread with him before God.
2009ExodusEx21813And the next day Moses sat to judge the people, who stood by Moses from morning until night.
2010ExodusEx21814And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the people, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night?
2011ExodusEx21815And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God?
2012ExodusEx21816And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws.
2013ExodusEx21817But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.
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2015ExodusEx21819But hear my words and counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be thou to the people in those things that pertain to God, to bring their words to him:
2016ExodusEx21820And to shew the people the ceremonies, and the manner of worshipping; and the way wherein they ought to walk, and the work that they ought to do.
2017ExodusEx21821And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,
2018ExodusEx21822Who may judge the people at all times: and when any great matter soever shall fall out, let them refer it to thee, and let them judge the lesser matters only: that so it may be lighter for thee, the burden being shared out unto others.
2019ExodusEx21823If thou dost this, thou shalt fulfil the commandment of God, and shalt be able to bear his precepts: and all this people shall return to their places with peace.
2020ExodusEx21824And when Moses heard this, he did all things that he had suggested unto him.
2021ExodusEx21825And choosing able men out of all Israel, he appointed them rulers of the people, rulers over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens.
2022ExodusEx21826And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of greater difficulty they referred to him, and they judged the easier cases only.
2023ExodusEx21827And he let his kinsman depart: and he returned and went into his own country.
2024ExodusEx2191In the third month of the departure of Israel out of the land of Egypt, on this day they came into the wilderness of Sinai:
2025ExodusEx2192For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the desert of Sinai, they camped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their tents over against the mountain.
2026ExodusEx2193And Moses went up to God; and the Lord called unto him from the mountain, and said: Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
2027ExodusEx2194You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself.
2028ExodusEx2195If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine.
2029ExodusEx2196And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation. These are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.
2030ExodusEx2197Moses came; and calling together the elders of the people, he declared all the words which the Lord had commanded.
2031ExodusEx2198And all the people answered together: All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do. And when Moses had related the people's words to the Lord,
2032ExodusEx2199The Lord said to him: Lo, now will I come to thee in the darkness of a cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee, and may believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.
2033ExodusEx21910And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day, and to morrow, and let them wash their garments.
2034ExodusEx21911And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount Sinai.
2035ExodusEx21912And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people round about, and thou shalt say to them: Take heed ye go not up into the mount, and that ye touch not the borders thereof: every one that toucheth the mount, dying he shall die.
2036ExodusEx21913No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or he shall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go up into the mount.
2037ExodusEx21914And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,
2038ExodusEx21915He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.
2039ExodusEx21916And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and behold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very thick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded exceeding loud; and the people that was in the camp, feared.
2040ExodusEx21917And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God, from the place of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount.
2041ExodusEx21918And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.
2042ExodusEx21919And the sound of the trumpet grew by degrees louder and louder, and was drawn out to a greater length: Moses spoke, and God answered him.
2043ExodusEx21920And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, in the very top of the mount, and he called Moses unto the top thereof. And when he was gone up thither,
2044ExodusEx21921He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people; lest they should have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them should perish.
2045ExodusEx21922The priests also that come to the Lord, let them be sanctified, lest he strike them.
2046ExodusEx21923And Moses said to the Lord: The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai: for thou didst charge, and command, saying: Set limits about the mount, and sanctify it.
2047ExodusEx21924And the Lord said to him: Go, get thee down; and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people pass the limits, nor come up to the Lord, lest he kill them.
2048ExodusEx21925And Moses went down to the people and told them all.
2049ExodusEx2201And the Lord spoke all these words:
2050ExodusEx2202I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
2051ExodusEx2203Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
2052ExodusEx2204Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.
2053ExodusEx2205Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
2054ExodusEx2206And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments.
2055ExodusEx2207Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.
2056ExodusEx2208Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.
2057ExodusEx2209Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
2058ExodusEx22010But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates.
2059ExodusEx22011For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
2060ExodusEx22012Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.
2061ExodusEx22013Thou shalt not kill.
2062ExodusEx22014Thou shalt not commit adultery.
2063ExodusEx22015Thou shalt not steal.
2064ExodusEx22016Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
2065ExodusEx22017Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.
2066ExodusEx22018And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and being terrified and struck with fear, they stood afar off,
2067ExodusEx22019Saying to Moses: Speak thou to us, and we will hear: let not the Lord speak to us, lest we die.
2068ExodusEx22020And Moses said to the people: Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that the dread of him might be in you, and you should not sin.
2069ExodusEx22021And the people stood afar off. But Moses went to the dark cloud wherein God was.
2070ExodusEx22022And the Lord said to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.
2071ExodusEx22023You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to yourselves gods of gold.
2072ExodusEx22024You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee.
2073ExodusEx22025And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be defiled.
2074ExodusEx22026Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered.
2075ExodusEx2211These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2076ExodusEx2212If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
2077ExodusEx2213With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.
2078ExodusEx2214But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters; the woman and her children shall be her master's: but he himself shall go out with his raiment.
2079ExodusEx2215And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:
2080ExodusEx2216His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever.
2081ExodusEx2217If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.
2082ExodusEx2218If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.
2083ExodusEx2219But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
2084ExodusEx22110And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.
2085ExodusEx22111If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.
2086ExodusEx22112He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.
2087ExodusEx22113But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.
2088ExodusEx22114If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die.
2089ExodusEx22115He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.
2090ExodusEx22116He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.
2091ExodusEx22117He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.
2092ExodusEx22118If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
2093ExodusEx22119If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.
2094ExodusEx22120He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.
2095ExodusEx22121But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.
2096ExodusEx22122If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.
2097ExodusEx22123But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life,
2098ExodusEx22124Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
2099ExodusEx22125Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
2100ExodusEx22126If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and leave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he put out.
2101ExodusEx22127Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.
2102ExodusEx22128If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
2103ExodusEx22129But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
2104ExodusEx22130And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
2105ExodusEx22131If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the like sentence.
2106ExodusEx22132If he assault a bondman or bondwoman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
2107ExodusEx22133If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,
2108ExodusEx22134The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.
2109ExodusEx22135If one man's ox gore another man's ox, and he die: they shall sell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that which died they shall part between them:
2110ExodusEx22136But if he knew that his ox was wont to push yesterday, and the day before, and his master did not keep him in; he shall pay ox for ox, and shall take the whole carcass.
2111ExodusEx2221If any man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill or sell it: he shall restore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.
2112ExodusEx2222If a thief be found breaking open a house or undermining it, and be wounded so as to die: he that slew him shall not be guilty of blood.
2113ExodusEx2223But if he did this when the sun is risen, he hath committed murder, and he shall die. If he have not wherewith to make restitution for the theft, he shall be sold.
2114ExodusEx2224If that which he stole be found with him, alive, either ox, or ass, or sheep: he shall restore double.
2115ExodusEx2225If any man hurt a field or a vineyard, and put in his beast to feed upon that which is other men's: he shall restore the best of whatsoever he hath in his own field, or in his vineyard, according to the estimation of the damage.
2116ExodusEx2226If a fire breaking out light upon thorns, and catch stacks of corn, or corn standing in the fields, he that kindled the fire shall make good the loss.
2117ExodusEx2227If a man deliver money, or any vessel unto his friend to keep, and they be stolen away from him that received them: if the thief be found, he shall restore double:
2118ExodusEx2228If the thief be not known, the master of the house shall be brought to the gods, and shall swear that he did not lay his hand upon his neighbour's goods,
2119ExodusEx2229To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or sheep, or raiment, or any thing that may bring damage: the cause of both parties shall come to the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to his neighbour.
2120ExodusEx22210If a man deliver ass, ox, sheep, or any beast, to his neighbour's custody, and it die, or be hurt, or be taken by enemies, and no man saw it:
2121ExodusEx22211There shall be an oath between them, that he did not put forth his hand to his neighbour's goods: and the owner shall accept of the oath, and he shall not be compelled to make restitution.
2122ExodusEx22212But if it were taken away by stealth, he shall make the loss good to the owner.
2123ExodusEx22213If it were eaten by a beast, let him bring to him that which was slain, and he shall not make restitution.
2124ExodusEx22214If a man borrow of his neighbour any of these things, and it be hurt or die, the owner not being present, he shall be obliged to make restitution.
2125ExodusEx22215But if the owner be present, he shall not make restitution, especially if it were hired, and came for the hire of his work.
2126ExodusEx22216If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.
2127ExodusEx22217If the maid's father will not give her to him, he shall give money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.
2128ExodusEx22218Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live.
2129ExodusEx22219Whosoever copulateth with a beast; shall be put to death.
2130ExodusEx22220He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to the Lord.
2131ExodusEx22221Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
2132ExodusEx22222You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.
2133ExodusEx22223If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:
2134ExodusEx22224And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
2135ExodusEx22225If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor oppress them with usuries.
2136ExodusEx22226If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.
2137ExodusEx22227For that same is the only thing, wherewith he is covered, the clothing of his body, neither hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.
2138ExodusEx22228Thou shalt not speak ill of the gods, and the prince of thy people thou shalt not curse.
2139ExodusEx22229Thou shalt not delay to pay thy tithes and thy firstfruits: thou shalt give the firstborn of thy sons to me.
2140ExodusEx22230Thou shalt do the same with the firstborn of thy oxen also and sheep: seven days let it be with its dam: the eighth day thou shalt give it to me.
2141ExodusEx22231You shall be holy men to me: the flesh that beasts have tasted of before, you shall not eat, but shall cast it to the dogs.
2142ExodusEx2231Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.
2143ExodusEx2232Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth.
2144ExodusEx2233Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.
2145ExodusEx2234If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him.
2146ExodusEx2235If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him.
2147ExodusEx2236Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.
2148ExodusEx2237Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.
2149ExodusEx2238Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.
2150ExodusEx2239Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
2151ExodusEx22310Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof.
2152ExodusEx22311But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy vineyard and thy oliveyard.
2153ExodusEx22312Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.
2154ExodusEx22313Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth.
2155ExodusEx22314Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.
2156ExodusEx22315Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear empty before me.
2157ExodusEx22316And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy work, whatsoever thou hast sown in the field. The feast also in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in all thy corn out of the field.
2158ExodusEx22317Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.
2159ExodusEx22318Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until the morning.
2160ExodusEx22319Thou shalt carry the first-fruits of the corn of thy ground to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.
2161ExodusEx22320Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared.
2162ExodusEx22321Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my name is in him.
2163ExodusEx22322But if thou wilt hear hi voice, and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.
2164ExodusEx22323And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherexite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebuzite, whom I will destroy.
2165ExodusEx22324Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues.
2166ExodusEx22325And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your bread and your waters, and may take away sickness from the midst of thee.
2167ExodusEx22326There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days.
2168ExodusEx22327I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies before thee:
2169ExodusEx22328Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in.
2170ExodusEx22329I will not cast them out from thy face in one year; lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee.
2171ExodusEx22330By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, till thou be increased, and dost possess the land.
2172ExodusEx22331And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you.
2173ExodusEx22332Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.
2174ExodusEx22333Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps they make thee sin against me, if thou serve their gods; which, undoubtedly, will be a scandal to thee.
2175ExodusEx2241And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore afar off.
2176ExodusEx2242And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people come up with him.
2177ExodusEx2243So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken.
2178ExodusEx2244And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
2179ExodusEx2245And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.
2180ExodusEx2246Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls; and the rest he poured upon the altar.
2181ExodusEx2247And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we will do, we will be obedient.
2182ExodusEx2248And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
2183ExodusEx2249Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up:
2184ExodusEx22410And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.
2185ExodusEx22411Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.
2186ExodusEx22412And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to me into the mount, and be there; and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
2187ExodusEx22413Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and Moses going up into the mount of God,
2188ExodusEx22414Said to the ancients: Wait ye here till we return to you. You have Aaron and Hur with you: if any question shall arise, you shall refer it to them.
2189ExodusEx22415And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount.
2190ExodusEx22416And the glory of the Lord dwelt upon Sinai, covering it with a cloud six days: and the seventh day he called him out of the midst of the cloud.
2191ExodusEx22417And the sight of the glory of the Lord, was like a burning fire upon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.
2192ExodusEx22418And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: And he was there forty days and forty nights.
2193ExodusEx2251And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2194ExodusEx2252Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to me: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.
2195ExodusEx2253And these are the things you must take: Gold, and silver, and brass,
2196ExodusEx2254Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
2197ExodusEx2255And rams' skins dyed red, and violet skins, and setim wood:
2198ExodusEx2256Oil to make lights: spices for ointment, and for sweetsmelling incense:
2199ExodusEx2257Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and the rational.
2200ExodusEx2258And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst of them:
2201ExodusEx2259According to all the likeness of the tabernacle which I will shew thee, and of all the vessels for the service thereof: and thus you shall make it:
2202ExodusEx22510Frame an ark of setim wood, the length whereof shall be of two cubits and a half; the breadth, a cubit and a half; the height, likewise, a cubit and a half.
2203ExodusEx22511And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, within and without; and over it thou shalt make a golden crown round about:
2204ExodusEx22512And four golden rings, which thou shalt put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other.
2205ExodusEx22513Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.
2206ExodusEx22514And thou shalt put them in through the rings that are in the sides of the ark, that it may be carried on them:
2207ExodusEx22515And they shall be always in the rings, neither shall they at any time be drawn out of them.
2208ExodusEx22516And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give thee.
2209ExodusEx22517Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit and a half.
2210ExodusEx22518Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two sides of the oracle.
2211ExodusEx22519Let one cherub be on the one side, and the other on the other.
2212ExodusEx22520Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the ark is to be covered.
2213ExodusEx22521In which thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee.
2214ExodusEx22522Thence will I give orders, and will speak to thee over the propitiatory, and from the midst of the two cherubims, which shall be upon the ark of the testimony, all things which I will command the children of Israel by thee.
2215ExodusEx22523Thou shalt make a table also of setim wood, of two cubits in length, and a cubit in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height.
2216ExodusEx22524And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold: and thou shalt make to it a golden ledge round about.
2217ExodusEx22525And to the ledge itself a polished crown, four inches high; and over the same another little golden crown.
2218ExodusEx22526Thou shalt prepare also four golden rings, and shalt put them in the four corners of the same table, over each foot.
2219ExodusEx22527Under the crown shall the golden rings be, that the bars may be put through them, and the table may be carried.
2220ExodusEx22528The bars also themselves thou shalt make of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold, to bear up the table.
2221ExodusEx22529Thou shalt prepare also dishes, and bowls, censers, and cups, wherein the libations are to be offered, of the purest gold.
2222ExodusEx22530And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition in my sight always.
2223ExodusEx22531Thou shalt make also a candlestick of beaten work, of the finest gold, the shaft thereof, and the branches, the cups, and the bowls, and the lilies going forth from it.
2224ExodusEx22532Six branches shall come out of the sides, three out of one side, and three out of the other.
2225ExodusEx22533Three cups as it were nuts to every branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily: and three cups likewise of the fashion of nuts in the other branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily. Such shall be the work of the six branches, that are to come out from the shaft:
2226ExodusEx22534And in the candlestick itself shall be four cups in the manner of a nut, and at every one bowls and lilies.
2227ExodusEx22535Bowls under two branches in three places, which together make six, coming forth out of one shaft.
2228ExodusEx22536And both the bowls and the branches shall be of the same beaten work of the purest gold.
2229ExodusEx22537Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the candlestick, to give light over against.
2230ExodusEx22538The snuffers also, and where the snuffings shall be put out, shall be made of the purest gold.
2231ExodusEx22539The whole weight of the candlestick, with all the furniture thereof, shall be a talent of the purest gold.
2232ExodusEx22540Look, and make it according to the pattern that was shewn thee in the mount.
2233ExodusEx2261And thou shalt make the tabernacle in this manner: Thou shalt make ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, diversified with embroidery.
2234ExodusEx2262The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits; the breadth shall be four cubits. All the curtains shall be of one measure.
2235ExodusEx2263Five curtains shall be joined one to another, and the other five shall be coupled together in like manner.
2236ExodusEx2264Thou shalt make loops of violet in the sides and tops of the curtains, that they may be joined one to another.
2237ExodusEx2265Every curtain shall have fifty loops on both sides, so set on, that one loop may be against another loop, and one may be fitted to the other.
2238ExodusEx2266Thou shalt make also fifty rings of gold, wherewith the veils of the curtains are to be joined, that it may be made one tabernacle.
2239ExodusEx2267Thou shalt make also eleven curtains of goats' hair, to cover the top of the tabernacle.
2240ExodusEx2268The length of one hair-curtain shall be thirty cubits; and the breadth, four: the measure of all the curtains shall be equal.
2241ExodusEx2269Five of which thou shalt couple by themselves, and the six others thou shalt couple one to another, so as to double the sixth curtain in the front of the roof.
2242ExodusEx22610Thou shalt make also fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, that it may be joined with the other: and fifty loops in the edge of the other curtain, that it may be coupled with its fellow.
2243ExodusEx22611Thou shalt make also fifty buckles of brass, wherewith the loops may be joined, that of all there may be made one covering.
2244ExodusEx22612And that which shall remain of the curtains, that are prepared for the roof, to wit, one curtain that is over and above, with the half thereof thou shalt cover the back parts of the tabernacle.
2245ExodusEx22613And there shall hang down a cubit on the one side, and another on the other side, which is over and above in the length of the curtains, fencing both sides of the tabernacle.
2246ExodusEx22614Thou shalt make also another cover to the roof of rams' skins dyed red: and over that again another cover of violet coloured skins.
2247ExodusEx22615Thou shalt make also the boards of the tabernacle standing upright of setim wood.
2248ExodusEx22616Let every one of them be ten cubits in length, and in breadth one cubit and a half.
2249ExodusEx22617In the sides of the boards shall be made two mortises, whereby one board may be joined to another board: and after this manner shall all the boards be prepared.
2250ExodusEx22618Of which twenty shall be in the south side southward.
2251ExodusEx22619For which thou shalt cast forty sockets of silver, that under every board may be put two sockets at the two corners.
2252ExodusEx22620In the second side also of the tabernacle that looketh to the north, there shall be twenty boards,
2253ExodusEx22621Having forty sockets of silver, two sockets shall be put under each board.
2254ExodusEx22622But on the west side of the tabernacle thou shalt make six boards.
2255ExodusEx22623And again other two which shall be erected in the corners at the back of the tabernacle.
2256ExodusEx22624And they shall be joined together from beneath unto the top, and one joint shall hold them all. The like joining shall be observed for the two boards also that are to be put in the corners.
2257ExodusEx22625And they shall be in all eight boards, and their silver sockets sixteen, reckoning two sockets for each board.
2258ExodusEx22626Thou shalt make also five bars of setim wood, to hold together the boards on one side of the tabernacle.
2259ExodusEx22627And five others on the other side, and as many at the west side:
2260ExodusEx22628And they shall be put along by the midst of the boards, from one end to the other.
2261ExodusEx22629The boards also themselves thou shalt overlay with gold, and shalt cast rings of gold to be set upon them, for places for the bars to hold together the boardwork: which bars thou shalt cover with plates of gold.
2262ExodusEx22630And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the pattern that was shewn thee in the mount.
2263ExodusEx22631Thou shalt make also a veil of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, wrought with embroidered work and goodly variety:
2264ExodusEx22632And thou shalt hang it up before four pillars of setim wood, which themselves also shall be overlaid with gold, and shall have heads of gold, but sockets of silver.
2265ExodusEx22633And the veil shall be hanged on with rings, and within it thou shalt put the ark of the testimony, and the sanctuary and the holy of the holies shall be divided with it.
2266ExodusEx22634And thou shalt set the propitiatory upon the ark of the testimony, in the holy of holies.
2267ExodusEx22635And the table without the veil, and over against the table the candlestick in the south side of the tabernacle: for the table shall stand in the north side.
2268ExodusEx22636Thou shalt make also a hanging in the entrance of the tabernacle of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen with embroidered work.
2269ExodusEx22637And thou shalt overlay with gold five pillars of setim wood, before which the hanging shall be drawn: their heads shall be of gold, and the sockets of brass.
2270ExodusEx2271Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five cubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits high.
2271ExodusEx2272And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass.
2272ExodusEx2273And thou shalt make for the uses thereof pans to receive the ashes, and tongs and fleshhooks, and firepans: all its vessels thou shalt make of brass.
2273ExodusEx2274And a grate of brass in manner of a net; at the four corners of which, shall be four rings of brass,
2274ExodusEx2275Which thou shalt put under the hearth of the altar: and the grate shall be even to the midst of the altar.
2275ExodusEx2276Thou shalt make also two bars for the altar, of setim wood, which thou shalt cover with plates of brass:
2276ExodusEx2277And thou shalt draw them through rings, and they shall be on both sides of the altar to carry it.
2277ExodusEx2278Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the inside, as it was shewn thee in the mount.
2278ExodusEx2279Thou shalt make also the court of the tabernacle, in the south side whereof southward there shall be hangings of fine twisted linen of a hundred cubits long for one side.
2279ExodusEx22710And twenty pillars with as many sockets of brass, the heads of which, with their engraving, shall be of silver.
2280ExodusEx22711In like manner also on the north side there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long, twenty pillars, and as many sockets of brass, and their heads with their engraving of silver.
2281ExodusEx22712But in the breadth of the court, that looketh to the west, there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, and ten pillars, and as many sockets.
2282ExodusEx22713In that breadth also of the court, which looketh to the east, there shall be fifty cubits.
2283ExodusEx22714In which there shall be for one side, hangings of fifteen cubits, and three pillars, and as many sockets.
2284ExodusEx22715And in the other side, there shall be hangings of fifteen cubits, with three pillars, and as many sockets.
2285ExodusEx22716And in the entrance of the court there shall be made a hanging of twenty cubits of violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, with embroidered work: it shall have four pillars, with as many sockets.
2286ExodusEx22717All the pillars of the court round about shall be garnished with plates of silver, silver heads, and sockets of brass.
2287ExodusEx22718In length the court shall take up a hundred cubits, in breadth fifty, the height shall be of five cubits, and it shall be made of fine twisted linen, and shall have sockets of brass.
2288ExodusEx22719All the vessels of the tabernacle for all uses and ceremonies, and the pins both of it and of the court, thou shalt make of brass.
2289ExodusEx22720Command the children of Israel that they bring thee the purest oil of the olives, and beaten with a pestle: that a lamp may burn always,
2290ExodusEx22721In the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that hangs before the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it may give light before the Lord until the morning. It shall be a perpetual observance throughout their successions among the children of Israel.
2291ExodusEx2281Take unto thee also Aaron thy brother with his sons, from among the children of Israel, that they may minister to me in the priest's office: Aaron, Nadab, and Abiu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
2292ExodusEx2282And thou shalt make a holy vesture for Aaron, thy brother, for glory and for beauty.
2293ExodusEx2283And thou shalt speak to all the wise of heart, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's vestments, in which he being consecrated, may minister to me.
2294ExodusEx2284And these shall be the vestments that they shall make: A rational and an ephod, a tunic and a strait linen garment, a mitre and a girdle. They shall make the holy vestments for thy brother Aaron and his sons, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.
2295ExodusEx2285And they shall take gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen.
2296ExodusEx2286And they shall make the ephod of gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, embroidered with divers colours.
2297ExodusEx2287It shall have the two edges joined in the top on both sides, that they may be closed together.
2298ExodusEx2288The very workmanship also, and all the variety of the work, shall be of gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen.
2299ExodusEx2289And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and shalt grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
2300ExodusEx22810Six names on one stone, and the other six on the other, according to the order of their birth.
2301ExodusEx22811With the work of an engraver, and the graving of a jeweller, thou shalt engrave them with the names of the children of Israel, set in gold and compassed about:
2302ExodusEx22812And thou shalt put them in both sides of the ephod, a memorial for the children of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon both shoulders, for a remembrance.
2303ExodusEx22813Thou shalt make also hooks of gold.
2304ExodusEx22814And two little chains of the purest gold, linked one to another, which thou shalt put into the hooks.
2305ExodusEx22815And thou shalt make the rational of judgment with embroidered work of divers colours, according to the workmanship of the ephod, of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen.
2306ExodusEx22816It shall be four square and doubled: it shall be the measure of a span both in length and in breadth.
2307ExodusEx22817And thou shalt set in it four rows of stones . In the first row shall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and an emerald:
2308ExodusEx22818In the second a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper:
2309ExodusEx22819In the third a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst:
2310ExodusEx22820In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be set in gold by their rows.
2311ExodusEx22821And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with twelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one according to the twelve tribes.
2312ExodusEx22822And thou shalt make on the rational chains, linked one to another, of the purest gold:
2313ExodusEx22823And two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the two ends at the top of the rational.
2314ExodusEx22824And the golden chains thou shalt join to the rings, that are in the ends thereof.
2315ExodusEx22825And the ends of the chains themselves, thou shalt join together with two hooks, on both sides of the ephod, which is towards the rational.
2316ExodusEx22826Thou shalt make also two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the top parts of the rational, in the borders that are over against the ephod, and look towards the back parts thereof.
2317ExodusEx22827Moreover also other two rings of gold, which are to be set on each side of the ephod beneath, that looketh towards the nether joining, that the rational may be fitted with the ephod,
2318ExodusEx22828And may be fastened by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a violet fillet, that the joining artificially wrought may continue, and the rational and the ephod may not be loosed one from the other.
2319ExodusEx22829And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the rational of judgment upon his breast, when he shall enter into the sanctuary, a memorial before the Lord for ever.
2320ExodusEx22830And thou shalt put in the rational of judgment doctrine and truth, which shall be on Aaron's breast, when he shall go in before the Lord: and he shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his breast, in the sight of the Lord always.
2321ExodusEx22831And thou shalt make the tunic of the ephod all of violet,
2322ExodusEx22832In the midst whereof above shall be a hole for the head, and a border round about it woven, as is wont to be made in the outmost parts of garments, that it may not easily be broken.
2323ExodusEx22833And beneath at the feet of the same tunic, round about, thou shalt make as it were pomegranates, of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with little bells set between:
2324ExodusEx22834So that there shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate, and again another golden bell and a pomegranate.
2325ExodusEx22835And Aaron shall be vested with it in the office of his ministry, that the sound may be heard, when he goeth in and cometh out of the sanctuary, in the sight of the Lord, and that he may not die.
2326ExodusEx22836Thou shalt make also a plate of the purest gold: wherein thou shalt grave with engraver's work, Holy to the Lord.
2327ExodusEx22837And thou shalt tie it with a violet fillet, and it shall be upon the mitre,
2328ExodusEx22838Hanging over the forehead of the high priest. And Aaron shall bear the iniquities of those things, which the children of Israel have offered and sanctified, in all their gifts and offerings. And the plate shall be always on his forehead, that the Lord may be well pleased with them.
2329ExodusEx22839And thou shalt gird the tunic with fine linen, and thou shalt make a fine linen mitre, and a girdle of embroidered work.
2330ExodusEx22840Moreover, for the sons of Aaron thou shalt prepare linen tunics, and girdles and mitres for glory and beauty:
2331ExodusEx22841And with all these things thou shalt vest Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him. And thou shalt consecrate the hands of them all, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.
2332ExodusEx22842Thou shalt make also linen breeches, to cover the flesh of their nakedness, from the reins to the thighs:
2333ExodusEx22843And Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall go into the tabernacle of the testimony, or when they approach to the altar to minister in the sanctuary. lest being guilty of iniquity they die. It shall be a law for ever to Aaron, and to his seed after him.
2334ExodusEx2291And thou shalt also do this, that they may be consecrated to me in priesthood. Take a calf from the herd, and two rams without blemish,
2335ExodusEx2292And unleavened bread, and a cake without leaven, tempered with oil, wafers also unleavened, anointed with oil: thou shalt make them all of wheaten flour.
2336ExodusEx2293And thou shalt put them in a basket, and offer them: and the calf and the two rams.
2337ExodusEx2294And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. And when thou hast washed the father and his sons with water,
2338ExodusEx2295Thou shalt clothe Aaron with his vestments, that is, with the linen garment and the tunic, and the ephod and the rational, which thou shalt gird with the girdle.
2339ExodusEx2296And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and the holy plate upon the mitre,
2340ExodusEx2297And thou shalt pour the oil of unction upon his head: and by this rite shall he be consecrated.
2341ExodusEx2298Thou shalt bring his sons also, and shalt put on them the linen tunics, and gird them with a girdle:
2342ExodusEx2299To wit, Aaron and his children, and thou shalt put mitres upon them; and they shall be priests to me by a perpetual ordinance. After thou shalt have consecrated their hands,
2343ExodusEx22910Thou shalt present also the calf before the tabernacle of the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon his head,
2344ExodusEx22911And thou shalt kill him in the sight of the Lord, beside the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.
2345ExodusEx22912And taking some of the blood of the calf, thou shalt put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and the rest of the blood thou shalt pour at the bottom thereof.
2346ExodusEx22913Thou shalt take also all the fat that covereth the entrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and shalt offer a burn offering upon the altar:
2347ExodusEx22914But the flesh of the calf, and the hide and the dung, thou shalt burn abroad, without the camp, because it is for sin.
2348ExodusEx22915Thou shalt take also one ram, upon the head whereof Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands.
2349ExodusEx22916And when thou hast killed him, thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and pour round about the altar.
2350ExodusEx22917And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and having washed his entrails and feet, thou shalt put them upon the flesh that is cut in pieces, and upon his head.
2351ExodusEx22918And thou shalt offer the whole ram for a burnt offering upon the altar: it is an oblation to the Lord, a most sweet savour of the victim of the Lord.
2352ExodusEx22919Thou shalt take also the other ram, upon whose head Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands.
2353ExodusEx22920And when thou hast sacrificed him, thou shalt take of his blood, and put upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and of his sons, and upon the thumbs and great toes of their right hand and foot, and thou shalt pour the blood upon the altar round about.
2354ExodusEx22921And when thou hast taken of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the oil of unction, thou shalt sprinkle Aaron and his vesture, his sons and their vestments. And after they and their vestments are consecrated,
2355ExodusEx22922Thou shalt take the fat of the ram, and the rump, and the fat that covereth the lungs, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder, because it is the ram of consecration:
2356ExodusEx22923And one roll of bread, a cake tempered with oil, a wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread, which is set in the sight of the Lord:
2357ExodusEx22924And thou shalt put all upon the hands of Aaron and of his sons, and shalt sanctify them elevating before the Lord.
2358ExodusEx22925And thou shalt take all from their hands; and shalt burn them upon the altar for a holocaust, a most sweet savour in the sight of the Lord, because it is his oblation.
2359ExodusEx22926Thou shalt take also the breast of the ram, wherewith Aaron was consecrated, and elevating it thou shalt sanctify it before the Lord, and it shall fall to thy share.
2360ExodusEx22927And thou shalt sanctify both the consecrated breast, and the shoulder that thou didst separate of the ram,
2361ExodusEx22928Wherewith Aaron was consecrated and his sons, and they shall fall to Aaron's share, and his sons', by a perpetual right from the children of Israel: because they are the choicest and the beginnings of their peace victims which they offer to the Lord.
2362ExodusEx22929And the holy vesture, which Aaron shall use, his sons shall have after him, that they may be anointed, and their hands consecrated in it.
2363ExodusEx22930He of his sons that shall be appointed high priest in his stead, and that shall enter into the tabernacle of the testimony to minister in the sanctuary, shall wear it seven days.
2364ExodusEx22931And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and shalt boil the flesh thereof in the holy place:
2365ExodusEx22932And Aaron and his sons shall eat it. The loaves also, that are in the basket, they shall eat in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony,
2366ExodusEx22933That it may be an atoning sacrifice, and the hands of the offerers may be sanctified. A stranger shall not eat of them, because they are holy.
2367ExodusEx22934And if there remain of the consecrated flesh, or of the bread, till the morning, thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: they shall not be eaten, because they are sanctified.
2368ExodusEx22935All that I have commanded thee, thou shalt do unto Aaron and his sons. Seven days shalt thou consecrate their hands:
2369ExodusEx22936And thou shalt offer a calf for sin every day for expiation. And thou shalt cleanse the altar when thou hast offered the victim of expiation, and shalt anoint it to sanctify it.
2370ExodusEx22937Seven days shalt thou expiate the altar and sanctify it, and it shall be most holy. Every one, that shall touch it, shall be holy.
2371ExodusEx22938This is what thou shalt sacrifice upon the altar: Two lambs of a year old every day continually,
2372ExodusEx22939One lamb in the morning, and another in the evening.
2373ExodusEx22940With one lamb a tenth part of flour tempered with beaten oil, of the fourth part of a hin, and wine for libation of the same measure.
2374ExodusEx22941And the other lamb thou shalt offer in the evening, according to the rite of the morning oblation, and according to what we have said, for a savour of sweetness:
2375ExodusEx22942It is a sacrifice to the Lord, by perpetual oblation unto your generations, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the Lord, where I will appoint to speak unto thee.
2376ExodusEx22943And there will I command the children of Israel, and the altar shall be sanctified by my glory.
2377ExodusEx22944I will sanctify also the tabernacle of the testimony with the altar, and Aaron with his sons, to do the office of priesthood unto me.
2378ExodusEx22945And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will be their God:
2379ExodusEx22946And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who have brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might abide among them, I the Lord their God.
2380ExodusEx2301Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.
2381ExodusEx2302It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, four square, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.
2382ExodusEx2303And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, as well the grate thereof, as the walls round about, and the horns. And thou shalt make to it a crown of gold round about,
2383ExodusEx2304And two golden rings under the crown on either side, that the bars may be put into them, and the altar be carried.
2384ExodusEx2305And thou shalt make the bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.
2385ExodusEx2306And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee.
2386ExodusEx2307And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense upon it in the morning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it:
2387ExodusEx2308And when he shall place them in the evening, he shall burn an everlasting incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
2388ExodusEx2309You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition, nor oblation, and victim, neither shall you offer libations.
2389ExodusEx23010And Aaron shall pray upon the horns thereof once a year, with the blood of that which was offered for sin; and shall make atonement upon it in your generations. It shall be most holy to the Lord.
2390ExodusEx23011And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2391ExodusEx23012When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel, according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned.
2392ExodusEx23013And this shall every one give that passeth at the naming, half a sicle according to the standard of the temple. A sicle hath twenty obols. Half a sicle shall be offered to the Lord.
2393ExodusEx23014He that is counted in the number from twenty years and upwards, shall give the price.
2394ExodusEx23015The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man shall diminish nothing.
2395ExodusEx23016And the money received, which was contributed by the children of Israel, thou shalt deliver unto the uses of the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be a memorial of them before the Lord, and he may be merciful to their souls.
2396ExodusEx23017And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2397ExodusEx23018Thou shalt make also a brazen laver with its foot to wash in: and thou shalt set it between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar. And water being put into it:
2398ExodusEx23019Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet in it:
2399ExodusEx23020When they are going into the tabernacle of the testimony, and when they are to come to the altar, to offer on it incense to the Lord,
2400ExodusEx23021Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him, and to his seed by successions.
2401ExodusEx23022And the Lord spoke to Moses,
2402ExodusEx23023Saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred sicles, and of cinnamon half so much; that is, two hundred and fifty sicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty,
2403ExodusEx23024And of cassia five hundred sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, of oil of olives the measure hin:
2404ExodusEx23025And thou shalt make the holy oil of unction, an ointment compounded after the art of the perfumer,
2405ExodusEx23026And therewith thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the testimony, and the ark of the testament,
2406ExodusEx23027And the table with the vessels thereof, the candlestick and furniture thereof, the altars of incense,
2407ExodusEx23028And of holocaust, and all the furniture that belongeth to the service of them.
2408ExodusEx23029And thou shalt sanctify all, and they shall be most holy: he that shall touch them shall be sanctified.
2409ExodusEx23030Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.
2410ExodusEx23031And thou shalt say to the children of Israel: This oil of unction shall be holy unto me throughout your generations.
2411ExodusEx23032The flesh of man shall not be anointed therewith, and you shall make none other of the same composition, because it is sanctified, and shall be holy unto you.
2412ExodusEx23033What man soever shall compound such, and shall give thereof to a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.
2413ExodusEx23034And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight.
2414ExodusEx23035And thou shalt make incense compounded by the work of the perfumer, well tempered together, and pure, and most worthy of sanctification.
2415ExodusEx23036And when thou hast beaten all into very small powder, thou shalt set of it before the tabernacle of the testimony, in the place where I will appear to thee. Most holy shall this incense be unto you.
2416ExodusEx23037You shall not make such a composition for your own uses, because it is holy to the Lord.
2417ExodusEx23038What man soever shall make the like, to enjoy the smell thereof, he shall perish out of his people.
2418ExodusEx2311And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2419ExodusEx2312Behold, I have called by name Beseleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Juda,
2420ExodusEx2313And I have filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding, and knowledge in all manner of work,
2421ExodusEx2314To devise whatsoever may be artificially made of gold, and silver, and brass,
2422ExodusEx2315Of marble, and precious stones, and variety of wood.
2423ExodusEx2316And I have given him for his companion Ooliab, the son of Achisamech, of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in the heart of every skilful man, that they may make all things which I have commanded thee,
2424ExodusEx2317The tabernacle of the covenant, and the ark of the testimony, and the propitiatory, that is over it, and all the vessels of the tabernacle,
2425ExodusEx2318And the table and the vessels thereof, the most pure candlestick with the vessels thereof, and the altars of incense,
2426ExodusEx2319And of holocaust, and all their vessels, the laver with its foot,
2427ExodusEx23110The holy vestments in the ministry for Aaron the priest, and for his sons, that they may execute their office, about the sacred things:
2428ExodusEx23111The oil of unction, and the incense of spices in the sanctuary, all things which I have commanded thee, shall they make.
2429ExodusEx23112And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2430ExodusEx23113Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that you keep my sabbath; because it is a sign between me and you in your generations that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you.
2431ExodusEx23114keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall profane it, shall be put to death: he that shall do any work in it, his soul shall perish out of the midst of his people.
2432ExodusEx23115Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this day, shall die.
2433ExodusEx23116Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant
2434ExodusEx23117Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.
2435ExodusEx23118And the Lord, when he had ended these words in Mount Sinai, gave to Moses two stone tables of testimony, written with the finger of God.
2436ExodusEx2321And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.
2437ExodusEx2322And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.
2438ExodusEx2323And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron.
2439ExodusEx2324And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
2440ExodusEx2325And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made proclamation by a crier's voice, saying To morrow is the solemnity of the Lord.
2441ExodusEx2326And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace victims, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.
2442ExodusEx2327And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned.
2443ExodusEx2328They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
2444ExodusEx2329And again the Lord said to Moses: I see that this people is stiffnecked:
2445ExodusEx23210Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.
2446ExodusEx23211But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy indignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand?
2447ExodusEx23212Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: He craftily brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them from the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased upon the wickedness of thy people.
2448ExodusEx23213Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to your seed, and you shall possess it for ever:
2449ExodusEx23214And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.
2450ExodusEx23215And Moses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables of the testimony in his hand, written on both sides,
2451ExodusEx23216And made by the work of God; the writing also of God was graven in the tables.
2452ExodusEx23217And Josue hearing the noise of the people shouting, said to Moses: The noise of battle is heard in the camp.
2453ExodusEx23218But he answered: It is not the cry of men encouraging to fight, nor the shout of men compelling to flee: but I hear the voice of singers.
2454ExodusEx23219And when he came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf, and the dances: and being very angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and broke them at the foot of the mount:
2455ExodusEx23220And laying hold of the calf which they had made, he burnt it, and beat it to powder, which he strewed into water, and gave thereof to the children of Israel to drink.
2456ExodusEx23221And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin?
2457ExodusEx23222And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended; for thou knowest this people, that they are prone to evil.
2458ExodusEx23223They said to me: make us gods, that may go before us; for as to this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is befallen him.
2459ExodusEx23224And I said to them: Which of you hath any gold? and they took and brought it to me; and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.
2460ExodusEx23225And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had stripped them by occasion of the shame of the filth, and had set them naked among their enemies)
2461ExodusEx23226Then standing in the gate of the camp, he said: If any man be on the Lord's side, let him join with me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him:
2462ExodusEx23227And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his thigh: go, and return from gate to gate through the midst of the camp, and let every man kill his brother, and friend, and neighbour.
2463ExodusEx23228And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and there were slain that day about three and twenty thousand men.
2464ExodusEx23229And Moses said: You have consecrated your hands this day to the Lord, every man in his son and in his brother, that a blessing may be given to you.
2465ExodusEx23230And when the next day was come, Moses spoke to the people: You have sinned a very great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any means I may be able to entreat him for your crime.
2466ExodusEx23231And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass,
2467ExodusEx23232Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.
2468ExodusEx23233And the Lord answered him: He that hath sinned against me, him will I strike out of my book:
2469ExodusEx23234But go thou, and lead this people whither I have told thee: my angel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this sin also of theirs.
2470ExodusEx23235The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt, on occasion of the calf which Aaron had made.
2471ExodusEx2331And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee up from this place, thou and thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, into the land concerning which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: To thy seed I will give it:
2472ExodusEx2332And I will send an angel before thee, that I may cast out the Chanaanite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite,
2473ExodusEx2333That thou mayst enter into the land that floweth with milk and honey. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiffnecked people; lest I destroy thee in the way.
2474ExodusEx2334And the people hearing these very bad tidings, mourned: and no man put on his ornaments according to custom.
2475ExodusEx2335And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou art a stiffnecked people, once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I may know what to do to thee.
2476ExodusEx2336So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by Mount Horeb.
2477ExodusEx2337Moses also taking the tabernacle, pitched it without the camp afar off, and called the name thereof, The tabernacle of the covenant. And all the people, that had any question, went forth to the tabernacle of the covenant, without the camp.
2478ExodusEx2338And when Moses went forth to the tabernacle, all the people rose up, and every one stood in the door of his pavilion, and they beheld the back of Moses, till he went into the tabernacle.
2479ExodusEx2339And when he was gone into the tabernacle of the covenant, the pillar of the cloud came down, and stood at the door, and he spoke with Moses.
2480ExodusEx23310And all saw that the pillar of the cloud stood at the door of the tabernacle. And they stood and worshipped at the doors of their tent.
2481ExodusEx23311And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man is wont to speak to his friend. And when he returned into the camp, his servant Josue, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the tabernacle.
2482ExodusEx23312And Moses said to the Lord: Thou commandest me to lead forth this people; and thou dost not let me know whom thou wilt send with me, especially whereas thou hast said: I know thee by name, and thou hast found favour in my sight.
2483ExodusEx23313If therefore I have found favour in thy sight, shew me thy face, that I may know thee, and may find grace before thy eyes: look upon thy people this nation.
2484ExodusEx23314And the Lord said: My face shall go before thee, and I will give thee rest.
2485ExodusEx23315And Moses said: If thou thyself dost not go before, bring us not out of this place.
2486ExodusEx23316For how shall we be able to know, I and thy people, that we have found grace in thy sight, unless thou walk with us, that we may be glorified by all people that dwell upon the earth?
2487ExodusEx23317And the Lord said to Moses: This word also, which thou hast spoken, will I do; for thou hast found grace before me, and thee I have known by name.
2488ExodusEx23318And he said: Shew me thy glory.
2489ExodusEx23319He answered: I will shew thee all good, and I will proclaim in the name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will, and I will be merciful to whom it shall please me.
2490ExodusEx23320And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me, and live.
2491ExodusEx23321And again he said: Behold there is a place with me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock.
2492ExodusEx23322And when my glory shall pass, I will set thee in a hole of the rock, and protect thee with my righthand till I pass:
2493ExodusEx23323And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face thou canst not see.
2494ExodusEx2341And after this he said: Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the former, and I will write upon them the words, which were in the tables, which thou brokest.
2495ExodusEx2342Be ready in the morning, that thou mayst forthwith go up into Mount Sinai, and thou shalt stand with me upon the top of the mount.
2496ExodusEx2343Let no man go up with thee, and let not any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the oxen nor the sheep feed over against it.
2497ExodusEx2344Then he cut out two tables of stone, such as had been before; and rising very early he went up into the Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, carrying with him the tables.
2498ExodusEx2345And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him, calling upon the name of the Lord.
2499ExodusEx2346And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,
2500ExodusEx2347Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grandchildren unto the third and fourth generation.
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