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THE
HOLY BIBLE,
CONTAINING
THE OLD AND NEW COVENANT, THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT:
FROM THE GREEK.
BY CHARLES THOMSON, Late Secretary to the Congress of the United States. ®
PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY JANE AITKEN, No. 71, NORTH THIRD STREET.
1808.
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, τὸ wit:
SEEK BE 1 REMEMBERED, That on the twelfth day of September, x * in the thirty third year of the Independence of the United States of % SEAL. % America, A. Ὁ. 1808. Charles Thomson and Ebenezer Hazard, of the ¥ * said District, have deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book, the
Right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit:
“‘The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Covenant, commonly called the “Old and New Testament: translated from the Greek. By Charles Thomson, late ** Secretary to the Congress of the United States.”
In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, “An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, tothe Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein men- tioned.” And also to the Act, entitled ‘‘An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled, “ An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned,” and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.”
D. CALDWELL Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.
THE
OLD COVENANT,
COMMONLY CALLED
THE OLD TESTAMENT:
TRANSLATED FROM~
THE SEPTUAGINT.
By CHARLES THOMSON,
Late Secretary to the Congress of the United States.
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Ci s1. GENESIS.
J. IN the beginning God made the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was invisible and unfurnished and there was. darkness over this abyss; and a breath of God was brought on 3 above the water. And God said, “Let there be Light;” and 4 there was light. And God saw the light that it was good. And God made a separation between the light and the darkness. 5 And God called the light day; and the darkness he called night. And there was an evening and there was a morning. The first day. 6 Then God said, ‘“‘ Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water; and let it make a separation between water and wa- 7 ter.”? And it was so. God made the firmament; and God made a separation between the water which was below the firmament 8 and the water which was above the firmament. And God called the firmament, heaven. And God saw that it was good. And there was anevening and there was amorning. The second day. 9 Then God said, ‘‘Let the water which is below the hea- ven be gathered into one receptacle and let the dry land ap- pear.” And it wasso. The waters which were below the heaven were gathered into their several collections, and the dry
10 land appeared. And God called the dry land, earth; and the
collections of the waters he called, seas. And God saw that it
11] was good. And God said, “ Let the earth produce the grassy plant with sowing seed according to kind and according to like- ness, and the fruit bearing tree together with the fruit, the seed of which is in it according to kind, upon the earth.” And it
12 was so. The earth indeed produced the grassy plant with sowing seed according to kind and according to likeness, and the fruit tree together with fruit, the seed of which is in it, according to kind, in the earth. And God saw that it was
13 good. And there was an evening and there was a morning. The third day.
14 Then God said, ‘Let there be luminaries in the firma- ment of heaven, to give light on the earth; to make a separa- tion between the day and the night: and let them be for signs
15 and for seasons and for days and for years; and let them be for an illumination in the firmament of heaven so as to shine
16 on the earth.” And it was so. God indeed made the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for the regulations of
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the day, and the lesser luminary, with the stars, for the regu- lations of the night. And God placed them in ie firmament of heaven so as to shine on the earth, and to regulate the day and the night, and to make a division between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was an evening and there was a morning. The fourth day.
Then God said, “‘Let the waters produce moving crea-
tures having life; and winged creatures flying above the earth
in the open firmament of heaven.”? And it was so. God in- deed made the great sea monsters and every species of moving animals which the waters produced according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to kind. And God saw that they were good. And God blessed them saying, ** Increase and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let flying creatures be mult tiplied. on the earth.” And there was.an evening and there was a morning. The fifth day.
Then God said, ‘‘ Let the earth produce animal life accord- ing to kind; four footed beasts and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to kind.”” And it was so. God indeed made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and the cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to kind, And God saw that they were good. Then God said, ‘‘ Let us make man after our image and after a likeness; and let them haye dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the cattle, and the whole earth, and all the reptiles which creep on the earth.” So God made man. After an image of God he made him. A male and a female he made them. And God blessed them saying, “In- crease and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all the cattle, and all the earth, and all the reptiles which ᾿ creep on the earth.”” Moreover God said, “‘ Behold Ihave given you every seed bearing plant, the sowing seed which is on the whole earth, and every tree which hath in itself the fruit of se- minal seed, you shall have for food: And to all the beasts of the earth, and to all the birds of the air, and to every reptile on the earth, which hath in it animal life, I have also given every green herb for food.”” And it was so. And God saw. all the
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things which he had made, and behold they were very good. And there was an evening and there wasa morning. The sixth day.
Thus were finished the heaven and the eartly and all the ar- rangement of them. And God finished on the sixth day these his works which he made; and on the seventh day he desisted from all these works of his which he made. And God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it; because on it he rested from all these works of his which God had taken occasion to make.
This is the genealogy of heaven and earth. When they were made,—on the day when the Lord God had made the heaven and the earth, and all the verdure of the field, before it was on the earth, and every herb of the field, before it sprang up, (for God had not rained on the earth, nor was there a man to till it; but a fountain ascended out of the earth and watered the whole face of the ground,) then God formed the man, dust from the earth, and breathed upon his face a breath of life, and the man became a living soul. And God planted a garden in Eden to- wards the east and placed there the man whom he had made. And God caused to spring up there also out of that ground every tree beautiful to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree for the pur- pose of knowing what was to be known of good and evil.
Now a river issueth out of Eden to water the garden: thence it is divided into four heads. The name of the first is Physon. This is that which encircleth the whole country Evilat, where there is gold, and the gold of that country is good. There also is the carbuncle and the Prasian stone. And the name of the second river is Geon. This is that which encircleth . the whole country of Ethiopia. And the third river is Tigris. This is-that which floweth down over against the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
And the Lord God took the man whom he had made, and placed him in this garden of pleasure to work it and to watch. And the Lord God gave a charge to Adam, saying, “Οἵ every tree which is in the garden for food, thou mightest have eaten; but from this tree, that you may know good and evil, you must not eat of it, On the day you eat of it, by death you shall die.’
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Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone: let us make for him a helper correspondent to himself.”?>. Now God had also formed out of the earth all the beasts of the field, and all the birds of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And what- ever Adam called every living creature, that was its name. So Adam gave names to all the cattle, and to all the fowls of the air, and to allthe wild beasts of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper like himself. Then God brought an ecstasy upon Adam and caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and filled up flesh instead thereof. And God built up the rib, which he took from Adam, into a woman, and brought her to Adam. And Adam said, ‘‘ This now is bone of my bones, and. flesh of my flesh, let her be called Woman.” Because she was taken out of her man, therefore a man is to leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Now the two, both Adam and his wife were naked, and were not ashamed. But the serpent was the wisest of all the beasts on the earth which the Lord God had made, and the serpent said to the woman, ‘‘ Why hath God said, you must not eat of every tree of the garden?” And the woman said to the serpent, ‘‘ Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God said, You shall not eat of it, nor touch it, that you may not die.” And the serpent said to the woman, “You will not by death die. For God knew that in the day you eat thereof, your eyes would be opened and you would be like gods knowing good and evil.” And the woman saw that the tree was good for food; and that it is delightful to see with the eyes; and that to exercise understanding is comely, so having taken some of the fruit thereof, she ate and gave also to her husband with her. And whenthey had eaten, the eyes of them both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked. And they sewed together fig leaves and made for themselves girdles. And when they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening, both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God, among the trees of the garden.
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_ And the Lord God called Adam and said to him, “‘ Adam, where art thou ?””? And he said to him, “1 heard the sound of thee walking in the garden and I was afraid, because I am naked, and I hid myself.” And God said to him, ‘‘ Who told thee that thou art naked, if so be thou hast not eaten of the tree of which alone I commanded thee not to eat of this?” And Adam said, ‘‘ The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree and I did eat.” And the Lord God said to the woman, ‘‘ Why hast thou done this?” And. the woman said, “‘ The serpent seduced me and I ate.” And the Lord God said to the serpent, ‘‘ Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed from all the cattle and from all the beasts which are upon the earth. Upon thy breast and belly thou shalt go and shalt eat earth all the days of thy life. And f will put enmity between thee andthe woman; and between thy seed and her seed. He will wound thy head, and thou wilt wound his heel.”? And to the woman he said, ‘ I will great- ly multiply thy sorrows and thy anguish. With sorrows thou shalt bear children and to thy husband shall be thy recourse, and he shall rule over thee.”? And to Adam he said, ‘“ Be- cause thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which alone I commanded thee not to eat, the ground is cursed by thy labours. With sorrows thou shalt eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles it shall cause to spring up for thee, and theu shalt eat the herbs of the field. By the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat thy bread until thou return into the earth out of which thou wast taken; for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return.”
And Adam called the name of his wife Lirz, because she was to be the mother of all the living. And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin and cloathed them.
And God said, “Behold Adam was made like one of us to know good and evil. And now perhaps he may stretch forth his hand and take of the tree of life and eat, so shall he live for ever.” So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of plea- sure to till the ground out of which he was taken. And when he put Adam out he’ caused him to dwell over against the gar- den of pleasure and stationed the Cherubim and the whirling flame of fire to keep the way to the tree of life, .
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And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived atid brought forth Cain, and said, “1 have gotten a man from
God.” And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And
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Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain tilled the ground. And when in process of time Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice to the Lord, and Abel also brought, he indeed of the firstlings of his flock even some of the fattest of them, God looked upon Abel and on his gifts; but upon Cain and upon his sacrifices he did not look with regard. Thereupon Cain was exceedingly grieved and his countenance became dejected. And the Lord God said to Cain, “‘ Why art thou become sorrowful and why is thy countenance dejected ?” ‘Though thou hast offered right, yet if thou hast not nghtly divided, hast thou not sinned ? Be composed. ‘To thee shall be his recourse, and thou shalt rule over him.”
Then Cain said to Abel his brother, ‘‘ Let us go into the plain.”” And when they were in the plain, Cain rose upon Abel his brother and slew him. And when the Lord God ‘said to Cain, “‘ Where is Abel thy brother?” he said I know not. Am ¥ my brother’s keeper ? Then the Lord said, ‘‘ What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth to me out of the ground. Now therefore thou art cursed from ‘this land, which hath opened its mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it will not henceforth yield thee its strength. Thou shalt be in a state of anguish and terror in this land.’ And Cain said to the Lord God, “15 my fault too great to be forgiven? If thou castest me out this day from the face of this land and I be hid from thy presence and be ina state of anguish and terror in the land, it will come to pass that whoever findeth me will kill me.” And the Lord said to him, ‘‘ Not so. Whosoever killeth Cain shall suffer seven fold vengeance.”’ Andthe Lord God gaveasign to Cain, that whoever found him would not kill him. So Cain went out from the presence of God and dwelt in the land of Naid over against Eden. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Enoch. And he employed himself in building a city and he called the city Enoch after his son’s name. And to Enoch was born Gaidad; and Gaidad begot Maleleel, and Maleleel begot Mathousala, and Mathousala be-
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got Lamech. And Lamech took to himself two wives. The name of the first was Ada; and the name of the second Sella. And Ada bore Jobel. He was the father of them who dwell in tents, feeding cattle. And the name of his brother was Jou-
2 bal. He was the inventor of the psaltery and kithara. As for
Sella, she also bore Thobel, and he was a smith, a manufac- turer of brass and iron; and the sister of Thobel was Noe- ma. And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella,
‘“‘ Hearken to my voice, ye wives of Lamech,
“ Listen attentively to my words.
** For have I slain a man that I should be wounded,
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‘“‘ For seven fold vengeance was to be taken for Cain ;
“Βαϊ for Lamech will be taken seventy times seven.”’
And Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and brought forth a son and called his name Seth, saying, ‘‘ For God hath raised up for me another seed in the place of Abel whom Cain slew.” And Seth had a son; and he called -his name Enos. He hoped that he would invoke the name of the Lord God.
This is the genealogy of men.
On the day God made Adam, he made him after an image of God. A male and a female he made them, and blessed them. And he called his name Adam on the day he made them. And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own likeness and after his own image, and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam which he lived after he begot Seth were seven hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
And Seth lived two hundred and five years and begot Enos. And Seth lived after he begot Enos seven hundred and seven years and begot sons and daughters. So all the days οἵ Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
And Enos lived one hundred and ninety years and begot Kainan, And Enos lived after he begot Kaiman seven hun- dred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.
And Kainan lived one hundred and seventy vears and be-
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got Maleleel. And Kainan lived after he begot Maleleel seven hundred and forty years and begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Kainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.
And Maleleel lived one hundred and sixty five years and begot Jared. And Maleleellived after he begot Jared seven hun- dred and thirty years and begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Malelcel were eight hundred and ninety five years,
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And Jared lived one hundred and sixty two years and begot Enoch. And Jared lived after he begot Enoch eight hundred years and begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty two years, and he died.
And Enoch lived one hundred and sixty five years and be- got Mathousala. And Enoch continued to please God after he begot Mathousala two hundred years and begot sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years, And Enoch continued to please God and was not found, for God translated him.
And Mathousala lived one hundred and eighty seven years and begot Lamech. And Mathousala lived after he be- got Lamech seven hundred and eighty two years and begot sons and daughters. : So all the days of Mathousala which he lived were nine hundred and sixty nine years, and he died.
And Lamech hved one hundred and eighty eight years and begot a son and called his name Noe, saying “‘ ‘This child will cause us to cease from our works and from the toils of our hands and from the earth which the Lord. hath cursed. And Lamech lived after he begot Noe five hundred and sixty five years and begot sons and daughters. So/all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and fifty three years, and he died.
And Noe was five hundred years old and he had three sons, Sem, Cham, Japheth. And it came to pass when the men began to be multiplied on the earth and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God seeing the daughters of men that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose: then the Lord God said, “‘ My breath must not continue in these men to this age, because they are flesh ; their
Ch. VI. GENESIS.
days however, shall be an hundred and twenty years.” Now
there were giants on the earth in those days, and after that
when the sons of God went in unto the daughters of men and they bore to them. These were the giants of old, the men of renown. So when the Lord God saw that the wickedness of the men on the earth was multiplied, and that every one was in his heart studiously and continually bent upon evils, God was grieved that he had made man on the earth. And God came to a determination and said, “‘I will blot out from the face of this earth the man I have made, both man and beast; both reptiles and birds of the air. For I am grieved that I made them. But Noe found favour in the sight of the Lord God.
Now these are the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; and being perfect in the tenor of his life, Noe pleased God. And Noe had three sons, Sem, Cham, Japheth. Now the earth was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with iniquity. And God beheld the earth and it was corrupt. Because all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth; therefore the Lord God said to Noe, ‘‘ The time of every man is come before me. Because the earth is filled with ini-
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them and the earth. Make therefore for thyself an ark of
. squared timber. ‘Thou shalt make the ark with small apart-
ments, and pitch it on the inside and outside with pitch. And in this manner thou shalt make the ark. Three hundred cu- bits shall be the length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height thereof. In building the ark thou shalt narrow the breadth and finish it above at a cubit. And thou shalt make the door of the ark out of the sides. With lower, second and third stories thou shalt make it. Now be- hold I am going to bring a flood of water upon the earth to destroy all flesh in Abs Sleigh is the breath of life under heaven,
and all that are on the earth shall die; and I will establish m ψ covenant with thee. Thou therefore shalt go into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons’ wives with thee. And of all the cattle, and of all the reptiles, and of all the wild beasts, even of all flesh thou shalt bring into the ark a pair of every sort, that thou mayest nourish them with thyself. They
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shall bea male with a female. Of all the winged fowls ac- cording to kind, and of all the cattle according to kind, and of all the reptiles which creep on the earth according to their kind, pairs of every sort shall come to thee, a male with a fe- 21 male, to be fed with thee. Thou shalt therefore take to thee of all the varieties of food which you eat, and collect it to thee, and it shall be for thee and for them to eat.” 92 And Noe did all that the Lord God commanded him ; VII. and when he had done so, the Lord God said to Noe, ‘*Go into the ark, thou and all thy family, for I have seen thee 2 righteous before me in this generation. And of all the cattle which are clean take thee seven pairs, a male with a female, and of all the cattle which are not clean, pairs, a male with a female; and of the birds of the air which are clean, seven pairs, male and female, and of all the birds which are not clean, 4 pairs, male and female, to nourish seed on the earth. For yet seven days and I bring rain upon the earth forty days and for- ty nights. And I will blot out from the face of the whole earth all the raised which I made.”’
And Noe did all that the Lord God commanded him. Now Noe was six hundred years old when the deluge of water came on the earth. And Noe and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark on account of the water of the deluge. And of the fowls which were clean and of the fowls which were not clean, and of the beasts which were clean and of the beasts which were not clean, and of all the rep-
9 tiles which creep on the earth, pairs went to Noe into the ark, 10 a male with a female as God commanded Noe. And it came to pass after the seven days that the water of the flood came on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noe’s life, the second month and twenty seventh day of the month, on that day all the foun- 12 tains of the abyss were burst open and the cataracts of heaven were opened, and there came rain on the earth forty 13 days and forty nights. On that day Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth, the sons of Raat and Noe’s wife and the three wives of his : sons with him went into the ark: And all the beasts accord- ing to kind, and all the cattle according to kind, and every 15 moving reptile on the earth according to its kind, and every
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kind of winged fowls went to Noe into the ark, two and two, a male and.a female of all flesh in which is the breath of life. And when they, that were going in, male and female of all
shut up the ark on the outside, and the deluge came on the earth forty days and forty nights. And the water increased ex- ceedingly and lifted up the ark, and it was raised up from the earth. And the water prevailed and was exceedingly in- creased on the earth: And the ark was borne up above the water. Still the water prevailed more and more on the earth
and covered all the high mountains which were under the
heaven. Fifteen cubits above was the water raised when it had covered all the high mountains. And all animate flesh on the earth of fowls and cattle and wild beasts and every moving reptile on the earth and every man died. Every thing which hath the breath of life, even every thing which was on the dry land died. It swept away every thing raised up, which was on the face of the earth, man and cattle and reptiles and the fowls of the air. They were swept away from the earth, and Noe alone was left and they who were with him in the ark.
And the water was raised up above the earth a hundred and
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all the cattle and all the fowls and all the reptiles which creep, eyen all that were with him in the ark ; and God brought a wind over the earth and aswaged the water. And the foun- tains of the abyss were shut up and also the cataracts of heaven and the rain from heaven was stayed: and the water running off from the earth subsided; so after a hundred and fifty days the water was lessened and the ark grounded in the seventh month and twenty seventh day of the month upon the moun- tains of Ararat. Still the water continued to lessen till the tenth month. And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared. And after forty days Noe opened the window which he had made in the ark and sent fortha raven ; and it having gone out did not return till the water was dried up from the earth. So he sent out after it the dove to see if the water was abated from the earth; and the dove finding no resting place for its feet, returned to him
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into the ark, for the water was on the whole face of the earth. Therefore he stretched out his hand and brought it to him in- to the ark. And having waited yet other seven days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark, and towards evening the dove returned to him and it had an olive leaf, a dry leaf in its bill. So Noe knew that the water was abated from the earth. And having waited yet other seven days he again sent out the dove, and it returned to him no more. ἢ
And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of Noe’s life, in the first month and the first day of the month, the water was gone from the earth; and Noe removed the covering of the ark which he had made, and he saw that the water was gone from the face of the earth. And in the second month and twenty seventh day of the month, when the ground was dry, the Lord God spoke to Noe saying, ‘Go forth out of the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy sons’ wives with thee, and all the beasts which are with thee, even all flesh both of fowls and cattle. Take out al- so with thee every moving reptile on the earth, and be ye fruitful and multiplied on the earth.” So Noe and his wife and his sons and his sons’ wives with him went out. And all the beasts and all the cattle and every fowl and every moving reptile on the earth according to their kind, went forth out of the ark. And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all the cattle which are clean and of all the fowls which are clean, and offered them up upon the altar for a whole homage offering. And the Lord God smelled a sweet savour, and the Lord God having come to a determination, said, “1 will no more curse the ground on account of the works of men. Though the imagination of man is studiously bent upon evils from his youth, I will not on that accoufit again smite all living flesh, as I have done. While the earth continueth, seed time and Ὁ harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, with a succession of day and night shall not cease.”
Then God blessed Noe and his sons and said to them, “< Increase and multiply and replenish the earth and have do- minion over it; and let the fear and the dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds of the air, and on all that move on the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea.
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To you I have subjected them and every reptile which hath life. They shall be food for you. As the herb of grass I have
given you them all. But flesh with the blood of life you shall
not eat. For with regard to your blood of your lives, I will in- deed make inquisition for it at the hand of the beasts. At the hand of aman’s brother I will make inquisition for the life of man. He who sheddeth man’s blood shall for it have his own blood poured out; for inan image of God Ihave made man. As for you therefore be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and have dominion over it.”
Moreover God spoke to Noe and to his sons with him, saying, ‘‘ Behold I renew my covenant with you and with your seed after you, and with every living creature with you both birds and cattle and with all the wild beasts of the earth which are with you; even with all that went out of the ark. And this covenant of mine I will lay before you. All flesh shall no more die by the water of a deluge; nor shall there any more be a
deluge of water to destroy the whole earth.” Moreover the Lord God said to Noe, ‘‘ This is the sign of
the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature which is with you for perpetual generations. This bow of mine I place in the clouds and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth, so that when I cause clouds to gather upon the earth, the bow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember this my covenant, which is between me and you and every life living in all flesh, and the water shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. When
-this my bow shall be in the cloud, I will look that 1 may re-
member the everlasting covenant between me and the carth and life living in all flesh which is on the earth. Therefore (said God to Noe) this is the sign of the covenant which I have made between me and all flesh which is on the earth.”
Now these were the sons of Noe who went out of the ark, Sem, Cham, and Japheth. And Cham was the father of Cha- naan. ‘These three are the sons of Noe. rom them men were disseminated over the whole earth.
Now Noe being a husbandman, began and planted a vine- yard, and he drank of the wine and was intoxicated and un- covered in his house. And Cham, the father of Chanaan, saw
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the nakedness of his father, and going out told his two brothers without. Whereupon Sem and, Japheth took the garment and putiton both their shoulders, and went backwards and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces being turned
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And when Noe recovered from the wine and knew what his younger son had done to him, he said,
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«ΤῸ his brethren he will be a domestic servant. Moreover he said,
“< Blessed be the Lord God of Sem:
« And let Chanaan be his domestic servant.
“‘God make room for Japheth !
« And let him dwell in the tents of Sem,
“ And let Chanaan become his servant.”’
And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. So all the days of Noe were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died. :
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth, to whom sons were born after the flood.
The sons of Japheth, Gamer, and Magog and Madoi and Jovan and Elisa and Thobel and Mosoch and Theiras. And the sons of Gamer, Aschanaz and Riphath and Thorgama. And the children of Jovan, Elisa, and the Tharsians, Ketians, Rhodians. By these the islands of the nations were set apart in their land, each according to their language in their tribes and in their nations.
Andthe sons of Cham ; Chous, and Mesrain, Phoud and Chanaan. And the children of Chous; Saba and Evila and Sa- batha and Regma and Sabathaka. And the sons of Regma; Sa- ba and Dadan. And Chous begot'Nebrod. He began to be a giant on the earth. He was a giant hunter before the Lord God. For this cause they say, “‘ Like Nebrod the giant hunter before the Lord.”? And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon and Orech and Archad and Chalane in the land of Senaar. From this land Assour went out and builded Ninive and the city Rooboth and Chalach and Dase, between Ninive and Chalach. This was the great city. And Mesrain begot the Loudieims and the Nephthalcims, and the Enemeticims, and
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14. Labieinis, and Patrosonieims, and the Chasmonieims (fron whom descended the Philistines) and the Gaphthorieims. And
15 Chanaan begot Sidon his first born, and Chettaius, and Jebou- saius and Amoraius and Gergasaius and Evaius and Arou- kaius and Asennaiusand Aradiusand Samaraiusand Amathius.
19 And after this the tribes of the Chananites were dispersed. And the boundaries of the Chananites were from Sidon ex- tending to Gerara and Gaza, thence extending to Sodom and
20 Gomorra, Adama and Seboin even to Dasa. These were the children of Cham in their tribes according to their languages
in their countries and in their nations.
21 To Sem also children were born even to him who was the father of all the children of Eber and the brother of Japheth
22 who was older than he. The children of Sem were Elam and
23 Assour and Arphaxad and Loud and Aram and Kainan. And the children of Aram were Ouz and ΟἹ] and Gater and Mo-
24 soch. And Arphaxad begot Kainan; and Kainan begot Sala;
5 and Sala begot Eber; and to Eber were born two sons, the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days the earth was
26 divided, and his brother’s name was Jektan. And Jektan be-
27 got Elmodad and Saleth and Sarmoth and Jarach and Odorra
28 and Aibel and Dekla and Eval and Abimael and Saba and
29 Oupheir and Evila and Jobab. All these were the children of
30 Jektan, and their dwelling was from Massa extending to Sap-
31 hera a mountain of the east. These were the children of Sem in their tribes according to their tongues in their countries and in their nations.
32 ‘These were the tribes of the children of Noe according to their descents and according to their nations. From these were peopled the different countries of the nations on the earth after the flood.
ΧΙ. Now when the whole earth was of one lip and all had one
2 voice, it came to pass as they were moving from the east that they found a plain in the land of Sennaar and settled there. 3 And they said one to another, Come let us make bricks and bake them with fire. Now the bricks served them for stone 4 and their mortar was asphaltus. And they said, Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which shall be up to heaven; and let us make ἃ name for ourselves before
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we be scattered on the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men were building. And the Lord said, Behold they are all of one race and one lip. And this they have begun to do; and now nothing will fail of all which they may determine to do. Come, let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand each other’s voice. So the Lord
‘dispersed them from that place over the face of the whole
earth, and they left off building the city and the tower. For this cause the name of it was called Conrusion, because there the Lord confounded the lips of the whole earth, and dispersed them thence over the face of the whole earth.
Now these are the generations of Sem. Sem was an hun- dred years old when he begot Arphaxad the second year:after the flood. And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad five hun- dred years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty five years and begot Kainan. And Arphaxad lived after he begot Kainan four hundred years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Kainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Kainan lived after he begot Sala three hundred and thirty years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Sala lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Eber; and Sala lived after he begot Eber three hundred and thirty years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Eber lived a hundred and thirty four years and begot Phaleg; and Eber lived after he begot Phaleg two hundred and seventy years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Phaleg lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Ragau ; and Phaleg lived after he begot Ragau two hundred and nine years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Ragau lived a hundred and thirty two years and be- got Serouch; and Ragau lived after he begot Serouch two hundred and seven years and -begot sons and daughters, and died. 3
And Serouch lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Naehor ; and Serouch lived after he begot Nachor two hun- dred years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy nine years and
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begot Tharra; and Nachor lived after he begot Tharraa hun- dred and twenty five years and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Tharra lived seventy nn and begot Abram and Nachor and Arran.
Now these are the generations οἱ Tharra. Tharra begot Abram and Nachor and Arran; and Arran begot Lot. And Arran died in the presence of his father There. in the land in which he was born in the country of the Chaldees. And Abram and Nachor took themselves wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sara, and the name of Nachor’s wife, Malcha, a daughter of Arran, who was the father of Malcha and the fa- ther of Jescha. And Sara was barren and did not bear chil- dren. And Tharra took Abram his son and Lot the son of Arran, his grand son, and Sara his daughter in law, the wife of his son Abram, and led them out of the country of the Chal- dees to go to the land of Chanaan. But when they came to Charran he took up his abode there. And in the land of Char- ran, all the days of Tharra were two hundred and five years. And Tharra died in Charran.
XII. Now the Lord said to Abram, Depart from thy land and
from thy kindred and from the house of thy father and come
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nation; and 1 will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be blessed; and I will bless them, who bless thee; and those who curse thee I will curse: and by thee all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed. So Abram went as the Lord commanded him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy five years old when he came out of Charran. And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance which they possessed, and every living creature which they had, and set out from Charran to go to the land of Chanaan. And Abram travelled through the land length- wise till he came to the place of Sychem to the lofty Oak. Now the Chananites at that time inhabited that land. And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, ‘‘To thy seed I will give this land.”” So Abram built there an altar to the Lord who appeared to him. And from that place he went to the mountain east of Baithel and there pitched his tent, having VOL. I. ς
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Baithel on the west and Aggai on the east, and built there an 9 altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord. And Abram removed and proceeding forward encamped in the wil-
10 derness. And there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to sojeurn there, because the famine preyailed
11 in the land. And when Abram was near entering Egypt, he said to his wife Sara, I know that because thou art a beautiful
12 woman, it will therefore come to pass that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife, and they will kill me;
13 but thee they will save alive. Say thou therefore, I am his sis- ter, that it may be well with me on thy account, and my life
14. will be preserved for thy sake. So when Abram came into Egypt the Egyptians beheld his wife, for she was very beau-
15 tiful; and when the princes of Pharaoh saw her they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was brought to Pharaoh’s house.
16 And they treated Abram well for her sake, though he had sheep and oxen and asses and men servants and maid servants
17 and mules and camels. But God visited Pharaoh and his fa- mily with great and grievous plagues because of Sara the wife
18 of Abram. And Pharaoh called Abram and said, Why hast thou acted thus with me and didst not tell me that she is thy
19 wife? Why didst thou say, She is my sister? I indeed took her to be my wife, but now there is thy wife before thee.
20 Take her and begone. And Pharaoh gave strict orders to men touching Abram, to convoy away him and his wife and all that he had. So Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all his substance, and Lot with him, into the wil- derness.
XT. Now Abram was very rich in cattle and in silver and gold, therefore he proceeded on to the place from which he had come into the wilderness; even to Baithel to the place where his tent formerly was, between Baithel and Aggai, to the place of the altar which he had there built at the first, and there Abram invoked the name of the Lord.
a Now Lot who accompanied Abram had flocks and herds and tents, so that the land would not admit of their living to- 6 gether. Because their substance was great and the land did not admit of their livmg together, and there. was quarreling 7 between the herdsmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdsmen of
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Lot’s cattle, and the Chananites and the Phere zites then inha- 8 bited that land; therefore Abram said to Lot, Let there be no quarreling between me and thee, and between my herdsmen 9 and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren. Behold is not the whole land before thee? Separate from me. If thou incline to the left, I will take the right. Or if thou go to the right, I 10 will go to the left. Then Lot raised his eyes and took a view of all the country bordering on the Jordan. For before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra it was all watered till it reacheth Zogora, like the paradise of God, and like the land 11 of Egypt. So Lot chose for himself all the country bordering on the Jordan; and Lot removed to the eastern border. And 12 the brothers separated one from the other. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan; and Lot dwelt in a city of the bor- 13 derers and pitched his tent among the Sodomites, though the men of Sodom were wicked and very great sinners in the sight of the Lord. 14 And God said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, Raise thy eyes and look from the place where thou now art, 15 to the north and south and east and west. For all the land which thou seest I will give to thee and thy seed for ever. 16 And I will: make thy seed like the dust of the earth. If any can count the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be num- bered. Arise and travel through the land, the length and the breadth thereof, for to thee I will give it and to thy seed forever. Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt near the Oak of Mambre, which was by Chebron, and built there an altar to the Lord. XIV. And it came to pass in the reign of Amarphal king of Sennaar, and of Arioch king of Ellasar, that Chodollogomar 2 king of Elam, and Thargal king of nations, made war on Balla king of Sodom, and on Barsa king of Gomorra, and on Sen- naar king of Adama, and Sumobor king of Seboeim, and the 3 king of Balak which is Segor. All these met together on the 4. salt vale, which is now the sea of salt. ‘Twelve years they had served Chodollogomar, but in the thirteenth year they revolt- 5 ed. And in the fourteenth year came Chodollogomar and the kings with him, and having subdued the giants in Astaroth and Karnain, and mighty nations with them, namely, the Om-
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6 maians who dwelt in the city Save, and the Chorrites on the» mountain of Seir as far as the pine grove of Pharan, which is in the wilderness, they turned and came to the fountain of Judgment, which is Kades, and smote the princes of Amalek 8 andthe Amorites, who dwelt in Asasonthamar. Then march- ed out the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorra and the. king of Adama and the king of Seboeim and the king of Ba- lak, that is Segor, and drew up im array against them for bat- tle in the salt vale, against Chodollogomar king of Elam and ‘Thargal king of nations, and Amarphal king of Sennaar, and 10 Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five. Now in this salt vale there were wells of Asphaltus. And the king of So- ᾿ς dom and the king of Gomorra fled and fell there. And they 11 who were left fled to the hilly country. And they took all the cavalry of Sodom and Gomorra and all their provisions and departed. They took also Lot, Abram’s brother’s son and his substance, when they went off, as he dwelt among the Sodo- mites. And one of them who escaped, came and told Abram, the traveller, who then dwelt near the oak grove of Mambre the Amoriie, the brother of Eschol, and the brother of Au- 14 nan, who were in alliance with Abram. And when Abram heard that his nephew Lot was carried away captive, he num- bered his domestics, three hundred and eighteen men, and -pursued them to Dan. And in the night he and his servants fell upon them and smote them, and pursued them even to Choba, 16 onthe left of Damascus. And he brought back all the cavalry of the Sodomites. He brought back also his nephew Lot and all his substance and the women and the people. And on his re- turn from the slaughter of Chodollogomar and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him, to the valley of Sabu which was the king’s dale. Melchisedek also the king of Salem carried out bread and wine. Now he was a priest 19 of the most High God, and he blessed Abram, and said, May Abram be blessed by God the Most High, who created the 20 heaven and the earth: And blessed be God the Most High who 21 hath delivered thy enemies into thy hands. And Abram gave him a tenth of all. And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the men, but take the horses for thyself. Whereupon Abram said to the king of Sedom, With this uplifted hand of
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mine I swear by the Lord the God Most High, who created the heaven and the earth, that of all which belong to thee I will
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say, I have made Abram rich; save only what the young men have eaten, and the portion of these men who went with me, namely, Eschol, Aunan, Mambre. Let them take a por- tion.
XV. After these things a word of the Lord came to. Abram in
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a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I protect thee. Thy reward shall be exceedingly great. Whereupon Abram said, O sove- reign Lord, what wilt thou give me, seeing I die childless, and the son of Masek my servant, this Damascus Eliezer—Then Abram said, seeing thou hast not given me seed, this servant of mine is to be my heir. And immediately there came a voice of the Lord to him saying, He shall not be thy heir: but one who shall spring from thee shall be thy heir. Then he led him out and said to him, Look up now to the heaven and count the stars if thou canst number them. Then he said, So shall thy seed be. And Abram believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness. ‘Then he said to him, I am the God who brought thee out of the country of the Chaldees, that I might give thee this land to inherit it. Whereupon he said, O sove- reign Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it? And the Lord said to him, ‘‘ Take for me a heifer of three years old and a she goat three years old and a ram three years old and a tur- tle dove and a pidgeon.”’ So he took for him all these and divid- ed them in halves and placed the halves opposite to one another, but the birds he did not divide; but the birds alighted on the carcases, on the two halves of them, and Abram sat down with them. And at the going down ofthe sun an ecstacy came on Abram, and lo! a great gloomy horror falleth upon him, and it was said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed shall so- journ in aland not their own. And they shall be enslaved and afflicted and humbled. Four hundred years. Butthe nation which they shall serve I will judge. And after that they shall come out hither with much wealth. Thou indeed shalt go to thy fa- thers in peace, having been nourished ina good old age. And in the fourth generation they shall be brought back hither. For the sins of the Amorites have not yet come to the full. And as
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the sun was setting there was a flash of fire, and lo! a smok- » ing furnace and lamps of fire passed between the halved parts.
18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram saying,
19 ‘’Tothyseed Iwill give this land from the river of Egypt to the
great river Euphrates, the Kenites and the Kenezites, and
20 the Kedmonites and the Chettites and the Pherezites and the
21 Raphaeimsand the Amorites and the Chananites and the Evites
and the Gergesites and the Jebusites.
XVI. Still Sara, the wife of Abram, did not bear him children; 2 so having an Egyptian servant whose name was Agar, Sara said to Abram, Behold the Lord hath shut me up that I may not bear. Go in therefore to my maid that I may have children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sara. And Sara the
wife of Abram took Agar her Egyptian maid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to Abram
4 her husband to be his wife. And he went in unto Agar and she
conceived. And when she saw that she was with child, her mis-
5 tress was contemptible in her sight. Whereupon Sara said to
Abram, I am injured on thy account. I gave thee this maid of mine into thy bosom, and when she seeth that she is with child,
6 Iam contemptible in her sight. God judge between me and
thee. And Abram said to Sara, Behold thy maid is in thy
hands, treat her as it seemeth good to thee. Thereupon Sara treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence. But an angel of the Lord found her at the fountain of water in the wil- derness—at the fountain in the way to Sour. And the angel of the Lord said to her, Agar, thou servant of Sara, whence comest thou and whither art thou going? And she said Iam 9 fleeing from the face of my mistress Sara. And the angel of the Lord said to her, Return to thy mistress and submit to her
10 authority. Moreover the angel of the Lord said to her, I will
multiply thy seed so that it shall not be numbered on account
11 of the multitude of it. Furthermore the angel of the Lord said
to her, Behold thou art with child, and thou shalt bear a son
and shalt call his name Ismael; for the Lord hath hearkened to thy afiliction. He will be awild man. Hishands willbe against all, and the hands of all, against him. And he shall dwell in front of all his brethren.’ So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, ““ Thou the God who lookest upon me;” for said
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to Abram. And when Abram was ninety nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “1 am thy God. Be well pleasing in my sight, and be blameless and I will establish that covenant of mine between me and thee and multiply thee exceedingly.”” Whereupon Abram fell on his face, and God spake to him saying, “ On my part lo! this is my co- venant with thee, Thou shalt be the father of a multitude of na- tions, andthy name shall no more be called Abram but thy name shall be Abraham; because I have made thee the father of many nations: And I will increase thee exceedingly, and cause thee to become nations; andkingsshall spring from thee: And I willes- tablish this my covenant with thee and thy seed after thee, through- out their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God and the God of thy seed after thee. And I will give thee and thy seed after thee this land in which thou sojournest; even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”” Moreover God said to Abraham, “Qn thy part thou shalt keep this my covenant; thou and thy seed after thee throughout their generations. And this is the covenant which thou shalt keep between me and you, even thy seed after thee throughout their generations, Lvery male of you shall be cir- cumeised. Ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and you. And the child of eight days old shall be circumcised among you. Every male throughout your generations, including the home born servant, and him who is bought with money from any stranger, not of thy seed. ‘Thy home born servant and he who is bought shall surely be circumcised. And this my covenant shall be on your flesh for an everlasting covenant. And with regard to the uncircumcised male, the flesh of whose foreskin shall not be circumcised on the eighth day, that soul shall be cut off from its family, because it hath broken my covenant.” Moreover God said to Abraham, ‘‘Sara thy wife shall not be called Sara. Her name shall be Sarah. And I will bless her and give thee a son by her. And I will bless him. And he shall
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become nations, and from him there shall be kings of nations.’’ Upon this Abraham fell on his face and smiled, and said in his heart, ΤΟ him who is in his hundredth year shall a son be born? and shall Sarah bring forth in her ninetieth year? And Abra- ham said to God, Let this Ismael live before thee. Whereupon God said to Abraham, Nay, behold Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaak. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant to be his God and the God of his seed after him. And as for Is- mael, lo! I have hearkened to thee and behold I have blessed him, and I will increase him and multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve nations, and I will make him a great na- tion. But this covenant of mine I will establish with Isaak whom Sarah shall bear about this time next year.”’
And when God had finished talking with him, and had ascended from him, Abraham took his son Ismael and all the servants born in his family and all those who were bought with money, even every male of the men in Abraham’s family and cir-
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him. Now Abraham was ninety nine years old when he was circumcised. in the flesh of his foreskin. And Ismael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. In one and the same day were circumcised Abra- ham and his son Ismael and all the men of his household, both his home born servants and those bought from foreign nations.
XVIII. Again God appeared to him at the Oak grove of Mambre.
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8 and gave it to a servant and urged him to dress it quickly. And he took butter and milk and the calf which he had dressed and set it before them, and they ate, and he stood by them under the
9 tree. And he saidto Abraham, Where is Sarah thy wife? And
10 Abraham said, Behold! inthe tent. Then he said, I will return and come tothee about this time twelve month, and Sarah thy wife 11 will havea son. And Sarah heard, being at the door of the tent behindthem. (Now Abrahamand Sarah were far advanced in life, and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. ) 12 And Sarah smiled within herself, saying, It hath never been 13 so with me even to this time, and my lord is old. And the Lord ᾿ 5814 to Abraham, Why did Sarah smile within herself, saying, 14 Shall I indeed bring forth? I who am old? Can any thing be impossible with God? About this time twelve month I will re- 15 turn to thee, and Sarah shall havea son. Then Sarah denied, saying, I did not smile, for she was terrified. And he said to her, Nay, but thou didst smile. 16 Then the men arose and directed their course towards. Sodom and Gomorra, and Abraham went with them to conduct 17 them on the way. And the Lord said, Shall I hide from my 18 servant Abraham, what I am going to do? Abraham shall in- deed become a nation great and numerous; and by him all the 19 nations of the earth are to be blessed. For | know that he will command his children and his household after him, who are to keep the ways of the Lord, to execute judgment and justice, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham all that he hath spoken to him. 20 Then the Lord said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorra hath been multiplied before me, ang their sins are exceedingly 21 great, therefore I am come down to see whether they do to each other according to the cry which is come to me; and if 22 not, that I may know. Now the men had turned thence and were gone on to Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before 23 the Lord. And Abraham drew near and ‘said, Thou wouldst not destroy a righteous with a wicked man! Shall a righteous 24 man be as the wicked? Should there be fifty righteous men in the city, wilt thou destroy them? Wilt thou not spare the whole city for the sake of fifty righteous, if they be there?
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with the wicked. Shall the righteous be as the wicked? No, πα; Thou who judgest the whole earth; wilt not thou execute judgment? And the Lord said, If there be among the Sodo- mites fifty righteous men in the city, I will spare the whole city and the whole place for their sake. Then Abraham an- swered and said, Now I have taken upon me to speak to my Lord, I who am but dust and ashes! But if the fifty righteous be lessened to forty five wilt thou for want of the five destroy . the whole city? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty five. And Abraham proceeded farther to speak to him and said, But if there be found there forty? And he said For the sake of the forty I will not destroy it. Then Abra. ham said, Wilt thou, O Lord, be offended if I speak? But if there be found there thirty ? And he said, I will not destroy it, for the sake of the thirty. Again Abraham said, Since I am, permitted to speak to the Lord, If twenty be found there? And he said I will not destroy it, if I find twenty there. And. Abraham said, Wilt thou, O Lord, be offended, if I speak yet once more? But if ten be found there? And he said, For the sake of ten I will not destroy it. Then the Lord having done speaking to Abraham departed, and Abraham returned to his place.
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I have two daughters who have not known man; Let me bring out these to you, and use them as you please; only do no injury to these men in as much as they have come under the shelter of my roof. And they saidto him, Begone there! Thou camest to sojourn, didst thou also, to be our judge? Now therefore. we will treat thee worse than them. And they pressed vio- lently against the man, Lot; and came near to break open the door. ‘Then the men stretched forth their hands and pulled Lot to them into the house and shut the door of the house, and smote with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they were tired seeking the door. Then the men said to Lot, Hast thou here sons in law, or sons or daughters? or if thou hast any other in this city: take them out of this place, for we are going to destroy this place. For their cry is come up before the Lord, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it. Upon this Lot went out and spoke to his sons in law, who had bethrothed his daughters and said, Arise and depart from this place; for the Lord is going to destroy this city. But he seemed to his sons in law to be mocking. Now when it was break of day the angels hurried Lot, saying, Arise and take thy wife and thy two daughters whom thou hast, and get away, lest thou also perish for the iniquities of this city. But they were confounded. So the angels took hold of his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, as the Lord spared him. And having led them out they said, Escape for thy life. Look not back, nor stop in any part of the plain around. Escape to the mountains, lest peradyenture thou be overtaken, Thereupon Lot said to them, I beseech thee,O Lord, since thy servant hath found favour in thy sight and thou hast magnified thy
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escape to the mountains. Peradventure the calamity may over- take me and I shall die. Behold that city is nigh for me to flee to. It is little and thither I can escape. Is it not little? And my soul shall live by thy means. And he said, Behold I have indulged thee also in this matter, so as not to destroy that city of which thou hast spoken. Haste therefore to escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou get there. For this cause he called the name of that city, Segor.
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23 The sun was risen on the earth when Lot entered Segor; 24 and the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorra brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.: And he overthrew these cities, and all the circumjacent country, and all the inha- bitants of those cities, and all the productions of the ground. 26 And Lot’s wife having looked back was turned into a pillar of salt. 27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place, 28 where he had stood before the Lord, and he looked towards Sodom and Gomorra and towards the circumjacent plain, and he beheld and lo! a flame ascended out of the earth like the 29 smoke ofa furnace. But when God destroyed all the cities of that neighbourhood he remembered Abraham, and sent heat out from that destruction. Now when the Lord had destroyed those cities in which 80 Lot had dwelt, Lot went up out of Segor, and he and his two daughters with him settled in the mountains; for he was afraid to dwell in Segor. So he and his two daughters with him took 31 up their abode in a caye. And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old and there is none in this land who will come 32 in unto us, asis customary in all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him that we may 33 raise up seed from our father. So they made their father drink wine that very night, and the elder having gone in lay with her father that night, and he knew not when she lay down, nor when ‘34 she arose. And on the next night the elder said to the young- er, Lo! I lay with our father last night, let us make him drink wine this night also, and do thou go in and lie with him and 35 let us raise up seed from our father. So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger went in and lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when 36 she arose. Thus the two daughters of Lot conceived by their $7 father. And the eldest bore a son and called his name Moab, saying From my father. He is the father of the present Moa- 88 bites. And the youngest also bore a son and called his name Amman saying, Son of the same as I. He is the father of the present Ammanites. XX. Now Abraham had removed thence into the south country, and made his abode between Kades and Sour, and sojourned
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among the Gerarites. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. For he was afraid to say, She is my wife, Jest the men of the city should kill him on her account. And Abimelech the king of the Gerarites sent and took Sarah. And God came to Abimelech ina dream by night and said, Behold thou diest for this woman, whom thou hast taken; for she is the man’s wife. Now Abimelech had not touched her. And Abimelech said, O Lord, wilt thou destroy an un- knowing and righteous nation? Did he not tell me, She is my sister? And did not she say to me, He is my brother? With a pure heart and innocent hands I have done this. And God said to him in a dream, I know indeed that with a pure heart thou hast done this, and out of compassion I withheld thee from sinning against me. For this cause I suffered thee not to touch her. Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a pro- phet; and he will pray for thee and thou shalt live. But if thou restore not, be assured that thou and all belonging to thee shall die. And Abimelech arose early next morning and called all his servants and related all these things in their hearing, And allthe men were exceedingly terrified. ‘Then Abimelech sent for Abraham and said to him, Why hast thou. dealt thus with us? Have we m any respect sinned against thee, that thou shouldst bring upon me and upon my kingdom this great sin? Thou hast done to me what no one should do. Moreover Abimelech said to Abraham, What didst thou see that thou shouldst do this? And Abraham said, I indeed thought, as there is no worship of God in this place, they will kill me for my wife’s sake. And indeed ofa truth she is my sister by the same father but not of the same mother, so she became my wife. And when God led me out from my father’s house I said to her, Thou wilt do me this kindness. To what place soever we come say of me, He is my brother. Then Abimelech took a thousand didrachms and sheep and oxen and men servants and maid servants and gave them to Abraham, and restored to him Sarah his wife. And Abimelech said to Abraham, Behold my land is before thee ; dwell wherever it may please thee. And to Sarah he said, Behold I have given thy brother a thou- sand didrachms. Let these therefore be for thee to adorn thy countenance and for all the women with thee. Make thau
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did for Sarah as he had spoken, and she conceived and bare ἃ son to Abraham in old age at the set time, of which the Lord had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaak. And Abraham circumcised Isaak on the eighth day, asGod had com- manded him. Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaak was born to him. And Sarah said, The Lord hath made laughter for me; for whoever shall hear will rejoice with me. And she said, Who will tell Abraham that Sarah is suckling a child—that I have borna son in my old age! And the child grew and was weaned and Abraham made great en- tertainment on the day his son Isaak was weaned. And when Sarah saw the son of Agar the Egyptian who was born to Abraham sporting with her son Isaak, she said to Abraham, Send away this girl and ΠΟΙ 506; for the son of this girl shall not be heir with my son Isaak. And the thing appeared very
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Sarah in whatever she may have said to thee. For in Isaak a seed shall be called for thee. Nevertheless I will make the son of this handmaid a great nation, because he is thy seed. So Abraham arose early the next morning and took loaves and a skin full of water, and when he had put them on her shoulder he gave the boy to Agar and sent her away. And she departing lost her way between the wilderness and Well ofthe Oath; And the water in the skin being spent she laid the boy under the first pine tree and going away sat down over against him at the distance of about a bow shot. For she said, I cannot behold the death of my son. So she sat over against him and the lad wept with a loud voice. And God heard the voice of the lad from the place where he was. And an angel of God called to Agar out of heaven ‘and said, What ts the matter, Agar? Fear not:
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Now it happened at that time that Abimelech, accompanied with Ochozath his chamberlain and Phichol the general of his army, spoke to Abraham saying, God is with thee in all that thou dost. Now therefore swear to me by God, that thou wilt not injure me nor my seed nor my name; but that according to the kindness with which I have treated thee, thou wilt deal with me and this land in which thou hast sojourned. And Abra- ham said, I swear. ‘Then Abraham expostulated with Abime- lech touching the wells of water which the servants of Abime- lech had taken. And Abimelech said to him, I did not know that any one had done this to thee, ‘Thou didst not tell me, nor did I hear of it till this day. Then Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech; and they both made a co-
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selyes; And Abimelech said to Abraham, What are these se- ven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? Upon which Abraham said, These seven ewe lambs thou wilt take of me that they may be a witness for me, that I digged this well. For this cause he called the name of that place, /Vell of the Oath, because both of them swore there and made a covenant at Π οἰ of the Oath. Then arose Abimelech and Ochozath his chamberlain and Phichol the general of his army and returned to the land of the Philistines; and Abraham planted a field at Well of the Oath and there invoked the name of the Lord, the everlasting God. And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.
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saddled his ass and took with him two servants and his son ° Isaak: and having split wood for the whole homage offering he set out on the journey and came to the place which God told him on the third day. Now when Abraham raised his eyes and ‘saw the place at a distance he said to his servants, Stay here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder, and when we have worshipped we will return to you. Then Abraham took the wood of the whole homage offering and laid it on his son Isaak; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife, and they both proceeded on together. And Isaak said to his father Abraham, Father. And he said, What is the matter, son? And Isaak said, Here is the fire and the wood; where is the sheep for a whole homage offering? And Abraham said, My son! God will provide for himself a sheep fora whole homage offering. So they both proceeded on together and came to the place which God told him. And Abraham built there the altar, and placed thereon the wood; and having bound his son Isaak he laid him on the altar above the wood. And when Abraham stretched forth his hand to take hold of the knife to slay his son, the angel of the Lord called to him out of heaven and said, Abraham! Abraham! And he said, Here Iam. And he said, Lay not thy hand on the lad, nor do any thing to him; for now I know that thou fearest God and on my account hast not spared thy darling son. "Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and lo! a ram caught by the horns in a sabek bush. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for an homage offer- ing instead of his son Isaak. And Abraham called the name of that place, The Lord hath seen, that at this day they might say, Onthis mountain, Zhe Lord was seen. Vhen the angel of the Lord called to Abrahani a second time out of heaven, saying, By myself Ihave sworn, saith the Lord, Because thou hast done this, and for my sake hast not spared thy beloved son; with blessings I will indeed bless thee; and I will multi- ply thy seed abundantly as the stars of heaven and. as the sand on the sea shore: and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their adversaries ; and by the seed of thee all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because thou hast hearkened to my voice. Then Abraham returned to his servants and they arose and
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came together to /Vell of the Oath, for Abraham lived at Well of the Oath. And after these things it was told Abraham say- ing, With regard to Melcha, behold she also hath born sons to thy brother Nachor, Ouz the first born, and Baux his brother, and Hamuel, the father of the Syrians, and Chazad and Azau, and Phaldes and Jeldaph and Bathuel; and Bathuel begot Re- bekka. These were the eight sons, whom Melcha bore to Na- chor the brother of Abraham. And his concubine whose name was Reuma bore also Tabek and Gaam and Tochos and Mo-
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‘thee to swear by the Lord the God of heaven and the God of earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son Isaak, of the daughters of the Chananites among whom I dwell; but that thou wilt go to the land where I was born, and to my tribe and take thence a wife for my son Isaak. And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to come with me to this land; shall I take back thy son to the land from which thou camest? Whereupon Abraham said to him, Beware that thou take not back my son thither. The Lord, the God of hea- ven and the God of earth, who took me from my father’s house and from the land. of my nativity; who spoke tome, and who sware to me saying, ‘ To thee I will give this land and to thy seed ;”” he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take thence a wife for my son. But if the woman will not come with thee into this land, thou shalt be absolved from this my oath, save that thou must not take my son back thither. Then the servant put his hand under his master Abraham’s thigh, and swore to him respecting this matter. And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master; and of all the goods of his
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master which were in his charge, and arose and went to Me- sopotamia to the city of Nachor. And he made his camels lie down without the city, by the well of water, in the evening, when the women come out to draw water; and said, O Lord the God of my master Abraham, prosper the way before me this day; and shew thy kindness to my master Abraham. Be- hold I stand by this well of water and the daughters of the in- habitants of the city will come out to draw water. Now let the virgin to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher that I may drink; and who shall say, Drink thou, and I will give water al- so to thy camels till they have all done drinking; let her be the woman whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaak. And by this I shall know that thou hast dealt mercifully with my master Abraham. And before he had finished this mental speech, lo! Rebekka the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Mel- cha, the wife of Nachor, Abraham’s brother, came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. Now the damsel was of a very beautiful countenance and was a virgin. No man had known her. So when she had gone down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up, the servant ran to meet her and said, Let me drink a little water out of thy pitcher. Upon which she said, Drink, my lord, and hastened to let down the pitcher on her arm and let him drink till he was satisfied. Then she said, I will draw water for thy camels also until they shall have all drunk. And she hasted and emptied the pitcher into the wa- tering trough and ran to the well to draw more and drew water for all the camels. And the man observed her attentively and held his peace, that he might know whether the Lord had prospered his journey or not. And when all the camels had done drinking, the man took ear rings of gold of about a drachm weight, and a pair of bracelets for her hands, the weight of which was ten pieces of gold, and he asked her saying, Whose daughter art thou? Tell me, Is there room at thy father’s house for us to lodge? And she said, I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, whom she bore to Nachor. Moreover she said to him, We have plenty of straw and provender and room to lodge in. ‘hen the man being satisfied, worshipped the Lord and said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abra- ham, who hath not withdrawn his kindness and his truth from
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master when he was old, and he hath given him all that be- longed to him. And my master made me sware saying, ‘Thou shalt not take a wife for my son from among the daughters of the Chananites in whose land I sojourn; but thou shalt go to the house of my father and to my tribe and take thence a wife for my son. Whereupon I said to my master, Perhaps the woman will not comewithme. Andhe saidto me, The Lord God, to whom I have been well pleasing in his sight, will send his angel with thee, and make thy journey prosperous, and thou shalt take a wife for my ‘son from my tribe and from my father’s house. On this condition only thou shalt be absolved from my curse; when thou hast gone to my tribe, if they will not give thee, then shalt thou be clear from my oath. Now, when I came to day to the well, I said, O Lord the God of my master Abraham, if thou prosperest the journey in which I am now engaged, Behold I have stopped at this well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water, Let the virgin to whom I shall say, Let me drink a little water out of thy pitcher; and who shall say to me, Drink thou,
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servant heard these words, he worshipped the Lord on the ground. Then the servant brought out jewels of silver and gold and raiment and gave them to Rebekka, and made presents to her brother and to her mother. And when he and the men who were with him had eaten and drank, they went to rest. And he arose early next morning and said, Dismiss me that I may return to my master. But her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel stay with us about ten days and then she shall go. And he said to them, Do not detain me, seeing the Lord hath prospered my journey as far as it respecteth me. Send: me away that I may go back to my master. Whereupon they said, Let us call our child and ask what she saith. So they called Rebekka and said to her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go. Then they sent away their sister Rebekka and what belonged to her, and the servant of Abraham and his attendants. And they blessed Rebekka and said to her, Thou art our sister. Mayest thou become thou-
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And the servant said, It is my master. Whereupon she took 66 her veil and covered herself. And the servant told Isaak all
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2 Chettura and she bore to him Zembran and Jesan and Madal 3 and Madiam and Jesbok and Soie. And Jesan begot Saba and Dedan. And the children of Dedan were Assurieim and 4. Latusieim and Laomeim. And the children of Madiam were 5 Gephar and Apheir and Enoch and Abeida and Eldaga. All these were children of Chettura. But Abraham gave to his son 6 Isaak all his possessions, and to the children of his concubines Abraham gave gifts and sent them, while.he was yet living, towards the east, into the eastern country from his son Isaak. Now these were the years of the days of Abraham’s life which he lived, one hundred and seventy five years. And Abraham declining died in a good old age, an old man and full of days and 9 he was added to his people. And his sons Isaak and Ismael buried him in the double cave in: the field of Ephron the son 10 of Saar the Chettite, which is over against Mambre—1n the field and the cave which Abraham bought of the children of Chet, there they buried Abraham with Sarah his wife. And after 11 the death of Abraham God blessed his son Isaak; and Isaak dwelt at the well of Vision.
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And these are the generations of Isaak the son of Abraham.
Abraham begot Isaak. And Isaak was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekka the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Syro Mesopotamia the sister of Laban the Syrian. And Isaak intreated the Lord for Rebekka his wife because she was bar- ren, and the Lord hearkened to him; And Rebekka his wife conceived and the children struggled within her and she said; If it is to be so with me, what doth this portend? So she went to inquire of the Lord. And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in thy womb and two peoples shall be separated from thy belly, and the one people will excel the other and the elder shall serve the younger. So when her days to be delivered were ful-
‘filled there were twins in her womb. And the first born came
forth red all over hairy like a hide and she called his name Esau; and after that came forth his brother and his hand had. hold of Esau’s heel, and she called his name Jacob. Now Isaak was sixty years old when Rebekka bore them. And when they grew up to be young men, Esau was a man skilled in hunting and fond of the field; but Jacob was a man of plain manners and lived at home. And Isaak loved Esau, because his game was his food; But Rebekka loved Jacob. Now when Jacob was boiling pottage Esau came from the field fainty. And Esau said to Jacob, Let me taste some of that red pottage, for lam fainty. For this cause his name was called Edom. And Jacob said to Esau, give me this day in exchange thy rights of primo- geniture. And Esau said, Lo! I am going to die, what then are these rights of primogeniture to me? And Jacob said to him, Swear now to me. So he swore to him. Thus were Esau’s rights of primogeniture transferred to Jacob. Then Jacob gave
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Esau bread and lentil pottage. And when he had eaten and drunk he arose and went away. Thus. did Esau undervalue the rights of primogeniture.
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former famine which happened in the time of Abraham. And Isaak went to Abimelech the king of the Philistines, to Gerar. For the Lord had appeared to him and said, Go not down into Egypt, but dwell in the land which I will tell thee. Sojourn in this land and I will be with thee and bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all this land. And I will estabiish my oath which I sware to thy father Abraham and multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven. And to thy seed I will give all this land; and by thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; because Abraham thy father hearkened to my voice and kept my ordinances and my commandments and my rules of rectitude and my rites. And while Isaak dwelt at Gerar the men of the place made inquiry respecting his wife Rebekka; and he said, She is my sister, for he was afraid to say, She is my wile, lest peradventure the men of the place should kill him for Rebekka’s sake, for she was of a very beautiful counte- nance. However he continued there a long time; for Abimelech king of the Gerarites happening to look through a window saw
Isaak dallyimg with Rebekka his wife. Whereupon Abimelech
called Isaak and said to him certainly she is thy wife. Why then didst thou say, She is my sister? And Isaak said to him, Be- cause I thought I might perhaps die for her. And Abimelech said to him, Why hast thou dealt thus with us? Ina little while some person of my family might have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldst have brought guilt upon us through ignorance. ‘Then Abimelech gave a strict charge to all his people saying, Whoever toucheth this man or his wife shall be liable to death. And. Isaak sowed in that land and got that year an hundred
3 fold of barley. And the Lord blessed him and the man was
exalted and prospered more and more till he became exceed- ing great. And he had flocks and herds of cattle and many fields under cultivation. And the Philistines envied him; and all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the time of his father, the Philistines stopped up.and filled them with earth. And Abimelech said to Isaak, Depart from us, for thou ἢ
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17 art become far mightier than we. Upon this Isaak departed thence and took up his abode in the valley of Gerar and dwelt 18 there. And Isaak digged again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraham had digged and which the Phi- listines had stopped up, after the death of his father Abraham. And he called them by the same names, by which his father 19 had named them. Isaak’s servants also digged in the valley of 20 Gerar, and found there a well of spring water. But the shep- herds of. the Gerarites contended with Isaak’s shepherds, say- ing the water was theirs. So he called the name of that well Jn- 21 justice: because they did him injustice. Then he removed thence and digged another well; and about this also they con- 22 tended; so he called its name Hnmity. And he removed thence and digged another well; and about this they did not contend; So he called thename of it, Room-enough; saying, For now the Lord hath made room for us, though he hath increased us in the land. 23 And he went up thence to Well of the Oath ; and the Lord 24 appeared to him that night and said, Iam the God of thy father Abraham; Fear not; for I am with thee; and I will bless thee 25 and multiply thy seed for the sake of thy father Abraham. So he built there an altar and invoked the name of the Lord and 26 fixed his tent there. And while the servants of Isaak were dig- ging a well there in the valley of Gerar, Abimelech came to him from Gerar, accompanied with Ochozath his chamberlain 27 and Phichol the general of hisarmy. And Isaak said to them, Why are you come to me, seeing you have hated’me and sent 28 me away from you? And they said, We saw plainly that the Lord is with thee; therefore we said, Let there be an oath be- 29 tween us and thee; and we will make a covenant with thee that thou wilt not do us an injury, as we have not hated thee but used thee well and sent thee away in peace, and thou art now 30 blessed of the Lord. Then he made an entertainment for them 31 and they ate and drank. And early next morning they arose and swore one to the other. And Isaak dismissed them and 32 they departed from him in peace. And it happened that on that very day the servants of Isaak came and told him of the well which they had been digging and said, We have found water, So he called it; Oath. For this cause they call the name of the eity, Well of Oath, even at this day. VOL. I. P
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Now when Esau was forty years old he took’ to wife Judith the daughter of Beoch the Chettite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Chettite, and they were at strife. with loa and Rebekka.
XXVII. And after Isaak grew old, when his eyes were so dim- . med that he could not see he called Esau his eldest son and said
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said, Father! And he said, Here lam. Who art thou, my son?
And Jacob said to his father. I am Esau, thy first born. I have done as thou badest me. Arise, sit up, and eat of my game that thy soul may bless me. And Isaak said to his son, What is this,
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my son, whichthou hast found so quickly ὃ Andhesaid, Itis what the Lord thy God presented to my view. And Isaak said to Ja- cob, Come near my son and let me feel thee, whether thou.be my son Esau or not. And Jacob went near to his father Isaak. And when he had felt him he said, The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of EXsau. So he did not discover him, because his hands were hairy like the hands of his brother Esau, when he blessed him. Then he said. Art thou my son Esau? And he said, Iam. And he said, Bring it near to me and I willeat of thy game, my son, that my soul may bless thee. So he brought it near to him and he ate. And he brought wine and he drank. And Isaak his father said to him, Come near me my son and kiss me. And when he came near and kissed him; he smelled the smell of his raiment and blessed him and said, Behold the fragrance of my son is like the fra- grance of a full field which the Lord hath blessed. Therefore God give thee from the dew of heaven and from the fatness of the land plenty of corn and wine. May nations serve thee; and princes bow down to thee. Be thou lord of thy brother. And let the children of thy father pay thee homage. Cursed be he who curseth thee; and let him who blesseth thee be bles- sed.
Now after Isaak had finished blessing his son Jacob, when Jacob had but just withdrawn from the presence of his father Isaak, Esau his brother came from the chace. He also had made savory meat and he brought it to his father and said to him, Arise my father and eat thy son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me. And Isaak his father said to him, Who art thou? And he said I am thy son, thy first born Esau. Then was Isaak absorpt in great amazement and said, Who then is he who hath hunted game and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest and have blessed him, and he
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Isaak he cried with a loud and very bitter cry and said, Bless, I beseech thee, me also, O Father. And he said to him, Thy brother hath come deceitfully and taken thy blessing. And Esau said, His name is rightly called Jacob; for lo! he hath now supplanted me a second time. He took from me my rights of primogeniture; and now he hath taken my blessing. Then
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Esau said to his father, Hast thou not, Ο father, reserved a blessing for me? And Isaak in reply said to Esau, Seeing I have made him thy lord and made all his brethren his servants and have also supported him with corn and wine, what can ἢ do for thee, my son? And Esau said to his father, Hast thou but one blessing, father? Bless, I beseech thee, me also, Ὁ father. And Isaak being deeply affected, Esau raised his voice and wept. And Isaak his father answered and said to him, Be-
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on the dew of heaven from above. By thy sword thou shalt live and thou shalt serve thy brother. But the time will come when thou mayst shake off and loose his yoke from thy neck. So Esau harboured a rooted hatred against Jacob on ac- count of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And in this agitation of his mind Esau said, O! that the days of mourning for my father were come that I may kill my brother Jacob. And when the words of Esau her eldest son were told to Rebekka she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, Behold thy brother Esau threateneth to kill thee. Now there- fore, my son, hearken to my voice and arise and flee to Meso-
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for some time till the fury and the anger of thy brother turn away from thee, and until he forget what thou hast done to him, then I will send for thee from that place. Perhaps I] may be bereaved of you both in one day. Then Rebekka said to Isaak, I am weary of my life on account of the daughters of the children of Chet. If Jacob should take a wife of the daugh-
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When Esau saw that Isaak had. blessed Jacob and sent him to Syro Mesopotamia to take there a wife for himself, and that when he blessed him he charged him saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites; and that Jacob hearkened to his father and mother and was gone to Syrian Mesopotamia, Esau seeing that the daughters of the Chananites were displeasing in the sight of his father Isaak, went to Is- mael and in addition to his other wives took to wife Maeleth the daughter of Ismael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nabaioth.
Now when Jacob set out from Well of the Oath, and was proceeding on his journey to Charran he came to a place and went to rest there, for the sun was setting. Having taken one of the stones of the place and put it at his head he composed himself to rest in that place and dreamed; and lo! a ladder set on the earth, the top of which reached up to heaven and the an- gels of God were ascending and descending on it. And the Lord leaned over it and said, 1 am the God of Abraham _ thy father and the God of Isaak. Fear not. To thee and to thy seed I will give the land in which thou art sleeping. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and shall spread abroad to the west and the south, and the north and the east. And by thee all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed, namely by the seed of thee. And lo! lam with thee watching over thee in all the way thou goest and I will bring thee back to this land: for 1 will not leave thee until I have done all that I have spoken to thee. And when Jacob awoke from his sleep he said, Surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not. And he was ter- rified and said, How awful is this place; This is no other than the house of God. And 'this is the gate of heaven. So when Jacob arose in the morning he took the stone which he had there put at his head and set it up asa pillar and poured oil on the top of it; and called the name of that place House of God. But the first name of this city was Oulamluz. And Jacob made a vow saying, Ifthe Lord God will be with me and watch over me in the way in which I am going and give me bread to
1 eat and raiment to clothe me and bring me back safely to my 2 father’s house, The Lord shall be my God. And this stone
which I have set up asa pillar shall be for a house of God. And of all that thou mayst give me I will set apart a tenth for thee.
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east to Laban the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, the brother of Rebekka who was Jacob and Esau’s mother. And looking, he saw a well in the plain and there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks. Now there was a great stone on the mouth of the well, and when all the flocks were collected there, the shepherds rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep; and then put the stone again in its place on the mouth of the well.
And Jacob said to them, Brethren, whence are you? And they said, We are of Charran. And he said to them, Do you know Laban the son of Nachor? And they said, We know him. And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well. And lo yonder is Rachel his daughter! She was coming with the sheep. Then Jacob said to them, There is yet ihc day. It is not yet time for the cattle to be folded. Water the flocks and lead them off to feed. But they said, We cannot, till all the shepherds are come together. Then they will roll the stone from the mouth of the well; and we will water the flocks. While he was yet speaking with them, lo! Rachel the daugh- ter of Laban came with her father’s sheep; for she tended her father’s flock. And when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mo- ther’s brother, Jacob went and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s bro- ther. And Jacob kissed Rachel, and raising his voice he wept and told Rachel that he was her father’s brother; and that he was the son of Rebekka. Whereupon she ran and told her father the news. And when Laban heard the name of Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, and having embraced him he kissed him, and brought him to his house. And Jacob re- lated to him all these circumstances. And Laban said to him, Thou art of my bones and of my flesh. And when Jacob had been with him a month, Laban said to Jacob, Because thou art indeed my brother, thou shalt not serve me for nothing. Tell me what must be thy wages. Now Laban had two daugh- ters. The name of the eldest was Leia; and the name of the youngest, Rachel. Leia’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was of a beautiful countenance, and a very comely person. And Ja-
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cob loved Rachel, therefore he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy youngest daughter. And Laban said to him, It is better for me to give her to thee than to give her to another man. Abide with me. So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they appeared to him as a few days, because he loved her. Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for the days are completed, that I may go in unto her. Where- upon Laban collected all the men of the place, and made a wedding feast. And in the evening he took his daughter Leia and brought her to Jacob; and Jacob went in unto her. And. Laban gave his maid Zelpha_ to his daughter Leia, to be her handmaid. And in the morning, when Jacl saw it was Leia, he said to Laban, What is Pig hes hast done to me? Did I
not serve thee for Rachel? Why then hast thou deceived me?
And Laban answered, It is not customary with us in this place to give the younger before the elder. Finish therefore this one’s week, and I will give thee the other for the service which thou mayst perform for me yet other seven years. And Jacobsdid so. And when he had finished this one’s week, Laban gave him to wife his daughter Rachel; and Laban gave to his daugh- ter Rachel, his maid Balla to be her handmaid. And Jacob went in unto Rachel, and loved Rachel more than Leia, and served him other seven years. Now when the Lord God saw that Leia was slighted, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. And Leia conceived and bore Jacob a son and called his name Reuben; saying, Because the Lord hath seen my affliction; therefore he hath given me a son. Now therefore my husband will love me. And she conceived again, and bore to Jacob another son, and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I am slighted, he hath given me this son also; so she called his name Symeon. And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Now will my husband abide with me for I have born him three.sons; therefore she called his name Levi. And she con- ceived again and bore a son and said, Now for this also I will praise the Lord, therefore she called his name Judas. Then she ceased from bearing.
XXX. Now when Rachel saw that she bore no children to Ja-
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her, Am I in God’s ape who hath deprived thee of the fruit 3 of ihe womb? Then Rachel said to Jacob, There is my maid Balla; go in unto her, and she shall bring forth on my knees, 4 501 also shall be supplied with children by her means. So she gave him her maid Balla for a wife; and Jacob went in unto 5 her, And Balla Rachel’s maid conceived and bore Jacob a son. 6 And Rachel said, God hath judged for me and hath heard my voice and given me a son: for this cause she called his name 7 Dan. And Balla, Rachel’s maid conceived again and bore to 8 Jacob another son. Whereupon Rachel said, God helped me when I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed. 50 she called his name Nephthaleim. 9 Now when Leia saw that she had ceased from bearing, she also took her maid Zelpha and gave her to Jacob for a wife, 10 and he went in unto her. And Zelpha, Leia’s maid conceived 11 and bore Jacob a son. Whereupon Leia said, Good luck. So 12 she called his name Gad. And Zelpha, Leia’s maid conceiv- “*ed again and bore Jacob another son. Upon which Leia said, 13 Happy am I; for the women will call me happy. So she called his name Aser. 14 And at the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found in the field mandragore apples and brought them to his 15 mother Leia. And Rachel said to her sister Leia, Give me some of thy son’s mandragores. And Leia said, Is it not enough for thee that thou ee taken my husband? Wouldst , thou eee also my son’s mandragores? And Rachel said, Shall I not have them on this δοϊ θθθηθ Let him be with thee to 16 night for thy son’s mandragores. So when Jacob was coming from the field in the evening, Leia went out to meet him and said, Thou must come in to me today; for I have hired thee 17 for my son’s mandragores. And he lay with her that night, and God hearkened to Leia and she haying conceived bore to 18 Jacob a fifth son. And Leia said, God hath given me my re- 19 ward for having given my maid to my husband. So she called his name Jssachar, that is Reward. And Leia conceived again 20 and bore a sixth son to Jacob. Whereupon Leia said, God hath now endowed me with a good dowry. My husband will 21 make choice of me, for I have born him six sons. So she cal- led his name Zabulon. And after this she bore a daughter and called her name Deina.
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Now God had remembered Rachel and God hearkened to her and opened her womb. And she having conceived bore Jacob a son. Whereupon she said, God hath taken away my reproach. So she called his name Joseph, saying, May God add to me another son. .
And when Rachel had born Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my place and to my own country. Give me up my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, that I may go away: for thou knowest the service which I have done thee. Upon which Laban said to him, If I have found favour in thy sight, I would avert this evil: for God hath blessed me by thy coming. State to me thy wa. ges and 1 will give it. And Jacob said, Thou knowest what service I have done thee, and how many cattle belonging to thee are now with me. Thy stock was small before I came; but it is increased to a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed thee by my attendance. Now then, when shall I provide a house for myself. And Laban said, What shall I give thee ? To which Jacob replied, Thou shalt not give me any thing. If thou wilt do this for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep watch. Let all thy flocks this day pass in review and se- parate thou from them every grizly sheep among the lambs, and every one speckled and spotted among the goats. Such shall be my hire and my righteousness shail answer for me in time to come; for my wages are apparent to thee. Whatever is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and grizly among the sheep, if found with me, let it be deemed Stolen. And Laban said to him, Let it be according to thy proposal. And that very day he separated the goats which were speck- led and spotted, both male and female, and every one among the lambs which was grizly and every one in which there was a mixture of white, and delivered them into the hands of his sons, and set three days journey between them and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks. And Jacob took him rods of the styrax and almond and plane-tree and peeled off the white bark, and twisting it round the green, the white which he peeled off appeared speckled. And he placed the rods which he had peeled, in the watering troughs, in order that, when the flocks came to drmk, they might engender at
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39 the rods, while they were drinking, with the rods in view. So the flocks engendered at the rods and brought forth cattle 40 streaked and spotted and ash coloured. And when Jacob had separated the lambs and placed before the ewes a spotted ram and all that had spots among the lambs, then he kept the flocks which were for himself apart by themselves and did. 41 not mix them with the flocks of Laban. And at the season when the sheep were engendering and conceiving, Jacob put the rods in the troughs before some, that they might engender before the rods; but before others that had lambed he did not 42 place them. Thus the indifferent became Laban’s but the 43 choicest were Jacob’s. And the man became very rich and had much-cattle and herds and men servants and maid ser- ΧΧΧΙ. vants and camels and asses. And Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons saying, Jacob hath taken all that be- longed to our father, and with our father’s substance he hati 2 acquired all this glory. And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and lo! it was not towards him as heretofore. 3. Then the Lord said to Jacob, Return to thy father’s land 4 and tothy kindred and I will be with thee. ‘Thereupon Jacob sent for Leia and Rachel to the field where the flocks were 5 and said to them, I see that the countenance of your father is not towards me as heretofore. Though the God of my father was with me; and you also know that with all my ability I have served your father; yet your father hath dealt deceitful- ly with me, andat the ten lambings hath changed my wages. 8 But God suffered him net to hurt me. When he said the speckled shall be thy wages, then all the cattle brought forth speckled. And when he said, The white shall be thy wages. 9 Then all the cattle brought forth white. So the Lord hath 10 taken all the cattle of your father and given them to me. In- deed when the flocks engendered I beheld with my eyes in a dream, and lo! the he-goats and the rams, which leaped upon the sheep and the goats were ring-streaked, spotted and ash 11 coloured. Moreover an angel of God said to me ina dream, - 12 Jacob! And ¥ said, What is the matter. And he said, Lift up thy eyes and behold the he-goats and the rams which are leap- ing on the sheep and the goats!) They are ring-streaked, speckled and ash coloured; for I have seen what Laban is do-
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ing to thee. I am the God who appeared to thee at the place of God, where thou didst anoint for me a pillar and where thou didst make a vow. Now therefore arise and depart from this land and go to the land of thy nativity, and I will be with thee. In reply to which Rachel and Leia said to him, Have we any more a portion or an inheritance in our father’s house? Are we not accounted by him as strangers? For he hath sold us and spent the money he got for us. Now since all the riches and glory which God hath taken from our father shall be ours and our children’s, do then what God hath commanded thee. So Jacob arose and put his wives and his children on camels, and carried off all his substance, and all the goods which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to go to His father Isaak in the land of Chanaan.
Now Laban being gone to sheer his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s idols. And Jacob concealed his design from Laban the Syrian by not telling him that he was sine away. And he departed with all that belonged to him and crossed the river and bent his course to mount Galaad. But on the third day news was brought to Laban the Syrian, that Jacob was filed. Whereupon taking with him his brethren he pursued him se- ven days journey ae overtook him at mount Galaad. But God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night and said to him, Take care that thou speak not evil to J uaebe Now when Kaban overtook Jacob, Jacob had pitched his tent on the mount. So Laban halted his brethren at mount Galaad. And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done?. Why didst thou flee away secretly, and steal off without my knowledge, and carry away my daughters as if captivated by the sword? Hadst thou told me I might have sent thee away with joy and musick, with timbrels and the kithara. But I have not been thought worthy to kiss my children and my daughters. Now therefore thou hast acted foolishly; and it is now in my power to punish thee. But the God of thy father spoke to me last night saying, ‘Take care that thou speak not evil to Jacob. Now grant that thou hast gone because thou hadst a longing desire to return to thy father’s house, yet why hast thou stolen my Gods?
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and all that are mine: but said Jacob, with whomsoever thou findest thy Gods, let him not live. In the presence of our bre- thren, examine what there is of thine with me and take it. He knew of nothing with him. Now Jacob did not know that his wife Rachel had stolen them. So when Laban had gone in and searched Leia’s tent and found them not; and from Leia’s tent had gone and searched the tent of Jacob and in the tent of the two handmaids but did not find them. Then he went in also to Rachel’s tent. Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them in the camel’s furniture and sat upon them, and she said to her father, Be not offended my lord, I cannot rise before thee, for the custom of women is upon me. So when Laban had searched the whole tent but did not find the idols, Jacob was inflamed with resentment and remonstrated against Laban. And Jacob addressing Laban said, What is my crime, and what my offence that thou hast pursued me? And that thou hast searched all the goods of my house? What hast thou found of all the goods of thy house? Set it here before thy brethren and my brethren and let them judge between us both. These twenty years that I have been with thee, thy sheep and thy goats have not cast their young; nor have I devoured the rams of thy flock. What was torn by wild beasts I brought not to thee. I made up at my own expence the loss of what was stolen by day or by night. I have borne the sultry heat of the day and the frost of the night, and sleep departed from my eyes. I have been in thy family these twenty years. I served thee fourtcen years for thy two daughters; and six years for thy flocks; though thou didst change my wages at the ten lamb- ings. Had not the God of my father Abraham and the fear of Isaak been with me, thou wouldst now have sent me away empty. God hath seen my affliction and the labour of my hands, therefore he rebuked thee last night. In reply to this Laban said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the cattle are my cattle. Even all that thou seest are mine and my daughters. What now can J do to them and their children whom they have born? Now therefore come and let us make a covenant, both I and thou. And let it be for a memorial between me and thee. And he said to him, Behold there is none with us; Goda witness
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between me and thee hath seen. Then Jacob took a stone and set it up for a pillar. And Jacob said to his brethren, Collect stones. And when they had collected stones and made a heap, they eat thereon. Then Laban said to him, This heap is this day a witness between me and thee; so Laban called it, The heap of witness; but Jacob called it Heap witness. And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap and this pillar which I have set between me and thee! This heap witnesseth and this pillar witnesseth (for this cause its name was called Heap wit- nesseth and the sight, which said he, God would see between me and thee, because we shall be separated one from the other) if thou afflict my daughters, if thou take other wives besides my daughters, look! though there be none with us to see, God is a witness between me and thee. Moreover Laban said to Jacob, Behold; this heap is a witness and this pillar also, that if I pass not to thee neither shalt thou pass to me be- yond this heap and this pillar for harm. The God of Abraham and the God of Nachor judge between us. And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaak. Then he offered a sacrifice upon the mount and invited his brethren and they ate and drank and slept on the mount. And in the morning Laban arose and
XXXII. kissed his daughters and blessed them. And Laban
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departed and went to his place and Jacob proceeded on his journey. And raising his eyes he saw a camp of God pitched and messengers of God were coming to meet him. And when Jacob saw them he said, That is a camp of God, So he called the name of that place Camps.
Now Jacob had sent messengers before him to his brother Esau, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom, and had given them a charge, saying, Thus shall you say to my lord Esau, Thus saith thy servant Jacob, [have sojourned with La- ban and staid till now. And I have got oxen and asses and sheep and men servants and maid servants. And I have sent to give notice to my lord Esau, that thy servant may find fa- your in thy sight. So the messengers returned to Jacob and said, We have been to thy brother Esau; and lo! he is coming to meet thee; and four hundred men with him. Thereupon Jacob was greatly terrified and distressed. And he divided the people who were with him and the cattle and the camels and
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the flocks into two camps. And Jacob said, If Esau come te the first camp and smite it, there will be another camp to escape. Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and the God of my father Isaak, Thou, O Lord, who saidst to me, Return to the land of thy nativity, and I will deal well with thee; let me be satisfied with all the kindness and with all the truth which thou hast shewn to thy servant. For with this staff of mine I crossed the Jordan, but now I am become two camps. Deliver me from the hand of my brother—from the hand of Esau; for Iam afraid of him. Peradventure he may come and smite me and the mother with the children. But thou hast said, I will deal well with thee and make thy seed like the sand of the sea, which, for multitude cannot be num- bered. So he halted there that night and took presents of what he had brought and sent to His brother Esau two hune dred she-goats and tw enty he-goats; two hundred ewes and twenty rams; thirty milch diate with their thirty colts; forty cows and ten bulls; twenty asses and ten foles. These he de- livered to his servants, each drove by itself, and he said to his servants, Go on before me and make a small distance between drove and drove. And he gave orders to the first saying, If my brother Esau meet thee and ask thee saying, To w ΤΡ dost thou belong, and whither art thou going? And whose are these before thee? thou shalt say, They belong to thy ser- vant Jacob—presents which he hath sent to my lord Esau. And lo! heis behind us. ‘This charge he gave to the first, and to the second, and to the third, and to all who went before him after their droves, saying, In this manner speak to Esau when you meet him. Moreover ye shall say, Behold thy servant Ja- cob is coming behind us. For he said, I will appease him with these previous gifts, and afterwards I will look him in the face, perhaps he will receive me favourably.
So the presents went on before him; but he lay that night in the camp. And he arose in the night and took his two wives with the two handmaids and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of Jabok. And when he had taken and conducted them over the brook he caused all belonging to him to cross over; and Jacob was left alone. Andaman wrestled with him till the morning. And when he saw that he could not prevail
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against him he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hol- low of Jacob’s thigh became numb, in wrestling with him. And he said to him, Let me go: for the dawn approached. But Jacob said I will not let thee go unless thou bless me. And he said to him what is thy name? to which he replied, Jacob. Thereupon he said to him, Thy name shall no more be Jacob only, but Israel also shall be thy name. Since thou hast been enabled to prevail with God, therefore with men thou shalt be mighty. Then Jacob asked him saying, Tell me thy name. And he said why dost thou ask my name? Then he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of that place, ace of God: for I have seen God face to face and my life is preserv- ed. Now the sun was risen when he departed from Face of God: and he limped with his thigh. For this cause even to this day the children of Israel do not eat the smew which is in the hollow of the thigh which was numbed; for he had touch- ed the hollow of Jacob’s thigh on the sinew and it was numb- ed.
XXXII. Now when Jacob looked up and saw with his eyes,
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and embraced him and fell upon his neck and kissed him and they both wept. And when Esau looked up and saw the wo- men and the children he said, What! Are these thine! To which Jacob replied, ‘These are the children with which God hath favoured thy servant. ‘Then the maids and their children came near and made obeisance; next Leia and her children came:near and made obeisance; and after that Rachel came near with Joseph; and when they had made obeisance he said, What is the meaning of all those droves which I met? And Jacob said, That thy servant may find favour in the sight of thee my lord. Whereupon Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep thou thine own. But Jacob replied, If I have found favour in thy sight, receive these presents at my hands,
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because I have seen thy face as one would see the face of God; and thou wilt oblige me. Receive these my blessings which I have brought thee; because God hath dealt bountifully with me, and is all things to me. So he pressed him and he took them. Then he said, Let us depart and march on straightway. But Jacob said to him, My lord perceiveth that the children are tender, and the sheep and cows with me have just had young. If therefore I over drive them ‘one day, all the cattle will die. Let my lord go on before his servant, and I will recruit them on the way by a leisurely march as fast as the young can walk, until !come tomy lord at Seir. Then Esau said, Let me leave with thee some of the people who are with me. To which Jacob replied, What need is there? It is suff- cient that I have found favour in the sight of thee, my lord.
So Esau set out that day on his return to vege and Jacob march- ed on to Booths, and there built houses for himself and booths for his cattle, for which cause he called the name of that place Boorus.
And when Jacob came from Syrian Mesopotamia he went to Salem a city of the Sekimites which 1sin the land of Chanaan, and encamped before the city, and purchased of Emmor, the father of Sychem, the part of the field where he had pitched his tent for a hundred lambs and he erected there an Altar and
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of Leia, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to make an ac- quaintance with the daughters of the neighbours. And Sychem the son of Emmor the Evite, who was the prince of the coun- try, saw her and took her and lay with her and humbled her. And having applied himself to gain the affections of Deina the daughter of Jacob, for he loved the virgin, and having spoken to her according to the wishes of the virgin, Sychem said to his father Emmor, Get me this young woman for a wife. Now Jacob had heard that the son of Emmor had defiled his daugh- ter Deina; but as his sons were with-the cattle in the field Jacob held his peace till they came. So Emmor the father of Sychem went out to Jacob to speak to him; and Jacob’s sons came from the plain. And when the men heard, they were stung to the quick; and it was exceedingly painful to them, that he had brought dishonour on Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter,
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and it should not pass so. And Emmor spoke to them saying, My son Sychem hath a passionate fondness for your daughter, therefore give her to him for a wife, and unite yourselves to us by the ties of affinity. Give us your daughters and take our daughters for your sons and dwell among us. Behoid the land before you is spacious. Dwell and trade therein and pur- chase possessions in it. Sychem also said to her father and to her brothers, Let me find favour in your sight; and what- ever you say we will give. Make the dower ever so great I will give whatever you tell me, so you give me this damsel for a wife. But the sons of Jacob answered Sychem and Em- mor his father deceitfully. And because their sister had been defiled, Symeon and Levi the brothers of Deina spoke to them and said, We cannot do this thing to give our sister toa man who is uncircumcised; for that with us isa reproach. On this condition only will we coalesce with you and dwell with you— if you become like us by every male of you being circumcised, then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for wives, and dwell among you and be as one race. But if you will not hearken to us to be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart. And the proposal pleased Emmor and Sychem the son of Emmor. And the young man made no delay to carry this into execution, for he was passionately fond of Jacob’s daughter.
Now he was the most honourable of all his father’s family : so Emmor and his son Sychem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city saying. These are peaceable men; let them dwell with us in the land and use it for the purposes of trade. Behold the land before them is spacious. Let us take their daughters for our wives and give them our daughters. Only on this condition will these men dwell with us so as to be one people—that every male among us be cir- cumciséd as they are circumcised. Will not their cattle and four footed beasts and all their substance become ours? Let us only be like them in this, and they will dwell with us. Accordingly all who went in at the gate of their city hearkened to Emmor and his son Sychem and were every male of them, circum- cised. And on the third day when they were in pain, the two sons of Jacob, Symeon and Levi the brothers of Deina took,
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26 every male. They slew both Emmor and Sychem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Deina out of Sychem’s
27 house and went away. And the sons of Jacob came upon the slain and rifled the city in which their sister Deina had been defiled; and took their flocks and their herds and their asses, both all that was in the city and all that was in the field, and took captive all their servants and all their children and their wives and plundered what was in the city and what was in the
80 houses. Thereupon Jacob said to Symeon and Levi, You have made me an object of hatred so as to be deemed a mor- tal enemy to all the inhabitants of the land, both to the Chana- nites and the Pherezites. Now as 1 am few in number they will assemble against me and fall upon me, and I and my
31 house shall be utterly destroyed. And they said, But shall they treat our sister like a harlot ?
XXXV. Then God said to Jacob, arise and go to the place Bethel and dwell there. And erect there an altar to the God who appeared to thee, when thou wast fleeing from the face
2 of thy brother Esau. Thereupon Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, Put away the strange gods which are with you and purify yourselves and change your gar- ments; and let us arise and go to Bethel and build there an altar to the God who hearkened to me in a day of distress—
who was with me and preserved me in the way in which T
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their hands and the ear rings which were in their ears, and”
Jacob hid them in the pine grove, which was in the country
of the Sekimites and destroyed them even to this day. Then
Israel removed from the country of the Sekimites; and a
terror of God was on all the cities around them, so that they
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to Louza which is in the land of Chanaan, the same is Baithel,
he and all the people who were with him, he built there an al- tar, and called the name of the place Baithel; because God appeared to him there, when he was fleeing from the face of
8 his brother Esau. And Debbora the nurse of Rebekka died
and was buried under the Oak below Baithel. So Jacob called
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at Louza after he came from Syrian Mesopotamia, and God blessed him and God said to him, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob; but Israel shall be thy name. So he called his name Israel. And God said to him, I am thy God. In- erease and multiply. Of thee shall be nations and collections of nations; and kings shall spring from thy loins. And this land, which I gave to Abraham and Isaak, I have given to thee. To thee it shall belong: and to thy seed after thee 1 will give this land. And when God ascended from him—from the place where he had spoken with him, Jacob set up a pil- lar—a stone pillar in the place where God spoke to him; and he made a libation thereon and poured oil upon it. And Ja- cob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Baithel. .
And Jacob removed from Baithel and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gader. And when he was near Chabratha on the way to Ephratha, Rachel was taken in labour and had a hard delivery. And when she was in the sharp pangs of child birth, the midwife said to her, Courage; for this also is a son for thee. And just as she was departing (for she died) she called his name Son of my sorrow; but his father called his name Benjamin. And Rachel died and was buried in the race ground of Ephratha, which is Bethlehem. And Jacob erected a pillar over her grave. The same is the pillar of Rachel’s grave even to this day. And while Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went and lay with Balla the concubine of his father Jacob, and Israel heard of it, and it appeared evil in his sight.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. The sons of Leia, Reuben, Jacob’s first born, Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Zabulon: and the sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin; ‘and the sons of Balla, Rachel’s handmaid, Dan and Nephthaleim: and the sons of Zelpha, Leia’s handmaid, Gad and Aser, These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Sy- rian Mesopotamia. Then Jacob went to his father Isaak, to Mambre, a city of the plain, the same is Chebron in the land of Chanaan, where Abraham and Isaak had sojourned. Now the days which Isaak lived were one hundred and eighty years. And Isaak fainting away died and was added to his
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race being an old man and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob: buried him.
XXXVI. Now these are the families of Esau, the same is
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Edom. Esau took to himself wives from the daughters of the Chananites—Ada the daughter of Ailom the Chettite; and Olibema the daughter of Ana, the son of Sebegon the Evite ; and Basemath, Ismael’s daughter, the sister of Nabaioth. And Ada bore him Eliphas; and Basemath bore Raguel; and Oli- bema bore Jeous and Jeglom and Kore. These were the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Chanaan. And Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the persons belonging to his family, and all his substance, and all his cattle, and all that he possessed, and all that he had gotten in the land of Chanaan, and went out from the land of Chanaan, from the face of his brother Jacob: for their sub- stance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they sojourned could not support them on account of the abundance of their stock. And Esau made his abode on mount Seir. Esau is the same as Edom.
Now these are the families of Esau, the father of the Edom- ites, on mount Seir. And these are the names of Esau’s sons —FEJiphas son of Ada, Esau’s wife; and Raguel, son of Base- math, E:sau’s wife.
And the sons of Eliphas were Thaiman, Omar, Sophar, Gotham and Kenez.. And ‘Thamna was a concubine of Eli- phas, the son of Esau, and she bore to Eliphas, Amalek. These were the children of Ada the wife of Esau.
* And these are the sons of Raguel, Nachoth, Zare, Some and Mose. These were the children of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
And these are the children of Olibema the daughter of Ana, the son of Sebegon, the wife of Esau. She bore to Esau, Jeous and Jeglom and Kore.
These were the emirs of son Esau. The sons of Eliphas, Esau’s first born. Emir Thaiman, emir Omar, emir Sophar, emir Kenez, emir Kore, emir Gothom, emir Amelek. These were the emirs of Eliphas in the land of Idumea. These were the children of Ada. And these were sons of Raguel, son of Esau, emir Nachoth, emir Zare, emir Some, emir Mose.
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These were the emirs of Raguel in the land of Edom. These were the children of Basemath, the wife of Esau. And these were the sons:of Olibema the wife of Esau, emir Jeous, emir Jeglom, emir Kore. These were the emirs of Olibema, the daughter of Ana, Esau’s wife. These were the children of + Esau and these their Emirs. They are the Edomites.
Now these were sons of Seir the Chorrite, the inhabitant of the land, Lotan, Sobal, Sebegon, Ana, and Deson, and Asar, and Rison. These were the emirs of the Chorrite—of son Seir in the land of Edom. And these were the sons of Lotan, Chor- ri and Aiman, and the sister of Lotan, Thamna. And these , were the sons of Sobal, Golam and Manachath and Gaibel and Sophar and Omar. And these were the.sons of Sebegon, Aie and Ana. This is that Ana who found the Jameins in the wil- derness, when he was feeding his father Sebegon’s asses. And these were sons of Ana; Deson and Olibema a daughter of " Ana: And these were the sons of Deson, Amada and Asban and Ithran and Charran. And these were the sons of Asar} Balaam and Zoukam and Joukam. And these were the sons Rison, Os and Aran.
‘And these were the emirs of the Chorrites, emir ὝΕΣ emir Sobal, emir Sebegon, emir Ana, emir Deson, emir Asar, emir Rison. These were the emirs of the Chorrites in their clans in the land of Edom. |
And these were the kings who reigned in Edom before a king reigned in Israel; Balak son of Beor reigned in Edom
33 and the name of his city was Donnaba; and when Balak died,
Jobab son of Zara of Bosorra reigned in his stead; and when Jobab died, Asom of the land of the Thaimanites reigned in his stead; and when Asom died, Adad son of Bar nal who smote Madiam in the plain of Moab reigned in his stead and the name of his city was Gethaim. And when Adad died, Sa- mada of Masekka reigned in his stead; and when Samada died, Saul of Rooboth which is by the river reigned in his stead; and when Saul died, Ballenon son of Achobar reign- ed in his stead; and when Ballenon son of Achobar died, Arad son of Barad reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Phogor, and his wife’s name, Metebeel. She was a daughter of Matraith, son of Maizoob.
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40 These are the names of the emirs of Esau in their tribes according to their place in their countries and their nations; 41 Emir of Thamna, emir of Gola, emir of Jether, emir of Olibe- 42 mas, emir of Elas; emir of Phinon, emir of Kenez, emir of Thaiman, emir of Mazar, emir of Magediel, emir of Zaphoin. A3 ‘These are the emirs of Edom in their respective abodes in the land of their possession. Esau and father Edom is the same. : XXXVI. Now Jacob dwelt in the land where his father had τ΄ sojourned in the land of Chanaan; and this is the history of 2 Jacob’s posterity. When Joseph was seventeen years of age and feeding his father’s sheep with his brothers, as he was young, namely with the sons of Balla and the sons of Zelpha “his father’s wives, they carried an ill report against Joseph to 3 Israel their father. Now Jacob loved Joseph above all his chil- dren because he was the son of his old age; and he had made 4 him a robe of different colours. So when his brothers saw that + their father loved him more than all his sons, they hated him 5 and could not speak peaceably to him. Besides Joseph hay- ing dreamed a dream told it to his brothers and said to them, 6 Hear this dream which I have dreamed. I'thought we were 7 binding sheaves in the middle of a field ; and my sheaf arose and stood upright, and your sheaves being ranged around 8 made obeisance to my sheaf. Upon which his brothers said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us or have dominion over — 9 us? So they hated him still more for his dreams and for his _words. And he had another dream and told this to his father ' and his. brothers and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream, as if the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obei- 10 sance to me. Upon which his father rebuked him saying, What is this dream which thou hast dreamed? What! Shall I and thy mother and thy brothers come and bow down to thee 11 onthe ground? So his brothers envied him; but his father pon- 12 dered the matter. After this his brothers having gone to Sy- 13 chem to feed their father’s flocks, Israel said to Joseph, Are not thy brothers tending the flocks at Sychem? Come, let me send thee to them. And he said, Iam ready. Whereupon Israel said to him, Go and see if thy brothers and the flocks be well 14 and bring me word. So he despatched him from the valley. of
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2 ἡ. : Chebron and he went to Sychem: and a man found him wand- ering in the plain. And the man asked him saying, What art thou seeking? To which he replied, Iam seeking my brothers, tell me where they are feeding. And the man said to him, They
have removed from this place; for I heard them say, Let us go’
to Dothaim. So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothaim. Now when they saw him at a great distance be- fore he came near them, they wickedly thought of killing him and said one to another, Behold the dreamer is coming. Now
therefore come let us kill him and throw him into one of these
pits, and we will say a savage beast hath devoured him. And let us see what will become of his dreams. But when Reuben heard he rescued him out of their hands and said, Let us:not touch his life. Reuben indeed said to them, Shed not blood. Throw him into one of these pits in the wilderness, but lay not a hand on him, in order that he might rescue him out of their hands and deliver him to his father. So when Joseph came to his
brothers they stripped him of the variegated robe which he had.’ on and took him and threw him into the pit. But the pit was”
empty. It had no water. Then they sat down to eat bread. And raising their eyes they looked; and:lo! Ismaelite travel- lers were coming out of Galaad and their camels were loaded with spiceries, with balm and stacte, which, they were earry- ing to Egypt. Thereupon Judas said to his brothers, What advantage will it be though we slay our brother and conceal his blood? Come let us sell him to these Ismaelites and let not our hands be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh. So his brothers hearkened to him. And when the Madienite merchants came, they drew him up. They lifted Joseph up out ofthe pit and sold him to the Ismaelites for twenty pieces of gold; and they carried Joseph down to Egypt. Now when Reuben came back to the pit and did not see Joseph in it, he rent his cloaths and returned to his brothers and said, The boy is gone. And as for me where now am I to go? Then they took Joseph’s coat, and having killed a kid of the goats they besmeared the coat with the blood and sent away the varie- gated robe and had it carried to his father and said, This we found. Examine whether it be thy son’s robe or not. And he knew it and said, It is my son’srobe. An evil beast hath de.
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94 voured him. A wild beast hath torn Joseph. ‘Then Jacob rent his cloaths and put on sackcloth on his loins and mourned for 35 his son many days. And all his sons and daughters assembled and came to comfort him, but he would not be comforted say- ing, I will go to my son mourning, to the mansion of the dead. 36 Thus his father mourned for him. But the Madienites sold Joseph in Egypt to Petephres the chamberlain of Pharao, the captain of the guards. XXXVIII. Now at that time Judas went down from his brothers and came to a certain Odollamite whose name was 2 Eiras. And Judas saw there a daughter of a Chananite, her 3 name was Sava. And he took her and went in unto her and 4 she conceived and bore a son and called his name Er. And she conceived again and bore a son and called his name Au- 5 nan. And she bore another son and called his name Selom. 6 Now’she was at Chasbi when she bore them. And for Er his % first born Judas took a wife whose name was Thamar. But *“\ Er the first born of Judas was wicked in the sight of the Lord, 8 and God slew him. Whereupon Judas said to Aunan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife and be a husband to her and raise up 9 a seed for thy brother. But when Aunan knew that the seed would not be his, it came to pass that when he went in unto his brother’s wife he.shed it on the ground; that he might not 10 give seed to his brother. And it appeared evil in the sight of God that he had done this, therefore he caused him also to die. 11 Then Judas said to Thamar his daughter in law, Continue a widow in thy father’s house till my son Selom grow up. For 12 he said, Peradventure he also may die as his Becta’ did. So Thamar went and dwelt at her father’s house. But the time was prolonged and Sava the wife of Judas died. And when Ju- das was comforted he went up to his sheep shearers, he and his 13 shepherd Eiras the Odollamite, to Thamna. And it was told ‘Thamar his daughter in law saying, Lo! thy father im law is 14. going up to Thamna to shear his sheep. Whereupon she put off the robes of her widowhood and put on a veil and adorned her- self and sat near the gates of Ainan in the way to ‘Thamna. For she saw that Selom was grown up and that he had not given her to him for a wife. And when Judas saw her, he thought she was a harlot, for she had covered her face and he
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did not know her. So he turned aside to her and said to her, Let me come in unto thee. For he did not know that she was his daughter in law. And she said, What wilt thou give me if thou come in unto me ? ‘To which he replied, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it? And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy ring and bracelet and the staff in thy hand. So he gave them to her, and went in unto her, and she conceived by him. Then she arose and went away, and took off her veil and put on the garments of her widowhood.
‘And Judas sent the kid of the goats by the hands of his shep-
herd the Odollamite to receive from the woman the pledge. But he not finding her asked the men of the place, Where is the harlot that was at Ainan by the way side ? And they said, There was not a harlot there. Thereupon he returned to Ju- das and said, I have not found her. And the men of the place said there was not a harlot there. Then Judas said, Let her keep them. But perhaps we may be laughed at. I indeed sent the kid. Thou however hast not found her. Now after three months it was told Judas saying, Thamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot, and lo! she is with child by her whore- dom. Whereupon Judas said, Bring her out and let her be burned. And when she was brought out she sent to her father in law saying, By the man to whom these belong I am with child. Moreover she said, Examine, whose is this ring and this bracelet and this staff? And Judas acknowledged them and said, Thamar hath more justice on her side than I, be- cause 1 did not give her to my son Selom. And he proceeded no more to have knowledge of her. And when the time of her delivery came she had twins. And when she was in child birth, one put forth its hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread about its hand, saying, This will be the first born. But when it had drawn back its hand, his brother im- mediately came forth. Whereupon she said, What! Hath there been a breach made for thee ? So she called his name Phares. And after this his brother came forth, on whose hand was the scarlet thread. So she called his name Zara.
XXXIX. Now when Joseph was brought to Egypt, Pete-
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an Egyptian, bought him atthe hands of the Ismaelites, who had brought him thither. And the Lord was with Joseph, so that he was a fortunate man and was in the same house with his master the Egyptian. And his master perceived that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord prospered in his hands what- ever he did. So Joseph found favour in the sight of his mas-
ter; and he was pleased with him and set him over his
household and committed all that he had to Joseph’s charge. And after he had made him overseer of his household, and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the house of the Egyp- tian for Joseph’s sake; and there was a blessing of the Lord on all his substance, in his house and in his field. So he left to Joseph’s management all that he had, and knew not any thing he had save the bread which he ate.
Now Joseph was a comely person and of a very beautiful countenance, and after these things his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, Lie with me; but he refused and said to his master’s wife, Seeing my lord, on account of his confidence in me, knoweth not any thing in his house, and hath committed to my charge all that he hath and there is none in the family superior to me, nor any thing withheld from me, except thyself because thou art his wife; how then can I do this wicked act and commit sin in the presence of God. And when she had spoken to Joseph day after day and he hearkened not to her to lie down with her to have commerce with her, it came to pass that one day when Joseph went into the house to transact his business and none of the domestics were within, she took hold of his mantle saying, Lie with me. But he leay- ing his mantle in her hands fled and went out. And when she saw that he had left his mantle in her hands and had fled and was gone, she called those who were in the house and spoke to them saying, See! He hath brought in amongst us a He- brew slave to insult us. He came to me saying, Lie with me. But I cried with a loud voice. And when he heard that I raised my voice and cried aloud he left his mantle with me, fled and went out. And she kept the garment by her till his master came home and spoke to him in like terms saying, The Hebrew slave whom thou hast brought in amongst us came in to me to insult me and said to me, Let me lie with thee.
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18 But when he heard that I raised my voice and cried aloud ; 19 leaving his mantle with me he fled and went out. When his
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master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke saying, In this manner did thy slave treat me, he was greatly incensed. So Joseph’s master took and cast him into prison—into the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. But in the prison the Lord was with Joseph, and continued his kindness and gave him favour in the sight of the principal keeper of the
22 prison. And the principal keeper of the prison committed to
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Joseph’s care the prison and all the prisoners who were in the prison. And whatever was done there, he was the person who caused it to be done. The principal keeper took no cog- nizance of any thing himself; for all things were committed to Joseph’s management, because the Lord was with him, and the Lord prospered in his hands whatever he did.
Now after these things it happened that the chief butler of the king of Egypt and the chief baker offended their lord the king of Egypt. And Pharao was incensed against his two ofli- cers, against the chief butler and against the chief baker and sent them under a guard to prison—to the place to which Jo- seph had been sent. And the keeper of the prison committed them to Joseph gnd he attended them. And when they had been there some days in prison, they both had a dream, in the same night. And the appearance of the dream both of the chief butler and the chief baker, who belonged to the king of Egypt and were in prison, was similar. And in the morning when Joseph went in to them he saw that they were troubled. Where- upon he asked the officers of Pharao who were confined with him at his master’s, saying, Why are your countenances sad to day? And they said to him, We have had a dream and. there is none to interpret it. And Joseph said, Is not the inter- pretation thereof from God? Therefore tell me. So the chief butler told Joseph his dream and said, In my sleep there was a vine before me, and on the vine three branches and one was flourishing and had produced clusters, and the grapes of one cluster were ripe. And I had in my hand the cup of Pharao. So I took the bunch and squeezed it into the cup and gave the cup into Pharao’s hand. Thereupon Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it. ‘The three branches are three days.
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Three days hence Pharao will take cognizance of thy adminis- tration and restore thee to thy office of cup bearer, and thou shalt give Pharao’s cup into his hand according to thy former dignity, when thou wast butler. But think of me by thy own case, when it shall be well with thee; and do me the favour to men- tion me to Pharao and release me from this prison. For I have been stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here I have done nothing, yet they have thrown me into this dungeon. And when the chief baker saw that he interpreted well he said to Joseph, I also had a dream, I thought I was carrying on my head three baskets of cakes, and in the uppermost basket, pastry of all the sorts which Pharao eateth. And the birds of the air devoured those in the uppermost basket on my head. And Joseph answered and said to him, This is the interpre- tation thereof. The three baskets are*three days. Three days hence Pharao will take off thy head and hang thee on a gibbet and the birds of the air will devour thy flesh. Accordingly it fell out, that the third day was Pharao’s birth day, and he made an entertainment for all his servants and took cognizance of the administration of the butler, and the administration of the baker in the midst of his servants. And he restored the butler to his office, and he gave the cup intogPharao’s hand. But the chief baker he hanged as Joseph had interpreted to them. Yet the chief butler made no mention of Joseph, but passed him over in oblivion. 4
XLI. But it happened that at the end of two years Pharao had
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adream. He thought he was standing by the river; and lo! there came up out of the river seven cows of a beautiful figure and very fat; and they fed on the sedge. And seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and lean; and they fed near the other cows on the bank of the river; and the seven ill favoured and lean cows devoured the seven cows which were of a beautiful figure and full of flesh. And Pharao awoke. |
Again he dreamed a second time; and lo! seven ears of corn sprang upon one stalk, choice and good: and lo! seven ears thin and blasted sprang up after them. And the seven thin and blasted ears devoured the seven ears which were choice and full. And Pharao awoke; and it wasa dream. And inthe
Ch. XLI. GENESIS.
morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent for all the inter-
preters of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof, and told them
his dream, but there was none who could interpret it to Pharao.
9 Upon this the chief butler spoke to Pharao, saying, I this day
10 acknowledge my fault. Pharao was angry with his servants,
and ordered us to be confined in the house of the captain of
11 the guards—both me and the chief baker. And both I and he
had a dream the same night, each had a dream regarding him-
12 self. And there was there with us a youth, a Hebrew servant
of the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpret-
13 ed to us. And it fell out as he interpreted to us—I was restor-
14 ed to my office; but he was hanged. Upon this Pharao sent
for Joseph, and they brought him out of the prison. And when
they had shaved him and changed his raiment, he came to
15 Pharao. And Pharao said to Joseph, I have had a dream and
there is none who can interpret it. But I have heard people
say of thee, that upon hearing dreams thou canst interpret
16 them. In reply to which, Joseph said to Pharao, Without God
17 no answer of peace can be given to Pharao. Then Pharao
spoke to Joseph saying, In my sleep I thought I was standing
18 near the edge of the river; and there came up as it were out
of the river, seven cows of a beautiful figure, and very fat; and
19 they fed on the sedge. And lo! seven other cows came up
after them, out of the river, ugly and ill favoured and lean of
flesh; such that I never saw worse in all the land of Egypt.
20 And the seven ill favoured and lean cows devoured the first se-
21 ven cows which were choice and good. But though they de-
voured them, they gave no sign of fulness. Their appearance was as ugly as before.
22 Then I awoke and again went to sleep, and in my sleep I
again saw as if seven ears of corn sprang up, on one stalk, full
23 and good; and adjoining them seven other ears sprang up,
24. thin and'blasted. And the seven thin and blasted ears devour-
ed the seven ears which were full and good. Now [ have told
the interpreters; but there is not one who can interpret this to
25 me. Then Joseph said to Pharao, ‘The dream of Pharao is one.
26 God hath shewn Pharao what he is about to do. The seven
beautiful cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are
seven years. The dream of Pharao is one. The seven lean
Ch. XLI. - GENESIS.
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cows also which came up after them are seven years; and the seven thin and blasted ears are seven years. There shall be seven years of famine. This is the thing which I have said to Pharao, God hath shewn Pharao what he is about to do. Be- hold seven years are coming of great plenty in all the land of Egypt. But after these there will come seven years of famine. And they will cause the coming plenty to be forgotten in all Egypt. And the famine will-consume the land, so that the plenty will not be known in the land, by reason of the famine which will come after it: for it will be very great. And inas much as the dream of Pharao was doubled, the thing which God had determined will surely come to pass; and God is hasting to do it. Now therefore look out for a man of pru- dence and understanding, and set him over the land of Egypt. And let Pharao appoint and set governors of districts over the whole land, and let them send in a fifth of all the products of the land of Egypt, during the seven vears of plenty, and col- lect all the eatables of those seven good years which are com- ing. And let food be collected under the care of Pharao, and eatables stored in the cities. So shall food be kept in the coun- try, against the seven years of famine which will be in the land of Egypt, and the country will not be wasted with the famine.
And the advice was agreeable in the view of Pharao and in the view of all his servants. And Pharao said to all his ser- vants, Can we find such a man as this who hath in him the spirit of God? Then Pharao said to Joseph, Seeing God hath shewn thee all these things, there is none more prudent and wise than thou thyself. Thou shalt be over my household and to thy command all my people shall pay obedience. Only on the throne will I be greater than thou. Moreover Pharao said to Joseph, Behold I have set thee this day over all the land of Egypt. And Pharao took off the ring from his own hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and clothed him with a cotton robe, and put a chain of gold about his neck; and caused him to mount a chariot next to that of his own. And a herald made proclamation before him. And when he had set him over all the land of Egypt, Pharao said to Joseph, Iam Pharao. With- out thee no man shail lift up his hand in al] the land of Egypt. And Pharao called Joseph’s name Psonthomphanech and gave
Ch. XLII. GENESIS.
him Aseneth a daughter of Petephres the priest of Heliopolis to be his wife.
46 Now Joseph was thirty years old, when he stood before Pha- — rao king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence
47 of Pharao and went through all the land of Egypt. And in the seven years of plenty the land produced in vast abundance and
48 he collected all the varieties of feod of those seven years, in which there was plenty in the land of Egypt and stored it in
49 the cities. In every city he stored the eatable productions of the fields around. So Joseph collected food like the sand of the sea in great abundance until it could not be numbered, for it
50 was innumerable. Now before the seven years of famine Joseph had two sons, whom Aseneth the daughter of Petephres the
51 priest of Heliopolis bore to him. And Joseph called the name
᾿ς οἵ his first-born Manasses, because God hath made me forget
52 all my troubles and all my father’s family. And the name of his second son he called Ephraim, because God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
53 And when the seven years of plenty which had been in the land of Egypt were past, the seven years of famine began
54 to come as Joseph said. And there was a famine in the whole
55 earth, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. And when all the land of Egypt began to be in want and the people cried to Pharao for bread, Pharao said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph and do whatever he saith to you.
56 As the famine was over the face of the whole earth, when Joseph opened all his granaries and sold to all the Egyptians, all the countries came to Egypt to buy of Joseph, for the fa-
XLII. — mine was great in the whole earth. And when Jacob found that there wasa sale in Egypt he said to his sons, Why
2 sit ye still?” Behold I have heard that there is corn in Egypt; go down thither and buy us a little food that we may live and not die. So Joseph’s ten brothers went down to purchase corn from Egypt: but Benjamin the brother of Joseph he did not
4 send with his brothers; for he said, Perhaps some misfortune
may happen to him.
Now when the sons of Israel went to buy in company with others who were going, for the famine was in the land of Cha-
6 naan, Joseph was the governor of the country; he sold to all
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the people of that land. So when Joseph’s brothers came they
7 made obeisance to him with their face to the ground. And when Joseph saw his brothers he knew them and was reserv-
ed and spoke harshly to them and said to them, Whence come you? And they said, From the land of Chanaan to buy food.
8 Now Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not know him. 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams, which he had dreamed. and said to them, You aresspies. You are come to examine
10 the ways into this country. And they said, No, my lord. We 11 thy servants are come to buy food. We are all the sons of one 12 man. Weare men of peace. Thy servants are not spies. But he said, Nay, you are come for no other purpose, but to ex-
13 amine the ways into this country. Then they said, Thy ser- vants were twelve brothers in the land of Chanaan. And lo! the youngest is now with our father; but the other isno more.
14 Upon this Joseph said, It is as I said, you are spies. By this 15 you shall be proved. By the health of Pharao you shall not 16 depart hence unless your youngest brother come hither. Send one of you and bring your brother; but you must be con- fined, until your words be proved whether you speak true or
17 not. If not, by the health of Pharao you are certainly spies. 18 So he committed them to prison three days. And on the third 19 day he said to them, Do this and live; for I fear God. If you are men of peace let one brother of you be kept in confinement.
20 As for the rest, go and carry back your purchase of provisions and bring your younger brother to me, so shall your words be
21 believed. Unless you do this you shall die. On this occasion they acted thus—they said one to another, We indeed are to blame in respect to our brother. Because we disregarded the
22 anguish of his soul, when he intreated us and we would not hear him; for this cause therefore this affliction is come upon us. And Reuben in reply said to them, Did I not speak to you saying, Do the lad no injury, but you hearkened not to
23 me. Now behold inquisition is made for his blood. They in- deed did not know that Joseph heard; for there was one to
94. interpret between them. On this Joseph withdrew from them and wept. Then he came to them again and spoke to them and he took Symeon from among them and bound him before their eves. Then Joseph gave orders to fill their sacks with
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corn and to put every one’s money in his bag and to furnish them with provisions for the journey. So this being done for
’ them they loaded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
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And one of them having loosed his bag to give his asses pro- vender at a place where they lodged saw his roll of money, for it was in the mouth of his bag, and said to his brothers, The money is returned to me. See, here it is in my bag. Where- - upon their heart fainted and. they were alarmed and said one to another, What is this which God hath done to us? And when they came to their father Jacob to the land of Chanaan, they told him all that had happened to them and said, ‘The man the lord of the country spoke harshly to us and put us in prison as coming to spy the country; and we told him, We are men of peace, We are not spies. We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One isno more. And the youngest is now with our father in the land of Chanaan. Upon which the man the lord of the country said to us, By this I shall know that you are men of peace. Leave here with me one brother; and taking the corn purchased for your family go and bring me your younger brother, then I shall know that you are not spies; but men of peace. And I will restore to you your bro- ther and you may traflick in the land. And when they emptied their sacks every one’s roll of money was in their several sacks. And when they and their father saw their rolls of money they were terrified. And Jacob their father said to them, Me you have bereaved of children. Joseph is gone. Symeon is gone. And will you take away Benjamin? All these things are against me. Then Reuben spoke to their father saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not back to thee. Commit him to my charge and I will bring him back to thee. But he said, My son shall not go down with you. For his brother is dead and he alone is left. If any mischief should happen to him in the Way: you are going, you will bring down my old age with sor- row to the mansion of the dead.
XLII. — Still the famine prevailed in the land. So when they had
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eaten up the corn which they brought from Egypt their father said to them, Go again and buy for us a little food. Where- upon Judas spoke to him and said, The man who is the lord of
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face, unless your youngest brother be with you. If therefore thou wilt send our brother with us we will go down and buy thee food. But if thou wilt not send our brother with us we will not go. For the man spoke to us saying, You shall not sec my face unless your youngest brother be with you. And Is- rael said, Why did you do me this ἢ] in tellmg the man that you had a brother? And they said, The man examined us strictly touching our family and said, Is your father alive ? And have you a brother? And we answered him according to this examination. Could we know that he would say, Bring your brother? Moreover Judas said to his father Israel, Send thy ‘son with me and we will arise and go that we may live and not die, both we and thou and all that we have. I undertake the charge of him. At my hand require him. If I bring him not back to thee and set him before thee let me be a sinner against thee for ever. For if we had not been delayed we might have now been back a second time. Then Israel their father said to them, If it must be so, do this, Take of all the fruits of this land in your vessels and carry down for the man presents of balm and honey and incense both stacte and terebinthus and almonds: Take also double money in your hands and carry back the money which was returned in your sacks; perhaps it was a mistake. And take your brother and arise and go down to the man. And may my God grant you favour in the sight of the man that he may send back your brother with Benjamin. As for me I am bereaved of children as I have been bereaved. So the men took the presents and the double money in their hands and Benjamin and arose and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph. And when Joseph saw them and Benja- min his brother by the same mother he said to his steward, conduct these men into the house and kill victims and make ready, for these men are to dine with meat noon. So the man did as Joseph ordered and conducted them to Joseph’s house. And when the men saw that they were conducted to Joseph’s house, they said, On account of the money which was return- ed in our bags in the former journey we are brought in for the
᾿ς sypurpose of accusing us and charging us with it, that he may
make us slaves and take our asses. ‘Therefore they went near to the man the steward of Joseph’s house and spoke to him at
Ch. XLIV. GENESIS.
20 the gate of the house saying, Sir, we came down for the first
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time to purchase provisions, but when we came to the lodging place and opened our bags every man’s money was in his bag. This money we have nowbrought back im our hands in full weight. And we have brought with us other money to buy provisions— Who put the money into our bags we do not know. Upon which he said to them, Peace be to you: fear not, your God and the God of your fathers hath given you treasures in your bags. But as for your money, with perfect good will I decline
. receiving it. Then he brought out Symeon to them and
brought them water to wash their feet and gave provender to their asses. And they were employed in making ready the presents until Joseph came at noon, for they heard that he was to dine there. So when Joseph came home they brought him the presents which they had in their hands into the house and made obeisance to him with their face on the ground. And he asked them of their welfare and said to them, Is your father well,. the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still livmg? And they said, Thy servant, our father is well. He is still alive. And he said, Blessed of God is that man. Whereupon they bowed down and made obeisance to him. And when Joseph raised his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother by the same mother, he said, This is your youngest brother whom you promised to bring to me? Then he said, God be gracious to thee, my son. And Joseph was discomposed, for his bowels yearned towards his brother; so he sought where to weep and went into his chamber and wept there. And when he had washed his face and come out he restrained himself and said, Serve up dinner. So they served up for him by himself and for them by them- selves, and for the Egyptians who dined with him, by them- selves. For the Egyptians could not eat bread with the He- brews. For that to the Egyptians is an abomination. And they sat before him, the first born according to his birth right and the youngest according to his youth. And the men were asto- nished, one at another. And when they received their several messes from him, the mess of Benjamin was five times larger
than any of theirs.
XLIV. And when they had drank and been plentifully regaled
with him Joseph gave orders to the steward of his house say-
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ing, Fill the bags of these men with corn, as much as they can carry, and put every one’s money in the mouth of his bag, and put my silver cup in the bag of the youngest along with the price of his corn. And Joseph’s orders being punctually executed; the next morning as soon as it was light the men were sent away they and their asses. And when they were gone out of the city, but had not got far off, Joseph said to his stew- ard, Arise and pursue those men; and when thou shalt over- take them, say to them, Why have you returned evil for good? Why have you stolen my silver cup? Is not this it out of which my lord drinketh. By it indeed he divineth. You have done evil in so doimg. So when he overtook them he spoke to them in these terms. Upon which they said to him, Why doth my lord speak in such terms as these: Far be it from thy servants to do such an act. If we indeed brought back to thee from the land of Chanaan the money which we found in our bags,
-how should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?
With whomsoever of thy servants thou shalt find the cup, let him die, and we will be our lord’s slaves. And he said, Well; Let it be as you say thus far—Wi5uth whomsoever the cup be found, he shall be my slave; but you shall be blameless. Then they hasted, and set down, every one his bag on the ground, and opened, every one his bag. And he searched beginning at the eldest till he came to the youngest; and he found the cup in Benjamin’s bag. Whereupon they rent their cloaths and put every one his bag on his ass and returned to the city. And Judas with his brothers went in to Joseph who was still there ; and they fell on the ground before him. And Joseph said to them, What is this you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can divine? And Judas said, What answer can we make to my lord? Or what can we say? Or how can we justify ourselves? God hath indeed found out the ini- quity of thy servants. Behold we are slaves to our lord—both we and he with whom the cup was found. And Joseph said, ᾿ Far be it from me to do such a thing. The man with whom the cup was found shall be my servant; but as for you go up in peace to your father. Upon this Judas came near to him and said, O my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thy pre- sence and be not angry with thy servant, for thou art next to
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Pharao. Thou my lord didst ask thy servants saying, Have you a father or a brother? And we said to my lord, We have a father an old man; and he hath a younger son of his old age. His brother is dead, and as he is the only one of his mother left; his father loveth him. Then thou saidst to thy servants, Bring him down to me and I will take care of him. And we said to my lord, This son cannot leave his father; for if he were to leave him, his father would die. Then thou saidst to thy servants, Unless your younger brother come down with you, you shall no more be admitted to see my face. So when we went up to thy servant our father, we told him the words of our lord. And when our father said, Go again and buy for us alittle food; we said, We cannot go. If indeed our young- est brother will go down with us, we will go down. For we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother be with us. Thereupon thy servant our father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons; and that one went out from me and you said he was devoured by a wild beast and I have not seen him since. If therefore you take this one also from me and any misfortune happen to him on the journey, you will bring down my old age with sorrow to the grave. Now there- fore if I should go to thy servant our father and this son be not with us, as his life dependeth on the life of this son, it will come to pass that when he shall see that this son is not with us he will die. ‘Thus will thy servants bring down the old age of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. Besides as thy servant received this son from his father and said, If I bring him not back to thee and set him before thee, let me be as a sinner against my father for ever; now therefore let me stay with thee instead of him as a slave to my lord, and let this son go up with his brothers (for how can I go up to my father and this son not with us?) that I may not see the evils which will befal my father.
XLV. Upon this Joseph could not restrain himself before all
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still alive? But his brothers could not answer him; for they were confounded. Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me? And when they came near; he said, I am Joseph your brother whom you sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor let it afflict you that you sold me hither; for God sent me before you for life. For this is but the second year of famine on the earth and there will be yet five years, in which there will be neither tillage nor harvest, so that God hath sent me before you to preserve for you aremnant on the earth and to nourish your great remnant. Now therefore it was not you who sent me hither, but it was God. And he hath made me like a father to Pharao, and lord of all his house and governor of all the land of Egypt. Haste therefore and go up to my father and - say to him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me ruler of all the land of Egypt. Come down therefore to me and tarry not. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gesem- Arabia and be near me; both thou and thy sons and thy grandsons, thy flocks and thy herds and all that thou hast. And I will nourish thee there, (for the famine will continue five years longer) that thou and thy sons and all that belong to thee may not be consumed. Behold your eyes and the eyes of my bro- ther Benjamin see that it is my mouth which speaketh to you.
3. Therefore tell my father all my glory in Egypt and all that you
see; and make haste and bring my father down hither. Then he fell upon the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept upon him. And Benjamin wept on his neck. And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. And after that his brothers con- versed with him. , Now when the news spread to Pharao’s house saying, Jo- seph’s brothers are come, Pharao and his servants were re- joiced. And Pharao said to Joseph, Say to thy brothers, Do this, Load your beasts and go to the land of Chanaan and take up your father and all that you have and come to me and T will give you of all the good things of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. And do thou issue these orders, Take with you from the land of Egypt waggons for your children and your wives and take up your father and come; and pay no regard to your furniture, for all the good things of Egypt shall be yours. And the sons of Israel did so. And Joseph
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22 gave them waggons as Pharao the king commanded. He gave them also provisions for the journey. And to all he gave two suits of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces
23 of gold and five distinguished suits of raiment. And he sent the like presents to his father together with ten asses which carried some of all the good things of Egypt, and ten mules
24 loaded with bread for his father on the journey. And he dismis- sed them: And asthey were departing, he saidto them, See that
25 you do not fall out by the way. So they went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Chanaan to their father Jacob and told
26 him saying. Thy son Joseph is alive and he is the governor of all the land of Egypt. Whereupon Jacob was absorpt in
27 thought, for he could not believe them. But when they told him all that Joseph had commanded them, and he saw the waggons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Ja-
28 cob their father revived. And Israel said, It is a great thing for me that my son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him, before I die.
XLVI. Then Israel removed with all that he had and went to Well of the Oath, and offered a sacrifice to the God of his fa-
2 ther Isaak. And God spoke to Israel in a vision of the night 3 and said, Jacob! Jacob! And he said, Here Iam. And God said to him, Iam the God of thy fathers. Fear not to go down A into Egypt; for I will make thee there a gréat nation. I indeed will go down with thee into Egypt and I will at last cause thee to come up, when Joseph shall have put his hands on 5 thy eyes. Then Jacob arose from Well of the Oath and the sons of Israel put their father, and the baggage and their wives in the waggons which Joseph had sent to carry him; and taking their stock and all their effects which they had gotten in the land of Chanaan, Jacob and all his seed with him, his sons and his grandsons, his daughters and his granddaugh- ters with him went to Egypt. So he brought all his offspring to Egypt. 8 Now these are the names of Israel’s children who went down to Egypt with their father Jacob. Jacob and his Children. 9 The first born of Jacob was Reuben, and the sons of Reu- ben, Enoch and Phallus, Asron and Charmi.
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10 —_— And the sons of Symeon, Jemuel and Jamin and Aod and Achin and Saar and Saul the son of a Chananitish woman.
11 And the sons of Levi, Gerson, Kaath and Merari.
12 And the sons of Judas were Er and Aunan and Selom and Phares and Zara but Er and Aunan died in the land of Cha- naan. And the sons of Phares were Esron and Jemuel.
18 And the sons of Issachar were Thola and Phua and Asum and Sambran.
14 And the sons of Zabulon, Sered and Allon and Achoel.
15 These were the sons of Leia whom she bore to Jacob in Syrian Mesopotamia with Deina his daughter. All the souls, sons and daughters were thirty three.
16 And the sons of Gad ; Saphon and Aggis and Sannis and Thasoban and Aodeis and Aroedeis and Arecleis.
17 And the sons of Aser; Jemna and Jessua and Jeus and
18 Baria with Sara their sister. And the sons of Baria; Chobar and Melchil. These were the children of Zelpha whom La- ban gave to his daughter Leia and she bore them to Jacob. Sixteen souls.
19 And the children of Rachel the wife of Jacob were Joseph
20 and Benjamin. And to Joseph children were born in the land of Egypt, whom Aseneth the daughter of Petephres, the priest of Heliopolis, bore to him, namely, Manasses and Ephraim, And to Manasses, there were sons born, whom his concubine Syra bore to him, namely, Machir. And Machir begot Galaad. And the sons of Ephraim the brother of Manasses were Sou- talaam and Taam. And the sons of Soutalaam, Edom.
21 And the sons of Benjamin were Bala and Bochor and As- bel. And to Bala there were sons born, namely, Gera and Noe- man and Achis and Ros and Mamphim, and Gera begot Arad.
22 These were the children of Rachel, whom she bore to Jacob. All the souls were eighteen.
23 And the sons of ‘Dan; Asom. And the sons of Nephtha-
24 leim; Asiel and Goni and Issaar and Sellem. These were the
25 children of Balla whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel,
26 and she bore them to Jacob. All the souls, seven. So all the souls who went with Jacob into Egypt, even all who sprung from him, exclusive of the wives of Jacob’s children—All the
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were born to him in the land of Egypt, being nine, all the souls of Jacob’s house who came with Jacob into Egypt were se- venty fiye.
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29 might meet him at Heroopolis, in the land of Ramesses. And Joseph having got ready his chariots, went up to meet his fa- ther Israel at Heroopolis. And when he saw hin he fell on his
30 neck and wept abundantly. And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, for thou art still alive.
31 Then Joseph said to his brothers, I will go up and inform Pha- rao, and tell him that my brothers, my father’s family who
32 were in the land of Chanaan, are come to me; but the men are shepherds; for their occupation hath been to feed cattle, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they
33 haye. If therefore Pharao send for you and say to you, What
34 is your occupation? you will say, We thy servants are feeders of cattle from our youth even to this time, as well as our fa- thers; that you may dwellin Gesem-Arabia. For every shep- herd is an abomination to the Egyptians.
XLVII... So Joseph went and told Pharao saying, My father and my brothers with their flocks and their herds and all that belong to them are come from the land of Chanaan; and lo!
2 they are in the land of Gesem. And he took of his brothers five men and presented them before Pharao. And Pharao said to Joseph’s brothers, What is your occupation? and they said to Pharao, Thy servants are shepherds, both we and our fa-
4 thers. Moreover they said to Pharao, We are come to sojourn
in this land, because there is no pasture for thy servants’ cattle, for the famine hath been great in the land of Chanaan. Now therefore let us sojourn in the land of Gesem. And Pharao said to Joseph, Let them dwell in the land of Gesem; and if thou knowest any men of ability among them, make them over- seers of my cattle.
5 Now when Jacob and his sons came into Egypt to Joseph,
and Pharao king of Egypt heard of it he said to Joseph, Thy
father and thy brothers are come to thee, behold the land of
Egypt is before thee, settle thy father and thy brothers in the
best of the land. And when Joseph introduced his father Ja-
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years of my life which I am now sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. They have not reached to the days of the years of the life of my fathers which they sojourned. nd when Jacob had blessed Pharao he went out from him. And Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the iand of Egypt, in the best of the land of Ramesses, as Pharao had ordered. And Joseph supplied his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with a certain portion of corn for each person.
Now there was no food in the land, for the famine pre- vailed exceedingly; and both the land of Egypt and the land of Chanaan fainted by reason of the famine. And Joseph col- lected all the money which was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Chanaan for the corn which they bought and which he dealt out tothem. And Joseph brought all the money to Pharao’s house. And when all the money was gone, out of the land of Egypt and out of the land of Chanaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, Give us bread. Must we die in thy presence because we have no money? There- upon Joseph said to them, Bring your cattle, and I will give you bread for your cattle if your money be gone. So they brought their cattle to Joseph, and he gave them bread for thei
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ses and supplied them with bread that year for all their cattle. When that year was ended they came to him the next year and said, Perhaps we may be rejected by our lord: for as our money is gone and our stock and cattle are transferred to thee our lord, there is indeed nothing left us in the presence of our lord, but our persons and our lands. ‘That we therefore may not die in thy presence and the land: become a waste, purchase
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duced the people to a state of vassalage from one border of
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Joseph did not buy; because Pharao had assigned them a gra-
tuitous portion, and they ate the portion which Pharao assign-
ed them. Therefore they did not sell their land. Then Joseph said to all the Egyptians, Behold I have this day purchased
24 you and your land for Pharao. Take seed and sow the land. And of the products thereof you shall give Pharao the fifth. And the other four parts shall be your own to sow the land,
25 and to be food for you and all your families. And they said, Thou hast saved our lives. We have found favour in the sight
26 of our lord, and we will be servants to Pharao. So Joseph en- joined upon them the giving a fifth to Pharao as a statute which continueth even to this day in all the land of Egypt, excepting only the land of the priests. That did not belong to Pharao.
27 Thus Israel became sojourners in the land of Egypt in the district of Gesem, and they had possessions therein and in-
28 creased and multiplied exceedingly. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And all the days of the years of his life were a hundred and forty seven years.
29 Now when the time of Israel’s death drew nigh he sent for his son Joseph and said to him, If I have found favour in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh and thou shalt deal kindly
30 and truly with me, that thou wilt not bury me in Egypt; but let me sleep with my fathers. Therefore thou shalt carry me
31 out of Egypt and bury me in their sepulchre. And he said I will do as thou hast said. And he said, Swear to me. So he swore to him. And Israel bowed down on the head of his staff.
XLVUI. After this: when it was told Joseph, Thy father is sick, he took his two sons Manasses and Ephraim and went to
2 Jacob. And when they told Jacob saying, Behold thy son Jo- seph is coming to thee, Israel strengthened himself and sat
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4 said, Behold I will make thee fruitful and multiply thee and make thee a multitude of nations, and I will give thee this land 5 even to thy seed after thee for a perpetual possession. Now therefore thy two sons, who have been born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came to thee into Egypt, are mine. Ephraim
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and Manasses, like Reuben and Symeon, shall be mine. And the issue which thou mayst have after this shall go by the name of their brothers. They shall be enrolled in their inhe- ritances. Now when I came out of Syrian Mesopotamia Rachel thy mother died in the land of Chanaan, just as I drew near the race ground of Chabratha on the way to Ephratha. So I buried her in the way of the race ground the same is Bethle- hem. Then Israel seeing the sons of Joseph said, Who are these with thee? And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me here. Whereupon Jacob said, Bring them near to me that I may bless them. Now Israel’s eyes were dim by reason of old age and he could not see clearly. And when he brought them near to him, he kissed them and embraced them. And Israel said to Joseph, Lo! was I not de- prived of thy presence? yet behold God hath shewn me even thy seed. Then Joseph took them from his knees; and when they had made obeisance to him with their face to the ground, Joseph taking his two sons, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel’s left and Manasses in his left hand towards Israel’s right, brought them near to him. But Israel stretching out his right hand laid it on Ephraim’s head (now he was the youngest) and his left hand on Manasses’ head crossing his hands. And he blessed them and said, The God whom my fathers Abraham and Isaak worshipped—the God who hath fed me from my youth to this day—the Angel who delivered me from all evils, bless these children! And let them be called by my name and by the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak; and may they be increased to a great multitude on the earth!
Now when Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on Ephraim’s head, it appeared amiss to him; and he took hold of his father’s hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head to the head of Manasses. And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first born, put thy right hand on his head. But he refused and said, I know; my son; Iknow. This in- deed will be a people and will be exalted. But his younger bro- ther will be greater than he; and his seed will be a multitude of nations. And he blessed them that day and said, By you Israel will bless saying, God make thee like Ephraim and Manasses. So he put Ephraim before Manasses. Then Israel said to Jo-
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seph, Lo I die. But God will be with you and bring you back 22 tothe land of your fathers. Now to thee exclusively above thy brothers, I give Sikima, which I took out of the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow. XLIX. Then Jacob called his sons and said to them, Assem- ble that I may tell you what will happen to you in the latter
days. 2 Assemble and hear me, ye sons of Jacob: Hearken to Israel; hearken to your father. 3 Reuben my first born ! Thou my strength and the head of my children ! 4 Too imperious and too self sufficient !
In the excess of thy insolence,
Thou shouldst not have burst forth like water.
For thou wentest up to thy father’s bed,
Then thou pollutedst the couch to which thou wentest up.
5 Symeon and Levi are brothers. They accomplished their iniquitous purpose. 6 O my soul, come not into their council ;
And in their conspiracy let not my passions be engaged. Because in their wrath they slew men, And in their rage ham-strung a bull ;
7 Cursed be their wrath, for it was headstrong ; And their enmity, for it was bitter. I will parcel them out in Jacob And scatter them among Israel.
8 Judas! Let thy brethren praise thee: Thy hands will be on the back of thy enemies. The sons of thy father shall bow down to thee.
9 Judas is a lion’s whelp. From a vigorous stem, my son, thou art sprung.
᾿ Couching down thou art gone to sleep Like a young lion: Who dare rouse him! 10 A chief shall not fail from Judas. Nor a leader from his loins ; Till the things reserved for him shall come— Even He, the expectation of nations. 11 Binding his colt to a vine
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And his mantle in the blood of the grape. » His eyes are more exhilarating than wine, And his teeth are whiter than milk.
Zabulon shall dwell by the sea;
And he will be near the haven of ships,
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Issachar desired earnestly what was good, Halting between two choices.
But seeing the resting place, that it was good, And the land, that it was fertile,
He bowed his shoulder to labour
And became a husbandman.
Dan will judge his people
And be like a tribe in Israel.
Let Dan be indeed a serpent in the way, Lying in watch ina path,
Biting the horse’s heel,
That the horseman may fall backwards ; ; Waiting continually the salvation of the Lord. Gad: Troops of plunderers will plunder him; And he to his utmost, will plunder them. Aser. His meat will be fat
And he will furnish dainties for princes. Nephthaleim is a spreading stock, Super-adding beauty by its product.
Joseph is a fruitful son.
My fruitful son was envied.
Abide with me, my younger son,
Against whom calumniators brought false accusations. Though the masters of bows took aim at him; Yet their bows and their strength were broken, And the sinewy arms of their hands enfeebled By the hand of the mighty One of Jacob. Thence he who hath strengthened Israel
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Of whom he was the leader.
Benjamin is a ravening wolf.
In the morning he is still eating,
And for the evening he provideth food.
Allthese were the twelve sons of Jacob. And these were the words which their father spoke to them when he blessed them, each according to his peculiar blessing. And when he had blessed them he said, I am going to be added to my peo- ,
ple, and you shall bury me with my fathers, in the cave which
is in the field of Ephron the Chettite, in the double cave which is over against Mambre in the land of Chanaan—the cave which Abraham bought of Ephron the Chettite for the possses- sion of a burying place. ‘Phere they buried Abraham and Sa- rah his wife. There they buried Isaak and Rebekka his wife. There Leia was buried—in the field namely in the cave in it, which was purchased of the children of Chet. And when Ja- cob had finished this charge to his sons he drew up his feet inte the bed and gave up the ghost and was added to his people. Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face and bewailed him and kissed him. And Joseph gave orders to his servants the embalmers to embalm his father. And when the embalmers had embalmed Israel, and compleated his forty days; (for this is the time allowed for embalming) the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. And when the days of mourning were over, Joseph spoke to the princes of Pharao saying, If I have found favour in your sight, speak for me to Pharao and say, My father adjured me saying, In the tomb which 1 cut out for myself in the land of Chanaan there thou shalt bury me. Now therefore let me go up and bury my father and I will return again. And Pharao said to Joseph, Go up and bury thy father as he adjured thee. So Joseph went up to bury his father. And there went up with him all the servants of Pharao and the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, and all
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Joseph’s family and his brothers and all his father’s household and his kindred. But their flocks and herds they left in the
Jand of Gesem. There went up also with him chariots and horsemen, so that the camp was very large. And when they
came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is on the bank of the Jordan, they mourned for him with a very great and sore lamentation. And he continued the mourning for his father seven days. And when the inhabitants of the land of Chanaan saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, This is a great grief to the Egyptians. For this cause they call- ed itsname Grief ef Egypt. Itison the bank of the Jordan. When his sons had done this for him—when. they had car-
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then Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren and those
who went up with him to bury his father.
Now when Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Perhaps Joseph may bear us a grudge and requite us for all the ills which we have done to him. So they came to Joseph and said, Our father before he died adjured us saying, Thus shall you say to Joseph, Forgive them their iniquity and
their sin for having done thee evil. Now therefore forgive the
iniquity of the servants of the God of thy father. And while they were speaking to him, Joseph wept. And they came near to him and said, We are thy servants, upon which Joseph said to them, Fear not, for Iam God’s servant. You mdeed con- sulted against me for evil: but God determined concerning me for good, to bring to pass as at this day, that much people might be nourished. Moreover he said to them, Be not afraid. I will continue to nourish you and your families. So he com- forted them, and spoke affectionately to them. And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his brothers and all his father’s family. And when Joseph had lived a hundred and ten years and saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation; and the children of Machir the son of Manasses were also dandled on his knees; Joseph spoke to his brothers, saying, I die, but God will assuredly visit you and conduct you out of this land into the land which God with an oath gaye to our fathers, Abraham,
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These are the names of Israel’s sons who went down to Egypt with their father Jacob. They went every one with his whole family; Reuben, Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Zabu- lon, Benjamin, Dan and Nephthaleim, Gad and Aser. Now Joseph was in Egypt. And all the souls from Jacob were seven- ty five. And when Joseph was dead and all his brothers and all that generation and the children of Israel had increased and multiplied and were become numerous and grew more and more powerful and the land caused them to abound, there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. And he said to his nation, Behold the race of the children of Israel is become a great multitude, and is mightier than we. Come therefore, let us deal subtilly with them. Perhaps when they are multiplied, if a war should happen to us, they will join our enemies and fight against us and depart out of the land. So heset task masters over them to afflict them with labours and they built for Pharao fortified cities, namely, Peithoand Rames- ses and On, which is Heliopolis. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew stronger and stronger. So the Egyptians were abhorred by the children of Israel; and the Egyptians ruled over the Israelites with rigour and made their lives bitter with hard labour in working clay and making bricks and-with all the toils of the field, according to the seve- ral kinds of service to which they forcibly subjected them. Moreover the king of the Egyptians spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the first in rank was Sep- phora and the name of the second Phua, and said, When you do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women and they are delivered, if it be a male child, kill it; but if it be a female pre- serve it alive. But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the males.
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Whercupon the king of Egypt sent for the midwives and said to them, Why have you done this and saved the male chil- dren? And the midwives said to Pharao, The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian; for they bring forth instantly. Be- fore the midwives can come to them, they are delivered. And God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew mighty. And because the midwives feared God they established families for themselves. Then Pharao gave orders to all his people saying, Every male child which is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the river, but preserve every fe- male alive.
Now there was a certain man of the tribe of Levi who had married one of the daughters of Levi and she conceived and bore a son. And when they saw that he was a beautiful child they hid him three months. But when they could not conceal him any longer, his mother provided for him a wicker basket and plaistered it with bitumenous pitch and put the child into it and placed it in the stagnant water by the side of the river. And his sister watched it at a distance to see what would be- come of it. And the daughter of Pharac came to bathe her- self at the river and her maids were walking with her along the bank. And seeing the basket in the stagnant water she sent her maid and had it brought to her. And upon opening it she saw in the basket a child weeping. And the daughter of Pha- rao had compassion on it and said, This is one of the Hebrew children. Whereupon his sister said to Pharao’s daughter, Shall I call for thee a nurse from among the Hebrews to suckle the child for thee? And the daughter of Pharao said, Go. Upon which the girl went and called the child’s mother. And the daughter of Pharao said to her, Take care of this child for me and suckle it for me; and I will pay thee the wages. So the
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And after a course of many years, when Moses was become great he went out to his brethren the children of Israel. And as he was observing their distress, he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, who was one of his brethren the children of Israel.
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13 he smote the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. And going out the next day he saw two Hebrew men quarrelling and said
i4 to him who was in the wrong, Why dost thou beat thy neigh- bour ? To which he replied, Who made thee a ruler or a judge over us?Dost thou mean to kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday? Thereupon Moses was alarmed and said, Is the thing become so public ?
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Moses, but he withdrew from the presence of Pharao and took
up his abode in the land of Madiam. When he came to the
land of Madiam he sat down by a well. Now the priest of Ma- diam had seven daughters who tended the flocks of their fa- ther Jothor. And they having come to the well began to draw water to fill the troughs that they might water the flocks of their father Jothor, and the shepherds came and drove them
17 away. Upon which Moses arose and protected them and drew
18 water for them and watered their flocks. And when they came to their father Raguel, he said to them, Why have you come
19 so soon to-day? To which they replied, An Egyptian protect- ed us from the shepherds and drew for us and watered our
20 flocks. And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why did you leave the man behind? Therefore call him that he may
21 eat bread. So Moses dwelt with the man; and he gave him
22 his daughter Sepphora to be his wife. And his wife conceived and bore hima son; And Moses called his name Gersam, say- ing, Because I am a sojourner ina strange land.
23 And after those many years the king of Egypt died and the Israelites groaned under their labours and raised a loud out- cry; and their cry on account of their labours ascended up to
24 God. And God heard their groans. And God remembered his covenant which he had made with Abraham, Isaak and Jacob. And God looked upon the Israelites and was made known to them.
III. Now when Moses was feeding the flocks of Jothor his father in law the priest of Madiam he led them below the wil-
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spoil the Egyptians. Then Moses answered and said, If they will not believe and hearken to my voice—for they may say, God hath not appeared to thee: What shall I say to them? And the Lord said to him, What is that in thy hand? And he said a staff. Then he said, Cast iton the ground. So he cast it on the ground and it became a serpent: and Moses fled from it. “Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand and take it by the tail. So he stretched forth his hand and caught it by the tail; and it was in his hand a staff. That they may be- lieve thee that the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob hath appeared to thee, said thé Lord again, Put thy hand in thy bosom. So he put his hand in his bosom; and when he drew his hand out of his bo- som, his hand was like snow. Then the Lord said to him again, Put thy hand in thy bosom. So he put his hand in his bosom, and when he drew it out of his bosom, it was again restored to the colour of its flesh. Now if they will not believe thee nor hearken to the voice of the first sign, they will be-
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from the river shall be blood on the ground. ‘Then Moses, said to the Lord, O Lord, Iam not sufficiently qualified,
neither heretofore nor since thou hast begun to speak to thy
servant. I havea stammering voice anda faltering tongue.
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mouth? and who made the hard of hearing and the deaf—_ him who seeth and the blind? Was it not I who am God? Now
therefore go and I will open thy mouth and teach thee what
thou shalt say. Then Moses said, O Lord, provide another
capable person whom thou wilt send. Whereupon the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, Lo! is not
Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well
for thee. And lo! he will come out to meet thee, and when
he shall see thee he will be rejoiced. Thou therefore shalt
speak to him and commit my words to his mouth. And I will
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this staff which was turned into a serpent thou shalt take in thy
hand. With it thou shalt perform miracles.
Then Moses went and returned to Jothor his father in law and said, I must go and return to my brethren who are in Egypt and see if they be still living. And Jothor said to Mo- ses, Goin peace. So after many years, when the king of Egypt was dead, and the Lord said to Moses in Madiam, Go return to Egypt, for all who sought thy life are dead; Moses took his wife and children and mounted them on asses to return to Egypt. And he took in his hand the staff which he had from God. And the Lord said to Moses, Thou art on thy way and returning to Egypt. See that thou do in the sight of Pharao all the miracles which I put in thy hands. And_I will make his heart stubborn, so that he will not let the people go. And thou shalt say to Pharao, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my first born'son, and I have said to thee, Send away this my people that they may serve me; if therefore thou wilt not dis-
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Now the Lord had said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mount of God; and they saluted each other. And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, which he had sent and all the orders which he had given him in charge. And Moses and Aaron went and assembled the Senate of the Israelites, and Aaron rehearsed all the words which God had spoken to Moses; and he per- formed. the miracles in the presence of the people. And the people believed and were rejoiced that God had visited the children of Israel and that he had seen their affliction. So bowing their heads the people worshipped.
And after this Moses went in with Aaron to Pharao and they said to him, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Let my people go that they may keep a festival for me in the wil- derness. Upon which Pharao said, Who is he, that I should hearken to his voice so as to send away the Israelites? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go. Then they said to him, The God of the Hebrews hath called us. Let us therefore go three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest death or destruction befal us. ‘Thereupon the king of Egypt said to them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, divert the people from their labours? Begone each of you to his work. And Pharao said, Behold this people is now numerous, therefore we must not let them rest from their labours. So Pharao gave orders to the task masters of the people and to the clerks saying, You shall no more give the people straw to make bricks as heretofore; but let them go and. gather straw for themselves; yet the, daily task of brick making which they now perform, you shall lay upon them. Thou shalt make no abatement; for they are idle. Therefore they have cried saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. Let the work of these men be made heavy and let
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them employ their thoughts about that, and not trouble them- 10 selves with vain discourses. Upon this the task masters and 11 clerks hurried them and spoke to the people saying, Thus saith Pharao, I will no more give you straw; go and collect straw for yourselves where you can find it; for no abatement shall be 12 made of your task. So the people were dispersed through all 13 the land of Egypt to collect stubble instead of straw. And the task masters urged them saying, Compleat the customary daily 34 tasks as when straw was furnished you. And when they beat the clerks of the nation of the Israelites who were set over them by the officers of Pharao and said, Why have you not as hereto- 15 fore compleated your tasks of brick making today ? the clerks of the children of Israel went and criedto Pharao saying, Why dost 16 thou deal thus with thy servants ? There is no straw given to thy servants, yet they say to us, Make bricks. And lo! thy servants are beaten. Wilt thou then deal unjustly with thy 17 people? But he said to them, You are idle: You are idlers. 18 Therefore you say, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. Go therefore now and work; for there shall be no straw given - 19 you, yet you shall deliver the task of bricks. So the clerks of the children of Israel saw themselves ina miserable situation, when they said, You shall be allowed no abatement from the 20 customary daily task of brick making. And upon meeting Moses and Aaron who had come to meet them as they came 21 out from Pharao they said to them, God look upon you and judge. For you have made the smell of us horrible before Pha- rao and before his servants to put a sword in his hand to 22 kill us. Thereupon Moses turned to the Lord and said, O Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people? And why hast thou sent me? For since I went to Pharao to speak in thy name, he hath ill treated this people and thou hast not delivered thy VI. people. Then the Lord said to Moses, Now thou shalt see what I will doto Pharao; for by a strong hand he shall let them go; and by an uplifted arm he shall drive them out of his land. a Mile over God spake to Moses and said to him, lam the Lord; 3 and I appeared to Abraham and to Isaak and to Jacob as their God. Though I did not clearly manifest to them my name 4 Lord, yet 1 established this my covenant with them to give ‘them the land of the Chananites—the land wherein they had
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Inthese terms Moses spoke to the Israelites ; but they heark- ened not to him on account of their despondency, and on ac- count of their hard labours. Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying; Go in; speak to Pharao king of Egypt that he may send the children of Israel out of his land. Upon which Mo- ses spoke before the Lord saying, Behold the Israelites have not hearkened to me, how then should Pharao hearken to me, incapable as I am of speaking?
(Now when the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge to Pharao king of Egypt to send away the Is- raelites out of the land of Egypt, these were the chief lead- ers of their patriarchal houses. The sons of Reuben the first born of Israel, Enoch and Phallus, Asron and Carmi. This was the family of Reuben. And the sons of Symeon were Jemuel and Jamin and Aod and Jachin and Saar and Saul the son of a Chananitish woman. These were the patriarchal houses of the Symeonites. And these are the names of the children of Levi according to their families, Gerson, Kaath and Merari. Now the years of the life of Levi were a hun- dred and thirty seven. And these were the sons of Gerson, Lobeni and Semei. These were houses’ of their patriarchal family. And the sons of Kaath were Ambram and Issaar, Che- bron and Oziel. Now the years of the life of Kaath were a hundred and thirty three. And the sons of Merari were Mooli and Mousi. These were the houses of the patriarchal family of Levi according to their families. Now Ambram had taken to
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wife Jochabed a daughter of his father’s brother and she bore to him Aaron and Moses and Mariam their sister. And the years
21 of the life of Ambram were a hundred and thirty two. And 22 the sons of Issaar were Kore and Naphek and Zechri. And 23 the sons of Oziel were Misael and Elisaphan and Segri. And Aaron had taken to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Aminadab and the sister of Naason, and she bore to him Nadab and
24 Abiud and Eleazar and Ithamar. And the sons of Kore were Asir and Elkana and Abiesar. These were the families of
25 Kore. And Eleazar the son of Aaron had taken to wife one of the daughters of Phoutiel, and she bore to him Phineas. These were the heads of the patriarchal family of the Levites
26 according to their genealogies. This Aaron and Moses were _ they whom God ordered to lead the Israelites out of the land of Egypt with their armies. These were they who spoke to
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the Israelites out of Egypt. 28 Now on the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the
land of Egypt, when the Lord spoke to Moses and said, I
am the Lord, Speak to Pharao king of Egypt all the words
which I say to thee, and Moses said before the Lord, Be-
hold I am a stammerer and how will Pharao listen to me, the
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a god to Pharao, and Aaron thy Pav shall be thy prophet,
2 and thou shalt deliver to him all that I*command thee. And
Aaron thy brother shall speak to Pharao, to send the Israelites
3 out of his land. But I will let Pharao’s heart be stubborn, and
I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.
4 And when Pharao will not hearken to you, I will lay my hand
upon Egyptand bring out my people, the children of Israel
with my host out of the land of Egypt with great vengeance.
5 And all the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I
lay my hand on Egypt and bring the children of Israel out
6 from among them. So Moses acted in conjunction with Aaron;
7 and as the Lord commanded so they did. Now Moses was
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then thou shalt say to thy brother Aaron, Take this staff and throw it on the ground in the presence of Pharao and before his attendants and it shall be a dragon. So Moses went in with Aaron before Pharao and his attendants and they did as the Lord commanded them. But when Aaron threw down the staff before Pharao and before his attendants and it became a dra-
gon, Pharao called together the wise men of Egypt and the
sorcerers. And the Egyptian enchanters by their sorceries did in like manner. They cast down each his staff, which became dragons. Though Aaron’s staff devoured their staves, yet Pha- rao’s heart was stubborn and he hearkened not to them to do as the Lord commanded them.
Then the Lord said to Moses, Pharao’s heart is obstinate- ly bent not to let the people go. Go in the morning to Pharao. Behold he is going out to the water and thou wilt meet him at the border of the river. And thou shalt take in thy hand the staff which was turned into a serpent, and say to him, The Lord the God of the Hebrews hath sent to thee saying, Send away my people that they may serve me in the wilderness, and behold thou hast not hearkened hitherto. Thus saith the Lord, By thisthou shalt know that I am the Lord, Behold with this staff which is in my hand I smite upon the water in the river and it shall turn into blood. And the fishes which are in the river shall die. And the river shall stink. And the Egyptians shall not be able to drink the water of the river. Moreover the Lord said to Moses, Say to thy brother Aaron, ‘l'ake thy staff in thy hand and stretch forth thy hand against the waters of Egypt, against the rivers and against the canals and against their ponds and against all their reservoirs of water; and they shall become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt both in the cisterns of wood and in those of stone.
So Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them. And lifting up his staff he smote the water in the river in the presence of Pharao and before all his attendants and changed all the water of the river into blood. And the fishes which were in the river died. And the river stunk so that the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river. And there was blood in all the land of Egypt. But when the magicians of Egypt
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did in like manner by their enchantments, Pharao’s heart be- came inflexible so that he hearkened not to them as the Lord. 23 had said. So Pharao returned and went to his house and paid 24 no attention to this. And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink for they could not drink the water
of the river. 25 And when seven days were fulfilled after the Lord had smitten the river, the Lord said to Moses, Go to Pharao and VIII. say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Send away my peo- 2 ple that they may serve me. But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will smite allthy borders with frogs and the river shall 3 swarm with frogs. And they shall go up and come into thy houses and into thy bed chambers, even upon thy beds; and into the houses of thy servants and thy people and into thy 4 kneading troughs and thy ovens. Both against thee and against thy attendants and thy people shall the frogs come up. And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron thy brother, Stretch forth the staff with thy hand over the rivers and over the canals and 6 over the lakes and bring up the frogs. So Aaron stretched forth his hand over the waters of Egypt and brought up the frogs. And frogs came up in abundance and covered the land of Egypt. Though the Egyptian sorcerers did in like man- ner by their enchantments and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt; yet Pharao called Moses and Aaron and said, Pray for me to the Lord, and let him take away the frogs from me and my people ; and I will let them go that they may sacrifice 9 to the Lord. Whereupon Moses said to Pharao, Set me the time when I shall pray for thee and for thy attendants and thy people, that the frogs may vanish from thee and from thy peo- 10 ple and out of your houses and be left only in the river. And he said against to-morrow. And Moses said, It shall be as thou hast spoken. That thou mayst know that there is no other besides the Lord; the frogs shall be removed from thee and from your houses and from your villages and from all thy at- tendants and from thy people ; but in the river they shall be 12 left. Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharao; and Moses cried to the Lord for the performance of the promise 13 touching the frogs as Pharao had stated. And the Lord did a5 Moses said. The frogs died out of the houses and out of
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But when Pharao’ saw that there was a respite, his heart became stubborn and he hearkened not to them as the Lord had said. Then the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch forth thy staff with thy hand and smite the dust of the ground, and there shall be stinging gnats among the men and the four footed beasts throughout all the land of Egypt. Ac- cordingly Aaron stretched forth the staff with his hand and smote the dust of the ground, and there were stinging gnats among the men and among the four footed beasts, and in all the dust of the ground there were gnats. And the magicians did in like manner by their enchantments to remove the stinging gnats but could not, so.the stinging gnats were among the men and among the four footed beasts. Therefore the sorcer- ers said to Pharao, This is the finger of God. But Pharao’s heart was inflexible and he hearkened not to them as the Lord had said.
Then the Lord said to Moses, Rise early to-morrow and stand before Pharao. Lo! he will come forth to the water, and thou shalt say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Send away my people that they may serve me in the wilderness. But if thou wilt not send away my people behold I will send against thee and against thy attendants and against thy people and against your houses, the dog fly. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with dog flies throughout all the land in which they are. But in that day I will distinguish in a glorious manner the land of Gesem in which my people are. In it there shall be no dog flies, that thou mayst know that I am the Lord the God of the whole earth. And I will make a difference be- tween my people and thy people. To-morrow this shall be in the land. And the Lord did so. And there came a swarm of dog flies into the houses of Pharao and into the houses of his attendants and into all the land of Egypt: and the land was utterly wasted by them. Whereupon Pharao sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and sacrifice to the Lord your God in this land. And Moses said, It is not possible to do so. For we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God the abominations of the Egyptians. Now if we should sacrifice the abomina-
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tions of the Egyptians before their faces we shall be stoned. 27 We willgo three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacri- 28 fice to our God, as the Lord hath commanded us. Then Pha- rao said, I give you leave to go, that vou may sacrifice to your God in the wilderness; but you must not extend your journey to a great distance. Therefore pray to the Lord 29 for me. And Moses said I will go out from thee and pray to God; and the dog flies. shall depart from thy servants and from thy people to-morrow. But Tet not Pharao deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacri- 30 fice to the Lord. So Moses went out from Pharao and prayed 951 to God. And the Lord did as Moses said and removed the dog flies from Pharao and his attendants and his people and 32 there was not one left. But Pharao emboldened his heart at this time also and would not let the people go. IX. Thenthe Lord said to Moses, Go to Pharao and say to him, Thus saith the Lord the God of the Hebrews, Send away my people that they may serve me. For if thou wiit not send away my people but still detain them, behold the hand of the Lord will be upon thy cattle in the field: and among the horses and among the asses and the camels and the herds and 4 the flocks there shall be a grievous pestilence. And at this time also I will make a remarkable distinction between the cattle of the Egyptians and the cattle of the Israelites. Among the 5 aforementioned belonging to Israel not one shall die. And God fixed a set time saying, To-morrow the Lord will do this 6 in the land. So on the morrow the Lord executed this, and all the cattle which died belonged to the Egyptians; but of the cattle belonging to the Israelites not one died. But though Pharao saw that of all the cattle belonging to the Israelites not one died, his heart was inflexible and he would not let the people go.
8 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, Take handfuls of ashes from the furnace; and let Moses scatter them towards heaven in the presence of Pharao and before his at-
9 tendants and let there be dust on all the land of Egypt, and there shall be on men and four footed beasts an inflammation; blains oozing forth both on man and beast in all the land of
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Then the Lord said to Moses, Kise early to-morrow morn- ing and stand before Pharao and say to him, Thus saith the Lord the God of the Hebrews, Send away my people that they may serve me. For at this time I am going to send all my plagues into thy heart and the heart of thy servants and thy people, that thou mayst know that there is none like me in all the earth. I might now indeed have stretched forth my hand and smitten thee and destroyed thy people with pestilence, so that thou shouldst have been blotted out from the earth: but thou hast been preserved for this purpose that by thee I might display my power and that my name may be celebrated throughout all the earth. Shouldst thou therefore still deter- mine with respect to my people not to let them go, behold at this time to-morrow I will pour down a great storm of hail— such as hath never been in Egypt, from the day it was created even to this day. Now therefore haste and gather in thy cattle and whatever thou hast in the field. For every man and beast, which shall be found in the fields and shall not have come home, on them the hail shall fail and they shall die.
Such of the attendants of Pharao as feared the Lord gather- ed their cattle into houses. But such as paid no regard to the word of the Lord left their cattle in the fields., Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, and there shall be hail on all the land of Egypt, both on man and beast and on every herb which is on the ground. And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire streamed along the ground. And the Lord poured down a storm of hail on all the land of Egypt. And there was hail, with flaming fire among the hail. And the hail storm was excessively great such as had never been in Egypt from the day there was a nation in it. And throughout all the land of Egypt the hail smote both man and.
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Now the flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley had eared and the flax was in seed. But the wheat and spelts were not smitten for they had been lately sown.
So Moses went out from Pharao without the city and stretched forth his hands to the Lord. And the thunder ceased and the hail and the rain no longer poured down on the earth. And when Pharao saw that the rain and the hail and the thun- der were stayed he continued on in his course of sinning and hardened his own heart and the hearts of his servants.
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heart of him and his attendants to continue stubborn that these my signs might come upon them in succession, that you may tell in the hearing of your children even to your children’s children, with what contempt I have treated the Egyptians, even these my signs which I have done among them, and you will know that I am the Lord.
Then Moses and Aaron went in before Pharao and said to him, Thus saith the Lord the God of the Hebrews. How long wilt thou refuse to reverence me? Send away my people that they may serve me. Otherwise, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold at this time to-morrow I will bring a swarm of locusts on all thy borders and they shall cover the face of the ground, so that thou shalt not be able to see the ground; and they shaJl devour all the remaining product of the land
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Upon this the attendants of Pharao said to him, How long shall this be a snare to us? Send the men away that they may serve their God. Dost thou not know that Egypt is ruined ? Then they brought back Moses and Aaron to Pharao; and he said to them, Go and serve the Lord your God. But who and who are going? And Moses said, We must go with young and old, with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for it is the festival of the Lord. Whereupon he said to them, The Lord be so with you! as I send you away, must I also send away your substance? ‘Take notice! you have wicked in- tentions. No: Let the men go and worship; for this is what you desire. So they drove them out from the presence of Pharao. Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand against the land of Egypt, and let the locust come up against the land. And it shall devour every herb of the field and all the fruit of the trees which the hail hath left. So Moses lifted up the staff towards heaven and the Lord brought a south wind upon the land all that day and all that night, and by the morn- ing the south wind had lifted up a swarm of locusts and waited it over the whole land of Egypt: and it settled on all the bor- ders of Egypt—an immense swarm. Such a swarm of locusts had never been before it, nor shall there ever be such a one hereafter. It covered the whole surface of the ground and the land was wasted. And it devoured every herb of the ground and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There was nothing green left among the trees, or among the herbs of the field throughout all the land of Egypt. Upon this Pharao sent in haste for Moses and Aaron and said; I have sinned in the sight of the Lord your God and against you; therefore forgive this offence of mine this once more, and pray to the Lord your God; and let him remove from me this pestilence. Then Mo-
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19 brought a contrary wind with great violence from the sea; and it lifted up the swarm of locusts and cast it into the Red sea, and there was not one locust left in all the land of Egypt.
20 But the Lord suffered Pharao’s heart to be stubborn so that
21 he did not let the Israelites go. ‘Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven and let there be dark-
22 ness over the landof Egypt—a palpable darkness. So Mo- ses stretched forth his hand towards heaven, and there was a darkness—a thick, turbid darkness over the whole land of
23 Egypt three days. And for three days one saw not another, nor did any one rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in all the places where they were.
24 ‘Then Pharao sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and wor- ship the Lord your God. But you must leave your flocks and
25 your herds. Your baggage may go with you. And Moses said, But thou must give us burnt offerings and sacrifices to offer
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We cannot leave a hoof behind. For of them we must take
to worship the Lord our God; and we do not know with what
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Now the Lord had suffered the heart of Pharao to continue
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28 shalt die. Whereupon Moses said, Thou hast spoken. I will not appear again in thy presence.—
XI. (Now the Lord had spoken to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt and said, I will inflict yet one stroke more on Pharao and on Egypt and after that he will send you away from his country. And when he shall send you away he will drive you out altogether in hdste. Speak therefore privately to the ears of the people, and let every one ask of his neighbour
2 vessels of silver and gold and raiment. And the Lord had given his people favour in the sight of the Egyptians and
3 they supplied them. The man Moses also was become very great in the sight of the Egyptians and in the sight of Pharao, and in the eyes of his attendants, therefore Moses said,)
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die—from the first born of Pharao who sitteth on the throne, to the first born of the female slave who is at the grinding mill, including also the first born of all the cattle. And there shall be a great cry through all the land of Egypt—such as hath never been, nor shall the like be again any more. But among all the children of Israel and their cattle not even a dog: shall bark at man or beast, that thou mayst know what a dis- tinction the Lord will make between the Egyptians and the Israelites. And all these thy servants will come down to me and make obeisance to me and say, Go away thou and all thy people whom thou wouldst take with thee.
Then Moses went out from Pharao with indignation and the Lord said to Moses, Pharao will not hearken to you that I may fully compleat my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.—
(Though Moses and Aaron had done all those signs and those wonders in the land of Egypt in the presence of Pha- rao, yet the Lord suffered the heart of Pharao to be stub- born that he hearkened not to send away the Israelites out of
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only roasted with fire, head and feet and carcase together. Nothing of it shall be left till the morning. And you shall not break a bone of it. And what is left of it till the morning you shall burn with fire. And in this manner you shall eat it. Your loins shall be girded. Your sandals shall be on your feet, and your staves in your hands. And you shall eat it in haste. It is a PAssovER to the Lord. For in that night I will pass through the land of Egypt, and smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. And upon all the gods of the Egyptians I will execute vengeance. I am the Lord. But the blood shall be to you for a sign on the houses in which you are. And when I see the blood, I will protect you and there shall be no destroying plague among you, when I smite in the land of Egypt. And that day shall be to you fora me- morial. And you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord throughout all your generations. As an everlasting ordinance you shall celebrate it. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. And from the first day you shall remove ail leaven out of your houses. Whoever shall eat leaven from the first to the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from among Israel. And with regard to the first day, it shall be proclaimed holy ; and the seventh day shall be holy to you. In them you shall not do any kind of sacrificial service, save that which must be done for every soul. This alone shall be done for you and you shall keep this commandment. For on that day I will lead out your host from the land of Egypt; therefore you shall make the observance of that day an everlasting rite to your genera- tions. Beginning at evening with the fourteenth day of the first month, you shall eat unleavened bread until the evening of the twenty first day. For seven days there must be no lea- ven found in your houses. Whoever shall eat leavened bread, that soul shall be cut off from_among the congregation of Is- rael; whether he be a stranger or born in the land. You shall eat nothing that is leavened. But in all your habitations you must eat unleavened bread.)
Moses therefore convened the whole senate of the chil- dren of Israel and said to them, Go take for yourselves the ‘sheep according to your families and kill the passover; and ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and having dipped vit in the
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blood by the door you shall smear the lintel and the two side posts with some of the blood which is at the door; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morn- ing. For the Lord will pass by to smite the Egyptians; and when he shall see the blood en the lintel and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over that door and will not suffer the destroyer to enter into your houses to smite. And this or- dinance you shall keep as a rite established for thee and thy children for ever. And when you come to the land which the Lord will give you as he hath spoken, you must keep up this religious service. Andif your children say to you, What is the ἢ meaning of this religious service? then you shall say to them, It is the sacrifice of the Passover of the Lord; because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. Upon which the people bowed down and worshipped; and the Israelites went and did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. And when they had so done, it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the first born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharao, who sat on the throne to the first born of the captive m the dungeon, and even the first born of all the cattle. Whereupon Pharao arose by night he and all his at- tendants and all the Egyptians ; and there was a great cry in all the land of Egypt; for there was not a family in which there was not one dead. And Pharao called for Moses and Aaron by night and said to them, Arise and depart from among my people, both you and the Israelites. Go and serve the Lord your God as you say. Take your flocks and your herds and go away, and bless me, I beseech you. And the Egyptians pressed the people with great earnestness to hurry them away out of the country; for they said, We shall all die.
So the people took up, upon their shoulders, their dough which had not yet been leavened—the masses of mixed up meal, bound up in their mantles—(now the Israelites had done as Moses commanded them; they had asked of the Egyptians gold and silver vessels and raiment, and the Lord had given his people favour in the sight of the Egyptians and they had
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sides women and children began their march from Ramesses to Succoth. And there went up with them a mixed multitude with flocks and herds and cattle in great abundance. And of the dough which they brought out of Egypt they baked unleavened cakes, for it had not been leavened: for the Egyp- tians hurried them away and they could not wait, and they had not dressed any provisions for themselves for the journey. Now the sojourning of the Israelites which they and their fathers had sojourned in the land of Egypt and in the land of Chanaan was four hundred and thirty years. And at the end of four hundred and thirty years all the host of the Lord came out of the land of Egypt. At night there was a watch for the Lord. ‘This watch of the Lord was instituted that very night to bring them out of the land of Egypt. That it might be kept by all the children of Israel throughout their generations, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover—No stranger shall eat of it; but every servant born at home or bought with money thou shalt circumcise and then he may eat of it. A sojourner or a hireling shall not eat of it. In one family it shall be eaten, and you must not carry any of the flesh abroad out of the house; nor shall you break a bone
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this festival. And ifany proselyte come to you to keep the pass- over to the Lord, thou shalt circumcise all his malesand then he may come and keep it, and he shall be as a native of the land. No uncircumcised person shall eat of it. There shall be one law for the home born and for the proselyte who shall come among you. Now the children of Israel had done as the Lord com- manded Moses and Aaron; and when they had done so, on that very day the Lord led the Israelites out of the land of Egypt with their host.
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Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites, and the Evites and the Jebusites and the Gergasites and the Pherezites which the Lord with an oath promised to thy fathers that he would give thee—a land flowing with milk and honey, thou shalt 6 perform this religious service in this month. Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall 7 be a festival to the Lord. Seven days you shall eat unleaven- ed bread. Nothing that is leavened shall be seen with thee; 8 nor shalt thou have leaven in all thy borders. And on that day thou shalt tell thy son and say, This is on the account of what the Lord God did for me, when I came out of Egypt. 9 And it shall be to thee for a sign on thy hand and for a me- morial before thy eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord thy God hath brought
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11 ing seasons from yearto year. And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Chananites, as he sware
12 to thy fathers, and shall give it to thee, thou shalt set apart eve- ry first born—all the males for the Lord. Every firstling of the kine or among the cattle which thou mayst have, even all the
13 males thou shalt consecrate to the Lord. Every firstling of an ass thou shalt exchange for a sheep, and if thou wilt not ex- change it thou must redeem it. And every male first born
14 of thy children thou shalt redeem. And if at any time hereaf- ter, thy son should ask thee saying, What is the meaning of this ? thou shalt say to him, Because with a strong hand the
15 Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt—from the house of bondage; and, when Pharao hardened himself against send- ing us away, the Lord slew every first born in the land of Egypt, both the first born of men and the first born of cattle, therefore I sacrifice all firstlings—all the males to the Lord:
16 and every male first born of my children I must redeem. And it shall be for a sign on thy hand, and immoyeably before thy eyes. For with a strong hand the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.
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ple by a circuitous march to the wilderness—to the Red. sea. And in the fifth generation the Israelites went up out of the 19 land of Egypt. And Moses took with him the bones of Joseph. For with an oath he had adjured the Israelites saying, The Lord. will assuredly visit you and you shall carry hence my bones with you. 20 And the children of Israel removed from Succoth and en- 21 camped at Otham on the edge of the wilderness. And God went before them, by day in a pillar of a cloud to shew them 22 the way, and at night in a pillar of fire. And there was no failure of the pillar of a cloud by day, and of the pillar of fire by night before all the people. XIV. Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the 2 children of Israel and let them turn and encamp on the ground between Magdolus and the sea, from the sheep cot on the one 3 side to Beelsepphon on the other. In front of these thou shalt encamp by the sea; whereupon Pharao will say to his people, The Israelites have lost their way in the land for the wilderness A hath shut them in. And I will make Pharao’s heart stout, so that he will pursue them, and I shall be glorified by Pharao and by all his army. And all the Egyptians shall know that 5 Iam the Lord. Accordingly the Israelites did so. Now when the king of the Egyptians was told that the people had fled, his heart and the heart of his servants were turned against the peo- ple. And they said, What is this we have done in sending the 6 Israelites away from serving us? Therefore Pharao equipt his 7 chariots and took all his people with him. And having selected six hundred chosen chariots and all the cavalry of the Egyp- 8 tians and officers of the highest rank over all (for the Lord had emboldened the heart of Pharao king of Egypt and of his at- tendants) he pursued the Israelites. Though the Israelites had gone out with a high hand, yet the Egyptians pursued them with all the cavalry and the chariots of Pharao. And his horse- men and his army found them encamped by the sea with the 10 sheep cot on one flank and Beelsepphon on the other. And as Pharao approached; the children of Israel raising their eyes saw the Egyptians encamping in their rear and were greatly 11 terrified. And the Israelites cried to the Lord, and said to Moses, Was it because there were no graves in the land of
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Egypt, that thou hast brought us out to die in the wilderness? Why hast thou dealt thus with us in bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Is not this what we told thee in Egypt saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it was better for us to 13 serve the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness. _Where- upon Moses said to the people, Take courage; stand still and see the salvation which cometh from the Lord—which he will work for you this day. For in the manner you have seen the Egyptians this day, you shall never see them again any more. 14 The Lord will fight for you. Be ye therefore silent. 15 Νὸον the Lord had said to Moses, Why criest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel and let them prepare for march- 16 ing. And lift thou up thy staff and stretch forth thy hand over the sea and divide it, and let the children of Israel go into the 17 midst of the sea as on dry ground. And behold I will embold- en the heart of Pharao and of all the Egyptians and they will go in after them. And I shall be glorified by Pharao and by - 18 all his army and by his chariots and by his horses. Andall the Egyptians shall know, that I am the Lord when I make my- 19 self glorious by Pharao and by his chariots and his horses. Now the Angel of the Lord who marched before the camp of the Israelites had removed and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud had removed from the front and taken its station in the 20 rear. And when it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel and had taken its station; there came on a thick darkness and night intervened so that they did not in- 21 termix one with the other during that whole night. And Mo- ses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the Lord restrain- ed the sea that whole night with a strong south easterly wind. and made the sea dry ground; and the water was cleft asunder. 22 And the Israelites went into the midst of the sea as on dry ground. And the water thereof was a wall on the right and a 23 wall on the left. And the Egyptians pursued and went in after them, even all Pharao’s cavalry and his chariots and chari- 24 oteers, into the midst of the sea. And in the morning watch, ‘the Lord cast a look on the army of the Egyptians with the 25 pillar of fire and cloud, and threw the Egyptian army into con- fusion, and entangled their chariot wheels and caused them to drag on heavily ; w hereuponthe Egyptianssaid, Letus flee irom VOL. I.
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the face of Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians. Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand over the sea and bring back the water to its place; and let it overwhelm the Egyptians, their chariots and their horse- men. So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and about day break the water was brought back to its place. And when the Egyptians’ were fleeing below the water the Lord shook them off in the midst of the sea; and the water being brought back to its place overwhelmed the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharao who had marched after the Israelites into the sea, so that not one of them was left. But the Israelites marched on dry ground in the midst of the sea, and the water was a wall to them on their right and on their left. Thus did the Lord on that day deliver Israel out of the hand of the Egyptians. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea shore. And when Israel saw that great hand—what the Lord had done to the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord, and they.put confidence in God and in Moses his ser- vant.
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‘The waves were condensed in the midst of the sea. The enemy said, I will pursue and overtake, T will divide the spoil—I will glut my vengeance : My sword shall slay; my hand shall prevail. Thou didst send forth thy blast, the sea covered them ; They sank like lead in the mighty water. Who among the gods is like thee, O Lord ? Who is like thee? Glorified among Hollies ; Marvellous among Glories—-working miracles ! Thou didst stretch forth thy right hand, The earth swallowed them up, ~ In thy kindness thou hast been the guide Of this thy people whom thou hast redeemed. ‘By thy power thou hast called them forth To thy holy place for resting. Nations have heard and are troubled : Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Phylisteim ; The Emirs of Edom are already in commotion ; And as for the chiefs of Moab, horror hath seized them : All the inhabitants of Chanaan are appalled. On them let dread and terror fall. By the greatness of thine arm may they be petrified, Till thy people pass through, O Lerd— Till this thy people pass by, whom thou hast purchased. Introduce and plant them on the mount of thy heritage— In the settlement thou hast prepared for thy dwelling, O Lord— The sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have prepared. The Lord reigneth for ever and for evermore. Because Pharao’s cavalry with chariots and charioteers went into the sea,-and the Lord brought upon them the water of the τ
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There he instituted for them rules of rectitude and judg- ments, and there he proved them and said, If thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and do the things well pleas- ing in hissight, and hearken to his commandments, and keepall these his rules of rectitude, I will not bring upon thee any of the diseases which I brought on the Egyptians, for Iam the Lord thy God who healeth thee.
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removed from Aileim and came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Aileim and Sina. And on the fifteenth day of the second month after their coming out of Egypt all the congre- gation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites indeed said to them, Oh that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of flesh meat and ate bread in plenty! For you have brought us to this wilderness to kill this whole as- sembly with hunger. Whereupon the Lord said to Moses, Behold I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go and gather it day by day, that I may try them whether they will walk in my law or not. But on the sixth day they must be provident in respect to what they bring in. It shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
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giving you in the evening flesh to eat and in the morning bread in plenty, because the Lord hath heard your murmurings which you utter against us. But as for us what are we? your mur- muring is not against us but against God.)
Then Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, Attend in the presence of God, for he hath heard your murmuring. And when Aaron had spoken to all the congregation of the Israelites and they had turned about towards the wilderness, the glory of the Lord appeared ina cloud, and the Lord spoke to Moses saying, I have heard the murmuring of the Israelites. Speak to them and say, To- wards evening you shall eat flesh and in the morning you shall be plentifully supplied with bread. And you shall know that I am the Lord, your God. Accordingly there came up in the evening a flock of quails, which covered the camp, and in the morning while the dew lay around the camp, behold on the face of the wilderness something small like coriander, white like hoar frost, on the ground! And when the Israelites saw this they said one to another, What is this? for they did not know what it was. Upon which Moses said to them. This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. This is what the Lord: hath commanded, Gather of it, every one for his family a gomer a head according to the number of souls, you must every one gather for those in the tent with you.
And the children of Israel did so and gathered some more and some less, and when they measured it by the gomer, he who had gathered much had nothing over, and he who had. gathered little did not fall short. Every one had gathered suf- ficient for the family with him. Then Moses said to them, Let none leaye any of it till the morning. Notwithstanding this they hearkened not to Moses, but some left of it till the morn- ing. And it bred worms and gave an offensive smell. On which Moses was angry with them. So they gathered it every morning, every one a sufficiency for his family. And when the sun grew warm, it melted away.
Now on the sixth day when they were gathering a double quantity, two gomers for every one, all the heads of the con- gregation came and told Moses, whereupon he said to them, Is
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not this what the Lord spoke, Sabbaths are ἃ rest holy to the Lord? As for to-morrow, bake what you chuse to bake and boil what you chuse to boil and what is left lay up for to-mor- row. So they left some of it till the morning as Moses com- manded them and it did not become putrid, nor was there a worm im it. Then Moses said to them, Eat it to-day, for to- day is the Sabbath to the Lord. It will not be found in the field. Six days you shall gather but because the Sabbaths are on the seventh day, therefore in it there will be none. And it came to pass that on the seventh day some of the people went out to eather, but found none. Whereupon the Lord said to Moses, How long will you refuse to hearken to my commandments and my law? You see that because the Lord gave you this day for sabbaths, therefore on the sixth day he gave you the bread of two days. Abide ye every one at home. Let none go out from his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the se- venth day.
Now the Israelites called its name AZanna. It was like cori- ander seed. It was white; and its taste was like a cake made with honey. And Moses said, This is what the Lord hath commanded, Fill the gomer with Manna to be laid up for your posterity, that they may see the bread which you ate in the wilderness, when the Lord brought you out of the land of Egypt. Then Moses said to Aaron, Take a golden urn and put therein the full of a gomer of Manna; and thou shalt lay it up before God to be kept for your posterity. As the Lord commanded Moses so Aaron laid it up before the testimony that it might be kept. And the children of Israel ate this Manna forty years till they came to the inhabited land. They ate it
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people, and take thee some of the elders of the people, and take in thy hand the staff with which thou didst smite the river. And thou shalt go to the place where I before caused thee to stand on the rock at Choreb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and water will gush out that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the presence of the Israelites, and he called the name of that place, Temptation and Upbraiding, because of the up- braiding of the Israelites, and because they tempted the Lord and said, Is the Lord among us or not? Now Amalek had come and made war on Israel at Raphidin, upon which Moses said to Joshua, Select for thyself able men and go out and draw up in array to-morrow against Amalek ; when lo I have stood on the top of that hill with the staff of God in my hand. So Joshua did as Moses commanded him. And when he had gone out and drawn up in array against Amalek, and Moses and Aaron and Hur had gone up to the top of the hill, it came to pass that when Moses held up his hands Israel prevailed; but when he let down his hands Amalek prevailed. But Moses hands were heavy, therefore they took a stone and put it under him and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, one on one side, and the other, on the other. So his hands were stayed up till the going down of the sun and Jo- shuadiscomfited Amalek and his whole people with the slaughter of the sword. Then the Lord said to Moses, Write this in a book to keep it in remembrance; and rehearse it in the hear- ing of Joshua, that I will entirely blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an altar to the Lord and called its name, The Lord my refuge; because with:a seeret hand the Lord fighteth against Amalek foo ge- neration to generation.
XVII. Now when Jothor the priest of Madiam, Moses’ father
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Ch. XVUI. EXODUS.
_ name of one was Gersam; for he said, I was a stranger in a
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strange land; and the name of the other Eliezer; for the God of my fathers, said he, hath been my help, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao) Jothor the father in law of Mo- ses came out to him with his sons and his wife to the wilder- ness where he was encamped by the mount of God. And when they told Moses saying, Behold Jothor thy father in law is coming to thee with thy wife and thy two sons with him, Moses went out to meet his father in-law and made obeisance to him and kissed him. And when they had embraced each other he conducted them to his tent. And Moses told his father in law all that the Lord had done to Pharao and to all the Egyp- tians for Israel’s sake, and all the difficulties which they had encountered on the way, and how the Lord had rescued them out of the hand of Pharao and out of the hand of the Egyp- tians. Whereupon Jothor was enrapt in wonder at all the good things which the Lord had. done for them in delivering them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pha- rao; and Jothor said, Blessed be the Lord. Because he hath delivered these out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharao, I know now that the Lord is great above all
the gods, for this reason because they were set against these.
Then Jothor the father in law of Moses took whole burnt offer- ings and sacrifices for God; and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread before God with Moses’ father in law. And on the morrow Moses sat to administer justice tothe peo- ᾿ς ple, and all the people attended on Moses from early m the morning till late in the evening. And when Jothor saw all that he did for the people, he said, What is this that thou dost for the people? Why hast thou sitten alone and all the people attended thee from morning till night? And Moses said to his father in law, Because the people come to me to have a determimation from God. For when a controversy happeneth among them and they come to me, I administer justice to every one, and teach them the statutes of God and his law. Thereupon Moses’ father in law said to him, Thou dost not transact this busimess right. Both thou and this people with thee must needs be worn down by this intolerable service. This business is too fatiguing for thee. Thou canst not perform it thyself alone. Now therefore
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hearken to me and I will advise thee; and God be with thee.
20 Be thou to the people as the Oracle of God; and lay their
cases before God; and testify to them the statutes of God and
his law; and point out to them the ways in which they shall walk,
21 and the works which they shall do: but look out for thyself from
among all the people, for able, pious men, men of integrity
who hate pride; and set these over them as rulers of thousands,
and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens;
and let them administer justice to the people on all occasions:
22 and the matter which is too high for them, they shall lay before
thee ; but causes easily determined they themselves shall de-
23 cide. Thus they will remove a burden from thee and help thee.
If thou do this God will strengthen thee so that thou shalt be
able to endure, and all this people shall go to their place with
24 peace. So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law,
25 and did all that he said. And when Moses had chosen able
‘men from among all Israel and made them rulers of thousands,
26 and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens,
with orders to administer justice to the people on all occasions,
and that they should lay before him the matter which was too
high for them; but the causes easily determined they them-
27 selves should decide ; then Moses gave his father in law leave to depart and he returned to his own land.
XIX. Now on the first day of the third month after the depar-
ture of the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, on the very day
2 they came to the wilderness of Sina—when they had re.
moved from Raphadin and came to the wilderness of Sina
3 and Israel were encamping there before the mount, Moses
went up to the mount of God. And God called to him out of
4 the mount and said, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob,
and announce to the children of Israel—You have seen what
I have done to the Egyptians ; and how I have taken you up
5 as on the wings of eagles and brought you to myself. Now
therefore if you will hearken diligently to my voice and
keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above
6 allthe nations; for the whole earth is mine: but as for you,
you shall be a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words
7 thou shalt deliver to the children of Israel. Upon this Moses
came and called the elders of the people and laid before them, VOL. 1. Q :
Ch. XTX. EXODUS.
8 allthese words which God enjoined on them. And all the peo- ple with one consent answered and said, All that God hath said. we will do and we will be obedient. And Moses carried up
9 these words to God. Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold I will come to thee ina pillar of cloud, that the people may hear
10 me speaking to thee and believe thee for ever.—When Moses told the Lord the words of the people the Lord said to Moses,
11 Go down and testify to the people and purify them to-day and to-morrow and let them wash their garments and be ready against the third day ; for on the third day the Lord will de-
12 scend upon mount Sina in the sight of all the people. ‘There- fore thou shalt remove the people to some distance round about and say, Take heed to yourselves not to go up to the mount nor touch any part of it. Whoever shall touch the
13 mount shall surely die. A hand shall not touch him, for he shall be stoned with stones or shot with a dart. Whether man or beast it shall not live. When the voices and the trumpets and the cloud are gone from the mount, they may go up to the mount.
14 80 Moses went down from the mount to the people and
15 purified them, and they washed their garments. And he said to the people, Be ready, for three days you must not approacha wife.
16 And it came to pass on the third day that about dawn there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on mount Sina, and the voice of the trumpet sounded loud, so that all
17 the people in the camp were terrified. Then Moses led forth the people out of the camp to meet God, and they halted at the
18 foot of the mount. The whole mountain Sina was enveloped with smoke, because God had descended upon it in fire. And
19. the smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, so that all the people were exceedingly amazed.
Still the sounds of the trumpet waxed louder and louder. Moses had spoken and God had answered him by a voice. And
20 the Lord descended upon mount Sina on the summit of the mount, and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount,
21 and Moses went up. And God spoke to Moses saying, Go down and testify to the people ; peradventure they may come
_ nigh to God to observe, and a multitude of them may perish.
Ch. XX. - -EXODUS.
22 And let the priests who come near to the Lord God be puri- 23 fied, lest peradventure the Lord withdraw from them. And Moses said to God, The people cannot advance to mount Sina ; for thou hast testified to us saying, Set apart the mount
24 and hallow it. But the Lord said to him, Away; go down and come up thou and Aaron with thee; but let not the priests nor the people presume to come up to God lest perad-
25 venture the Lord destroy some of them. And when Moses had gone down to the people and spoken to them, the Lord spoke all these words saying,
XX. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the
3 land of Egypt—out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods besides me.
4 Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol, nor the likeness of any thing, which is in the heaven above, or in the earth be- low, or in the waters under the earth ; thou shalt not worship
5 them; nor serve them; for I, the Lord thy God, ama zealous God, retributing to them who hate me the sins of fathers upon
6 children to the third and fourth generation; but shewing mer- cy for thousands [of generations] to them who love me and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord’thy God in vain; for the Lord thy God will not hold him guiltless who
- taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the day of the sabbaths to hallow it. Six days
9 labour and do all thy works ; but on the seventh day are sab-
10 baths to the Lord thy God ; On it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy cattle,
11 nor the stranger who sojourneth with thee ; for in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that _ are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it.
12. Honour thy father and thy mother that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst live long m that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
14 Thou shalt not steal.
15 Thou shalt not commit murder.
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Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, nor his field, nor his man ser- vant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any of his cattle, nor any thing belonging to thy neighbour.
And all the people looked towards the thunder and the light- nings and the sound of the trumpet and the mount which was smoking ; and all the people being struck with terror stood at a distance. And they said to Moses, Speak thou to us: and let not God speak to us lest we die. Whereupon Moses said to them, Take courage; for God. is come to you to prove you, that the dread of him may be in you, that you may not sin. Then the people stood afar off, and Moses went into the thick darkness, where God was. And the Lord said to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob and announce to the children of Israel, You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven. You shall not make for yourselves gods of silver, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold. An altar of earth you shall make for me, and sacrifice thereon your whole burnt offerings and your offerings of thanksgiving, both your sheep and your young bulls in every place where Irecord my name. And I will come to thee and bless thee. And if thou makest for me an altar of stones ; thou shalt not build it of hewn stones: for thou hast put thy workmanship on them and they are polluted. Thou shalt not go up to my altar by steps, that thou mayst not discover thy nakedness on it.
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Ifthou purchase a Hebrew servant, he shall serve thee six years, but in the seventh year he shall go out free without ransom. If he came in alone, he shall go out alone; but if his wife came with him his wife shall go out with him. And if his master hath given him a wife and she hath born him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall belong to his master, and he shall go out alone. And if the servant shall answer and say, [love my master and my wife and my children, [ willnot go away free, his master shall bring him to God’s court of Justice and there lead him to the door—to the door post, and his mas-
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ter shall bore his ear through with an awl and he shall serve him for ever.
When any man selleth bi daughter to be a handmaid she shall not go away as those who are in bondage go. If she please not her master provided he betrothed her for himself, he shall let her be redeemed ; but he is not her master to sell her into another family, because he hath broken covenant with her : but if he betroth her for his son, he shall deal by her accord- ing to the privilege of daughters. And if the son take another for himself, he shall not deprive her of food and raiment and her marriage rites. And if he do not these three for her she shall go away ransom free.
If any one smite another and he die, he shall be put to death. But if he was not a voluntary agent, but God deliver- ed into his hands, I will appoint for thee a place to which he who hath killed shall flee. But if any one lie in wait for his neighbour to kill him insidiously, and flee, thou shalt drag him from my altar to put him to death.
He who smiteth his father or his mother shall be put to death. |
He who curseth his father or his mother shall be put to death.
He who stealeth any of the children of Israel, and having got him in his power selleth him, or if he be found with ὑπαὶ shall be put to death. |
If two men quarrel and one smite the other with a stone or his fist and he dieth not, but is confined to his bed; if the man rise and walk abroad on his staff, he who smote him shall be acquitted but shall pay for his loss of time and the expence of his cure.
If a man smite his man servant or his maid servant witha staff; and the servant die under his hand, vengeance shall be taken by a judicial process; but if the servant live a day or two, let no vengeance be taken, for he is his money.
If twomen fight and strike a woman with child and she mis- carry of an embrio, atonement shall be made by a fine. Ac- cording as the husband of the woman shall with a judicial de- cision lay upon him, he shall pay: but if the child be compleatly
24 organised he shall give, life for life; eye for eye; tooth for
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25 tooth; hand for hand; foot for foot; burning for burning ; 26 wound for wound; str ipe for stripe. But if a man smite the eye of aman servant, or the eye ofamaid servant; and it become 27 blind, he shall set them free for their eye’s sake. And if he beat out the tooth of a man servant, or the tooth of a maid servant, he shall set them free for their tooth’s sake. 28 If a bull gore aman ora woman and he or she die, the bull shall be stoned to death and his flesh shall not be eaten; but 29 the owner of the bull shall be held guiltless: but if the bull hath heretofore been accustomed to push with his horns, and this hath been made known to his owner, and he hath not shut him up; ifhe killa man or woman, the bull shall be stoned and 30 his owner also may be put to death. But ifa fine shall be laid 31 upon him, he shall pay as a ransom for his life whatever they lay upon him. And if the bull shall gore a son or a daughter, they 32 shall deal with him according to this law. But if the bull shall gore a man servant ora maid servant he shall pay their master thirty didrachms of silver and the bull shall be stoned. 95 If any man open ἃ pit, or dig ἃ pit and do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein, the owner of the pit shall make it 34 good. He shall pay the owner of them, and the dead beast shall be his. 35 If any man’s bull gore the bull of his neighbour and he die, they shall sell the live bull and divide the money and they shall 36 divide the dead bull. But ifthe bull be noted for having been heretofore accustomed to push with his horns, and this hath been made known to his owner, and he hath not shut him up he shall be fined bull for bull and the dead bull shall be his.: ΧΧΙΗΙ. If any man steal an ox or a sheep and kill, or sell it, he shall pay as a fine five oxen for the ox, and. four sheep for the sheep. | 2 If a thief be found in the act of breaking i in and be struck 3 and die, he who struck him is not liable to death; but if the sun was risen upon him he is liable and may be put to death. 4 If ἃ thief hath no property, let him be sold for the theft. If the thing stolen, whatever it be from an ass toa sheep, be _ left alive and found in his hand, he shall be fined double. 5 If any man cause a field or a vineyard to be eaten and shall send out his cattle to feed upon the field of another, with the
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produce of his own field he shall make restitution ; and if he — shall cause a whole field to be eaten up; with his choicest field or his choicest vineyard he shall make compensation.
If a fire break out and catch in thorns and consume corn on the threshing floors or on the stalk, or in the field, he who
kindled the fire shall make compensation.
If any man deliver to his neighbour money or furniture to keep, and they be stolen out of the man’s house; the thief, if he be found, shall be fined double. But if the thief cannot be found, the owner of the house shall go before God and be ex- amined on oath whether he may not in some manner have ac- ted wrong touching the deposit of his neighbour. On every supposed act of injustice touching an ox or an ass or a sheep or raiment or any kind of deposit which is lost, whatever it may be, the cause of both parties shall come before God, and he whom God pointeth out shall pay his neighbour two fold.
And if a man deliver to his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast to keep, pis be hurt or die, or be car- ried off by an enemy unknown to any one, there shall be an oath of God between the parties, that he hath not in any manner ac- ted wrong touching the deposit of his neighbour; and the owner shall thus be satisfied; and the other shall not make it good. But if it be stolen from him he shall make restitution to the owner; and if it be torn by wild beasts he shall bring the owner to the prey and shall not make compensation. But if any one borrow of his neighbour and that which was bor- rowed be hurt or die or be carried off by an enemy and the owner be not with it, he shall make compensation; but if the owner be with it he shall not make it good, and if it be hired he shall have it for the hire of it.
If any man delude an unmarried virgin and lie with her, he shall by paying a dowry purchase her for a wife: but if her father absolutely refuse and will not consent to give her to him for a wife, he shall pay the father in money to the amount of the dowry paid for virgins.
You shall not protect sorcerers.
Every act of bestiality you shall punish with death.
He who sacrificeth to any god save to the Lord alone shall be destroyed by death. —
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A stranger you shall not injure; nor shall you afflict him ; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
A widow and an orphan you shall not afflict. If you in any- wise afflict them and they cry to me, I will hear their voice and my wrath will be kindled, and I will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fa- therless.
If thou lend money to thy brother, who is near thee and in want; thou shalt not be rigorous with him, nor charge him in- terest. And if theu hast taken the mantle of thy neighbour as a pledge, thou shalt restore it to him before the setting of the sun; for itis his covering. This mantle is the only covering of his nakedness. In what can he sleep? Iftherefore he cry to me, I will hear him; for I am merciful.
Thou shalt not revile gods, nor speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
The first fruits of thy threshing floor and of thy press thou shalt not withhold. |
The first born of thy sons thou shalt give to me. Thou shalt do the same with thy calf, thy sheep and thy ass. Seven days it shall be with the dam and on the eighth day thou shalt dedicate it to me. You shall be men holy to me, and you shall not eat what.is torn by wild beasts. You shall throw it to the dogs.
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spire with the unrighteous to be a false witness. Thou shalt not be with the majority in wickedness, nor join with the multi- tude to shut out justice. In passing judgment thou shalt not be influenced by compassion for the needy. If thou meet the ox of thy enemy or his ass going astray thou shalt turn. it back and restore it to him. And if thou seest thine enemy’s ass fallen under his burden thou shalt not pass it by, but shalt raise it up with its load.
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of a poor man in the trial of his cause. Thou shalt keep aloof from every thing unjust. An innocent and a righteous man thou shalt not slay ; nor shalt thou justify a wicked man for the sake of bribes. Bribes thou shalt not receive, for they blind the eyes of them who sce, and pervert judgment.
Ch. XXIII. EXODUS.
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Six years thou shalt sow thy ground and gather in the pro- ducts thereof; but on the seventh thou shalt give it rest and let it lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave, let the wild beasts of the field eat. The same thou shalt do with thy vineyards and thy olives. Six days thou shalt do thy work; but on the seventh there shall be a rest; that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and that the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may repose.
You shall keep all that I have said to you; and make no mention of the name of strange gods, nor let it be heard out of your mouth.
Three times a year you shall keep a festival to me—the fes- tival of unleavened bread you shall carefully observe. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the time fixed in the month of new things. For in that month thou didst come out of Egypt. Thou shalt not appear before me empty. Thou shalt also keep the festival of the in- gathering of the first fruits of thy labours employed in sowing thy field; and the festival of completion at the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours from the field. Three times a year all thy males must appear before the Lord thy God; for when I have driven out the nations from before thee I will enlarge thy borders.
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; nor shall the fat of my festival remain till the morning.
The dedications of the first products of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of its dam.
Now behold I send my angel before thy face, that he may guard thee in the way, and bring thee to the land, which I have prepared for thee. Take heed to thyself and hearken to him and disobey him not; for he should not withdraw from you;
2 for my name is upon him. If you will hearken diligently to
this voice of mine, and do whatever I command thee, and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all the nations ; for the whole earth is mine, but you shall be to
me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These wards you. VOL. 2h R
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shall deliver to the children of Israel—If you will hearken dili- gently to my voice, and do all that I command thee, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and an adversary to thy adversaries; Formy angel shall go before thee as thy leader, and conduct thee to the Amorite and the Chettite and the Pherezite and the Cha- nanite and the Gergasite and the Evite and the Jebusite, and [will exterminate them. Thou shalt not worship their gods nor serve
them. Thou shalt not do according to their works; but destroy
utterly and break in pieces their pillars and worship the Lord thy God. And I will bless thy bread and thy wine and thy water, and turn away sickness from you. There shall not be a man childless, nor a woman barren in thy land. The number of your days I will completely fulfil. And I will send terror be- fore thee and confound all the nations to which thou shalt go; and cause all thy adversaries to flee before thee. And I will send hornets before thee, and thou shalt drive out the Amo- rites and the Evites and the Chananites and the Chettites from before thee. I will not drive them out in one year, lest the land become a waste and the wild beasts of the earth multiply against thee. By little and little 1 will drive them away from thee until thou art increased and canst possess the land. And I will es- tablish thy boundaries from the Red sea to the sea of Philis- teim, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates, and deliver into your hands those who are settled in the land, or drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt not make a treaty with them and their gods, nor shall they dwell in thy land, lest
they cause thee to sin against me. For if thou serve their gods,
they will be to thee a stumbling block.
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thou and Aaron and Nadab and Abiud and seventy of the elders of Israel; and let them at a distance worship the Lord; and let Moses alone approach near to God. As for them they shall not approach near; nor shall the people come up with them. So Moses came and told the people all the words of God and the rules of rectitude, and all the people with one voice answered and said, All the words which the Lord hath spoken
| we will perform and we will be obedient. ‘Then Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. And rising early next morn-
ing Moses built an altar at the foot of the mount with twelve
Ch. XXV. EXODUS.
5 stones for the twelve tribes of Israel; and he sent out the young
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men of the children of Israel and they brought up whole burnt
offerings and slew young bulls for a sacrifice of thanksgiving
to the Lord. And Moses took half of the blood and poured it into bowls, and the other half of the blood he poured out against the altar. Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do and we will be ebedient. There- upon Moses took the blood and scattered it towards the peo- ple and said, Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you touching all these words. Then Moses and Aaron and Nadab and Abiud and seventy of the senate of Israel went up; and they saw the place where the God of Israel
stood; and what was under his feet was like a pavement of Sap-
phire, and in clearness like the appearance of the firmament of heaven. And of these chosen men of Israel not one uttered a dissenting voice.
ΠΟ Now when they had appeared in the presence of God and had eaten and drunk the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mount and stay there and I will give thee the tables of stone, the law and the commandments which I have written to be promulgated to them. Thereupon Moses arose with Joshua his attendant and they went up to the mount of God—Having said to the elders, Remain quiet here till we return to you, and behold Aaron and Hur are with you, if any one hath a controversy with another let them go to them. Moses then went up with Joshua to the mount and the cloud covered the mount. And the glory of God descended on mount Sina and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. Now the appear- ance of the glory of the Lord was like fire blazing on the top of the mount in the view. of the Israelites; and Moses went into the midst of the cloud and ascended the mount and re- mained there forty days and forty nights. —
XXV. And the Lord spake to Moses saying, Say to the chil-
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dren of Israel, Take offerings from all who may be willing. And these you shall take as dedications to me. And this is the offering which you shall receive from them; gold and silver and
4 brass, and blue and purple and scarlet yarn, and cotton thread,
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and goats’ hair, and rams’ skins dyed red, and skins of a violet colour, and incorruptible wood, and oil for giving light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the compound incense, and sardine stones, and stones to be engraved for the ephod and the robe which cometh down to the feet. And thou shalt make a sanctuary for me and I will appear among you. And thou shalt make every thing for me according to what I show thee on this mount—according to the pattern of the tabernacle and the pat- tern of all its utensils, so shalt thou make them.
Thou shalt make the 4ré of the testimony of incorruptible wood—two cubits and a half, the length, and a cubit and a half, the breadth, and a cubit and a half, the height. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold. Within and without thou shalt overlay it. And thou shalt make for it a rim of gold welked and waved around. And thou shalt beat out for it four rings of gold and fasten them to the four corners, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. And thou shalt make staves of incorruptible wood and overlay them with gold. And thou shalt put the staves in the rings on the sides of the ark, that with them the ark may be carried. The staves shall re- main immoveably in the rings of the ark. And thou shalt de- posit in the ark the testimonies which I give thee.
And thou shalt make a propitiatory—a lid of pure gold, two cubits and a half, the length; and a cubit and a half, the breadth. And thou shalt maketwo cherubs of turned gold, and place them at the two sides of the propitiatory. They shall be made, one cherub at one side, and the other cherub at the other side of the propitiatory. Thou shalt make the twocherubs at the twosides ; and the cherubs shall have their wings stretched forth above and shall overshadow the propitiatory with their wings; and their faces shall be towards each other. The faces of the che- tubs shall be towards the propitiatory. And thou shalt put the propitiatory upon the ark; and into the ark thou shalt put the testimonies which I give thee. And there I will make myself known to thee and speak to thee from above the propitiatory, from between the two cherubs which are on the ark of the tes- timony, touching all that I give thee in charge to the children of Israel. |
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Thou shalt also make a golden table of pure gold; two cu- bits long; and one cubit broad; and a cubit and a half high: And thou shalt make for it a rim of gold, welked and waved
‘around: And thou shalt make for it a border of a hand breadth
all around, and to the border thou shalt make a welked wave all around: And thou shalt make four rings of gold and fasten the four rings to the four sides of its feet under the border. And the rings shall be for places to hold the staves so that with them they may carry the table. And thou shalt make the staves of incorruptible wood and overlay them with pure gold, and with them the table shall be carried. And thou shalt make its plates and its incense vessels and its libation vessels and the cups with which thou shalt pour out libations, all of pure gold. And on this table thou shalt lay the loaves which are to be in my presence before me continually.
Thou shalt make also a candlestick of pure gold. Thou shalt make it a turned work. Its shaft and its branches and the cups and the knobs and the lilly ornaments shall be of one piece. And from its sides there shall issue six branches; three bran- ches of the candlestick from one side thereof, and three bran- ches of the candlestick from the other side, with three cups beaten out in form of almonds, and a knob and an ornament like-a lilly on each branch; and so on the six branches issuing from the candlestick: and on the shaft there shall be four cups — beaten out in form of almonds, and for each branch, knobs and ornaments like lillies, of the same piece; the knob under the first pair of branches issuing from it; and a knob under the se- cond pair of branches issuing from it, and so under the third pair of branches issuing from the shaft; and on the shaft four cups beaten out in form of almonds. Let the knobs and the branches be of one piece. The whole must be turned out of
one piece of pure gold. And thou shalt make the seven lamps
for it, and place the lamps so that they may give light in one row. And its snuffers and its snuff dishes thou shalt make of pure gold. All these utensils shall be a talent of pure gold. See that thou make them according to the pattern shewn thee on this mount.
XXVI. Thou shalt make also the tabernacle with ten cur-
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yarn with cherubs. With the workmanship of a tapestry weav- er thou shalt make them. The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits and its breadth four cubits. All the curtains shall be of the same measure. And five curtains shall be jomed together one to another and the other five curtains shalt be joined together one to another. And thou shalt make for them loops of blue yarn on the border of the outer curtain on one side for the coupling; and the same thou shalt do on the selvage of the outermost curtain of the other sheet for the second coupling. Fifty loops thou shalt make for the one cur- tain, and fifty loops thou shalt make on the selvage of the other
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to another they will meet each other at each joining place. And thou shalt make fifty links of gold and fasten the curtains one to another with these links; and it shall be one tabernacle. And thou shalt make a covering for the tabernacle of hair cloth. Thou shalt make eleven hair cloth curtains. The length of the first curtain shall be thirty cubits and the breadth four cu- bits. The eleven hair cloth curtains shall be of the same mea- sure. And thou shalt fasten five hair curtains together, and six hair curtams together. And thou shalt lap the sixth cur- tain over directly in front of the tabernacle. And thou shalt make fifty loops on the border of the first hair curtain which is in the middle over the junction; and thou shalt make fifty loops on the border of the other hair curtain which is to be joined with it, and thou shalt make fifty links of brass, and fasten the links together by the loops and so couple the hair curtains that they may be one. And thou shalt put the over- plus of the hair curtains of the tabernacle underneath—the half of the hair curtain which remaineth, thou shalt fold in under- neath that being the surplusage of the hair curtains of the ta- bernacle. So thou shalt fold back, underneath the tabernacle, a cubit on one side and a cubit on the other from the length of the hair curtain more than that of the tabernacle. It shall compleatly infold both the sides of the tabernacle so as to co- ver it. And thou shalt make a counter covering for the taber- nacle of rams’ skins dyed red and an upper covering of skins dyed blue. Thou shalt also make pilasters for the tabernacle of incorruptible wood. Thou shalt make each pilaster ten cu-
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17 bits long and a cubit and a half broad with two rabbets to each pilaster to fit the pilasters one to another. In this manner thou 18 shalt make all the pilasters of the tabernacle. And thou shalt make the pilasters for the tabernacle twenty pilasters for the 19 north side; and for these twenty pilasters thou shalt make forty bases of silver, two for each pilaster, for both the ends thereof: 20 And for the other side towards the south, twenty pilasters 21 with their forty bases of silver, two for each pilaster for both 22 the ends thereof: and for the end of the tabernacle which is 23 towards the west thou shalt make six pilasters; and at the corn- ers of the tabernacle out of the hinder ends thou shalt make two pilasters and the side on the end shall be of the same piece 24 and as wide as the other side—both sides shall be equal from the corner to the first joint. That thou mayst do this at both 25 corners the corner pilasters must have equal sides. So there will be eight pilasters and their bases of silver sixteen, two for 26 each pilaster for the two ends thereof. And thou shalt make bars of incorruptible wood—five for one range of pilasters on 27 one side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the other range 28 of pilasters on the other side of the tabernacle; and five for the end of the tabernacle facing the west. And let the bar which is along the middle of the ranges of pilasters reach from one 29 corner to the other. And thou shalt overlay the pilasters with gold. And thou shalt make rings of gold into which thou shalt 30 put the bars; and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold. And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the pattern shewn thee on this mount. 31 Thou shalt also make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet 32 yarn and cotton thread. This thou shalt make a work in- woven with cherubs: and thou shalt hang it on four pillars of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold, the capitals of which are 33 to be of gold and their four bases of silver. And having hung up the veil. upon the pillars, thou shalt bring in there within the 34. veil the ark of the testimony. And the veil shall make a divi- sion for you, betweenthe Holy andthe Holy of Holies. And with the veil thou shalt cover from view the ark of the testimony in 35 the Holy of Holies. And thou shalt place the table without the . veil, and the candlestick over against the table on the south side of the tabernacle, and the table thou shalt place on the
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curtain for the door of the tabernacle, of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread, the work of an embroiderer :
37 And for this veil thou shalt make five pillars and overlay them
with gold and their capitals shall be of gold but thou shalt cast for them five bases of brass.
XXVII. Thou shalt make also an Altar of incorruptible wood,
five cubits long and five cubits broad. The Altar shall be
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shalt make the horns at the four corners. The horns shall be a component part of it and thou shalt overlay them with brass. And thou shalt make a border for the Altar. And its cover and its pans and its flesh hooks and its fire hearth and all its utensils thou shalt make of brass. And thou shalt. make for it a brass grate of net work ; and for the grate thou shalt make four rmgs of brass under the four sides; and thou shalt put them under the grate of the altar below (now the grate must be half way up the height of the altar.) And thou shalt make for the altar poles of incorruptible wood and overlay them with brass, and thou shalt put the poles into the rings; and Jet the poles be along the sides of the altar in carrying it. Hol- low, and of boards thou shalt make it. According to what is shewn thee on this mount so shalt thou make it.
‘Thou shalt also make a court for the tabernacle. Tor the south side, the hangings of the court shall be of cotton thread ; the length for that side one hundred cubits and their pillars twenty. And the twenty bases of these pillars shall be of brass and their links and their fillets of silver. So for the north side there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long with their twen- ty pillars; and the twenty bases of them shall be of brass, and the links and the fillets of these pillars and their bases shall be overlaid with silver. And for the breadth of the court west- ward there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their bases ten, And for the breadth of the court eastward there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their bases ten. But on one side of the gateway, the length of the hangings shall be fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their bases three ; and for the other side of the gateway, the length of the hangings shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three and
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their bases three : and for the gate of the court there shall be a curtain of twenty cubits long, made of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread woven with a variety of em- broidery ; the pillars four and their bases four. All the pil- lars of the court round about shall be filletted with silver and the capitals shall be silvered and their bases of brass. The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits on each side, and the breadth fifty cubits at each end, and the height of the cot- ton hangings five cubits. And the bases shall be of brass, and all the implements and all the utensils and all the pins of the court shall be of brass.
Moreover thou shalt give orders to the children of Israel ; and let them provide for thee, clear, pure oil expressed from olives to burn for a light, thata lamp may be kept burning continually in the tabernacle of the testimony. On the outside of the veil which is before the covenant Aaron and his sons shall keep it burning from evening till morning before the Lord. This shall be an everlasting ordinance for your genera-
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ciate thou with thyself thy brother Aaron and his sons, that from among the children of Israel, Aaron and Nadab and Abiud and Eleazar and Ithamar the sons of Aaron may minis- ter to me in the priest’s office. And thou shalt make for thy brother Aaron holy raiment for dignity and glory. For this purpose speak to all those who are wise in heart, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom and understanding and let them
make the holy raiment of Aaron for the sanctuary, in which
he shall minister to me.
Now these are the robes which they shall make, The breast plate, and the ephod, and a long robe reaching down to the feet, ἀπ ἃ broidered vesture, and a mitre, and a girdle. And that they may make holy robes for Aaron and his sons to mi- nister to me, they shall take the gold and the blue and the pur- ple and the scarlet yarn and the cotton thread, and they shall make the ephod of cotton thread, a woven work of an em- broiderer. It shall have two shoulder pieces connected with it and to one another, being joined at the two sides. And the texture of the two shoulder pieces which are over it shall be
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shalt take the two stones, smaragdine stones, and engrave upon them the names of the sons of Israel, six names on one stone and the other six names on the other stone; according to their births. With the workmanship of a skilful engraver, like the engraving of a seal, thou shalt engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. And thou shalt fix these two stones on the shoulders of the ephod. ‘They are stones of remem- brance for the children of Israel. And Aaron shall carry the names of the children of Israel before the Lord on his two shoulders as a memorial concerning them. Thou shalt also make little shields of pure gold; and thou shalt make two pieces of net work of pure gold intermixed with flowers, the work of a curious plaiter, and thou shalt. put the plaited net works upon the little shields in the fore front of the shoulder pieces. And thou shalt make the oracle of judgment, a work of an embroiderer—thou shalt make it, conformable to the ephod, of gold and blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread—thou shalt make it four square. It shall be double. The length of it a span and the breadth a span. And thou shalt inweave in it a texture to contain stones in four rows. One row of stones shall be a sardius, a topaz and a smaragdus ; this shall be the first row. And the second row, an anthrax, and a sapphire and a jaspis; and the third row, a ligure, an agate and an amethyst; and the fourth row, a chrysolite and a beryl and an onyx. They must be cased in gold, and bound together with gold according to their rows. And the stones from the names of the sons of Israel must be twelve accord- ing to their names. They must be engraved like seals every one with its name for the twelve tribes. And thou shalt make upon the oracle net works inwoven with it, a chain work of pure gold; and thou shalt make for the oracle two rings of gold and thou shalt put the two rings of gold on the two upper ends of the oracle. And thou shalt put the nettings and chain works of gold on the two rings on the two upper ends of the oracle ; and the other two ends of the two pieces of net work thou shalt put on the two pieces of plaiters work, so as to put them upon the shoulders of the ephod over against each other in the fore front. And thou shalt make two rings of gold and put
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them on the two wings of the oracle on the very tip next to the 27 lowest hinder tip of the ephod: And thou shalt make two rings ‘ of gold and put them below on both the shoulder pieces of the ephod, over against the upper juncture of the contexture 28 of the ephod; And from the two rings which are on it thou shalt bind the oracle to the tworings of the ephod, which are fastened with blue yarn and plaited into the texture of the 29 ephod, that the oracle may not be loosed from the ephod. And Aaron shall carry on his breast the names of the children of Israel on the oracle of judgment, when he goeth mto the sanc- 30 tuary, asa memorial before God. And upon the oracle of judgment thou shalt put the Manifestation and the Truth. And it shall be on the breast of Aaron, when he goeth into. the sanctuary, before the Lord. And Aaron shall carry the judg- ments of the Israelites upon his breast before the Lord con- - 31 tinually. And thou shalt make a robe to be worn under this, 32 which shall reach down to the feet, entirely of blue yarn: And the opening of it at the neck shall be in the middle, having a hem round the opening, a woven work, the binding being in- 33 terwoven with it, that it may not be rent. And underneath the lower border of this robe thou shalt make clusters as of a blooming pomegranate of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread. Under the border of this robe round about thou shalt make clusters all of the same appearance and golden bells 34 between them round about— by a cluster a golden bell with 35 a running branch on the border of the robe round about; so that when Aaron officiateth the sound of him may be heard as he goeth into the sanctuary before the Lord, or-cometh out, that he may not die. 36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on © 57 it with the engraving of a seal, Holiness to the Lord, and thou 38 shalt fix it on a blue lace; and it shall be upon the mitre. [{᾿ shall be upon the front of the mitre and upon Aaron’s fore- head; and Aaron shall bear away the sins of the holy things which the children of Israel may dedicate—of every gift of their holy things. And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead con- 39 tinually to make them acceptable before the Lord. Now the embroideries of the vestures shall be of cotton and thou shalt make a tiara of cotton, and thou shalt make a girdle, the work
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AQ of an embroiderer. And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make ves-
tures and girdles. Thou shalt also make tiaras for them for
4) dignity and glory. And with these thou shalt clothe Aaron
thy brother and his sons with him. And thou shalt anoint them
and fill their hands and consecrate them that they may minis-
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them linen drawers to cover their nakedness. These shall reach
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them when they come into the tabernacle of the testimony or
when they come near to minister at the altar of the sanctuary,
that they may not bring sin upon themselves and die. This shall be a perpetual statute for him and his seed after him.
XXIX. Now these are the things which thou shalt do for them.
Thou shalt consecrate them that they may mimister to me in
2 the priest’s office. For this purpose thou shalt take one young
bull of the herd and two rams without blemish and unleaven-
ed bread tempered with oil and unleavened cakes anointed
with oil. These thou shalt make of fine wheaten flour and put
_ them in one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the
4 young bull and the two rams. Then thou shalt bring Aaron
and his sons to the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony
5 and wash them with water. Then taking the robes thou shalt
put on Aaron thy brother the robe reaching down to the feet,
and the ephod, and the oracle; and thou shalt fasten for him
6 the oracle to the ephod. Then thou shalt put the mitre on his
7 head and fasten the plate Holiness to the mitre. And thou shalt
take some of the anointing oil and pour it on his head and
8 anoint him. Then thou shalt bring his sons near, and clothe
them with vestures and gird them with girdles and put the
9 tiaras on them. And the office of serving me as priests shall be
theirs for ever. Then thou shalt consecrate the hands of
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bring the young bull to the doors of the tabernacle of the testi-
mony and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the
head of the young bull before the Lord at the doors of the ta-
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blood thou shalt pour out at the base of the altar. And thou shalt take the whole caul which covereth the belly and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with the suet on them; and lay them on the altar: but the flesh of the bull and the hide and the excrements thou shalt burn with fire without the camp: for it is a sin offering. Then thou shalt take one ram and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram ; and thou shalt slay it; and taking the blood thou shalt pour it around the altar. Then thou shalt cut the ram in pieces accord- ing to its members and thou shalt wash the entrails and the feet with water and lay them on the pieces with the head, and thou shalt carry up this whole ram on the altar for awhole burnt offer- ing to the Lord, for a sweet savour. It is a burnt offering to the Lord. Then thou shalt take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of this ram; and thou shalt kill it; and thou shalt take some of its blood and put it upon the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot; and on the tip of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the great toes of their right feet: and thou shalt take some of the blood from the altar, and some of the anoint- ing oil and sprinkle it upon Aaron and his raiment, and upon his sons and their raiment. So shall he and his raiment be hal- lowed; and his sons and their raiment with him. But the blood of this ram thou shalt pour against the altar round about. And thou shalt take from this ram the fat tail, and the caul which covereth the belly, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kid- neys with the suet on them, and the right shoulder (for this is a consecration offering) and one loaf of oil bread, and one cake out of the basket of unleavened cakes which were laid before the Lord; and thou shalt lay all these upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons, and set them apart as a dedi- cation before the Lord. Then thou shalt take them out of their hands and carry them up, upon the altar of burnt offerings for a smell of fragrance before the Lord. It is an homage offering to the Lord. And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration and set it apart as a dedication before the Lord, and thou shalt have it fora portion. And thou shalt hallow this breast dedication and the shoulder dedication which was set
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apart and taken from the ram of consecration on account of Aaron and his sons; and they shall belong to Aaron and his sons by an everlasting statute from the Israelites. For this is a dedication and it shall be a portion taken from the Israelites, from the burnt offerings of thanksgiving of the children of Is- rael—a portion set apart for the Lord.
Now the sanctuary robes which are appropriate to Aaron shall be for his sons after him to be anointed in them and to consecrate their hands. The priest—that one of his sons who is to succeed him and come intothe tabernacle of the tes- timony to minister in the Holies shall put them on seven days.
And thou shalt take the flesh of the ram of consecration and boil this flesh in a holy place; and Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of this ram and the bread which is in the bas- ket. At the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony they shall eat those meats, with which they were hallowed to consecrate their hands with them, to hallow themselves. None of another family shall eat of them, for they are holy. And if any of the flesh of the consecration sacrifice or of the bread be left till the morning, thou shalt burn what remaineth with fire. It shall not be eaten; for it is a dedication.
Having done thus for Aaron and his sons according to all that I have commanded thee, and consecrated their hands seven days, thou shalt offer on the day of the purification a young bull for a st offering, and thou shalt purify the altar, when thou consecratest upon it, and anoint it so as to hallow it. Seven days thow shalt purify the altar and hallow it, so shall the altar be most holy. Whoever toucheth it shall be hallowed. Now these are what thou shalt offer on the altar—two yearling lambs without blemish every day on the altar continually, an offermg of homage without intermission; the one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning with a tenth of fine flour tempered with a quarter of a hin of expressed oil; and for a libation a quagter of a hin of wine for the first lamb: and the other Jamb thou shalt offer in the evening with the same cake offer- ing and the same libation as in the morning. For a smell of fragrance—as an offering of homage to the Lord thou shalt offer this continual sacrifice throughout your generations, at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony before the Lord in’
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the places where I shall make myself known to thee so as to 43 speak to thee. And there I will issue orders to the children of 44 Israel and be hallowed by my glory. And I will hallow the ta- bernacle of the testimony and the altar; and I will hallow Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest’s office; 45 and I will be invoked by the children of Israel and will be 46 their God. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God who brought them out of Egypt to be invoked by them and to be their God. XXX. . Thou shalt also make an 4/tar to burn incense thereon. -2 Of incorruptible wood thou shalt make it a cubit long and a cubit broad. It shall be square and the height shall be two 3 cubits. The horns shall be a component part of it. And thou shalt overlay with pure gold its grate and its sides round about and the horns thereof. And thou shall make for it a wreathed 4. border of gold round about. And thou shalt make two rings of pure gold under its wreathed border for the two corners. Thou shalt make them on the two sides and there shail be 5 clasps for the staves with which it is to be carried. And thou shalt make staves of incorruptible wood and overlay them with 6 gold. And thou shalt piace this before the veil, which is over the ark of the testimonies, from which I will make myself 7 known to thee. And Aaron shall burn thereon every morning compound incense beaten fine. When he replenisheth the 8 lamps he shall burn incense thereon. And when Aaron light- eth the lamps in the evening he shall burn incense thereon every day continually before the Lord throughout their gene- 9 rations. And upon itthou shalt not offer any other incense offer- ing, homage offering, nor cake offering; nor shalt thou pour 10 a libation thereon. But Aaron shall make an atonement on it—on the horns thereof, once a year. With the blood of the purifying sacrifice he shall purify it throughout their genera- tions. It is a Holy of Holiesto the:Lord. ΤᾺ Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, When thou 12 takest an account of the children of Israel, on being reviewed they shall give every man a ransom for his life to the Lord, so there shall be no destruction among them by the review 13 made of them. And this is what every one who passeth re- view shall give, the half of a didrachm, which is according te
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Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Make a laver of brass with its base of brass for the purpose of washing. And thou shalt place it between the tabernacle of the testi- mony and the altar, and thou shalt pour water into it. And out of it Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet with water. When they go into the tabernacle of the testi- mony, they shall wash with water. That they may escape death, when they go to the altar to minister as priests and to carry up the whole burnt offerings to the Lord they shall wash their hands and their feet with water; and when they go into the tabernacle of the testimony they shall wash with water that they may not die: and this shall be to them a perpetual ordi- nance—to him and his posterity after him.
Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Thou thyself shalt take spices—the flower of choice myrrh five hundred shekels: and sweet scented cinnamon half as much—two hun- dred and fifty shekels ; and sweet scented calamus two hun- dred and fifty shekels ; and of iris five hundred shekels, sanc- tuary weight; and olive oil a hin; and of these thou shalt make an holy ointment, an odoriferous perfume, compounded. by the art of an apothecary. It shall be a holy anointing oil and with it thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the testimony and the ark of the tabernacle of the testimony and all the uten- sils thereof, and the candlestick and all the utensils belonging to it; and the altar of incense; and the altar of whole burnt offerings and all its utensils; and the table and all its utensils and the laver. And thou shalt hallow them, and they shall be holy of holies. Every one who toucheth them shall be hallow- ed. And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons and hallow
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them to minister to me as priests. And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel and say, This shall be to you a holy anointing oil throughout your generations. Upon the flesh of man it must not be poured; nor shall you make any for your- selves according to this composition. It shall be holy, and held in veneration by you. Whoever shall make any like it or give any of it toa stranger, shall be rooted out from among his people. .
Moreover the Lord said to Moses, Take thee spices—- stacte, onycha and sweet scented chalbanum and _ pellucid frankincense, of each an equal quantity. And of these they shall make compound incense mixed up by the art of an apo- thecary, a pure holy composition. And thou shalt beat some of it fine, and lay it over against the testimonies in the taber- nacle of the testimony, where I shall make myself known to thee. It shall be to you a most holy incense. According to the composition thereof you shall not make any for yourselves. You shall consider it as a holy thing appropriate to the Lord.
“Whoever shall make any like it to yield a fragrance for him- self shall be rooted out from among his people.
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that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifieth you ; therefore you shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy to the Lord for you. He who profaneth it shall surely be put to death. Whoever shall do any work on it, that person shali be rooted out from among his people. Six days thou shalt per- form works, but on the seventh day are the sabbaths, a rest holy to the Lord. Whoever shall do any work on the seventh day shall be put to death. Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbaths and cause them to be kept throughout their generations. It is an everlasting covenant between me and the children of Israel. It is for mea perpetual sign that im six days the Lord made the heaven and Sys earth «πᾶ ἰλωώς on the seventh. ;
Here he paused, and gave Moses, when he had ceased speaking to him on mount Sina, two tables of the testimony— tables of stone written with the finger of God.
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come down from the mount, they rose up together against Aa- ron and said to him; Arise and make for us gods who shall eo before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us out from the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. Thereupon Aaron said to them, Take off the golden ear- rings which are in the ears of your wives and daughters and bring them to me. So all the people took off the pala ear-rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron; and he received them at their hands and having made of them a mol- ten bull he fashioned it with a graving tool and said, These are thy gods O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw it he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation, saying, ‘l’o-morrow is the fes- tival of the Lord. So rising early in the morning he caused. whole burnt offerings to be brought up, and offered a sacrifice of thanksgiving; and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to piay.)
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turned aside out of the way in which thou commandedst them to walk and have made for themselves a young bull and wor- shipped it; and have sacrificed to it and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Now therefore let me alone, that being provoked to wrath against them I may utterly destroy them, and I will make thee a great nation.
Upon which Moses made supplication before the Lord God and said, Shouldst thou, O Lord, be provoked to wrath against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with thine uplifted arm, perhaps the Egyptians may speak, saying, With an ill intent he led them out to slay them on the mountains. and utterly consume them from the earth. Stay thy fierce indignation and’be mer- ciful at this wickedness of thy people, Better Abraham and Isaak and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself and didst speak saying, I will greatly multiply your seed like the stars of heaven for multitude ; and didstsay that thou wouldst give them all that land; that they should possess it for ever. And when the Lord was moved with compassion to save his people, Moses turned and went down from the mount with the two tablés of the testimony in his hands. Now the tables were of stone written on both sides. On the one side and on the other they were written, and the tables were the work of God. And the writing was the writing of God engraved on the ta- bles. And Joshua hearing the sound of the people shouting said to Moses, There is a sound of war in the camp. To which he replied, It is not the sound of men singing alternately as they rush to battle, nor is it the sound of men answering
‘each other on a retreat, but the sound of responsive strains at
arevel, which I hear. And when he approached the camp and saw the young bull and the choirs, Moses being inflamed with wrath threw the two tables from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mount. And taking the bull which they had made he burned it with. fire and grinded it fine and strewed it in the water and made the Israelites drink it. And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to thee, that thou hast brought upon them this great sin? Upon which Aaron said to
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‘take them off. So they gave me and I cast into the fire, and
out came that bull. And when Moses saw that the people were scattered abroad ;
‘for Aaron had scattered and made them a derision to their ene-
mies, Moses stood at the gate of the camp and said, Who is for the Lord? Let him come to.me. Upon which all the sons of Levi joined him. Then Moses said tothem, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Gird ye every man his sword on his thigh and pass through and wheel about from gate to gate through the camp and slay every man his brother and every man his neighbour and every one him who is nearest of kin to him. And the children of Levi did as Moses spoke to them and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. For Moses said to them, Fill your hands to-day for the Lord, - every one with his son or with his brother that a ΑἸ ΝΘΘΛΗΒ may be bestowed on you.
And on the following day Moses said to the people, You have committed a great.sin, now therefore I will go up to God that I may appease him for this sin of yours. So Moses went back to the Lord and said, O Lord ! this people have comiit- ted a great sin and have made for themselves gods of gold. Now. τατον. if thou indeed forgivest this their sin, forgive it: but if not: blot me out of thy book which thou hast writ- ten. And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever have sinned be- fore me, them will I blot out of my book. Now therefore go thy way; go down and lead this people to the place which I commanded thee. Behold my ἃ: ΡῈ] will go before thee but on the day when I visit I will bring upon them this sin of theirs.
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XXXII. bull which Aaron had made, the Lord said to Moses,
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seed I will give it. And I will send my angel before thee and he will drive out the Amorite and the Chettite and the Pherezite and the Gergasite and the Evite and the Jebusite and the Chananite. And I will bring thee to a land flowing
with milk and honey : for I must not go with thee because.
thou art a stiff necked people, lest I destroy thee in the way: And when the people heard these evil tidings they mourned bitterly. Whereupon the Lord said to the Israelites, You are a stiff necked people, take care that I bring not another stroke on you-and utterly consume you. Now therefore strip off the robes of your glory.and your ornaments and I will shew thee what I will do to thee. So the Israelites stript off their orna- ments and took down the barrier from the mountain Choreb and Moses struck his tent and pitched it-without the camp at a distance from the camp, (Now it was called the tabernacle of the testimony, and every one who sought the- Lord went out to this tabernacle without the camp. And as Moses
was going to the tabernacle without the camp, ail the people °
stood looking, every one atvhis tent door, and kept their eyes | upon Moses as he was going until he entered the tabernacle) .
And when Moses entered the tabernacle, the pillar of cloud descended aind stood at the door of the tabernacle and talked with Moses. And when all the people saw_ the pillar of cloud standing at the door of the tabernacle all the people as they were standing worshipped every one at his tent door, And when the Lord had talked with Moses face to face as one would talk to his friend, Moses returned to the camp, but his attendant Joshua the son τὰ Nave being young did not go out of the tabernacle.
Now Moses had said to the Lord, Behold these sayest, Lead on this people, but hast not let me know whom thou wilt. send with me. Yet thou hast said to me, I know thee
above: all men and thou art in favour with me. If therefore I ;
have found favour in thy sight manifest thyself to me in an evident manner, that I may see thee in what way soever‘I may have found favour in thy sight, and that I may know that this great nation is thy people. And he said, Must I myself go be- fore thee and give thee rest? To which Moses replied, Unless thou thyself accompany us, take me not away from this place :
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for how can it be known for certain that I and this people have found favour in thy sight, but by thy going with us? or I and this people be glorious above’ all that are on the earth? Then the Lord said to Moses, Even this which thou hast said, I will.do for thee ; for thou hast found favour in my sight and I know thee above all men. Upon which Moses said, Mani- fest thyself to me. Andhe said, I will go before thee with my glory and I will call by my name The Lord, before thee ; and
~ [will have mercy on whom I please to have mercy ; and I will
have compassion on whomsoever I compassionate ; but, said he, thou canst not see. my face ; for no man can tue my face and live. Then the Lord said, Behold there isa place near me. Thou shalt stand upon the rock, and when my glory is passing by, I will place thee in a cleft of the rock and cover thee with my hand over thee, until I pass by, then I will withdraw my hand and then:thou shalt see what are behind me but my face cannot be seen by thee.
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of stone such as the first he arose early in the morning and went up mount Sina, as the Lord had commanded him. And Moses took-the two tables of stone and the Lord descended in a cloud and stood by him there and called in the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed, The Lord, the God compassionate and merciful, long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping kindness and mercy for thousands, taking away transgressions, iniquities and sins, will by no means clear the guilty, when he bringeth the transgressions of fathers on children and children’s children to the third and
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* I will do marvellous things such as have not been done in all the earth nor in any nation. And all the people among whom thou art shall see the.works of the Lord, that those which I shall 11 do for thee are marvellous. Attend thou to all that 1 command thee. Behold I drive out before you the Amorite and the Chananite and the Pherezite and the Chettite and the Evite
12 and the Gergasite and the Jebusite : Take thou heed to thyself > that thou make not a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou art going, lest it become a stumbling block to
13 γοιι. Their altars you shall demolish: their pillars you shall break to pieces ; and their groves you shall cut down ; and the
14 graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire. For you must not worship other gods ; for the Lord God, a zealous
15 name, is a zealous God. , Peradventure, shouldst thou make “a covenant with those settled in that land, when they go a whoring after their gods and. sacrifice to their gods and invite ἡ
16 thee thou mayst eat with them ; and shouldst thou take their daughters for thy sons ‘and give some of thy daughters to their sons, thy daughters may go a whoring: after den gods and.
17 thy sons may go a whoring after their more Thou ‘shalt not 18 make for thyself molten gods. The festival’ of unleayened bread thou shalt keep. ΠΥ ΗΝ days thou shalt eat unleavened bread as I commanded thee at the set time in the month of new things; for in the month of new things thou didst come
19 out of Egypt. With regard to every fir ἘΠΕ" the males are’ 20 mine—every firstling of ‘kine and sheep ; nis the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a sheep; and if thou wilt not redeem it with that thou shalt pay the worth of it. Every first
21 born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. Thou shalt not appear before me empty. Six days perform works, but on the se- venth thou shalt rest.’ In seeding time and harvest it shall be
22 arest. The festival of weeks σὰ shalt celebrate for me αἵ ‘the beginning of the reaping of wheat; and the festival of the 23 ingathering in the middle of the year. Three times a year all thy males shall appear before the Lord the God of Israel.
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thou comest up to appear before the Lord thy God three 25 times a year. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my burnt of- ferings with leaven, nor shall the victims of the passover fes- 26 tival remain till the morning. The first fruits of thy land thou shalt lay by for the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in the milk of its dam. ΟἿ Then the Lord said to Moses, Write for thyself these words; for on these terms I have made ἃ covenant. with thee _ and Israel. 28 And Moses was there before the Lord forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread nor drink water. And he wrote . on the tables the words of the covenant—the ten command- 29 ments. And when Moses came down from the mount with the two tables in his hands, he did not know, while he was ‘coming down from the mount, that the skin of his face had 30 been imratlinied with glory by his talking with him; but when Aaron andall the elders of Israel saw Moses, and that the skin of his face was irradiated with glory, they were afraid to 31 approach him. Whereupon Moses called them; and Aaron and ail the chiefs of the congregation turned to him and Moses 32 spoke to them. And ea that all the sons of Israel came to him; and he enjoined upon them all that the Lord had given 33 him in charge on mount Sina. And when he had done speak- 34. ing to them he put a veil on his face. But when Moses went in "belt the Lord to speak to him he took off the veil until he 35 came out, and when he came out and rehearsed, to all the chil- dren of Israel what the Lord commanded him (as the children of Israel saw that Moses’ face was irradiated with glory there- fore) Moses put the veil on his face until he should go in to speak to him. XXXV. Then Moses assembled all the congregation of the 2 ‘Israelites and said, These are the things whic the Lord said you shall do. Six days thou shalt perform works; but om the seventh there shall be a rest, holy sabbaths, a rest to the Lord; 3 whoever doth work on it let him be put to death. You shall not kindle a fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day. 4. 1 am the Lord. Again Moses spoke to all the congregation of the Israelites and idk This is the thing which the Lord hath 5 commanded saying, Take from yourselves an offering for the-
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rams’ skins dyed red and skins dyed blue and incorruptible wood and sardine stones and stones to be engraved for the ephod and the long robe; and let every wise hearted man among you come and ἡμῖν all the works.which the Lord hath com- manded—the tabernacle, and the coverings, and upper cover- ings and the hangings, and the bars and the pilasters, and the ark of the testimony with its staves and its propitiatory, and the veil and the hangings of the court with its pillars, and the smaragdine stones and the incense and the anointing oil and the table with all its utensils, and the candlestick for light with all its utensils, and the altar with all its utensils, and the holy garments of Aaron the priest, and the robes and the sacerdotal vestures for the sons of Aaron in which they are to minister and the anointing oil and the compound incense.
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And when all the Israelites, men and women, whose un- derstanding prompted them to promote all the works which the Lord had by Moses commanded them to make, had brought an offering to the Lord, then Moses said to the children of Is- rael, Behold God hath called by name Beseleel the son of Ourius the son of Hur of the tribe of Judas and filled him with a divine spirit of wisdom and understanding and skill in all things to execute all works of architecture and to work up gold and silver and brass and to cut stones and to model wood and to perform every kind of curious workmanship. He hath indeed qualified him and Eliab the son of Achisamach of the tribe of Dan and hath filled them with wisdom, knowledge and skill to know how to make all the works of the sanctuary, and to weave the embroidery and tapestry with scarlet yarn and cotton thread—to execute every kind of work in archi- tecture and embroidery.
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commanded Moses. ‘They made the ephod of gold and of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread, the thin plates of gold being cut into fine threads so as to be inwoven with the blue and purple and with the searlet yarn and cotton thread. They made it a woven work, the shoulder pieces having from both the sides a work woven one piece into another alternately, each convoluted through itself out of itself. They made it ac- cording to its peculiar fabrick of gold and blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread as the Lord commanded Moses. -And they worked the two smaragdine stones fastened with it and set in gold, which were excavated and engraven, like the engraving ofa seal, with the names of the sons of Isracl; and put them on the shoulders of the ephod, as stones. of remem- brance of the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses. And they made the Oracle, a work of embroidery, like the workmanship of the ephod, of gold and blue and purple and ‘scarlet yarn and cotton thread, The Oracle they made double, and it was square, a span, the length; and a span, the breadth on both sides. And there was inwoven with it a texture con- taining stones in four rows: the first row of stones, a sardine and atopaz and ἃ smaragdus; and the second row, an anthrax and a sapphire and a jaspis ; and the third row, a ligure and an agate and an amethyst, and the fourth row, ἃ chrysolite and a beryl and an onyx, set in gold and bound in with gold. Now these stones were twelve from the names of the sons of Israel, engraven like seals, every one with its peculiar name, for the twelve tribes. And on the oracle they made pieces of plaited net work, the work of a plaiter, of pure gold. They made also two little shields of gold and two rings of gold; and they put the two rings of gold on the two upper sides of the oracle; and they put the two pieces of plaited work of gold on the two rings on the two sides of the oracle; and they put the two pieces: of plaited work for the the two junctions, on the two shields which were on the shoulders of the ephod over against each other in front; and they made two rings of gold and put them on the two wings below the tip of the oracle and on the tip of the hinder part of the ephod on the inside; and they made two rings of gold and put them on both the shoul- der pieces of the ephod underneath, over against the upper junc-
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tion of the texture of the ephod; and they fastened the oracle by the rings on it to the rings of the ephod which were fast- ened to it with blue yarn, being plaited into the texture of the ephod, that the oracle might not be loosed from the ephod, as the Lord commanded Moses. And they made the long robe under the ephod, a woven work, all of blue yarn: and the open- ing of the under robe in the middle was woven with a binding of plaited work, having a hem all around the hole that it might not be rent. And on the border of the robe below, they made clusters as of a blooming pomegranate of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread: And they made golden bells and put the bells on the border of the robe round about be- tween the clusters, a golden bell and a cluster on the border of the robe round about, to minister m as the Lord commanded Moses.
And they made cotton vestures, a woven work for Aaron and his sons and the tiaras of cotton and the mitre of cotton and the drawers of cotton, and the girdles of cotton thread and of blue and purple and scarlet yarn a work of embroidery as the Lord commanded Moses.
And they made the plate of gold, a dedication of the sanc- tuary, of pure gold, and wrote thereon in letters engraved like a ‘seal, Holiness to the Lord, and put it on a ribbon of blue that it might be hung upon the mitre above as the Lord command- ed Moses. :
XXXVII. They made also for the tabernacle ten curtains, the first eight and twenty cubits long and all the rest the same, and four cubits broad. And they made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread, a work woven with - cherubs and they put this on four pillars of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold, the capitals of which were of gold, and their four bases of silver. And they made the curtain of the door of the tabernacle of the testimony of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread, awork woven with che- rubs, and. their five pillars and hooks, the capitals and hooks of which they overlaid with gold, but their five bases were. of brass. And they made the court—on the south side the hangings of the court were of cotton, a hundred cubits long with their twenty pillars, and the twenty bases thereof; and on
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‘ the north they were the same as on the south side, a hundred cubits with their twenty pillars and the twenty bases thereof; but on the end towards the sea [ the west ] the hangings were fifty cubits, and their pillars ten with their ten bases; and on the east end fifty cubits, the hangings on one side of the gateway were fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their ba- ses three, and on the other side of the gateway of the court, the hangings were fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their bases three. All these hangings of the tabernacle were of cot- - ton and the bases of the pillars were of brass, but their hooks were of silver and their capitals were overlaid with silver. And the pillars—all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. And the curtain of the gate of the court was a work of tapestry of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread, twenty cubits long and the height and breadth, five cubits, answering the hangings of the court, and their pillars were four, the four bases of which were of brass but their hooks were of silver and their capitals were overlaid with silver, and all the pins of the court round about were of brass but they were overlaid with silver. This was the arrangement of the tabernacle of the testimony, as it was given in charge to Moses, that the service thereof should belong to the Levites under the direction of Athamar the son of Aaron the priest. Now Beseleel the son of Ourius of the tribe of Judas performed the work as the Lord commanded Moses, he and Eliab the son of Achisamach of the tribe of Dan, who was the head workman in making the woven work and the embroidery and the tapestry of scarlet yarn and cotton thread.
XXXVIII. Beseleel also made the ark and overlaid it with pure gold within and without; and he cast the four rings of gold, two on the one side and two on the other, wide enough for the staves, with which it was to be carried: and he made the propitiatory above the ark of pure gold, and the two che- rubs of gold, one cherub at one end of the propitiatory and the other cherub at the other end of the propitiatory, overshadow- ing the propitiatory with their wings. And he made the table to be set before it of pure gold; and cast for it four rings, two on one side and two on the other, wide enough to receive the staves. And he made the staves of the ark and of the table, and
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overlaid them with gold. And he made the vessels for the ta- ble, the platters and the censers and the large goblets and the cups for making libations, all of gold. And he made the can- dlestick to give light also of gold, the shaft solid, and the six branches on both its sides. Out of its branches were knobs, three on one side and three on the other answering each other; and their lamp dishes on the tops were made in the form of almonds out of the same piece, with sockets in them for the lamps to rest on, and the seventh socket on the top of the shaft was solid, entirely of gold; and he made the seven lamps upon it of gold; and its snuffers of gold, and its oil vessels of gold. He also overlaid the pilasters with gold and cast gold rings for each pilaster and overlaid the bars with gold. He also gilded the pillars of the veil with gold and made the golden hooks, and he made the links of the tabernacle of gold, and the hooks of the court and the hooks for stretching the upper covering, of brass. He cast the silver capitals of the tabernacle and the brass capi- tals of the door of the tabernacle and for the gate of the court: and he made the silver hooks for the pillars—those on the top of the pillars he overlaid with silver. He made the brass pins of the tabernacle and the brass pins of the court. He made the brasen altar out of the brasen censers which belonged to the men who conspired with the congregation of Kore. He made all the utensils of the altar, its fire hearth and its base and the cups and the flesh forks which were of brass. He made for the altar a grate, a piece of net work below the fire hearth about half way up it; and he put, on the four sides of the casing of the altar, the four brass rings large enough for the poles with which the altar is to be carried.
He made the holy anointing oil and the compound incense the pure work of an apothecary. ‘He made the brass laver and its base of brass out of the mirrors of the women who were fasting at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony on the day it was set up. He made also the laver, that out of it Mo- ses and Aaron and his sons might wash their hands and their feet, when they went into the tabernacle of the testimony or when they went to minister at the altar. They washed out of it as the Lord commanded Moses.
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of the holy things was of the gold of the offering twenty nine talents and seven hundred shekels after the shekel of the sanc- tuary. And the silver was the offering of silver from the men of the congregation who were reviewed amounting to a hun- dred talents, and one thousand seven hundred and seventy five shekels being a drachm the half of a shekel after the holy she- kel for each head, all who passed the review from twenty years old and upwards being six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. Now the hundred talents of silver were for casting the hundred capitals of the tabernacle including the capitals of the veil, a hundred capitals for the hundred talents, a talent for each capital. And the thousand seven hundred and seventy five shekels he wrought up into hooks for the pillars, And he gilded the capitals and ornamented them. And the
' brass of the offering was seventy talents and a thousand five hundred shekels. And of this they made the bases of the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony and the bases of the court round about and the bases of the gate of the court and the pins of the tabernacle and the pins of the court round about, and the brass casing of the altar and all the utensils of the altar, even all the works of the tabernacle of the testimony.
And when the Israelites had compleated the work-——when they had compleated it in the manner the Lord had command. ed Moses, they then made up the rest of the gold of the offer- ing into vessels to be used in the holy service before the Lord, And what was left of the blue and purple and scarlet yarn they made up into sacerdotal garments for Aaron to minister m them, as a priest in the sanctuary, And they brought to Moses the robes and the tabernacle and the utensils thereof and its bases and bars and pilasters and the ark of the cove. nant with its staves, and the altar and all its utensils; and the
anointing . il, and the compound incense, and the pure candle- stick with its lamps, the lamps for burning oil and the ojl for giving light, and the presence table and all its utensils, and the loaves to be laid on it, and the robes of the sanctuary ap- propriate to Aaron, and the robes of his sons to minister in as priests, and the hangings of the court and the pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle and of the gate of the court, and all the utensils of the tabernacle and all the imple-
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ments thereof, and the upper coverings of rams’ skins dyed red and the blue coverings, and the other coverings, and the pins and all the instruments for the service of the tabernacle of the testimony, which the Lord had commanded Moses. And when the children of Israel had thus made all the furniture and Moses had viewed all the works and they had executed them and made them in the manner the Lord commanded Moses, Moses blessed them.
XL. ~— ‘Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, On the first day 2 of the first month it being then new moon, thou shalt rear up
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the tabernacle of the testimony and place therein the ark of the testimony and cover it with the veil. Then thou shalt carry in the table and set in order the service thereof. And thou shalt carry in the candlestick and place on it the lamps: and thou shalt set the golden altar, to burn incense, in its place before the ark; and thou shalt hang up the covering curtain at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. And the altar of homage offerings thou shalt place at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony. ‘Then thou shalt surround the tabernacle and hallow all the things belonging to it round about. For this purpose thou shalt take the anointing oil and anoint the taber- nacle and all the things in it and hallow it and all its utensils and they shall be holy. And thou shalt anoint the altar of ho- mage offerings and all its utensils and hallow the altar, and this altar shall be a holy of holies. Then thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the doors of the tabernacle of the testi- mony and wash them with water. And thou shalt put the holy robeson Aaron and anoint him and hallow him that he may mi- nister to me inthe priest’s ofiice. Thou shalt then bring forward his sons and clothe them with vestures and anoimt them as thou didst their father and they shall serve me as priests. And this unction of the priesthood shall belong to them forever throughout their generations.
So Moses did all these things. Whatever the Lord com- manded him so did he. Accordingly in the first month in the second year of their coming out of Egypt, at the new moon the tabernacle was reared up. And when Moses had reared up the tabernacle he put on the capitals and put in the bars and set up the pilasters and spread the curtains over the taberna-
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cle and put over it the upper covering of the tabernacle as the 20 Lord commanded Moses. Then taking the testimonies he put 21 them in the ark, and put the staves under the ark, and carried the ark into the tabernacle and hung up the covering of the -veil and covered from view the ark of the testimony in the 22 manner the Lord commanded Moses. Then he placed the ta- ble in the tabernacle of the testimony, on the north side with- 23 out the veil of the tabernacle and set thereon the presence loaves 24 before the Lord as the Lord commanded Moses. Then he placed the candlestick in the tabernacle of the testimony on the 25 south side of the tabernacle and put the lamps thereon before 26 the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses. He then placed the golden altar in the tabernacle of the testimony over against the 27 veil and burned thereon compound incense as the Lord com- 29 manded Moses. Then he placed the altar of homage offerings. 33 at the doors of the tabernacle and reared up the court around 34 the tabernacle and the altar. And when Moses had finished all these works the cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimo- 35 ny, and the tabernacle was filled with the glory of the Lord so that Moses could not go into the tabernacle of the testimony, because the cloud overshadowed it and with the glory of the Lord the tabernacle was filled. 36 Now when the cloud ascended from the tabernacle, the 37 Israelites prepared to march with their baggage. But if the cloud did not ascend they did not prepare to march till the day 38 when the cloud ascended. For there was cloud on the taber- nacle by day and in the night there was a fire on it in the sight of all Israel throughout all their journeyings.
LEVITICUS.
i Then the Lord called up Moses and spoke to him out of the tabernacle of the testimony saying, Speak to the children 2 of Israel and thou shalt say to them, When any man among you bringeth gifts to the Lord from your cattle, you shall bring them either from the flocks or the herds. If his gift be a whole burnt offering from the herd, he shall bring a male without blemish to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. 4 He shall bring it before the Lord for acceptance; and he shall VOL, f. x
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priests shall carry the blood and pour it out round about on the altar which 15 at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimo- τ. ny; and having flayed the whole burnt offering they shall cut. it in quarters; and the sons of ‘Aarorr the priests shall put the . fire on the altar and pile wood on’ the fire; and the sons of Aaron the priests shall lay the quarters with the head and the suet on the wood which is en the fire on the altar; and they shall wash the entrails and the feet with water, and the priests shall lay them all on the altar. It is an homage pit, ‘a sacrifice, a smell of fragrance for the Lord. “
And if his gift to the Lord be from the flocks, either from Ὁ the lambs or the kids for a whole burnt offering, he shall bring a male without blemish and he shall lay his hands on its head; and they shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the Lord: and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall pour the blood _ on the altar round about; then they shall cut it m quarters and the priests shall lay these with the head and the suet on the’ wood which is on the fire on the altar; and they shall wash the’ entrails and the feet with water; and the priests shall carry them all up and lay them on the altar. It is an homage offer- ing, a sacrifice, a smell of fragrance for the Lord.
And if he bring an homage offering from among the fowls as his gift to the Lord; he shall bring his gift either from » among the turtle doves or the pigeons; and the priest shall carry it to the altar and wring off the head, and the priest shall lay it on the altar; then he shall squeeze out the blood against the base of the altar; and he shall take away the craw with the feathers and throw it’on the east side of the altar into the ash hole, then he shall break it off from the wings but shall not divide it; and the priest shall lay it on the altar, on the wood which is upon the fire. It is an homage offerimg, a sacri- fice, a smell of fragrance for the Lord.
And when any person shall bring a sacrificial gift to the Lord, his gift shall be fine flour, and he shall pour oil on it
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gift to the Lord shall be of fine flour—he shall bring unleav-
ened loaves tempered with oil or unleavened cakes anointed with oil. And if thy gift be a sacrifice from the pan, it must be of fine flour tempered with oil, without leaven. And. hay- ing broken it to pieces thou shalt crumble the fragments and
pour oil thereon. It is a sacrifice to the Lord. And if thy gift
bea sacrifice from the hearth, the fine flour must be made up with oil. And:he shall bring the sacrifice which he hath pre-
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the sacrifice the memorial of it and lay it on the altar. It is an
homage offering, a smell of fragrance for the Lord; and the rest of the sacrifice shall be for Aaron and his sons. These are
‘most holy portions from the homage offerings of the Lord.
Every sacrifice’ which you bring to the Lord, you shall pre- pare without leaven; for you must not bring any kind of leaven,
not even honey, as a gift to pay homage to the Lord. You may
bring them as gifts of first fruits to the Lord; but they shall
‘not be laid on the altar for a smell of fragrance for the Lord.
Every gift of your sacrifice must be seasoned with salt. You» shall not withhold the salt of the covenant of the Lord from your sacrifices. With every gift you make, you shall offer salt to the Lord your God.
And when thou bringest a-sacrifice of first fruits to the Lord, it must be young parched grains broken in the mill. This sa- crifice of the first fruits thou shalt offer to the Lord, and thou
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And if his gift to the Lord be a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and he bring it from the herd, whether it be a male or a female, 2 he shall bring it without blemish before the Lord and shail lay
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his hands on the head of the gift and kill it before the Lord at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony. And the sons of Aaron, the priests :shall pour the blood on the altar of whole 3 burnt offerings round about: And from the sacrifice of thanks- giving they shall offer up as an homage offering to the Lord the caul which covereth the belly and all the suet on the belly 4. and the two kidneys with the suet on them, and that on the flanks, and with the kidneys he shall take off the lobe of the 5 liver. And the sons of Aaron, the priests shall offer up these on the altar—on the whole burnt offerings which are on the wood on the fire. It is an offering of homage, a smell dag: fra- grance for the Lord. ; 6 And if his gift be a sacrifice of pindieeainicagas to the Lord from the flock, whether it be a male or a female, he shall offer 7 it without pldtaiah: If he bring a lamb as his gift he shall bring 8 it before the Lord and lay his hands on the head of his gift and kill it at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony, and the’ sons of Aaron the priest shall pour the blood on the altar round 9 about. And from the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer as an offering of homage to the Lord the fat tail and the whole loin which he shall take off with the rump; and having taken 10 off the caul which covereth the inwards and all the fat on the belly and the two kidneys with the suet on them and on the loin and the lobe of the liver with the kidneys the priest shall 11 offer up these on the altar. It is a sweet savour, an offering of homage to the Lord. 12 And if his gift be from the iednli he shall bring it before 13 the Lord and lay his hands on its head. And they shall ΚΙ] before the Lord at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony ; and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall pour out the blood 14 against the altar round about; And from it he shall offer up as an offering of homage to the Lord the caul which covereth the belly and all the fat on the belly and both the kidneys and all 15 the suet onthem. That on the loins and the lobe of the liver he shall take off with the kidneys and the priest shall offer them 16 on the altar. It is an offering of homage, a smell of fragrance for the Lord. 17 All the suet for the Lord shall be an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. You shall not eat suet nor blood of any kind.
Ch. IV. . LEVITICUS.
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instance the chief priest who hath been anointed, sin; on the
account of his causing the people to sin, he shall, for the sin. which he hath committed, bring a young bull without blemish from the herd before the Lord for his sin offering; and having
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testimony before the Lord he shall lay his hand on the head of the young bull before the Lord and slay the bull in the pre- sence of the Lord; And the priest who is anointed, he whose Ὁ hands have been consecrated, having taken some of the blood of the bull shall carry it into the tabernacle of the testimony. And this priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the Lord, before the holy veil; and he shall put some of the blood of the bull on the horns of the altar of compound incense, which is before the Lord in the tabernacle of the testimony. Now all the blood of the bull he is to pour out at the base of the altar of whole burnt offer- ings which is at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony. And with regard to all the suet of the bull for the sin offering,
he shall strip off the caul, which covereth the entrails and all the fat on the entrails and the two kidneys with the suet on them—that which is on the loins and the lobe which is on the liver he shall strip off with the two kidneys in the same man- ner as it is to be taken from the young bull of the sacrifice of thanksgiving; and the priest shall offer up these upon the altar of homage offerings: but the skin of the bull and all his flesh
with the head and the limbs and the belly and the dung even the whole bull they shall carry forth without the camp toa clean place where the ashes are emptied out, and burn him on wood
with fire. On the out pourings of the ashes he shall be burned.
And if the whole congregation of Israel be unwittingly ig-
norant and a commandment hath escaped the notice of the
whole congregation, and they shall do an act, which by any of the commandments of the Lord ought not to be done and shall
transgress: when the sin which they have thereby committed is made known to them, the congregation shall bringa young
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hands on the head of the bull before the Lord and slay the 16 bull before the. Lord; and. the priest, the anointed one shall carry some of the blood of the bull into the tabernacle of the 17 testimony; and the priest shall dip his finger into some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord 18 in front of the holy veil, and shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of compound incense which is before the Lord in the tabernacle of the testimony. Now all the blood he is to pour out at the base of the altar of homage offerings _. 19 which is at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. ‘Then - he shall take off all the suet of the victim and carry it up upon - the altar and shall do with this bull in the same manner as was 20 done with the bull for the sin offering. ‘This being done the pr iest shall make atonement for them, and the sin shall be for- 2) given them. But they must carry forth the whole bull out of the camp.and burn him as they did the former bull. It is asin offering of the congregation, < 22 And if the chief sin or do ΕΡΑΒΌΥΨΤΙΝ any of those βοσμὲ which by the commands of the Lord his God ought not to be 23 done and commit sin or trespass ;. when the sin which he hath thereby committed is made known to him he shall bring’ as 24 his gift a goat from the goats a male without blemish, and he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and they shall kill it in the place where they kill the whole burnt offerings before
25 the Lord. It is a sin offering. And the priest with his finger
shall put some of the blood of this sin offermg on the horns of » the altar of whole burnt offermgs. Now all the blood thereof he is to pour out/at the base of the altar of whole burnt offer- ings and he shall offer all the suet thereof on the altar as he did the suet of the sacrifice of thanksgiving. So the priest shall make atonement for him because of the sins which he hath committed and it shall be forgiven him. 27 And if any of the people of the land sin inadvertently by doing any of those things which by the commands of the Lord 28 ought not to be done and shall transgress; when the sin which he hath thereby committed is made known to him, he shall
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smell of fragrance for the Lord. So shall the priest make atonement for him and he shall be forgiven, And if he bring a sheep as his gift for his sin offering, he shall bring a ewe with- out blemish, and. lay: his hand on the head of the sin offering ; and they shall kill it in the place where they killthe whole’ burnt, offerings; and the priest having taken up with his finger some
τος of the blood of the sin offering shall put it on the horns of the “altar of whole burnt offerings. Now all the blood thereof he 35 is to pour out at the base of the altar of whole burnt offerings :
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and he shall strip off all its suet in the same manner.as the suct is stripped from the sheep for a sacrifice of thanksgiving; and the priest shall lay it on the altar on the whole burnt offer- ing of the Lord. So shall the priest make atonement for him and. he shall be forgiven.
᾿ς And when any person shall sin εὐ εαπρῶθῃ —now saiila one be adjured.and being a witness hath either seen or known, if he do not tell, he will’ contract that sin; or if any person touch any unclean thing, either a corpse, or the unclean ‘prey
_of wild beasts, or the carcases of unclean abominations, or the
carcases of unclean beasts,-or shall touch any impurity of man—any of his impurities by the touching of which one would be defiled, and it escaped his notice and he hath after- wards come to the knowledge of it; or if a person be a trans- gressor, either pronouncing with his lips to do evil; or to do good according to all that the man might pronounce with an oath and it hath escaped his notice ; when he hath come to the knowledge of his having inadvertently sinned in any of these cases, he shall confess his sin in respect to whatever he hath sinned ; and for trespassing against the Lord, for the sin which
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he hath sinned, he shall δεῖνα a female from the flock either a lamb or ἃ Κι of the goats for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he hath sinned ;
and the sin shall be forgiven him. And if he is not able to furnish'a lamb, he’shall bring for the trespass which he hath committed two turtle doves or two young pigeons to the Lord, one for a sin. offering and the other for a whole burnt offering:
‘and he shall carry them to the priest and the priest shall offer
that for the sin offering, first. And the priest shall wring off its head from the neck, but shall not divide it; and he shall sprin- kle some of the blood of that which is for a sin offermg on the side of the altar and squeeze out the rest of the blood on the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. Then he shall offer the other as an offering of homage in the usual manner. So shall the priest make atonement for him for the sin which he hath committed and it shall be forgiven him. But if his hand can- net find a pair of doves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his gift for the sin which he hath committed the tenth
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having taken his handful it it shall lay this memorial of it on the altar of whole burnt offerings for the Lord. It 15. ἃ sin offering. So shall the priest make atonement for him, for the sin which he hath committed and it shall be forgiven him. And what is left shall be for the priest, as the sania of fine flour. Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, If a person through inadvertence hath forgotten or been unwittingly defi- cient in any of the holy things of the Lord ; when he shall bring for his trespass against the Lord a:ram without blemish from the flock, thou must estimate in silver shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, the value of that in respect to which he hath trespassed, and he shall pay the amount of the deficiency of which he hath been guilty, and shall add thereto a fifth and give itto the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the trespass ram and he shall be forgiven. So with respect to « every person, who may have sinned ; when he shall do any of those things, which by any of the commands of the Lord ought
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not to be done, and did not know—-if he hath trespassed and
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from the flock, thou must fine him in money before the priest
to the amount of the trespass; and the priest shall make atone-
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guilty of a trespass in the sight of the Lord.
VI. Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, With regard
2 to the person who shall sin, and who, utterly disregarding the
commands of the Lord, shall lie to his neighbour touching a
deposit, or touching any thing which he might use in common,
or touching any thing made a prey of, whether he hath de-
frauded his neighbour in any respect, or hath found what was
lost, and shall lie concerning it; or hath sworn falsely in respect
to any of the things which he may have done, so as thereby to
commit sin; when he who hath thus sinned and transgressed
hath restored the thing wrongfully taken, or that which he hath
got unjustly, or the deposit which was committed to his trust,
or the thing lost which he hath found; then for every thing
about which he hath sworn falsely he shall pay as a fine to the
same amount, and add thereto a fifth. To him whose it is he
shall make restoration on the day he is convicted. And when
6 for his trespass he shall bring for the Lord a ram from the flock
without blemish, thou must fine him to the amount of his tres-
7 pass. Then the priest shall make atonement for him before
the Lord ; and he shall be forgiven for every of those things which he hath done, and by which he hath trespassed.
᾿τϑ Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Give a charge to
Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the whole
9 burnt offering. ‘The whole burnt offering must be burn-
ing on the altar the whole night until the morning, and the fire
of the altar must be kept burning thereon. It must not be extin-
10 guished. Then the priest shall put ona linen vesture, and around
his body he shall put on linen drawers; and he shall take away
the ashes, into which the fire hath consumed the whole burnt
11 offering, from the altar, and lay them near the altar. Then he
shall put off his robe, and put on another robe, and he shall car-
12 ry forth the ashes without the camp to a clean place. And the
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be extinguished. And the priest shall kindle wood upon it every morning, and shall lay the whole burnt offering in order upon it; and upon it he shall lay the suet of the offerings of thanksgiving. So the fire shall be kept burning continually, and shall not be extinguished.
This is the law of the sacrifice of flour, which the sons of Aaron shall offer before the Lord, in front of the altar. Having taken from it his handful of the flour of the sacrifice, with the oil of it, and all the frankincense which is on the sacrifice, he shall lay this memorial of it on the altar as an offering of homage, a smell of fragrance for the Lord. And what is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without leaven in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the tabernacle of the testimony. It shall not be baked with leaven. This portion I have given them from the homage offerings of the Lord. It is most holy, as is that of the sin offering, and as is that of the trespass offering. [very male among the priests shall eat it. It shall be an everlasting ordinance throughout your genera- tions, in respect to the homage offerings of the Lord, whoever shall touch them shall be hallowed.
Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, This is the gift of Aaron and his sons, which they shall offer to the Lord, on the day when thou shalt anoint him, the tenth of the ephah of fine flour for a continual sacrifice—the half of it in the morn- ing, and the half of it in the evening. It shall be prepared in a pan with oil. Being mixed up, he shall offer it in rolls, as a sacrifice of fragments, for a smell of fragrance for the Lord. The priest who is anointed, that one of his sons who is to suc- ceed him shall prepare it. This is an everlasting ordinance, Let it be all consumed. Indeed every sacrifice of a priest must be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.
Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to Aaron and his sons, and say, This is the law of the Sim offering. Wherever they kill the whole burnt offering, there they shall kill the sin offerings before the Lord. ‘They are most holy. The priest who carrieth it up shall eat it in a holy place. It shall be eaten in the court of the tabernacle of the testimony. E.very one who toucheth the flesh of it shall be hallowed. And if any of the blood of it shall be sprinkled on any one’s :gar-
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ment, he who is sprinkled therewith shall be washed ina holy
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be broken; but if it be boiled in a brasen vessel, they must
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shall eat thereof. It is most holy to the Lord. But none of the sin offerings, some of the blood of which hath been carried into the tabernacle of the testimony, to make an atonement in the sanctuary, shall be eaten. ‘They must be burned with fire.
Vil. And this is the law of the ram for a trespass offering. It 2 is most holy. In the place where they kill the whole burnt
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offerings, they shall kill the ram for a trespass offering before the Lord; and his blood shall be poured on the base of the altar all around: and of it shall be offered up the whole fat tail, and loin, and all the caul which covereth the entrails, and all the suet on the entrails, and the two kidneys with the suet on them. That on the loins, and the lobe which is on the liver, shall be stript off with the kidneys. And the priest shall carry them up upon the altar as an offermg of homage to the Lord. It is a trespass offering. Every male among the priests shall eat there- of. They shall eat it in a holy place. It is most holy. As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering. There is one law for both: The priest who shall make atonement with it shall — have it. And the priest who offereth any man’s whole burnt offering shall have the skin of the whole burnt offering which he offereth. And every sacrifice of flour which shall be pre- pared in the oven, and every one which shall be baked on the hearth, or in a pan, shall be the priest’s who offereth it: and every sacrifice of flour, whether made up with oil or not, shall be for all the sons of Aaron, for one as much as another. This is-the law of the sacrifice of thanksgiving which they shall offer to the Lord—If one offereth it for praise, he shall bring with the sacrifice of praise loaves of fine flour made up with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and fine flour tempered with oil. With loaves of leavened bread he shall pre- sent these gifts of his for a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving ; and from every of these gifts of his he shall set apart one, and present it as a dedication to the Lord. It shall be for the priest who poureth out the blood of the victim offered for thanks- giving. And the flesh of the victim of praise and thanksgiving
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shall be for himself, and shall be eaten on the day it is offered. They shall not leave any of it till the morning. And if it be a vow; or if one offer his gift as a voluntary sacrifice, it shall be eaten on the day he offereth his sacrifice, or the next morning. And what is left of the flesh of the sacrifice till the third day shall be burned with fire. And if any one eat of the flesh on the third day, it shall not be accepted for him who offereth it. It shall not be placed to his account. It is an abomination. Whoever shall eat it shall contract guilt. If any flesh touch
‘any unclean thing, it shall not be eaten. It shall be burned
with fire. Every person who is clean may eat flesh. But if any person shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of thanksgiv- ing, which is the Lord’s, with his uncleanness upon him, that person shall be cut off from among his people. And the person who shall touch any unclean thing, whether it be the uncleanness of a man, or of unclean beasts, or any unclean abomination, and shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of thanks- giving, which is the Lord’s, that person shall_be destroyed from among his people.
Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and say, You shall not eat any suet of cattle, nor of sheep, nor of goats. The suet of beasts which die of themselves, or which are torn by wild beasts, may be used for any kind of work; but shall not be eaten for food. Whoever eateth of the suet of cattle of which he is to make an offering of homage to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from among his people. You shall not eat any blood in any of your dwell- ings, neither the blood of cattle, nor of fowls. Whoever shall eat blood, that person shall be cut off from among his people.
The Lord also spoke to Moses, saying, Thou shalt speak” to the children of Israel, and say, He who offereth a sacrifice of thanksgiving shall bring his gift to the Lord; and from the sacrifice of thanksgiving his own hands shall present, as his offer- ings of homage to the Lord, the suet, with the breast, and the lobe of the liver. These he shall present that they may be laid ; before the Lord as a gift. And the priest shall offer up the suet on the altar; and the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons. You shall also give the right shoulder, as a portion dedicated and set apart for the priest, from your sacrifices of thanksgiving. .
Ch. VIII. LEVITICUS.
33 'That one of the sons of Aaron who offereth the blood of the
thank offering, and the suet, shall have theright shoulder for his
34 portion. For the breast which is dedicated by being laid upon
hands, and the shoulder which is dedicated by being set apart,
I have taken from the children of Israel—from your sacrifices
of thanksgiving; and have given them to Aaron the priest and
his sons. It is an everlasting due from the children of Israel.
35 This is the unction of Aaron and the unction of his sons, the
reward assigned them from the homage offerings of the Lord,
on the day he took them into his house to minister to the Lord
36 in the priest’s office; and which the Lord commanded to be
given them on the day he anointed them from among the chil-
dren of Israel, as an everlasting due throughout their genera-
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37. This is the law of the whole burnt offering and the sacri-
fice of flour, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering
and of the consecration offering and of the sacrifice of thanks-
38 giving, as the Lord commanded Moses at mount Sina, on the
day when he commanded the children of Israel to bring their gifts before the Lord in the wilderness of Sina.
Vill. Then the Lord spoke\to Moses saying, Take Aaron
2 and his sons, and his robes and the anomting oil, and the young
bull for the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of
3 unleavened cakes; and assemble all the congregation at the
A door of the tabernacle of the testimony. And Moses did as
the Lord commanded him. And when he had assembled. the
5 congregation atthe door of the tabernacle of the testimony, Mo-
ses said to the congregation, This is the thing which the Lord
hath commanded to be done. Then Moses brought forward
Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. Then he
‘arrayed him with the vesture, and girded him with the girdle,
and put on him the under robe, and over it he put on the ephod,
and girded him with the girdle of the same fabrick as the ephod,
8 and bound him up tight with it, and put on it the oracle; and
9 upon the oracle he put the manifestation and the truth. Then
he put the mitre on his head; .and on the mitre, on the front
of it, he put the golden plate, the holy sanctified jewel as the
10 Lord commanded Moses. Then Moses took some of the
11 anointing oil, and sprinkled. some of it on the altar seven times,
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and anointed the altar, and hallowed it and all its appurtenances, and the laver and its base. And when he had hallowed them he anointed the tabernacle, and all the utensils thereof, and hal- lowed it. Then Moses poured some of the anointing oil on the head of Aaron. And when he had anointed him, and hal- lowed him, then Moses brought forward the sons of Aaron, and arrayed them with vestures, and girded them with girdles, and put tiaras on them, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Then Moses brought forward the young bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the young bull for the sin offering; and he slew it, and Mo- ses took some of the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar. Then he poured out the blood on the base of the altar. And when he had. hallowed it to make an atonement upon it, then Moses took all the suet on the entrails, and the lobe which is on the liver, and both the kidneys with the suct on them, and car- ried them up upon the altar; but the bull, and his hide, and his flesh, and his dung, these he caused tobe burned with fire with- out the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Then Moses brought forward the ram which was for a whole burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram; and Moses slew the ram, and poured the blood against the altar round about. And having divided the ram into quarters, Moses carried up thehead, and the pieces, and the suet. Then having washed the belly and the feet with water, Moses carried up the whole ram upon the altar. It isa whole burnt offering for a smell of fragrance—an offering of homage to the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Then Moses brought forward the other ram, which was for a consecration offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of this ram, and he slew it. And Moses took some of the blood thereof, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and onthe thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. Then Moses brought forward the sons of Aaron, and put some of the blood on the tips of their right ears, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the great toes of their right feet. He then poured the blood against the altar found about. And he took the tail, and the loin, and the
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suet on the belly, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the suet on them, and the right shoulder; and from the basket of the consecration offering, which was before the Lord, he took one unleavened loaf, and one loaf of oil bread, and one cake, and laid them on the suet and the right shoulder, and put them all on the hands of Aaron, and on the hands of his sons, and caused them to be lifted upas a dedication before the Lord. Then Moses took them from their hands, and carried them up upon the altar—on the consecration whole burnt offering, which is for a smell of fragrance. It is an offering of homage tothe Lord. Then having taken the breast, Moses set this, which had been laid on hands before the Lord, apart from the ram of the consecration offering. And it was Moses’ portion, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Then Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was by the altar, and sprinkled them on Aaron and his robes, and on his sons and their robes with him. And when he had hallowed Aaron and his robes, and his sons and their robes with him, then Moses said to Aaron and his sons, Boil this flesh in the court of the tabernacle of the testimony, in a holy place, and eat it there with the bread which is in the basket of the consecration offering, as it hath been given me in charge, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat these. And what is left of the flesh, and of the bread, you must burn with fire. And from the door of the tabernacle of the testimony you shall not depart for seven days, until the day be compleated— the day of your consecration; for he will consecrate your hands seven days, as he hath done this very day, in which the Lord hath commanded me to do this in order to make an atonement for you. You shall therefore continue seven days at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. Day and night you shall keep the watches of the Lord, that you may not die; for so the Lord’ God hath commanded me.
And when Aaron and his sons had done all that the Lord
IX. commanded Moses, On the eighth day Moses called Aaron
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and his sons, and the senate of Israel, and Moses said to Aaron, Take for thyself a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a whole burnt offering, both without blemish (Now he had brought them before the Lord) and speak to the senate
Ch. IX. LEVITICUS.
of Israel saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb of the first year for an homage offering,
4 all without blemish, and a young bull and a ram for a sacrifice
of thanksgiving before the Lord, and fine flour tempered with
δ᾽ oil; for to-day the Lord will appear among you. And when
they had brought them, as Moses commanded, over against the tabernacle of the testimony, and all the congregation were
6 come, and stood before the Lord, Moses said, This is the thing
which the Lord hath commanded; do it, and the glory of the
7 Lord will appear among you. Then Moses said to Aaron, Go
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near to the altar, and offer thy own sin offering, and thy own burnt offering, and make atonement for thyself and thy house, then offer the gifts of the people, and make atonement for them, as the Lord: commanded Moses. Accordingly Aaron went near to the altar, and slew the calf for his own sin offering, and the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and having poured out the blood on the base of the altar, he carried up the suet, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver, of the sin offering, upon the altar as the Lord commanded Moses, and
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. Thenhe slew the whole burnt offering, and the sons of Aaron brought him the blood, and he poured it out against the altar round about. Then they presented the whole burnt offering by pieces, and these and the head he laid on the altar. He then washed the belly and the feet with water, and laid them on the whole burnt offering on the altar.
Then he brought forward the gift of the people, and he took the goat for the sin offering of the people, and slew it, and pu- rified it as he had done the first. He then brought forward the whole burnt offering, and did with it in the manner prescribed.
7 Then, presenting the sacrifice of flour, he filled his hands with
some of it, and laid the handful on the altar apart from the morning whole burnt offering.
Then he slew the young bull and the ram for the people’s sacrifice of thanksgiving; and the sons of Aaron brought him the blood; and he poured it out against the altar round about. And the suet of the bull and that of the ram with the loin and the
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caul which covereth the belly, and the two kidneys with the - suet on them, and the lobe of the liver—the several parcels of suet he laid on the breast, and having carried up the suet upon the altar, Aaron took away the breast and the right shoulder as a portion set apart before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Then Aaron, lifting up his hands over the people, blessed them— When he came down from offering the sin offering, and the whole burnt offerings, and the offerings of thanksgiving, and Moses and Aaron had gone into the tabernacle of the testimo- ny, and come out and blessed all the people, then the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people, and there came forth a fire from the Lord which consumed what were on the altar, both the whole burnt offerings and the parcels of suet. And. when all the people saw this, they were struck with consternation and
fell on their faces; and the two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abiud, having taken each his censer, laid fire on it, and threw incense thereon, and presented before the Lord strange fire, which the Lord had not ordered them; upon which a fire darted forth from the Lord, and destroyed them, and they died before the Lord. Whereupon Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord spoke, saying, I will be hallowed by them who come near me, and glorified by all the congregation; and Aaron was pierced with anguish. Then Moses called Misado and Elisaphan, the sons of Oziel, the sons of Aaron’s uncle, and said to them, Go near and carry out your brethren from before the holies, outof the camp. So they went near, and carried them, in their vestures, out of the camp, as Moses ordered. Then Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar, and Ithamar, his surviving sons, Uncover not your heads, nor rend your garments, lest you die, and wrath come on the whole congregation: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail this burning with which the Lord hath burned them. But you must not go from the door of the tabernacle of the testimony lest you die; for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you. So they did according to the command of Moses.
And the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying, Thou, and thy sons
9 with thee, must not drink wine nor strong drink, when you
come into the tabernacle of the testimony, or when you ap- VoL. I. Ζ
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proach the altar, lest you die. It is your everlasting privilege, throughout your generations, to distinguish between holy things and things unholy, and between clean and unclean things, and to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath delivered them by the ministration of Moses.
Then Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar, and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, who were left, Take the sacrifice of flour which was left from the homage offerings of the Lord, and eat the unleavened bread near the altar. It is most holy; therefore you must eat it ina holy place; for this is thy due, and thy sons due, from the homage offerings of the Lord: for so it hath been given me in charge. The dedicated breast, and the dedicated shoulder, which are set apart, you shall eat ina holy place, thou, and thy sons, and thy household with thee, for ithath been given thee as thy due, and to thy sons as their due from the thank of- ferings of the children of Israel. The dedicated shoulder, and the dedicated breast, they shall offer on the homage offerings of suet, to be set apart as a dedication before the Lord; and they shall be for thee, and for thy sons, and for thy daughters with thee, an everlasting due, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Now when Moses made diligent search for the goat of the sin offering, and behold it was burned, Moses was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, and said, Why did-you not eat the sin offering in a holy place? for be- cause itis most holy, he hath given this to you to eat, that you
may take away the sin of the congregation, and make atonement
for them before the Lord; for none of its blood was carried into the sanctuary. You should have eaten it publicly in the court, ina holy place, as the Lord commanded me. Upon this Aaron spoke to Moses, saying, Though they have this day brought their sin offerings and their whole burnt offerings before the Lord; yet such things having befallen me, had I this day eaten their sin offering, would it have been well pleasing to the Lord? Upon hearing this Moses was satisfied with him.
XI. Again the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, Speak 2 to the children of Israel, and say, Among all the beasts which 3 are on the earth, these are the beasts which you may eat. Every
beast having a double hoof, its hoof parted into two distinct hoofs, and bringing up the cud, these among the beasts. you
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may eat. But of these you shall not eat—of those which chew the cud, and of those which have parted hoofs—the camel, though it cheweth the cud; yet because it hath not a parted hoof, it is unclean to you; the hairy foot, though it cheweth the cud, yet because it hath not a parted hoof, it is unclean to you; and the choirogryllus, though it cheweth the cud, yet be- cause it hath not a parted hoof, it is unclean to you; and the swine, though it hatha parted hoof, yet because it doth not chew the cud, it is unclean to you. Of the flesh of these you shall not eat; nor shall you touch their dead carcases. They are un- clean to you.
And these are what you may eat of all that are in the wa- ters: all that have fins and scales, in the waters or in the seas, or in the brooks, these you may eat; but all that have not fins and scales in the waters, and in the seas, and in the brooks, of all the multitudes which the waters produce, and of all the living creatures in the waters, are an abomination, and shall be an abomination to you. Of their flesh you shall not eat; and their dead carcases you shall abominate. All in the waters which have not fins and scales are an abomination to you.
And among the birds, these are what you must abominate, and which shall not be eaten; they are an abomination; the eagle, and the ospray, and the cormorant, and the vulture, and the kite and all of its kind, and the ostrich, and the owl, and the gull and all of its kind, and. crows of all sorts and their kind, and the hawk and all its kind, andthe night hawk, and the ca- taractes, and the ibis, and the porphurion, and the pelican, and the swan, and the heron, and the charadrius and all of its kind, and the puet, and the bat.
All the flying reptiles also which walk on four feet are abominations to you: but of the flying reptiles which walk on four feet, you may eat those which have legs above their feet to hop with them on the ground. These of them in particular you may eat, the brouchus-locust and its ‘species, and the al- take-locust and all its species, and the serpent-fighter and all its species, and the grasshopper and all its species. Every fly- ing reptile which hath four feet is an abomination to you. With them you must not defile yourselves. Whosoever touch- eth their dead earcases shall be unclean until the evening. And
Ch. XI. LEVITICUS.
whoever carrieth any of their carcases shall wash his clothes, 26 and be unclean until evening. And among all the beasts what- ever hath a hoof parted in two—a hoof divided into two hoofs, 27 but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean to you. And whoever toucheth their carcases shall be unclean until evening. And every beast which walketh on paws among all the beasts which 28 walk on four feet, isuncleantoyou. Whoever toucheth their car- cases shall be unclean until the evening. And he who carrieth any of their carcases shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until 29 the evening. These are unclean to you. And of the reptiles which are on the earth, these are uncleanto you—the weasel, and 30 the mouse, and the lizzard, and the toad, andthe chamelion, and 31 the spider, and the rat, and the mole. These are unclean to you above all the reptiles which are on the earth. Whoever toucheth them when dead, shall be unclean until the evening. 32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when dead, shall fall, itshall be unclean; whether it be a vessel of wood, or a garment, or a sack, every utensil in which any work is done shall be plunged in water, and shall be unclean until evening. Then it shall be 33 clean. And if any of them fall into a vessel made of clay, all 34 that is in it shall be unclean, and it shall be broken; and every kind of meat which 15 eatable, upon which water out of it shall come, shall be unclean; and every kind of drink which may be 35 drunk in every such earthen vessel shall be unclean. And every thing upon which any of their dead carcases may fall shall be unclean. Ovens, and stands for pots, shall be broken 36 down: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you. But foun- tains of water, and a lake, or collection of water, shall be clean. 37 And he who toucheth their carcases shall be unclean. If any of their carcases fall on seed which is to be sown it shall be 38 clean. But if water hath been poured on any kind of grain, and any of their carcases fall upon it, it shall be unclean to you. 99 Now if any of those beasts which you may lawfully eat should happen to die, he who toucheth their dead carcases shall 40 be unclean until evening. And he who eateth of their car- cases shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. And he who carrieth any of their carcases shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until evening. ΑἹ Moreover every creeping thing which’ creepeth on the
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earth shall be an abomination to you. It shall not be eaten.
42 Whether it runneth on its belly, or goeth continually on four,
whatever among the reptiles, which creep on the earth, hath
43 many feet, this you shall not eat; for it is an abomination to
you; and you should not pollute yourselves with any of the
reptiles which creep on the earth. You indeed are not to pol-
44, lute yourselves with them, nor be made unclean by them. Be-
cause I am the Lord your God, therefore you must hallow
yourselves, and be holy, because I the Lord your God am ho-
ly. And you must not defile yourselves with any of the rep-
45 tiles, which creep on the earth, because I am the Lord who
brought you up out of Egypt, to be your God. You shali
therefore be holy, because I the Lord am holy.
40 This is the law respecting beasts, δα fowls, and every living
creature which moveth in the water, and every living creature
47 which creepeth on the earth, to distinguish between the un-
clean and the clean, and between the viviparous animals which may be eaten, and the viviparous which are not to be eaten.
XII. Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the
2 children of Israel, and say unto them, When a woman hath
conceived, and brought forth a male, she shali be unclean seven
_days. During her days of separation for her lying in’ she shall
3 be unclean. And on the eighth day she shall circumcise the
4, flesh of his foreskin, and continue thirty three days in her im-
purity. She shall not touch any thing that is hallowed, nor
come to the sanctuary, until the days of her purification be
5 compleated. But if she hath brought forth a female, she shall
be unclean twice seven days for her lying in, and shall con-
6 tinue sixty six days in her impurity. And when the days of
her purification are compleated, either for a son or a daughter,
she shall-bring a lamb of the first year, without blemish, for a
whole burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtle dove,
for a sin offering, to the door of the tabernacle of the testimo-
7 ny, to the priest, and present it before the Lord. And the priest
shall make atonement for her, and purify her from the issue of
8 her blood. This is the law touching her who beareth a male
ora female child. But if she be not in circumstances to furnish
a lamb, she shall take two turtle doves, or two young pigeons,
one for a whole burnt offering, and one for asin offering, and
Ch. XII. LEVITICUS.
the priest shall make atonement for her and she shall be cleansed.
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any man hath,on the outer coat of the skin, a remarkable swelling, very white, and there be a touch of the leprosy on the outer coat of his skin, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons, the priests: and the priest shall look at the touch on the outer coat of his skin; and if the hair in the touch be turned white, and the appearance of the touch be deeper than the outer skin, it is a touch of the leprosy. And when the priest shall see this, he shall pronounce
. him unclean. But though the whiteness be exceedingly bright
on the outer coat of the skin, if the appearance of it be not deeper than the outer coat, and the hair thereof be not turned white, but is of a duskish colour; the priest shall set apart the patient seven days. And on the seventh day the priest shall view the touch; and if the touch still remaineth before him, but hath not spread on the outer skin, the priest shall set him apart seven days more. And on the seventh day the priest shall look on him again, and if the touch be languid, and hath not spread on the outer skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is but a mark. And having washed his clothes, he shall be clean. But if the mark on the outer skin shall change, and spread, after the priest viewed him for the purpose of pronouncing him clean, he shall again appear before the priest, and the priest shall view him; and if the mark hath spread on the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It
‘is a leprosy. And when any man hath a touch of the leprosy,
he shall come to the priest; and the priest shall view it: and if there be a white swelling on the outer skin,-and it hath changed the hair, and there be some raw flesh in the swelling, it is an inveterate leprosy in the outer skin of the flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and set him apart, for he is unclean. But if the leprosy hath formed an efflorescence on the outer skin, and covered the whole skin of the patient from head to foot, wherever the priest looketh: and the priest shall look and see that the leprosy hath covered the whole skin of
. the flesh, the priest shall pronounce him clean. Because it hath
turned all white it is clean. But whenever raw flesh appeareth on him he shall become unclean. When the priest shall see the
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raw flesh, that raw flesh shall announce him unclean; for he is unclean. It is aleprosy. But if the raw flesh stop, and turn white, he shall come to the priest. And when the priest shall look, and see that the touch is turned white, the priest shall pronounce him clean. In regard to the touch he is clean. And if the flesh at the outer skin hath been a boil, and healed, and in the place of the boil there be a white swelling of a very shin- ing whiteness or redness, he shall appear before the priest ; and when the priest shall see that the appearance is deeper than the outer skin, and that the hair is changed white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean, for it is a leprosy ; it hath broken out in the boil. But if the priest shall see that there is no white hair in it, and that it is not deeper than the outer skin, and the hair is of a duskish colour, the priest shall set him apart seven days. And if it actually spread on the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a touch of the leprosy. It hath broken out in the boil. But if the brightness continueth in its place and is not spread; it is the effect of the boil and the priest shall pro- nounce him clean. And if the flesh hath been a burn of fire, and the burn when healed become ‘remarkably splendent, whitish, reddish, or very white, the priest shall view it: and if the white hair hath changed to a shining whiteness, and the ap- pearance is deeper than the skin, it is a leprosy. It hath broken out inthe burn. So the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is atouch of the leprosy. But if the priest see that there is no white hair in the bright spot, and that it is not deeper than the skin, but is of a brownish colour, the priest shall set him apart seven days; and on the seventh day the priest shall view him; and if it hath actually spread on the skin, the priest shall pro- nounce him unclean. It is a touch of the leprosy. It hath broken out in the blister. But if the shining spot remaineth in its place, and hath not spread on the skin, and the hair be of a brownish colour, it is the effect of the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean ; for it is the scar-of the burn. And if any man or woman hath a touch of the leprosy in the head or on the chin, the priest shall view the touch; and if he perceive that the appearance of the touch is deeper than the skin, and that the hair in it is thin, and of a yellowish colour, the priest shall pronounce the person unclean. It isa scald, a leprosy of
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the head, or ἃ leprosy of the chin. But if the priest, upon view- ing the touch of the scald, see that the appearance of it is not deeper than the skin, and that the hair in it is not of a yellowish colour, the priest shall set apart the person who hath the touch of the scald,seven days. And on the seventh day the priest shall view the touch; and if the scald hath not spread, and there be no yellowish hair in-it, and the appearance of the scald is not deeper than the skin; then the skin must be shaved ; but the scald must not be shaved, and the priest shall set apart the scald seven days more. And on the seventh day, if the priest, upon viewing the scald see that the scald hath not spread on the skin after the patient was shaved, and that the appear- ance of the scald is not deeper than the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; and, having washed his clothes, he shail be clean. But if the scald spread on the skin after the person hath been pronounced clean, and the priest, upon viewing it, shall see that the scald hath spread on the skin, the priest shall examine no farther about the yellow ‘hair, for he is unclean. But, if upon his viewing it, the scald continueth in its place, and the black hair grow in it,the scald is healed. He is clean, andthe priest shall pronounce him clean. And if any man or woman hath shining spots on the skin of the flesh, of a shining white- ness; and the priest, upon viewing it, see in the skin of the flesh spots of a shining whiteness, it is a kind of leucophlegmacy ; it springeth up in the skin of the flesh; he is clean. And if any person’s head shed its hair, though he be bald he is clean. And if his head shed its hair before, he is forehead bald, yet he is clean. But, if on the bald head, or bald forehead, there come a white or red spot, it is a leprosy in the bald head, or bald fore- head. And ifthe priest, upon viewing, see that the appearance ofthe spot is white, or reddish; in the bald head, or bald forehead, like the appearance of the leprosy in the skin of the flesh, he is a leprous man, the priest shall instantly pronounce him un- clean. The touch is in his head.
Now the leper who hath the touch, must have his clothes rent, and his head uncovered, but he must cover his mouth, and he shall be proclaimed unclean. All the time the touch shall be upon him, being unclean, he shall be unclean, he shall dwell alone by himself. His abode shall be without the camp.
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And if there be a touch of leprosy in a garment of wool, or a garment of hemp, or any web woven, or any thing made of linens or woollens, or in any skin, or workmanship made of skin, and the touch be of a greenish or reddish colour in the skin, or in the garment, or in the woven web, or in any vessel made of skin, it is a touch of the leprosy, and must be shewn to the priest. And the priest, upon seeing the touch, shall set apart the thing touched, seven days. And if on the seventh day the touch be spread in the garment, or in the web, or in the skin, into whatever things the skins may be made up, the touch is an inveterate leprosy. He must burn the garment, or the web, whether made of linen thread, or woollen yarn, or whatever the thing be which is made of skin, in which there is a touch of the leprosy. Because it is touched with leprosy, it shall be burned with fire. But if the priest find that the touch is not spread in the garment, or web, or vessel, whatever it be, made of skin; the priest shall order that which hath the touch to be washed, and the priést shall set it apart seven days more. And if upon viewing the touch after it hath been washed, the priest see that the touch hath not changed its appearance, though it hath not spread, it is unclean, and must be burned with fire. It is fixed in the garment, or web. But if the priest see that the touch is of a brownish colour after being washed, he shall tear it out of the garment, or web, or out of the skin. And if it appear any more in the garment, or web, or in the leathern vessel, whatever it be, it is a fretting leprosy; that in which the touch is, shall be burned with fire. Now the gar- ment, or web, or any thing made of skin, which shall be wash- ed, and from which the touch shall depart, shall be washed a second time with water, and it shall be clean. This is the law of the touch of a leprosy, in a woollen or hempen garment, or web, or any vessel made of skin, to pronounce it clean, or un- clean.
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wood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop; and the priest shall give orders, and they shall kill one live bird, over spring water, in
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cedar wood, and the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop, and dip them, and the living bird, in the blood of the bird which was killed over the spring water, and sprinkle some of itseven times on him who iscleansed from the leprosy, and he shall be clean. Then he shall let the live bird go into the field. And he who is cleansed shall wash hisclothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself with water; and he shall be clean; and after this he may come intothe camp; but he must tarry abroad, out of hisown house, sevendays. And on the seventh day he shall shave off all the hair on his head, and beard, and his eye brows; and having shaved off all his hair, he shall wash his clothes, and wash his body with water, and he shall be clean. Andon the eighth day he shall take two male lambs, of the first year, without blemish, and three tenths of fine flour, tempered with oil, for a sacrifice, and onc cotulus of oil; and the priest who pronounceth him clean ‘shall set the man whois cleansed, and these things, before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony ; and the priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer it for a trespass offering, with the cotulus of oil, and set them apart asa dedication be- fore the Lord; (Now they shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the whole burnt offerings and the sin offerings—in a holy place) for as is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering, for the priest. They are most holy. And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest
shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him whois cleansed,
and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. ‘Then taking some of the cotulus of oil, the priest shall pour it into his own left hand, and he shall dip his right finger into the oil which is in his left hand, and sprinkle it with his finger before the Lord seven times. And the rest of the oil which is in his left hand the priest shall put on the tip of the right ear of him who is cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot on the place of the blood of the trespass offering. And the oil still left in his hand. the priest shall put on the head of him who is cleansed.
So shall the priest make atonement for him before the Lord.
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Thenthe priest shall prepare the sin offering, and makeatonement for him who is cleansed, with his sin offering, and after that the priest shall kill the whole burnt offering. And the priest shal] offer up the whole burnt offering, and the sacrifice of flour, on the altar. So shall the priest make atonement for him, and he shall be cleansed. But ifhe be poor, and not of ability to fur- nish this, he shall take one lamb for the trespass which he hath committed, that it may be set apart as a dedication, sothat atone- ment may be made for him, and a tenth of fine flour tempered with oil fora sacrifice, and a cotulus of oil, and two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, which ever he can find most readily, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering. And on the eighth day he shall bring these to the priest, that he may cleanse him, to the door of the tabernacle of the testi- mony before the Lord, And the priest having taken the lamb of the trespass offering, and the cotulus of oil, shall set them apart as a dedication before the Lord. And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot; then pouring some of the oil into his own left hand, the priest shall sprinkle, with his right finger, some of the oil in his left hand, seven times be-
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hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering; and shall put the oil remaining in his hand, on the head of him who is cleansed; so having made atonement for him before the Lord, the priest shall offer one of the turtle doves, or one of the young pigeons, as his hand hath found, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offer- ing, with the sacrifice of flour. So shall the priest make atonement for him who is cleansed. ‘This is the law for him on whom there is a touch of the leprosy, and who.is not of abi- lity to furnish the other offerings for his purification.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, When you are come to the land of the Chananites which I give you for a possession, and I senda touch of a leprosy onthe houses
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of the land which you possess, the owner of the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, Something like a touch hath appeared to me in the house. Upon this the priest shall order the house to be unfurnished, before he goeth in to view the touch, that what is in the house may not be made unclean. And this being done, the priest shall go in to examine the house. And if, upon viewing the touch, he see that there is a touch in the walls of the house, and he seeth the cavities of a reddish or greenish colour, which appear to be deep in the wall; upon coming out of the house, at the door of the house, the priest shall sequestrate the house for seven days. And on the seventh day the priest shall come again and view the house: And if he seeth that the touch hath spread in the walls of the house, the priest shall order them to take out the stonesin which isthe touch, and tocarry them out of the city to an unclean place, and to scrape the house on the inside round about, and pour out the dust which is scraped off, without the city, into an un- clean place. And they shall take other stones, well scraped, and put them inthe place of those stones, and take other mortar, and. plaister the house. And if the touch come again, and break out in the house after they have taken away the stones, and after the house hath been scraped, and after it hath been plaistered ; the priest shall go in and take a view; and if the touch hath spread in the house, it is an inveterate leprosy in the house. It is unclean. They shall therefore demolish the house, and carry the wood thereof, and the stones thereof, and the rubbish thereof, out of the city to an unclean place. Now he who goeth into the house, all the while it is sequestrated, shall be unclean until the evening. And he who sleepeth in the house shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: And he who eateth in the house shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even- ing. But when the priest shall come, and go in, if upon taking a view he seeth that the touch hath not spread in the house, after being plaistered, the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the touch is healed. And in order to cleanse the house, he shall take two clean live birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet yarn, andhyssop. And he shall kill one of the birds, over spring water, in an earthen vessel. Then he shall take the cedar wood, and the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop, and the living bird, and
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dip them in the blood of the bird which was killed over spring water, and with them sprinkle the house seven times, and cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the spring water, and with the living bird, and with the hyssop, and. with the scarlet yarn. Then he shall send away the live bird out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atone- ment for the house, and it shall be clean.
This is the law for every touch of a leprosy and scald, and of the leprosy in a garment, and a house, and of a boil, and a scar, and the bright spot; and to teach when a thing is un- clean, and when it is to be pronounced clean. This is the law of the leprosy.
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If his eflux be a gonorrhea, this is an uncleanness in him. So long as his gonorrhea continueth, it is his uncleanness.
. Every bed on which such a one lieth is unclean; and every
seat whereon he shall sit, shall be unclean. And whoever shall touch his bed must wash his clothes, and wash himself with wa- ter, and shall be unclean until the evening. And whoever sit- teth on the seat whereon he sat, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until the evening. And whoever toucheth his flesh, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until the evening. And if he spit on one who is clean, the person who was clean shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until the evening. And every saddle of an ass on which he shall ride, shall be unclean until evening. And whoever toucheth any things-which were under him, shall be unclean until even- ing. And whoever carrieth them shall washhis clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until evening. And every one whom he who hath the gonorrhea toucheth, without wash- ing his hands, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until evening. And every earthen ves- sel which he shall touch shall be broken; but/a vessel of wood shall be washed with water, and shall be clean. And when he is clean of his disorder, he shall reckon for himself seven davs
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for his purification, and he shall wash his clothes, and wash his 14 body with water, and he shall be clean. And on the eighth day he shall take him two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them before the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle 15 of the testimony, and give them to the priest. And the priest shall offer one of them for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering. So shall the priest make atonement for him before the Lord, on the account of his efflux. 16 And if any man’s seed go from him by copulation, he shall wash his whole body with water, and be unclean until even- 17 ing. And every garment, and every skin on which the seminal matter may be, shall be washed with water, and be unclean 18 until the evening. And with respect to a woman, if any man lie carnally with her, they shall wash themselves with water, 19 and be unclean until the evening. And if any woman hath an efux, and it be in her body, she shall confine herself seven days to her peculiar seat. Every one who toucheth her shall 20 be unclean until the evening. And every thing on which she lieth during her state of separation, shall be unclean; and every 21 thing on which she shall sit, shall be unclean. And whoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with 22 water, and be unclean until evening. And whoever toucheth any thing on which she sat, shall wash his clothes, and wash 23 himself with water, and be unclean until evening. Whether she be in bed, or on any seat whereon she may sit, when one 24 toucheth her, he shall be unclean until evening. But if any one lie down by her, and her uncleanness is upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he may lie, shall 25 be unclean. And if any woman hath an efflux of blood many days, out of the time of her separation; or if it continue be- yond the time of her separation, all the days of this issue of 26 uncleanness, shall be like the days of her separation. She shall be unclean; and every bed on which she may lie during this issue, shall be to her like her bed of separation. And every seat on which she may sit, shall be unclean according to the 27 uncleanness of her separate state. Every one who toucheth her shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and wash his body 28 with water, and be unclean until evening. And when she is’ clear of her disorder she shall reckon for herself seven days,
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shall take two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, and carry them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the testi- mony. And the priest shall offer one of them for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord, on the account of her uncleanness. Thus shall you make the children of Israel reli- giously careful to guard against their uncleannesses, that they may not die for their uncleanness—for defiling my tabernacle which is among them.
This is the law for him who hath a gonorrhea, and for him whose seed goeth from him so as to be defiled thereby; and for her who is menstruous; and for the emission of seed be- tween a man and a woman; and for a man who lieth by a wo- man; in her state of separation.
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Then Aaron shall bring forward the young bull for his own sin offering, to make atonement for himself and his house- hold, and shall slay the young bull for his sin offering; and he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar, which is before the Lord, and he shall fill his hands with the com- pound incense, beaten fine, and carry it within the veil; and he shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord; and the smoke of this incense shall cover the propitiatory which is on the testimonies, and he shall not die. Then he shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the propitiatory, on the east side. In front of the propitiatory he shall sprinkle some of the blood seven times with his finger. Then he shall kill the goat for a sin offering—that for the peo- ple, before the Lord, and he shall carry some of its blood with- in the veil, and do with the blood thereof as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle the blood thereof on the pro- pitiatory, in front of the propitiatory, and make atonement for the holy place on account of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and on account of their transgressions, for all their sins. While he shall be doing this in the tabernacle of the testimo- ny, which is built among them in the midst of their unclean- ness, there shall be no other man in the tabernacle of the testi- mony, from the time of his going in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out. And when he shall have made atonement for himself, and his houschold, and for all the congregation of the children of Israel, he shall come out to the altar which is before the Lord, and make atonement on it. He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar round about, and sprinkle some of the blood against it seven times with his finger, and purify it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. And when he hath finished m: aking atone- ment for the sanctuary, and for the tabernacle of the testimony, and the altar, and hath made purification for the priests, then he shall bring forward the living goat, and Aaron shall lay his hands on the head of the live goat, and over it make confession
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of all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and of all their
transgressions, and all their sins, and lay them on the head of the live goat, and send him away by the hand of a man ready for the purpose, into the wilderness. And the goat shall bear away. upon him their iniquities to an untrodden land. And having sent away the goat into the wilderness, Aaron shall go into the tabernacle of the testimony, and put off his linen rai- ment which he had on when he went into the holy place, and shall lay it up there. And he shall wash his body with water, ἴῃ a holy place, and put on his robe, and come forth, and offer his own whole burnt offering, and the whole burnt ican of the people, and make atonement for himself and his honséhald,
and for the people, as well as for the priests; and shall offer up the suet of the sin offerings on the altar. And he who letteth go the he-goat which was sent away to be set at liberty, shall wash his clothes, and wash his body with water, and after that come into the camp. And they shall carry forth out of the camp the bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin of- fering, the blood of which was carried in to make atonement in the holy place, and shall burn them with fire, both the skins, and the flesh, and the dung thereof. And he who burneth them shall wash his clothes and wash his body with water, and after that he shall come into the camp. And this shall be to you an everlasting rite. In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls, and do no work, whether native orthe proselyte who dwelleth among you; for on that day he shall make atonement for you, to purify you. from all your sins before the Lord, that you may be cleansed. This rest shall be to you a sabbath of sabbaths, and you shall humble your souls. It is an everlasting statute. That priest shall make the atonement, who shall be anointed, and whose hands shall be consecrated to officiate as priest after his father. And he shall put on the linen raiment—the holy raiment, and shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and for the taber- nacle of the testimony, and he shall make atonement for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests, and for all the congregation. And the making this atonement for the chil-
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Aaron and his sons, and to all the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, This i is the thing which the Lord hath com- manded, saying, Be the man who’ he may of the childten of Israel, or of the proselytes who dwell among you, who shall kill a young bull, or a sheep, or a goat, in the camp, or who shall kill any of them out of the camp, and not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be offered for a whole burnt offering, or fora thank offering to the Lord, to be accepted for a smell of fragrance—even though he kill it without the camp, if he bring it not to the door of the taberna- cle of the testimony, that it may be offered asa gift to the Lord, before the tabernacle of the Lord, blood shall be imput- ed to that man. He hath shed blood; that person shall be cut off from among his people. In order that the children of Israel may offer up their sacrifices, whatever they kill in the fields they shall carry for the Lord to the doors of the tabernacle of the. testimony, to the priest, and offer them as a sacrifice of thanks- giving to the Lord; and the priest shall pour the blood against the altar round about, before the Lord, at the doors of the ta- bernacle of the testimony; and offer up the suet for a smell of fragrance for the Lord. And they shallno more offer their sa- crifices to vanities after which they goa whoring. It shall be a perpetual statute for you throughout your generations. There- fore thou shalt say untothem, Be the man who he may of the children of Israel, or of the children of the proselytes who dwell among you, who shall offer a whole burnt offering, or a sacrifice of flour, and not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be offered to the Lord, that man shall be cut off from among his people. And be the man who he may of the children of Israel, or of the proselytes who dwell among you, who shall eat any blood, I will set my face against that person who eateth blood, and destroy him from among his people. For the blood is the life of all flesh; and I have given it to you to make atonement on the altar for your souls. For the blood shall make atonement for souls. For this cause I have said to the children of Isracl, No person among
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you shall eat blood, even the proselyte who dwellethamong you shall not eat blood. And be the man who he may of the chil- . dren of Israel, or of the proselytes who dwell among you, who in hunting shall catch a wild beast, or a bird, which may be eaten, he shall pour out the blood, and cover it in the ground. For its blood is the life of all flesh, therefore I have said to the children of Israel, you shall not eat the blood of any flesh. Be- cause its blood is the life of all flesh, every one who eateth it shall be cut off. And every person who eateth that which hath died of itself, or been caught by wild beasts, whether he be one of yourselves, or of the proselytes, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until evening. Then he shall be clean. But if he do not wash his clothes, and if his body be not washed with water, he shall bear his miquity.
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ness of thy mother’s sister thou shalt not uncover; for she is thy mother’s near kinswoman. The nakedness of thy father’s brother thou shalt not uncover; thou shalt not go in unto his
wife, for she is thy near relation. The nakedness of thy daugh-
ter in law thou shalt not uncover; for she is thy son’s wife, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy brother’s wife thou shalt not uncover, it is the nakedness of thy brother. The nakedness of a wife and of her daughter thou shalt not uncover. Thou shalt not take thy son’s daugh. ter, nor thy daughter’s daughter to uncover their nakedness; for they are thy near kinswomen. It is wickedness. In addi- tion to a sister thou shalt not take to wife a’rival sister to un- cover her nakedness while her sister is still living. And thou shalt not approach to a wife during the time of her separation for uncleanness, to uncover her nakedness: and with thy neighbour’s wife thou shalt not lie carnally to defile thyself with her. Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to serve an Archon; nor shalt thou profane the holy name J the Lord. Thou shalt not lie with a man as witha woman; for it 15 an abomination. Nor shalt thou lie with any beast to pollute thyself with it; nor shall a woman be exposed to any beast to be pressed by it; for it is horrible. Be not polluted with any such things ; for with all such things have those nations been polluted, which I drive out before you, and the land hath been polluted, and for its sake I have retributed to them their iniquity, and the land is become a mortal enemy to them who dwell therein. You there- fore shall keep all my institutions and all my ordinances; and none of you, neither the native, nor the proselyte who dwelleth among you, shall commit any of these abominations, which the men of the country who were before you have committed, and by which the land hath been polluted; that the land may not become a mortal enemy to you when you pollute it; as it hath been to those nations which were before you. For who- ever shall commit any of these abominations, the persons who shall commit them shall be cut off from among their people. Therefore you shall keep my ordinances that you may not practise any of these abominable customs, which were prac- tised before you. You shall not pollute yourselves with them; for [the Lord am your God.
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congregation of the children of Israel; and thou shalt say un- to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. Let every one reverence his father and his mother. And you shall keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God; you shall not follow idols, nor make for yourselves molten gods, I the Lord am your God; therefore when you offer a sacrifice of thanks- giving to the Lord, you shall offer it in an acceptable manner. On the day you offer such a sacrifice it shall be eaten; or on the next day; and if any of it be left till the third day, it shall be burned with fire. And if it be eaten on the third day, it is as if it had not been offered. It will not be accepted. He who eateth it will contract guilt, because he hath profaned the holy things of the Lord. The persons therefore who eat it shall be cut off from among their people. And when you gather in the harvest of your land, you shall not makea compleat ingathering of the harvest of your field, nor gather up the wlentitegl of thy harvest ; nor shalt thou go over thy vineyard a second time, nor gather the straggling clusters of thy vineyard. Thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God; you shall not steal; you shall not lie; nor shall any one accuse his brother for trifles, you shall not swear by my name to a falsehood; nor profane the holy name of your God.
I am the Lord your God, thou shalt not injure thy neigh- bour, nor commit rapine ; nor shall the wages of a hireling re- main with thee till the morning. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor lay a stumbling block before the blind, but shalt fear the Lord thy God.
I am the Lord your God; you shall not do an unjust thing in the execution of justice: thou shalt not respect the face of the poor, nor revere the face of the mighty. With righteous- ness thou shalt judge thy neighbour. Thou shalt not go about with deceit among thy nation, nor set thyself against the blood of thy neighbour.
I am the Lord your God; thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart. With rebuke thou shalt correct thy neighbour, and not contract guilt on his account; but let not thy hand take
vengeance. Thou shalt not bear ἃ grudge against the children
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of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. I am the Lord; you shall keep my law.
19 Thou shalt not let the cattle gender with-one of another kind, nor plant thy vineyard with different sorts of seed; nor put on unscoured, a woven garment made of flax and wool.
20 If any man lie carnally with a woman, and she be a servant betrothed to a man, and hath not been redeemed, nor had her freedom granted her, they shall be chastised, but shall not be
21 put to death, because she was not set free. And for his tres- pass against the Lord, he shall bring to the door of the taber-
22 nacle of the testimony, the ram ofatrespass offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the tres- pass offering before the Lord for the sin which he hath com- mitted; and the sin which he hath committed shall be forgiv- en him.
23 Now when you come into the land which the Lord your God giveth you, you may plant all sorts of trees for food; but
24 you must purge away their impurity. The fruit thereof shall be three years unclean to you, and shall not be eaten: and in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be hallowed, to praise
25 the Lord; and in the fifth year, you may eat the fruit. The products thereof will be an additional supply to you.
26 Tam the Lord your God; you must not eat‘on the moun-
27 tains, nor practise divination, nor augury by birds. You shall not make a rounding of the hair of your head, nor disfigure
28 the appearance of your beard. You shall not make gashes in your body for the dead, nor any fixed marks on you.
29 ‘Tam the Lord your God; thou shalt not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to commit whoredom, that the country may not fall into whoredom ; and that the land may not be fil-
30 led with iniquity. You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my holy things.
91 Iam the Lord your God: you shall not go after belly speak- ers, nor attach yourselves to sorcerers to be polluted by them.
32 I am the Lord your God: you shall rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of an elder, and fear thy God.
33 I am the Lord your God; if any stranger come among you
34 in your land, you shall not afflict him. Phe: Wirampee’ who cometh to you, shall be as one born among you; and thou
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shalt love him as thyself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
35 I am the Lord your God; you shall not do i inj ustice in the exercise of judgment, nor in measures, nor in weights, nor in balances. You shall haveamong you just balances, just weights and a just measure. ᾿
36 I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, therefore you shall keep all my law and all my sta- tutes and do them. I am the Lord your God.
peas: Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Thou shalt
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rael, or of those who have ἤβαρπῖ proselytes among Israel,
shall give any of his seed to an Archon let him be put to death.
The people of the land shall stone him with stones: and as for
me I will myself set my face against that man, and destroy
him from among his people, because he hath given of his seed to an Archon, to pollute my holy things, and to profane the name of those who have been hallowed to me. And though those born in the land may, upon seeing him, connive at that man when he giveth of his seed to an Archon, and not kill him, 1 will indeed set my face against that man, and against his family, and destroy him, and all who encourage him, to go
6 a whoring after the Archons, from among their people. And
with respect to the person who shall follow belly speakers and
sorcerers, so as to go a whoring after them, I will set my face against that person, and destroy him from among his people.
You shall therefore be holy, because I the Lord your God am'
holy. And you shall keep my statutes and do them. It is I
the Lord who hallow you. Be the man who he may who cur-
seth his father or his mother, let him be put to death. He hath
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τς soever committeth adultery with the wife of a man who is head of a family, or who shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbour, let both the adulterer and the adulteress be put to
11 death. And if any one lie with his father’s wife he hath un- covered his father’s nakedness, let them be put to death: they
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woman, they have both committed an abomination; let them be put to death. They are guilty. And if any man take to wife a mother and a daughter it is a violation of law, they shall burn him and them with fire that there may be no transgres- sing of law among you. And whoever shall lie with a beast, he shall be put to death, and you shall kill the beast. And if any woman approach to any beast to be pressed under it, you shall kill the woman and the beast. Let them be put to death. They are: guilty. Whoever shall take his sister by the same father, or the same mother, and see her nakedness, and she see his; it is a disgraceful act. They shall be excommunicated in the presence of the children of their family. He hath uncover- ed the nakedness of his sister. They shall bear their sin. And if any man lie with his wife durmg her infirmity, and uncover her nakedness, he hath uncovered her fountain, and she hath discovered her menstrual efflux; they shall both be cut off from their family. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister or thy mother’s sister: for when one un- covereth his near of kin they shall bear ther sin. Whoever hath Jain with his near of kin, he hath uncovered the naked- ness of his near relation, they shall die childless. If a man take his brother’s wife, it is an act of uncleanness. He hath un- covered the nakedness of his brother; they shall die childless. You shall keep all my statutes and my judgments and do them, that the land to which I am leading you to dwell therein, may not become your mortal enemy. You must not walk in the customs of the nations which I drive out from before you. Because they did all these things, therefore I held them in ab- horrence, and said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession—a land flowing with milk and honey. Iam the Lord your God, who have separated you from all the nations, you shall therefore keep yourselves sepa- rate by making a distinction between the clean beasts, and the beasts'which are unclean; and between the clean birds, and the birds which are unclean; and you shali not pollute your- selves with the beasts, or the birds, or any of the reptiles of the earth which I have distinguished for you, by uncleanness, and you shall be consecrated to me. Because Ἰ the Lord your God am the Holy One, who hath separated you from all the na-
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tions, that you should be mine, therefore the man, or the wo- man, among you, who hath become a belly speaker, or a sor- cerer, shall be put to death. Stone them with stones. They are guilty.
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priests, the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say unto them, They must not defile themselves for the dead in their family, except _ only for their nearest of kin. For a father, or a mother, or for sons, or daughters, or for a brother, and for a virgin sister who dwelleth with him, and who hath not been betrothed to a hus- band; for these he may defile himself. He must not defile him- self unexpectedly among his people, to occasion their defile- ment. You shall not shave the head to make it bald, for the dead. Nor shall they shave their beard, nor make gashes in their flesh. They shall be consecrated to their God, and shall not profane the name of their God, for they are to offer up the sacrifices of the Lord—the gifts to their God; therefore they shall be holy. They shall not take to wife a harlot, nor a wo- man who hath been defiled, nor a woman divorced from her husband. Because he is consecrated to the Lord his God, therefore thou shalt hallow him. He offereth up the gifts of the Lord your God, he shall be hallowed. Because I the Lord am the holy one who halloweth them, therefore if the daughter of a priest profane herself by whoredom, she profaneth the name of her father, she shall be burned with fire. And with regard to the priest, who is great above his brethren, the oil of the anointed one having been poured on his head, and he having been consecrated to put on the garments, he must not take the tiara from his head, nor rend his garments, nor go near any dead person, nor defile himself for his father, nor for his mo- ther, nor go out of the holy places, nor defile the sanctuary of his God; because the holy oil, the anointing of his God, is up- onhim. I am the Lord. He shall take to wife a virgin of his own family. A widow, or a woman divorced or defiled, or a harlot, these he shall not take. He shall take none to wife, but a virgin of his own tribe; and he shall not profane his seed among his people. It is I the Lord who hallow him. Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Say to Aaron,
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rations, who hath any blemish about him, he shall not come 18 near to present the gifts of his God. No man who hath any blemish, who is blind, or lame, or hatha hare lip, or a slit ear; 19 nor any man who hath a contortion in the hand, or a splay foot, 20 or who is hump backed, or dim sighted, or blear eyed, nor any 21 man who hath the seurvy, or the itch, or a rupture—No per- son of the seed of Aaron the priest, who hath any blemish about -him, shall come near to offer the sacrifices of thy God. Be- cause he hath a blemish he shall not come near to offer the gifts 22 of God. With regard to the gifts of God, even the most holy, 23 of these he may eat; but he shall not approach to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he hath a blemish. And he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, because I am the Lord
24 who halloweth them. XXII. |= Andwhen Moses had spoken to Aaron and his sons, and 2 to all the children of Israel, then the Lord spoke to Moses, say - ing, Speak to Aaron and his sons and let them take heed not to profane my holy name, in respect to any of the holy things of the children of Israel, which they dedicate to me. I am the 3 Lord; say unto them, What man soever of your seed, through- out your generations, shall come near to the holy things which the children of Isracl may dedicate to the Lord, and have any uncleanness upon him, that person shall be cut off from me. A Tam the Lord your God; though a man be of the seed of Aaron the priest, yet if he be a leper, or hath a gonorrhea, he shall not eat of the holy things until he be cleansed. And with re- pect to him who toucheth any uncleanness of the dead, or the man frem whom seminal matter may proceed; or who may 5 touch any -unclean reptile which may defile him; or any man, by whom he may be defiled, whatever his uncleanness may be; 6 the person who shali touch such things shall be unclean until evening. He shall not eat of the holy things unless he wash his body with water, and the sun be set. When he shall be clean, then he may eat of the holy things; for it 1s his food. 8 What died of itself, or is torn by wild beasts, he shall not eat 9 to pollute himself therewith. I am the Lord, therefore they _ shall keep my statutes, that they may not, on the account of 10 those things, contract guilt, and die because of them, when
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Iam the Lord, the God who halloweth them, therefore none of another family shall eat the holy things, nor shall he, who sojourneth with a priest, or who is hired by him, eat of them. But if the priest shall have a person bought with money, this person may eat of his food. And they who are born in his fa- mily may eat of his food. But if the daughter of a priest be married to a man of another family, she shall not eat of the dedications of the sanctuary. But if the daughter of a priest become a widow, or be divorced, and have no issue, she may return to her father’s house as in her youth, and eat of her fa- ther’s food: But none of another family shall eat thereof. And whoever shall eat of the holy things through inadvertence, he shall add a fifth to it, and give the holy thing to the priest. Thus the priests will not profane the holy things of the chil- dren of Israel, which they set apart for the Lord, nor bring upon themselves the guilt of a trespass, when they eat their holy things, for I am the Lord who hallow them.
Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to the whole congregation of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, Be the man who he may of the children of Israel, or of the proselytes who dwell among them in Israel, who shall bring his gifts according to any vow they may have made, or according to any determination they may have come to, whatever they bring for a whole burnt offering to God, must, in order to be accepted for you, be males without blem- ish, from the herd, or from the sheep, or from the goats. What hath any blemish in it they shall not bring to the Lord; for it will not be accepted for you. And whoever shall bring a sacri- fice of thanksgiving ‘to the Lord, either in discharge of a vow, or as a free will offering, or at your festivals, from the herd or from the-flock, it must, in order to its being accepted, be without blemish. There must be no blemish in it. “Phat which is blind, or bruised, or which hath its tongue cut, or hath been eaten by ants, or is infected with scurvy or mange—these they shall not bring to the Lord, nor shall you give any such for an offering of homage on the altar to the Lord. A young bull, or a sheep which hath its ear cropped, or its tail cut, these thou mayst slaughter for thyself; but in discharge of thy vow they will not be accepted. What are castrated by crushing, bruis-.
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ing, cutting or extracting—these thou shalt not bring to the Lerd, nor shall you make an offering of them in your land, nor from the hand of a stranger bring any such forward as gifts for your God. Because there is a defect in them—a blemish in them; they will not be accepted for you.
Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, With respect to a young bull, or a sheep, or a goat, when it is brought forth, it must be seven days under its dam, and on the eighth day, and thenceforward, it will be accepted asa gift for an homage offering to the Lord. But whether it be a young bull, or a lamb, thou must not kill the dam and the young on the same day. And if thou wilt offer a sacrifice—a vow of joy, to the Lord, in order that you may offer it acceptably, it must be eaten on the same day. You shall not leave any of the flesh of it till the next morning. Iam the Lord, therefore you shall keep these my commands, and do them; And you shall not profane the name of the Holy One; so shall I be hallowed in the midst of the children of Israel. 1 am the Lord, who am hailowing you, who am bringing you out of the land of Egypt, to.be your God. I am the Lord.
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offerings to the Lord seven days, and the seventh day shall be a holy set day for you. You shall do no sacrificial service. Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give you, and are about to reap the
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harvest thereof, you shall bring a sheaf, as the first fruits of your harvest, to the priest, and he shall offer up the sheaf be- fore the Lord, to be accepted for you—On the morrow atter the first day, the priest shall offer this up. And on the day when you bring the sheaf, you shall prepare a lamb without blemish, of the first year, for a whole burnt offering for the Lord, and for the sacrifice thereof, two tenths of fine flour, made up with oil for the Lord, a smell of fragrance for the Lord—and for the libation thereof, the fourth of an hin of wine. You shall not eat bread, nor parched grains of the new corn, till this day—until you have offered these gifts to your God. It is an everlasting statute for your generations, in all your dwellings, That from the morrow of these sabbaths—from the day on which you offer up the dedicated sheaf, you shall reckon for yourselves seven whole weeks, even till the morrow after the last week, you shall reckon fifty days, and then offer a sacri- fice of new corn to the Lord. You shall bring from your dwell- ing two loaves, as loaves of dedication. They shall consist of two tenths of fine flour. Being of the first fruits for the Lord, they shall be baked with leaven. And with the loaves you shall present seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, and one young bull from the herd, and two rams without blemish; and they shall be a whole burnt offering for the Lord; and their sacrifices, and their libations, shall be a sacrifice, a smell of fra- grance for the Lord. They shall also prepare one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year, for a sacrifice of thanksgiving, with the loaves of the first fruits. And the priest shall dedicate these, with the loaves of the first fruits, as a dedication before the Lord, with the two lambs. They shall be dedicated to the Lord; they shall be for the priest who offereth them. And you shall call this day, a set day. It shall be hallowed for you. On it you shall do no sacrificial work. It is ari everlasting statute for your generations in all your dwell- ings. And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not make a clean riddance of the harvest of thy field when thou reapest, nor shalt thou gather up the gleanings of thy harvest. Thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the stranger. Iam the Lord your God.
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24 children of Israel, and say, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a rest for you—a memorial of 25 trumpets. It shall be a holy set day for you. You shall not do- any sacrificial service, but offer a whole burnt offering to the 26 Lord. Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, On the 27 tenth day of the seventh month is the day of Atonement. It shall be a holy set day for you; and you shall humble your 28 souls, and offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord. On this day you shall not do any kind of work: for it is the day of Atonement for you, to make atonement for you before the 29 Lord your God. Every soul who shall not humble himself on 950 that day, shall be cut off from among his people. And every person who shall do any work on that day, shall be destroyed ‘31 from among the people. You shall not do any kind of work. It is an everlasting statute for your generations in all your 32 dwellings. They shall be sabbaths of sabbaths for you, that you may humble your souls. From the ninth of the month, from evening till evening, you shall keep these sabbaths of yours. 33 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the 34 children of Israel, and say, On the fifteenth of this seventh month shall commence the festival of Tabernacles, seven days 35 for the Lord. The first day shall be proclaimed holy. You shall 56 do no sacrificial work; seven days you shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, and the eighth day shall be proclaimed holy for you, and you shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord. It is the exit. You shall not do any sacrificial service. oN. These are the festivals for the Lord, which you shall pro- claim holy, in order that you may offer homage offerings to the Lord—whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their li- bations—that allotted for each day on its day, over and above 38 the sabbaths of the Lord, and over and above your gifts, even besides all your vows, and besides your free will offerings, 39 which you may give to the Lord. Now on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, when you have finished the ingathering of the products of the land, you shall begin this festival of se- 40. ven days for the Lord. On the first day there shall be a rest ; and on the eighth day, arest. And on the first day you shall take the ripe fruit of trees, and branches of palm trees, and
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bushy boughs of trees and willows, and branches of the willow of the brook, to rejoice before the Lord your God seven days of the year. It shall be an everlasting statute for your genera- tions. In the seventh month you shall celebrate this festival. You shall dwell in booths seven days. All that are Israelites born, shall dwell in booths, that your posterity may see that I caused the children of Israel to dwell in tents when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. Iam the Lord your God. And when Moses had mentioned these festivals of the Lord
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morning, continually, before the Lord. It-is an everlasting statute for your generations. You shall keep the lamps burning on the pure candlestick before the Lord, until the morning. And you shall take fine flour, and make it into twelve loaves, every loaf shall consist of two tenths; and you shall lay them in two piles, six loaves in each pile, on the pure table before the Lord. And on each pile you shall lay pure frankincense, and salt. They shall be set before the Lord for loaves of re- membrance. On the day of the sabbaths they shall be set con- tinually before the Lord, in the sight of the children of Israel, as an everlasting covenant; and they shall be for Aaron and his sons. And they shall eat them in a holy place; for they are most holy. This shall be their peculiar due, for ever, from those things sacrificed to the Lord.
Now there had come out among the Israelites a son of an Israclitish woman, but his father was an Egyptian. And this son of the Israelitish woman, anda man who was an Israelite, quarrelled in the camp. And the son of the Israelitish woman having named the name, cursed it. Upon which they brought him before Moses. Now his mother’s name was Salomith, she was a daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan. And when they had committed him to custedy, to pass sentence on him by the decree of the Lord, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Lead
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stone him. Then speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Be the man who he may who shall curse a god, he shall contract guilt; but let him who nameth the name of Lord be put to death. Let the whole congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a proselyte, or born among them, when he nameth the name of the Lord, let him die. And whosoever smiteth another so that he die, let him be put to death. And whosoever shall smite a beast, so that it die, let him make compensation, beast for beast. And whosoever shall cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done to him, so shall it be done to himself; bruise for bruise; eye for eye; tooth for tooth; according to the blemish he hath given the man, so shall it be returned to him. Whosoever shall smite a man so that he die, let him be put to death, shall be one and the same decision for the proselyte, and for the neighbour; for lam the Lord your God. Thereupon Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth him who had cursed,
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the atonement, you shall make proclamation with a trumpet, throughout all yourland, and dedicate the fiftieth year, and pro-
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this shall be a year of rest, a Jubilee for you; and every one shall return to his possession, and every one shall go to his’ family. This jubilee, this fiftieth year, shall be for you a ge- neral release, you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the spon- taneous productions thereof, nor gather the vintage which is dedicated. Because it is a jubilee, it shall be holy to you. From the fields you may eat the productions thereof. In this year of release, proclaimed by the sound of trumpets, every one shall return to his possession. Whether therefore thou sellest to thy neighbour, or purchasest of thy neighbour, let no man take advantage of his neighbour. According to the number of years after the jubilee, thou shalt purchase of thy neighbour; and according to the number of years of crops, he shall sell to thee. In proportion to the greater number of years, thou shalt rate his possession higher, and according to the few- ness of the years, thou shalt rate it lower. For according to the number of crops, so shall he sell to thee. Let no man take advantage of his neighbour. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God. Iam the Lord your God, therefore you shall practise all my rules of rectitude, and all my judgments, and keep and do them; so shall you dwell securely in the land, and the land shall yield its productions; and you shal! eat plentifully, and dwell securely therein. Now if you should say, What shall © we eat in this seventh year, if we neither sow nor gather our produce? I indeed will send my blessing for you, in the sixth year, and it will make the products thereof sufficient for the three years. Though you are to sow in the eighth year, yet on acceunt of the produce, you shall eat the old, even to the ninth year, even till the products of that come in, you shall
3 eat of the old store. Now the land must not be sold forever; ‘ for the land is mine. Because you are strangers, and sojourn-
ers before me, therefore in all the land of your possession, you shall grant a right of redeeming the land. And if thy bro- ther who is with thee become poor, and sell any part of his possession; when he who is next of kin to him cometh, he shall
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to redeem, and his own hand hath attained, and found a suffici- 27 ency, he shall have the right of redemption. And he shall com- pute the years of his sale, and pay back what is still due to the man to whom he sold it. So shall he return to his possession. 28 Butif his hand cannot attain a sufficiency to repay him, the sale shall be good to him who purchased, until the last sixth year of the jubilee, and in the jubilee, he shall quit, and the 29 seller shall return to his possession. And if any person sell a dwelling house in a walled city, he shall have the right of re- 30 deeming it till the term expire. The term for redemption shall be a year. And if it be not redeemed till the whole year expire, the house which is in a walled city, shall be confirmed for ever to the purchaser. And he shall not go out in the ju- 31 bilee. But the houses which are in villages, unsurrounded. with walls, shall be accounted as the fields in the country, and shall be always subject to redemption, and go out in the 32 jubilee. And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, shall always be redeemable by the Levites ; and whoever among the Levites shall redeem, the intermedi- ate purchase of the houses of the city of their possession shall 33 terminate in the jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. 34. And the fields set apart for their cities shall not be sold; for 35 this is their perpetual possession. And if thy brother who is with thee become poor and distressed in his circumstances when near thee, thou shalt help him, as a proselyte or a so- 36 journer, and thy brother shall live with thee. ‘Thou shalt not take from him usury or increase, but thou shalt fear thy God, 37 I the Lord; and thy brother shall live with thee. Thou shalt not lend him thy money on usury, nor give him thy victuals 38 for an increase. I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Chanaan, and 39 to be your God. And if thy brother who dwelleth by thee be humbled, and sold to thee, he shall not serve thee as a slave. 40 He shall be with thee as a hireling, or a sojourner. Until the 41 year of the release he shall work for thee, and in the year of the release he shall go out, and his children with him, and shall go to his own family—to his paternal possession he shall 42 haste away. Because they are my servants, whom I brought
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out of the land of Egypt; he must not be sold asa slave. Thou shall not over burthen him with toil, but fear the Lord thy God. The male and female slaves, whom thou mayst have, must be of the nations around thee. Of them you may pur- chase a male or a female slave; or of the children of strangers who sojourn among you—of them you may purchase and of their relations who may be born in your land. Let them be your property, and divide them among your children after you, and they shall be your slaves for life: but of your brethren, the children of Israel, one shall not rule over another with ri- gour. And if a proselyte, or a sojourner who is with thee, prosper, and thy brother, being poor, be sold to the proselyte, or to the stranger who is with thee, or to the descendant of the proselyte; after he is sold he shall have a right to be re- deemed. One of his brethren may redeem him, his uncle, or his uncle’s'son, may redeem him, or any of his blood relations, of the same tribe, may redeem him; and if he be able he may redeem himself. In which case he shall settle with him who purchased him, from the year he sold himself, to the year of the release, and the price of his purchase shall be as the yearly wages of a hired sérvant for the years he is to be with him. And if any one hath many years to serve, for them he shall pay the rates of redemption, on account of the money paid for him; and if but few years remain to the year of release, he shall set- tle with him according to those years, and pay the rates of his redemption. As a servant hired from year to year, he shall be with him; and thou shalt not suffer him to be oppressed with labour in thy sight. If he be not redeemed in any of these ways, in the year of the release he shall go out, and his children with him; for the children of Israel are my domestics—they are my servants whom I brought out of Egypt.
XXVI. I am the Lord your God; you shall not make for your-
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selves ‘carved or graven images, nor set up a pillar for your- selves, nor place a watch stone in your land to worship it. Iam the Lord your God, you shall keep my sabbaths, and rever- ence my holy things. I am the Lord; if you walk in my sta- tutes, and keep my commandments, and do them, I will give you rain in its season; and the land shall yield its productions ; and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit; and the thresher
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shall overtake the vintager; and the vintager shall overtake the
sower; and you shall eat your bread in plenty; and dwell in
your land securely, and war shall not pass through your land.
6 I will indeed give you peace in your land; and you shall lie
7 down to rest; and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will
destroy the wild beasts out of your land; and you shall pursue
your enemies, and they shall fall before you with destruction.
8 Even five of you shall pursue an hundred; and a hundred of
you shall pursue myriads, and your enemies shall fall before
9 you by the sword. And I will watch over you, and increase
you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
10 And you shall eat the last-year’s crops, and the crops of the year
11 before, and remove old stores out of the way of new. And I
will fix my tabernacle among you, and my soul will not abhor
12 you. And I will walk about among you, and be your God, and you shall be my people.
13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land
of Egypt. When you were slaves, I broke the bond of your
14 yoke, and led you out in confidence: Now if you will not heark-
15 en to me, nor perform these my commandments, but disobey
them, and your souls abhor my judgments, so as not to per-
form all my commandments, so as to break my covenant, I will
16 deal with you in this manner—lI will send against you distress,
and the scab, and the gangrene to eat out your eyes; and wast-
ing consumption; and you shall sow your seed in vain; for your
17 enemies shall eat it: and I will set my face against you; and
you shall fall before your enemies; and they who hate you shall
pursue you; and you shall flee when there is none pursuing
18 you. And if for all this you will not hearken to me, I will pro-
ceed to chastise you seven fold for your offences, and break
19 the haughtiness of your pride.—I will make the heaven for
you as iron, and your land as brass; and your strength shall be
20 spent in vain. The earth shall not yield you its seed, nor shall
21 the trees of the field yield you their fruit. And after all these
things, if you walk adversely and will not hearken to me, I will
22 bring seven fold plagues upon you according to your sins—I
will send against you the wild beasts of the earth, and they shall
devour you, and destroy your cattle; and I will make you few
23 in number, and your high ways shall be desolate. And if by
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these things you be not reformed, but walk adversely before me, I also will walk with you in adverse wrath, and smite you seven fold for your sms—lI will bring a sword against you to avenge the cause of the covenant; and when you flee to your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be de- livered into the hands of your enemies. In your affliction for want of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you shall eat, but shall not be satisfied. And if for these things you will not hearken to me, but walk adversely before me, 1 also will walk with you in adverse ire, and chastise you seven fold, according to your sins. And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters also you shall eat: and I will lay waste your pillars, and utterly destroy your carved images of wood, and cast your mangled limbs among the mangled limbs of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. And I will lay waste your cities, and make your sanctuaries a desolation, and no longer be regaled with the smell of your sacrifices. I will also make your land a desolation, and your enemies who dwell therein shall be astonished at it. And I will scatter you among the nations, and a sword shall overtake and consume you. And your land shall be a waste, and your cities a desolation. And the land shall then enjoy its sabbaths all the time of its desolation. When you shall be in the land of your enemies, the land shall then rest; and the land shall keep those sabbaths, which it did not keep by your sabbaths when you dwelt therein. And upon those of you who are left, I will bring a slavery, which shall reach their very hearts, in the land of their enemies. The sound of a leaf driven by the wind will scare them ; and they shall flee like those who flee from a battle, and shall fall when none pur- sueth. And-brother shall overlook brother as in a battle, though none attacketh; and you shall not be able to withstand your enemies. And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall devour you. And those of you who are left shall pine away for their sins, and for the sins of their fa- thers—lIn the land of their enemies they shall pie away, and confess their sins and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed, and neglected me, and that they have walked per- versely before me, and I have walked with them in vengeful
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ire. When I am destroying them in the land of their enemies, then will their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then will they bear their sins with humble submission; whereupon I will call to remembrance the covenant with Jacob, and the co- venant with Isaak, and I will call to remembrance the cove- nant with Abraham, and remember the land. When the land shall be forsaken by them, and when the land shall have enjoy- ed its sabbaths by being made a waste on their account, and they have borne their iniquities because they neglected my judgments, and in their hearts abhorred my statutes, (as I did not, when they were in their enemies’ country, wholly over- look them, nor abhor them so as to destroy them utterly, for breaking my covenant which I made with them, for I am the Lord their God) then will I remember the covenant with them —that old covenant when I brought them out of the land of Egypt—out of the house of bondage, to be their God. Iam the Lord; These are my judgments, and these are my statutes, and this is the law which the Lord hath given between him- self and the children of Israel, at mount Sina, by the ministra- tion of Moses.
XXVII. Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to
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the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whoever shall vow a vow as the price of his life to the Lord, the price shall be—-of a male from twenty to sixty years of age, the price shall be fifty didrachms of silver, sanctuary weight; and of a female, the valuation shall be thirty didrachms. And if it be of one from five to twenty years of age, the price of a male shall be twenty didrachms, and of a female ten didrachms. And if it be of one from a month to five years old, the price of a male shall be five didrachms, and of a female three didrachms of silver. And if it be of one from sixty years old and upwards; ifa male the price shall be fifteen didrachms of silver, and if a female, ten didrachms. And if any be too poor for this valuation, he shall present himself before the priest and the priest shall set a vaiue on him—according to the ability of him who made the vow, the priest shall value him. But if the gift to the Lord be from the cattle which may be offered, whoever shall give any of these to the Lord, it shall be sacred. He shall not change it, a good fora bad; nor a bad for a good : and if he actually change this beast
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for another, both it and that given in exchange shall be sacred. But if it be any kind of unclean beast of which a gift cannot be made to the Lord, he shall present the beast before the priest; and the priest shall value it at a medium between a good and a bad one; and according as the priest shall value it, so it shall stand; and if the person chuse to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation. And if a man make a dedication of his house to the Lord, the priest shall value it at a medium be- tween a good and a bad house. And according as the priest shall value it so it shall stand; and if he who dedicated. it chuse to redeem it, he shall add thereto a fifth of the money at ᾿ which it was rated, and it shall be his. And if it be a part of the land of his possession, which a man shall dedicate to the Lord,
the valuation shall be according to the seed thereof, fifty di- drachms of silver for a core of barley—If he dedicate it at the jubilee; at this valuation it shall stand. But if he dedicate his field after the jubilee ; the priest shall compute for him the money on the years which remain to the jubilee, and make a deduction from the full valuation of it. And if the man who made the dedication chuse to redeem the field, he shall add one fifth of the money to the valuation of it, and it shall be his. But if he decline to redeem the field, and selleth the field to another man, he shall never afterwards redeem it; but at the going out of the jubilee the field shall be consecrated to the Lord, and he shall have possession of it as land set apart for the priest. And if a man make a dedication to the Lord of a field which he hath purchased, and which is not a part of his inheritance, though the priest settle with him the amount of the price from se year of the jubilee, and he pay the price at which it was rated on the day he made the dedication to the
24 Lord; yet in the year of the jubilee the field shail be restored
to the man of whom he purchased it, and whose field of posses- sionit was. Now every valuation shall be by holy weight, twenty oboli making a didrachm. And with regard to every firstling, if it be among the cattle, it shall be for the Lord, and none shall dedicate it. Whether it be of the herds or flocks it is the Lord’s. And if it be of the four footed beasts which are un- clean, he must redeem it according to the valuation, and add thereto a fifth, and it shall be his, And if he will not redeem it, it shall be sold for its value.
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But with respect. to every Anathema which ἃ man may de- vote to the Lord from all that he hath, whether from man or beast, or from field of his possession, it shall not be sold nor redeemed. Every anathema shall be most sacredly devoted to the Lord. And every thing which hath been devoted as an anathema from among men, shall not be redeemable, but by death. The whole tenth of the land, both of the praduce of the land, and of the fruit of the trees, is for the Lord. It is dedi- cated to the Lord. And if any man chuse to redeem his tenth by purchase, he shall add to the valuation a fifth, and it shall be his. Now the whole tenth of herds and flocks—even every one which in numbering shall come under the rod, that tenth shall be dedicated to the Lord. Thou shalt not change a good for a bad, nor a bad for a good; and if thou shalt actually make an exchange, that given in exchange shall also be consecrated, and shall not be redeemed.
These are the commands which the Lord gave in charge to Moses for the children of Israel at mount Sina.
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Again the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sina, in the tabernacle of the testimony, on the first day of the se- cond month, in the second year of their coming out of the land of Egypt, and said, Take ye the sum of the whole congrega- tion of Israel, according to pedigrees, and according to the houses of their patriarchal families, and according to the num- ber of their names, according to their poll, every male from twenty years old and upwards, every one who goeth out in the army of Israel; review them with their army. Thou and Aaron shall review them, and with you there shall be of the chiefs, one from each tribe. They shall be the chiefs of the patriarchal houses; and these are the names of the men who shall attend you. Of the Reubenites, Elisur, son of Se- dur; of the Symeonites, Salamiel, son of Surisadai; of the children of Judas,’ Naasson, son of Aminadab; of the children of Issachar, Nathaniel, son of Sogar; of the Zabulonites, Eliab, son of Chailon; of the children of Joseph—of the Ephraimites, . Elisama, son of Emiud; of the Manassites, Gamalicl, son of
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Phadassur; of the Benjaminites, Abidon, son of Gadeoni; of the Danites, Achiezer, son of Amisadai; of the Aserites, Pha-
giel, son of Echran; of the Gadites, Elisaph, son of Raguel; of
the Nephthaleimites, Achire, son of Ainan. These are renown- ed men of the congregation, chiefs of the tribes according to their patriarchal femilies, the chiliarchs of Israel. So Moses and Aaron took these men, who were expressly named, and assembled all'the congregation on the first day of the second month, and marshalled them according to their pedigrees, ac- cording to their families, according to the number of their names, from twenty years old and upwards, every male by their poll, as the Lord commanded Moses, and reviewed them in the wilderness of Sina. And there were of the children of Reu- ben, Jacob’s first born, according to their pedigrees, according to their communities, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of names by their poll—all the males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, on the review of those of the tribe of Reuben, were forty six thousand five hundred.
And of the Symeonites, according to their pedigrees, ac- cording to their communities, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their poll, all the males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, on the review of them, of the tribe of Symeon, were fifty nine thousand three hundred.
And of the children of Judas, according to their pedigrees, according to their communities, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names by their poll; allthe males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, on the review of those of the tribe of Judas, were seventy four thousand six hundred.
And of the Issacharites, according to their pedigrees, accord- ing to their communities, according to the houses of their fami- lies, according to the number of their names by their poll, all the males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, ona review of those of the tribe of Issa- char, were fifty four thousand four hundred.
And of the Zabulonites, according to their pedigrees, ac- cording to their communities, according to the houses of their
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all the males from twenty years old and upwards, εν ery, one who went out in the army, on a review of those of the tribe of Zabulon, were fifty seven thousand four hundred. .
And of the children of Joseph—Of the Ephraimites, accord- ing to their pedigrees, according to their communities, accord- ing to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names by their poll, all the males from twenty -years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, on a re- view of those of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred. And of the Manassites, according to their pedigrees, according to their communities, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names by their poll, all the males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, ona review of those of the tribe
of Manasses, were thirty two thousand two hundred.
And of the Benjaminites, according to their pedigrees, ac- cording to their communities, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names by their poll, all the males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, on a review of those of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty five thousand four hundred.
And of the Gadites, according to their pedigrees, accord- ing to their communities, according to the houses of their fa- milies, according to the number of their names by their poll, all the males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, ona review of those of the tribe of Gad, were forty five thousand six hundred and fiity.
And of the Danites, according to their pedigrees, accord- ing to their communities, according to the houses of their fa- ἔς ἘΣ according to the number of ‘their names by their poli, all the males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, on a review of those of the tribe of Dan, were sixty two thousand seven hundred.
And of the Aserites, according to their pedigrees, accord- ing to their communities, according to the houses of their fa- milies, according to the number of their names by their poll, all the males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, ona review of those of the tribe of Aser, were forty one thousand five hundred.
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And of the Nephthaleimites, according to their pedigrees, according to their communities; according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names by their poll, all the males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, on a review of those of the tribe of Nephthaleim, were fifty three thousand four hundred.
This was the review which Moses and Aaron, and the chiefs of Israel made. The chiefs were twelve, a man for every tribe. They were of the patriarchal houses of their re-
5 spective tribes. And the whole review of the Israclites, compre-
hending their army from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out to be marshalled in Israel, was six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. But the Levites of the tribe of their father’s house, were not reviewed among the Israelites: for the Lord had spoken to Moses, saying, See that thou review not the tribe of Levi, nor take an account of them among the children of Israel. But thoy shalt set the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the utensils thereof, and over all the things.which are in it. They shall car- ry the tabernacle, and all its utensils, and they shall minister therein, and encamp about the tabernacle. And when the ta- bernacle is to remove, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, they shall set it up. And if any of another family come near, let him be put to death. And when the Israelites encamp, every man in his sta- tion, and every man according to his command, with their ar- my, let the Levites encamp before them, around the taberna- cle of the testimony, that there may be no lapse committed by the children of Israel; and that the Levites themselves may guard the tabernacle of the testimony. And when the Israelites had done according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, Let the children of Israel encamp close to one another, by divisions, by standards, by the houses of their fa- milies, facing the tabernacle of the testimony. All around it the Israelites shall encamp. And they who encamp first, to- wards the east, shall be. the division of the camp of Judas with their army; and the chief of the children of Judas shall be Naasson, son of Aminadab ; his army—eyen they who were re-
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viewed, being seventy four thousand six hundred; and they who encamp adjoining, shall be the division of the tribe of Is- sachar, and the chief of the Issacharites shall be Nathaniel, son of Sogar ; his army—even they who were reviewed, being fifty four thousand four hundred; and they who encamp adjoining, shall be the division of the tribe of Zabulon, and the chief of the Zabulonites shall be Eliab, son of Chailon; his army—even they who were reviewed, being fifty seven thousand four hun- dred—all those of the camp of Judas who have been reviewed, amounting to one hundred and eighty six thousand four hun- dred, with their army, shall march in the van.
And their army on the south, shall be the divisions of the camp of Reuben, and the chief of the Reubenites shall be Eli- sar, son of Sedur; his army, even they who have been review- ed, being forty six thousand five hundred; and they who encamp adjoining him, shall be the division of the tribe of Symeon, and the chief of the Symeonites shall be Salamiel, son of Surisadai; his army, even they who were reviewed, be- ing fifty nine thousand three hundred ; and they who encamp adjoining shall be the tribe of Gad; and the chief of the Gad- ites, shall be Elisaph, son of Raguel; his army, even they who were reviewed, being forty five thousand six hundred and fifty. All those of the camp of Reuben who have been review- ed, amounting to one hundred and fifty one thousand four hundred and fifty, with their army, shall march as the second division.
Then shall move the tabernacle of the testimony, and the camp of the Levites, as the centre division of the camps. As they encamp so they shall take up their march, every man in his rank, according to their companies.
And on the west shall be the division of the camp of [-phraim, with their army; and the chief of the Ephraimites shall be Elisama, son of Emiud; his army, even they who were reviewed, being forty thousand five hundred; and they who encamp adjoining, shall be the division of the tribe of Manasses, and the chief of the Manassites shall be Gamaliel, son of Phadassur; his army, even they who were reviewed, be- ing thirty two thousand two hundred; and they who encamp ad- joining, shall be the division of the tribe of Benjamin ; and the
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23 chief ofthe Benjaminites shall be Abidon, son of Gadeoni; his army, even they who were reviewed, being thirty five thou- 24 sand four hundred. A!l those of the camp of Ephraim who have been reviewed, amounting to one hundred and eight thousand one hundred, with their army, shall march as the third division. 25 And on the north shall be the division of the camp of Dan; 26 with their army; and the chief of the Danites shall be Achiezer, son of Amisadai; his army, even they who were re- 27 viewed, being sixty two thousand seven hundred; and they who encamp adjoining him, shall be the tribe of Aser; and the 28 chief of the Aserites, shall be Phagiel, son of Echran ; his ar- my, even they who have been reviewed, being forty one thou- 29 sand five hundred: and they who encamp adjoining, shall be the division of the tribe of Nephthaleim, and the chief of the Neph- 30 thaleimites shall be Achire, son of Ainan; his army, even they who were reviewed, being fifty three thousand four hundred. 31 Allthose of the camp of Dan, who have been reviewed, amount- ing to one hundred and fifty seven thousand six hundred, shall march as the rear division. 32 This is the review of the children of Israel according to the houses of their families; the whole muster of the camps, com- 33 prehending their armies, being six hundred and three thou- sand five hundred and fifty. Butthe Levites were not review 34 ed among them, as the Lord commanded Moses. And the children of Israel did all that the Lord commanded Moses. So they encamped according to their divisions, and so they set out on their march, every one in his rank, according to their communities, and according to the houses of their families. Ii. Now this is the genealogy of Aaron and Moses. 2 On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses at mount $i- na, these were the names of Aaron’s sons, Nadab his first 3 born, and Abiud, Eleazar and Ithamar. These were the names of Aaron’s sons who were anointed priests, whose hands were 4, consecrated to minister in the priest’s office. But Nadab and Abiud died in the presence of the Lord, upon their offering strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sina, and they had no children; so Eleazar and Ithamar officiated as priests 5 with their father. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take
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es, and the watches of the children of Israel before the taber- nacle of the testimony, to do the works of the tabernacle. Now that they may keep all the utensils of the tabernacle of the tes- timony, and the watches of the children of Israel, as far as they respect all the works of the tabernacle; and that thou mayst give the Levites, to Aaron and his sons the priests; they are to be given to me asa gift from ameng the children of Israel. And thou shalt set Aaron and his sons over the tabernacle of the testimony, and they shall keep watch over their priesthood, and all that appertain to the altar, and that are within the veil; and if any one of another family touch these, he shall be put to death. .
Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Behold I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel, instead of all the first born males among the children of Israel. ‘The Le- vites shall be the price of their redemption, and shall be mine;
for every first born belongeth to me. On the day when I smote
every first born in the land of Egypt, I hallowed for myself all the firstligs in Israel. "The firstlings both of man and beast shall belong to me. Iam the Lord.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sina, saying, Review the children of Levi, according to the houses of their families, according to their communities. Review them every male, froma month old and upwards. Accordingly Moses and Aaron reviewed them, at the command of the Lord, in the manner the Lord commanded them. Now these were the sons of Levi by their names, Gerson, Kaath, and Merari. And these are the sons of Gerson, according to their commu- nities; Lobeni and Semei. And these are the sons of Kaath according to their communities, Amram and Issaar, Chebron and Oziel. And the sons of Merari, according to their com- munities, were Mooli and Mousi. These are the communities of the Levites, according to the houses of their families.
To the Gersonites belong the community of the Lobenites, and the community of the Semeites. These are the commu- nities of the Gersonites; and the review of them according to the number of every male, from a month old and upwards—
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on a review of them the number was seven thousand two hundred. Now the Gersonites are to encamp behind the taber- nacle, towards the west, and the chief of the head of the fami- ly of the community of the Gersonites, was Elisaph son of Dael. And the charge of the Gersonites in the tabernacle of the testimony, was ri tabernacle and the covering; and the
‘curtain of the door of the tabernacle of the testimony; and
the hangings of the court; and the curtain of the gate, of the court around the tabernacle; and the rest of the works thereof.
To the Kaathites belonged the community of the Amra- mites, and the community of the Issaarites, and the commu- nity of the Chebronites, and the community of the Ozielites. These are the communities of the Kaathites according to the numeration; every male, from a month old and upwards, amounted to eight thousand six hundred. These communities of the Kaathites, having the charge of the holy things, are to encamp on the south side of the tabernacle; and the chief of the head family of the communities of the Kaathites was Eli- saphan, son of Oziel; and their charge was the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary which were used in the priest’s ofhce; and the veil, and all the works thereof. And the chief over the chiefs of the Levites, was Eleazar, the son of Aaron, set over them to superintend the watches of the holy things.
To the Merarites belonged the community of Mooli, and
. the community of Mousi. These are the communities of the
Merarites. The muster of them, comprehending every male from one month old and upwards, was six thousand two hun- dred. And the chief of the head family of the community of the Merarites, was Suriel, the son of Abichail. They are to encamp on the north side of the tabernacle; and the review of the watch of the Merarites, ‘had the charge of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars bhicretiie and the bases there- of, with all their appurtenances and works, and the pillars of the court round about, with their stakes and their cords.
They who encamp in front of the tabernacle of the testi- mony, towards the east, were Moses and Aaron, and their sons, who have the superintendance of the watches of the sanctuary. for the purpose of guarding the things committed to the charge
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of the Israelites, and if any of another family touch them, he is to be put to death.
39 The whole muster of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron reviewed, by the command of the Lord, according to their communities—all the males, from a month old and upwards, were twenty two thousand.
40 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Review all the male first born of the children of Israel, from one month old
41 and upwards, and take the number by name. And thou shalt take the Levites for me—Z the Lord; instead of all the first born sons of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings of the cattle belonging to the children of
42 Israel. So Moses reviewed, in the manner the Lord com-
43 manded, all the male first born among the Israelites; and all the first born males, numbered by name, from one month old and upwards, were twenty two thousand two hundred and se-
44 venty three. Whereupon the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
45 ‘Take the Levites, instead of all the first born of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites, for the firstlings of their
46 cattle; and the Levites shall belong to me—Z the Lord. And as redemption money for the two hundred and seventy three,
47 of the first born, more than the Levites, thou shalt take from the first born of the children of Israel, five shekels a poll. Ac- cording to the holy didrachm, thou shall receive twenty oboli
48 for a shekel. And thou shalt give the money to Aaron and his sons, as the redemption of the overplus among the Israel-
49 ites. So Moses took the redemption money, for those who ex-
50 ceeded the redemption made by the Levites. From the first born of the children of Israel he took the money, amounting
51 to one thousand three hundred and sixty five shekels accord- ing to the holy shekel, and gave the redemption money for the overplus to Aaron and his sons, by the command of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
IV. Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying; Take
2 the sum of the Kaathites, apart from the Levites, according to their communities, according to the houses of their families, 8. from twenty five years and upwards, to fifty years, every one who goeth in to minister; to do all the services of the taberna- A. cle of the testimony. Now these are the services ef the Kaa-
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thites in the tabernacle of the testimony, a most sacred ser- vice. When the camp is about to remove, Aaron shall go in with his sons, and they shall take down the covering veil, and with it cover the ark of the testimony, and put thereon the co- vering of blue skins; and over it they shall spread a mantle, wholly blue, and put in the staves. Then over the presence table they shall spread a mantle, all of purple ; upon it, and upon the platters, and the censers, and the goblets, and the libation cups, with which he maketh libations; and the loaves which are continually thereon shall be upon it. And they shall throw over it a scarlet mantle, and cover it, with a blue skin cover- ing, and put in the staves to carry it. Then they shall take a blue mantle, and cover the candlestick which giveth light with its lamps, and its snuffers, and its tweezers, and all the oil ves- sels, which they use in that service; and they shall put it, and all the utensils thereof, into a blue skin covering, and lay it on the staves to carry it. They shall then cover the golden altar with a blue mantle, and spread over it a skin covering of blue, and put in the staves thereof to carry it. And they shall take all the utensils used in the service, all with which they minister in the holies, and put them into a blue mantle, and cover them with a skin covering of blue, and lay them on staves to carry them. Then they shall put the cover on the altar, and cover it with a mantle, entirely of purple, and they shall lay thereon all the utensils with which they minister at it, namely the censers, and the flesh forks, and the cups, and the cover, and the vials, and all the utensils of the altar; and they shall throw over it a skin covering of blue, and put in the staves to carry it. Then they shall take a purple mantle, and cover the laver and its base; and put it in a skin covering of blue, and put it on the staves. And when. Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy things, and all the utensils, while the camp is removing, after this the sons of Kaath shall come in to carry them; but they shall not touch the holy things lest they die. ‘These things the sons of Kaath shall take up in the tabernacle of the testimony. The overseer, Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, shall have the charge of the oil for light, and of the compound incense, and the daily sacrifice, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and all that are in it, in the sanctuary, in all VOL. 1. εἴ
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the works thereof. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, That you may not destroy this community of the tribe, namely the Kaathites, from among the Levites, you must do this for them, that they may live and not die; When they go into the holy of holies, let Aaron and his sons go in before them ; and they shall station them, every one according to what he is to carry: And let them not go in abruptly, to view the holy things, so they shall not die.
Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take the sum of the Gersonites—of them alsoaccording to the houses of their families, according to their communities. Review them, from twenty five years, and upwards, to fifty years of age, every one who goeth in to minister—to do his work in the tabernacle of
the testimony. The service of the community of the Gerson-
ites is the same,,namely to serve and to carry. They shall car- ry the skin coverings of the tabernacle of the testimony with its covering, the upper covering of blue which is upon it, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and the hangings of the court, both all that are for the tabernacle of the testimony, and those about it, and all the sacred imple- ments which are used in the holy service. They shall act un- der the direction of Aaron and his sons, whatever may be the service of the Gersonites, in all their services, and in all their works. So thou shalt review them by name, having respect to all the burdens to be carried by them. This is the service of the Gersonites in the tabernacle of the testimony, and the super- intendance of them shall be by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
With regard to the Merarites, review them according to their communities, according to the houses of their families— review them from twenty five years, and upwards, to fifty years of age; every one who goeth in to do the works of the taber- nacle of the testimony, to take charge of those things to be carried by them, according to all their works for the taber- nacle of the testimony, namely the capitals of the taberna- cle, and the bars, and the pillars thereof, the bases thereof, and the bases and pillars for the veil, and for the curtain of the door of the tabernacle, and the pillars of the court round about, with their bases, and the pillars for the curtain of
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the gate of the court, with their bases, and their pins, and their cords, and all the implements thereof, and all their services— review them by name, and all the implements which are to be under their charge, and to be carried by them. This service of the community of the Merarites, in all their works, for the tabernacle of the testimony, shall be under the superintendance of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
Accordingly Moses and Aaron, and the chiefs of Israel, reviewed the Kaathites according to their communities, ac- cording to the houses of their families, from twenty five years old, and upwards, to fifty years.of age, every one who went in to minister, and do service for the tabernacle of the testimony ; and the number of them, according to their communities, was two thousand seven hundred and fifty. ‘This was the muster of the community of the Kaathites, comprehending every one who performed service for the tabernacle of the testimony, as Moses and Aaron reviewed them, at the command of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.
‘Then the Gersonites were reviewed according to their com- munities, according to the houses of their families, from twenty five years, and upwards, to fifty years of age, comprehending every one who went in to serve, and perform works for the tabernacle of the testimony. And the muster of them, accord- ing to their communities, according to the houses of their fa- milies, was two thousand six hundred and thirty. This was the review of the community of the Gersonites, comprehend- ing every one who performed service for the tabernacle of the testimony, whom Moses and Aaron reviewed, at the command of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.
Then was reviewed the community of the Merarites, ac- cording to their communities, according to the houses of their families, from twenty five years, and upwards, to fifty years of age, comprehending every one who went in to perform the holy works of the tabernacle of the testimony; And the muster of them according to their communities, according to the houses of their families, was three thousand two hundred. This was the muster of the community of the Merarites, whom Moses and Aaron reviewed, at the command of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.
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46 All the Levites who were reviewed, whom Moses with 47 Aaron and the chiefs of Israel reviewed by communities, by the houses of their families, from twenty five years, and up- wards, to fifty years of age, comprehending every one who went in for the performance of works and for the business of 48 carrying for the tabernacle of the testimony; even all who were reviewed, were eight thousand five hundred and eighty. At the command of the Lord, by the hand of Moses, he reviewed them, man by man, for their works, and for the things which they were to carry. They were reviewed in the manner the Lord commanded Moses. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Give orders to the 2 children of Israel, and let them send out of the camp every one who is aleper, and every one who hath a gonorrhea, and 3 every one who is defiled by the dead; whether male or female, send them out of the camp, that they may not defile their camps 4 in which I am present among them. Whereupon the children of Israel did so. They sent them away out of the camp, as the 5 Lord commanded Moses. And when they had done so, the 6 Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and say, When a man or a woman shall commit any sin inci- dent to man; or by inadvertency overlook or commit a tres- 7 pass, that person shall confess the sin which he or she hath. committed, and make compensation for the trespass. Adding one fifth to the principal, he shall give it to the person against 8 whom the trespass hath been committed. And if the man hath no kinsman to whom compensation can be made, the com- pensation, being given to the Lord, ‘shall belong to the priest, over and above the ram of atonement, with which he shall make 9 atonement for him. And every dedication—whatever the chil- dren of Israel shall dedicate, and bring for the Lord, shall be for the priest—even every one’s hallowed things shall be his; 10 let who will give, they shall belong to the priest. 11 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the 12 children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, If any man’s 13 wife transgress, and actually despise him; and any person lie ' with her carnally, and it escape the notice of her husband, and it be hid, and she be polluted, though there be no witness 14. against her, and she be not caught in the act; and a spirit of
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jealousy come upon him, and he. be jealous of his wife, and she be polluted; ora spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, though she be not polluted, the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring as a gift for her the tenth of an ephah of barley meal; but he shall pour no oil on it, nor lay any frankincense on it; for it is a sacrifice of jealousy—a sacrifice of remembrance, to bring into remem- brance a sin. And the priest shall bring her forward, and set her before the Lord. Then the priest shall take pure spring water, in an earthen vessel, and having taken up some of the dust which is on the floor of the tabernacle of the testimony, the priest shall put it in the water. And the priest shall pre-
“sent the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman’s
head. Then he shall put the sacrifice of remembrance—the sacrifice of jealousy into her hands; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of discovery over which an impreca- tion is to be made; and the priest shall adyure the woman, and say to her, Jfno man hath lain with thee ; if thou hast not trans- gressed, so as to be defiled, while under the jurisdiction of thy husband; be thou uninjured by this water of discovery, over which an imprecation is to be made: but if thou hast transgressed, being a married woman, or art polluted, and any person besides thy hus- band hath lain with thee, (then the priest shall adjure the wo- man with solemn imprecations, and the priest shall say to the woman) the Lord make thee a curse and an imprecation in the midst of thy people, by causing thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to be inflamed. Let this water over which this imprecation is made, go into thy belly, to inflame thy belly, and rot thy thigh. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen. Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and dip it in the water of disco- very, over which+the imprecation was made, and shall cause the woman to drink the water of discovery, over which the imprecation was made. And the water of discovery, over which the imprecation was made, shall go into her—(The priest shall take the sacrifice of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and lay the sacrifice before the Lord, and offer it on the altar; and when the priest shall have taken a handful of the sacrifice, the memo- rial of it, and offered it on the altar, after this he shall cause the woman to drink the water) and it shall come to pass that if she
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be defiled, and escape the notice of her husband, when the water of discovery, over which the imprecation was made, shall go in- to her, it shall inflame her belly, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shall be a curse among her people. But if the woman be not polluted, and be pure, she shall be uninjured, and shall con- ceive seed. This is the law of jealousy, when a woman who is married transgresseth and is polluted; or when a spirit of jea- lousy cometh on a man. When he is jealous of her, and shall set his wife before the Lord, the priest shall do to her all that this law directeth; so shall the man be free from sin, and the woman shall bear her iniquity.
Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When a man ora woman shall make a solemn vow to preserve the strictest purity for the Lord, they must abstain from wine, and strong drink. Such a one shall not drink vinegar made of wine, nor vinegar made of strong drink; nor shall such a one drink any thing made of the grape; nor eat any grapes, fresh pulled, or dryed, all the days of the vow. From every thing produced from the grape, including wine; from the pulp to the stone, such a one shall abstain all the days of the purification. A ra- zor shall not come upon his head, until the days which he hath vowed to the Lord be fulfilled. Being hallowed, he shall let the hair of his head grow all the days of his vow to the Lord. He shall not come near any dead body. For a father or a mo- ther, or fora brother ora sister, if they chance to die, he shall not defile himself; for the vow of his God is on his head. All the days of his vow he shall be holy to the Lord. And if any one die suddenly by him, the head of his vow will be immedi- ately defiled, he shall therefore shave his head on the day when he is cleansed. On the seventh day it shall be shaved, and on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle doves, or two young pigeons to the priest, to the doors of the tabernacle of the tes- timony; and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him for the failures of which he hath been guilty by the dead. And on that day he shall hallow his head which was consecrated to the Lord, for the days of his vow, and bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: And the
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former days shall not be counted, because the head of his 13 vow was defiled. Now this is the law of him who hath made 14 the vow— When the days of his vow are fulfilled; he shall bring to the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony and present as his gift to the Lord, a lamb of the first year without blemish for a whole burnt offering, and a ewe lamb of the first year with- out blemish, for a sin offering, and a ram without blemish for 15 an offering of thanksgiving, and a basket of unleavened bread, of fine flour—the loaves tempered with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and their sacrifice of flour and their 16 libation: and the priest shall offer them before the Lord. When he hath offered the sin offering and the whole burnt offering, 17 he shall then offer the ram, the sacrifice ‘of thanksgiving to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread. And when the priest hath offered the sacrifice thereof, and the libation thereof, 18 then he who made the vow shall have the head of his vow shav- ed at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony, and shall lay the hairs on the fire which is under the sacrifice of thanksgiv- 19 ing. And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder from the ram, and one unleavened loaf from the basket, and one unleavened cake, and lay them on the hands of him who made the vow, 20 after he hath shaved his consecrated head; and the priest shall offer these as a dedication laid on hands before the Lord. It shall be consecrated for the priest, over and above the breast, which was dedicated by being laid on hands, and the shoulder which was dedicated by setting it apart. And after these things, 21 he who made the vow may drink wine. This is the law for him who hath made the vow—who may have vowed to the Lord—his gift to the Lord for his vow, besides what he may be able to do more, according to the nature of the vow which he may have made, according to the law of strict purity. 22 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to 23 Aaron and his sons and say, In this manner you shall bless 24 the children of Israel, saying, The Lord bless thee and keep 25 thee—The Lord make his countenance to shine upon thee, 26 and be gracious to thee—The Lord lift up his countenance 27 upon thee, and give thee peace. So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I the Lord will bless them. VU. Now on the day when Moses finished the rearing up of
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the tabernacle, he anointed it, and hallowed it, and all the imple- ments thereof; and the altar, and all its utensils; and when he had anointed them, and hallowed them, the chiefs of Israel, the twelve chiefs of the houses of their head familes who were the chiefs of the tribes, the same who attended at the review, made an offering, and brought as their gifts before the Lord, six covered waggons, and twelve oxen, a waggon from two chiefs, and an ox from each one. And when they had brought them before the Lord, the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Re- ceive them from them, and they shail be for the works of the service of the tabernacle of the testimony; and thou shalt give them to the Levites, to each community according to their senvice. So Moses, having taken the waggons and the oxen, gave them to the Levites—he gave two waggons and four ox- en to the Gersonites, according to their service; and four wag- gons and eight oxen, he gave to the Merarites, according to their service, by Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. But to the Kaathites he gave none, because they having the sacred services of the sanctuary, are to carry on their shoulders. The chiefs tendered also an offermg for the dedication of the altar, on the day he anointed it. But when the chiefs brought their gift over against the altar, at some distance from it, the Lord said to Moses, One chief a day. Let them bring forward, every chief his gifts on his day, for the dedication of the altar. So he who brought forward his gifts on the first day, was Naasson, son of Aminadab chief of the tribe of Judas; and he offered as his gift, one silver charger, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver cup of se- venty shekels after the holy shekel, both full of fine flour, mix- ed up with oil, for a sacrifice; one censer, of ten shekels of cold, full of incense; one young bull from the herd, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a whole burnt offering, and one kid of the goats fora sin offering, and for a sacrifice of thanks- giving, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe lambs of the first year. This was the gift of Naasson, son of Aminadab. On the second day Nathaniel, son of Sogar, the chief of the tribe of Issachar made his offering; and he presented as his gift, one silver charger, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver cup of seventy shekels after the
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crifice; one censer of ten shekels of gold full of incense; one young bull from the herd, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a whole burnt offering, and one kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and for a sacrifice of thanksgiving, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe lambs of the first year. This was the gift of Nathaniel son of Sogar.
On the third day the chief of the Zabulonites, Eliab, son of Chailon, offered as his gift one silver charger, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver cup of se- venty shekels after the holy shekel, both full of fine flour made up with oil for a sacrifice; one censer of ten shekels of gold, full of incense; one young bull from the herd, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a whole burnt offering, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for a sacrifice of thanks- giving, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe lambs of the first year. This was the gift of Eliab, son of Chailon.
On the fourth day the chief of the Reubenites, Elisur son of Sedur, offered as his gift one silver charger the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver cup of se- venty shekels, after the holy shekel, both full of fine flour made up with oil for a sacrifice; one censer of ten shekels of gold, full of incense; one young bull from the herd, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a whole burnt offering; one kid of the goats fora sin offering; and for a sacrifice of thanksgiving, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe lambs of the first year. This was the gift of Elisur son of Sedur.
On the fifth day the chief of the Symeonites, Salamiel, son of Surisadai, offered as his gift one silver charger, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver cup of seventy shekels after the holy shekel, both full of fine flour made up with oil for a sacrifice; one censer of ten shekels of gold; full of incense; one young bull from the herd, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a whole burnt offering, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and fora sacrifice of thanks- giving, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe lambs of the first year. This was the gift of Salamiel, son of Surisadai.
On the sixth day the chief of the Gadites, Elisaph son of Raguel, offered as his gift, one silver charger, the weight of
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which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver cup of se- venty shekels, after the holy shekel, both full of fine four made up with oil for a sacrifice; one censer of ten shekels of gold, full of incense; one young bull from the herd, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a whole burnt offering, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering ; and for a sacrifice of thanksgiv- ing, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe lambs of the first year. This was the gift of Elisaph, son of Raguel.
On the seventh day the chief of the Ephraimites, Elisama, son of Emiud, offered as his gift one silver charger, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver cup of seventy shekels, after the holy shekel, both full of fine flour made up with oil for a sacrifice; one censer of ten shekels of gold, full of incense; one young bull from the herd, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a whole burnt offering, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and, for a sacrifice of thanksgiving, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe lambs of the first year. This was the gift of Elisama, son of Emiud. .
On the eighth day the chief of the children of Manasses, Gamaliel, son of Phadassur, offered as his gift, one silver charger, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver cup of seventy shekels, after the holy shekel, both full of fine flour, made up with oil for a sacrifice, one censer of ten shekels of gold, full of incense; one young bull from the herd, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a whole burnt offering, and one kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and for a sacrifice of thanksgiving, two heifers, five rams, five he- goats, five ewe lambs of the first year. This was the gift of Gamaliel, son of Phadassur.
On the ninth day the chief of the Benjaminites, Abidan, son of Gadeoni, offered as his gift, one silver charger, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver cup of seventy shekels, after the holy shekel, both full of fine flour made up with oil for a sacrifice; one censer of two shekels of gold, full of incense; one young bull of the herd, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a whole burnt offering ; and one kid of the goats for a sin offering ; and for a sacrifice of thanks- giving, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe lambs
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of the first year. This was the gift of Abidan, son of Gadeoni. On the tenth day, the chief of the Danites, Achieser, son
of Amisadai, offered as his gift, one silver charger the weight of
which was a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver cup of se-
venty shekels, after the holy shekel, both full of fine flour,
made up with oil for a sacrifice; one censer of ten shekels of sold, full of incense ; one young bull from the herd, one ram, one lamb of the first year, fora whole burnt offering, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering ; and for a sacrifice of thanks-
giving, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe lambs of
the first year. This was the gift of Achieser, son of Amisadai. On the eleventh day, the chief of the Aserites, Phagael, son of Echran, offered as his gift, one silver charger, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver cup of se- venty shekels, after the holy shekel, both full of fine flour, made up with oil, fora sacrifice ; one censer of ten shekels of gold, full of incense; one young bull from the herd, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a whole burnt offering; and one kid of the goats for a sin offering ; and for a sacrifice of thanks- giving, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe lambs of the first year. This was the gift of Phagael, son of Echran. On the twelfth day, the chief of the Nephthaleimites, Achire, son of Ainan, offered as his gift, one silver charger, the‘weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver cup of seventy shekels, after the holy shekel, both full of fine flour made up with oil fora sacrifice; one censer of ten shekels of gold, full of incense; one young bull from the herd, one ram, one lamb of the first year, fora whole burnt offering; and one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for a sacrifice of thanks- giving, two heifers, five rams, five he- goats, five ewe lambs of the first year. This was the gift of Achire, son of Ainan. This was the dedication of the altar, when he anointed it, from the chiefs of the Israelites, twelve silver chargers, twelve silver cups, twelve censers of gold, each charger one hundred and thirty shekels, and each cup seventy shekels, all the silver of these vessels, two thousand four hundred shekels, and the shekels were after the holy shekel; twelve golden censers, full of incense; all the gold of the censers was one hundred and twenty shekels. All the cattle for the whole burnt offering
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were twelve young bulls, twelve rams, twelve lambs of the first year, with their sacrifices of flour and their libations; and
88 twelve kids of the goats for the sin offering. All the cattle for the sacrifice of thanksgiving, were twenty four heifers, sixty rams, sixty he-goats, sixty ewe lambs of the first year, without blemish. This was the dedication of the altar.
89 After filling his own hands, and after the anointing, when Moses went into the tabernacle of the testimony to speak to the Lord, he heard the voice of the Lord speaking to him, from above the propitiatory, which is over the ark of the testimony, between the two cherubims, and he answered him, and the
VIII. | Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to Aaron, and thou
2 shalt say tohim, When thou hast put on the side lamps, the seven lamps shall give light ina range with the front of the candlestick. And Aaron did so. On each side, ona range with the front of the candlestick, he lighted the lamps thereof
4 as the Lord commanded Moses. Now the workmanship of
the candlestick was of solid gold; both its stem, and its lillies, were of one solid piece. He had made the candlestick accord- ing to the pattern which the Lord shewed Moses.
5 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take the Le-
6 vites from among the children of Israel, and purify them. And
7 inthis‘manner thou shalt perform their purification. Thou shalt
sprinkle them with the water of purification, and a razor shall
pass over their whole body, and they shall wash their clothes, and they will be clean. Then they shall take a young bull from the herd, with his sacrifice, to wit, fine flour mixed up with oil; and thou shalt take a yearling bull from the herd for a sin of-
9 fering, and bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the testi-
10 mony, and assemble all the congregation of Israel’s sons, and present the Levites before the Lord. And the sons of Israel
11 shall lay their hands on the Levites; and Aaron shall set the Levites apart before the Lord, as a gift from the sons of Israel ; and they shall be set apart to perform the works of the Lord.
12 Then the Levites shall lay their hands on the head of the young bulls. And thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering, to make atonement
13 for them. Then thou shalt place the Levites before the Lord, and before Aaron and before his sons, and give them as a gift
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before the Lord. So thou shalt separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and they shall belong to me. And after this, the Levites shall go in to do the works of the tabernacle of the testimony, when thou hast purified them, and given them up before the Lord. Because they are solemnly given up to me from among the children of Israel; I have taken them for myself from among the children of Israel, in- stead of all the males who are the first born of their mothers. Because every first born among the children of Israel, whether of man or beast, belongeth to me (on the day when I smote all the first born in the land of Egypt, I hallowed them for myself) and I have taken the Levites instead of all the first born among the children of Israel, and have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons, from among the children of Is- rael, to do the works of the children of Israel at the tabernacle of the testimony, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; therefore none among the children of Israel shall come near the Holies.
So Moses and Aaron, and all the congregation of the chil- dren of Israel, did to the Levites as-the Lord commanded Mo- ses in respect to them.
Now when the children of Israel had done so to them, and the Levites were purified, and had washed their clothes, and Aaron had solemnly given them up in the presence of the Lord, and had made atonement for them to purify them; and, after this, the Levites had gone in to perform their service in the tabernacle of the testimony, in the presence of Aaron and his sons—when they had done thus for the Levites, as the Lord had commanded Moses in respect to them; then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, There is this further in respect to the Levites—from twenty five years and upwards, they shall go in to perform service at the tabernacle of the testimony ; but af- ter fifty years of age, they are to be withdrawn from the ser- vice, and work no more. As brothers, they are to keep watch at the tabernacle of the testimony, but not to perform labo- rious work. In this manner thou shalt dispose of the Levites among their watches.
IX. Now inthe second year after their coming out of the land of
Egypt, in the first month, the Lord spoke to Moses in the
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2 wilderness of Sina, saying, Give orders, and let the children of 3 Israel keep the passover in its appointed season. On the four-
teenth day of this first month, towards evening, thou shalt cele- ‘brate it in its season. According to its rites, and according to
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spoke to the children of Israel to keep the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, in the wilderness of Sina. And when the children of Israel were doing as the Lord com- manded Moses, there were some men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, and could not keep the passover; so these men came to Moses and Aaron on that day, and said to them, We are defiled by the dead body οἵ" a man, must we therefore be deprived of the opportunity of offering our gift to the Lord, in its appointed season, among the children of Israel: whereupon Moses said to them, Stand here; and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and
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to be defiled by the dead, or be on a far distant journey, he shall keep the passover to the Lord in the second month. On the fourteenth day they shall keep it towards evening. They shall eat it with unleavened bread, and bitter herbs; they shall not leave any of it till the morning; nor shall they break a bone of it. They shall keep it according to the ritual of the pass- over. And if any man be clean, and not ona distant journey, and fail to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from among his people ; because he did not offer this gift to the Lord, in its appointed time, such a man shall bear his sin. And if there come to you a proselyte in your land, and he chuse to keep the passover to the Lord, he must keep it according to its ritual, and according to its stitution. You shall have one law for the proselyte, and for him born in the land.
Now on the day when the tabernacle was erected, the cloud. covered the tabernacle—the house of the testimony: and in the evening there was over the tabernacle an appearance like that of fire, which continued till the morning. Thus it was con- tinually. The cloud covered it by day: and there was an ap- pearance of fire during the night. And when the cloud ascend- ed from the tabernacle, the Israelites thereupon began their
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march; and at what place soever the cloud halted there the Is- raelites encamped. By the command of the Lord the Israelites were to encamp, and by the command of the Lord, they were to march. All the time the cloud overshadowed the taberna- cle, the Israelites were to continue encamped. And when the cloud was continued over the tabernacle many days, the Israel- ites were to keep the watch of their God, and not remove. And such was to be the case when the cloud overshadowed the ta- bernacle but a few days. At the command of the Lord, they were to encamp; and at the command of the Lord, they were to march. And this was to be the case when the cloud was from — evening till morning. When the cloud ascended in the morn- ning, they were to take up their march, whether it was day or night. But while the cloud continued to overshadow it, even for a month or more, the Israelites were to continue encamped, and not remove.
Because at the command of the Lord, they were to move, and at the command of the Lord, by the ministry of Moses, they kept the watch of the Lord; therefore the Lord spoke to
Moses, saying, Make for thyself two silver trumpets. Thou shalt make them of ductile silver, each beaten out of one piece. And they shall serve thee to assemble the congregation, and to cause the camps to remove. When thou shalt blow with them, all the congregation shall assemble at the door of the taberna- cle of the testimony ; but when one is blown, all the chiefs, the leaders of Israel, shall come to thee. When you blow an alarm, the camps on the east shall begin their march; and when you blow a second alarm, the camps on the south shall begin their march; and when you blow a third alarm, the camps on the west shall begin their march; and when you blow a fourth alarm, the-camps on the north shall begin their march. They shall blow an alarm for their marching. And when you would assemble the ‘congregation, you are to blow with them, but not an alarm. The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trum- pets. This shall be a perpetual ordinance for you, throughout your generations. And when you go out to battle m your land, against your enemies, who have risen up against you, you shall sound these trumpets, that you may be brought into remembrance before the Lord, and saved from your enemies.
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In the days of your rejoicings also, and at your festivals, and at your new moons, you shall blow the trumpets, at your whole burnt offerings, and at your sacrifices of thanksgivings ; and it shall be a calling of you into remembrance before the Lord—I the Lord your God.
Now in the second year, in the second month, on the twen- tieth day of the month, the cloud ascended from the tabernacle of the testimony ; whereupon the Israelites with their baggage, marched through the wilderness of Sina, and the cloud halted in the wilderness of Pharan. When the first had begun their march—when the van, the division of the camp of Judas, had marched, and at the head of it Naasson son of Aminadab, and at the head of the army of the tribe of Issachar, Nathaniel son of Sogar, and at the head of the army of the tribe of Zabulon, Eliab son of Chailon; then were the Gersonites, and the Me- rarites, having taken down the tabernacle, to move on, carry- ing the tabernacle. And when the division of the camp of Reuben had marched with their army, and at the head of it Elisur son of Sedur; and at the head of the army of the tribe of Symeon, Salamicl son of Surisadai; and at the head of the army of the tribe of Gad, Elisaph son of Raguel, then were the Kaathites to move on, carrying the holy things, so that the tabernacle might be set up when they arrived. Then were to march the division of the camp of Ephraim, with their ar- my, and at the head of it Elisama son of Emiud; and at the head of the army of the tribe of Manasses, Gamaliel son of Phadassur; and at the head of the army of the tribe of Benja- min, Abidan son of Gadeoni. And the division of the camp of Dan were to march the last of all the camps, with their ar- my, and at the head of it Achiezer son of Amisadai; and at the head of the army of the tribe of Aser, Phagael son of Echran ; and at the head of the army of the tribe of Nephthaleim, Achire son of Ainan. These were the armies of the Israelites.
Now when they began their march Moses said to Obad, son of Raguel the Madianite, the brother in law of Moses, We are now on our march to the place which the Lord said, This I will give you. Come with us and we will deal well with thee; for the Lord hath spoken good things concerning Israel. In reply to which he said, I cannot go, but must return to my
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31 own land, and to my family. Whereupon Moses said, Thou, must not leave us. Because thou hast been with us in the wilderness, therefore thou shalt be a senator among us, and
32 shalt share—if thou go with us, thou shalt indeed share in all those good things which the Lord will bestow upon us, and we will deal kindly with thee.
33 So they removed from the mount of the Lord, three days’ journey, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them the three days’ journey, to look out for them a resting
35 place. And when the ark set forward Moses said, Arise, O Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered. Let them who hate thee
36 be putto flight. And when it halted he said, Return, O Lord, to the thousand myriads of Israel.
34 Now while the cloud was overshadowing them by day, as they marched out of the camp, the people were wickedly
XI. = murmuring before the Lord, and the Lord heard, and was provoked to wrath, and a fire from the Lord was kindled among them, and was consuming part of the camp, whereupon the people cried to Moses, and he prayed to the Lord, and the fire ceased. So the name of that place was called Burn- ing, because a fire from the Lord had been kindled among them.
4 Again the mixed multitude which was among them had
a longing desire, and even the children of Israel sat down and 5 wept, saying, Who will give us flesh toeat. We recollect the fish which we ate in Egypt for nothing; and the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the cloves of
6 garlick ; but now our soul is dried up, and our eyes behold
nothing but this manna. Now the manna was like a grain of
coriander, and its colour was the colour of chrystal, and the
8 people went out, and gathered it and ground it in mills, or beat
itin mortars, and boiled it in pots, or made it up into cakes to
be baked on the hearth; and in sweetness its taste was that ofa sweet cake, made with oil; and when the dew fell on the camp the manna came down with it.
10 When Moses heard them weeping in their communities, every one at his tent door, though the Lord was greatly pro- voked to wrath, and in the view of Moses it was evil, yet
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and why have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou shouldst lay upon me the weight of this people? Have I con- ceived all this people? Or have I brought them forth, that thou sayest tome, Take them in thy bosom, and carry them, as anurse would her sucking child, to the land which with an oath thou hast promised to their fathers? Whence can I have flesh to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat. I am not able alone to bear this people. It is a burden too heavy for me. If thou deal thus with me, kill me outright, if I have found favour in thy sight, that 1 may not see my wretchedness. Whereupon the Lord said to Moses, Assemble before me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be elders of the people, and their scribes; and bring them to the tabernacle of the testimony, and let them stand there with thee; and I will come: down and talk with thee there, and I will take a portion of the spirit which is upon thee, and put it upon them; and they will help thee to bear the burden of this people, so that thou shalt not bear them thyself alone. And thou shalt say to this people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and you shall eat flesh. Because you have wept before the Lord, saying, Who can give us flesh to eat? It is better for us to be in Egypt; therefore the Lord will give you flesh to eat, and you shall eat flesh. You shall eat it, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten nor twenty days. You shall eat it a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and become loathsome to you, because you have distrusted the Lord who is amongst you, and have wept in his presence, and. said, Why did we come out of Egypt. Thereupon Moses said, The people among whom I am, are six hundred thou- sand footmen, yet thou hast’said, I will give them flesh to eat, and they shall eat it a whole month. Must the flocks and the herds be slaughtered for them? Will even these suffice? Or should all the fish of the sea be collected for them, would this be sufficient for them? And the Lord said to Moses, Cannot the hand of the Lord furnisha sufficiency ? Thou shalt now see whe- thermy word shall come to pass to thee or not. Then Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord. And when he had assembled seventy men from among the elders of the peo-
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ple, and placed them around the tabernacle, the Lord descend- ed ina cloud, and spoke to him, and took a portion of the spi- rit which was upon him, and put it on the seventy elders. And soon as the spirit rested on them, they prophesied. Now there were two who had not joined them, but were left in the camp. The name of the one was Eldad and the name of the other, Modad; and the spirit rested on them. They were of those who were written down, but they had not come to the taber- nacle. And when they prophesied in the camp, there ran a young man, who told Moses, saying, Eldad and Modad are prophesying in the camp. Upon which Joshua the son of Nave, who was the chosen attendant of Moses, addressing him said, My lord Moses, forbid them. But Moses said to him, Thou shouldst not envy, on my account. O that the people of the Lord had all been made prophets when the Lord
‘put his spirit on these! Then Moses went into the camp, ac-
companied with the elders of Israel; and there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought a flock of quails from the sea, and drove them upon the camp, a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on that side, all around the camp about two cubits from the ground. Whereupon the people arose, and all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, they eathered the flocks of quails, and he who gathered the fewest collected ten cores. Though they had heated for themselves kilns all around the camp, the flesh was already between their teeth before it was quite dead. Whereupon the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the
. people witha very great plague, so that the name of that place
was called Monuments of longing desire; because they had there buried the people who had expressed such a longing desire.
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ses, and Aaron, and Mariam. Come forth you three to the ta- bernacle of the testimony. And when they three came out to the tabernacle of the testimony, the Lord descended in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the tabernacle of the testi- mony, and Aaron and Mariam were called. And when they both came out he said to them, Hear my words. If there be a prophet among you to the Lord, I will make myself known to him by a vision, and speak to him in sleep. Not so with respect to my servant Moses. In all my house he is faithful. Mouth to mouth, I will speak to him personally, and not in dark senten- ces. He hath actually seen the glory of God. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses.
And the wrath of the Lord was upon them, and the cloud withdrew from the tabernacle, and behold Mariam was le- prous like snow. When Aaron looked on Mariam, and be- hold she was leprous, he said to Moses, O my lord, impute not sin to us, because we have acted ignorantly—because we have sinned, Let her not be as dead, as an abortive, for it de- voureth the half of her flesh. Whereupon Moses cryed to the Lord, saying, O God, I beseech thee, heal her. And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be set apart seven days, without the camp, and after that let her come in. So Mariam was set apart without the camp, seven days, and the people did
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the people removed from Aseroth, and encamped in the wil- derness of Pharan. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Send men, and let them examine for thee the land of the Cha- nanites, which I am about to give to the children of Israel for a possession. ‘Thou shalt send a man for every tribe ; accord- ing to the communities of their patriarchal families, thou shalt send them, every one a leader among them.
So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Pharan, by the command of the Lord. All the men were principal officers of the children of Israel, and these were their names—Of the tribe of Reuben, Samuel, son of Zachur; of the tribe of Sy- meon, Saphat, son of Suri; Of the tribe of Judas, Chaleb, son of Jephonne; of the tribe of Issachar, Ilaal, son of Josephs of the tribe of Ephraim, Ause, son of Nave; of the tribe of Ben-
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jamin, Phalti, son of Raphu ; of the tribe of Zabulon, Gudiel, son of Sudi; of the tribe of Joseph—of the Manassites, Gad- di, son of Susi; of the tribe of Dan, Amiel, son of Gamali; of the tribe of Aser, Sathur, son of Michael; of the tribe of Nephthaleim, Nabi, son of Sabi; of the tribe of Gad, Gudiel, son of Makchi. 160. These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to exa- mine the land : (now Moses had surnamed Ause, son of Nave, 17 Joshua.) And upon sending them to view the land of Chanaan, 18 Moses said to them, Having gone up through this wilderness, you shall go up to the mountain, and view the land, of what sort it is; and the people who are settled in it, whether they be 19 strong or weak ; whether few or many; and what sort of a country it is in which they are settled, whether it is good or bad; and what sort of cities they inhabit, whether they dwell 20 in cities with wails, or without walls; and what the quality of the soil is, whether rich or poor; and whether there are trees there, or not. And having made a strict examination, you will bring with you some of the fruits of the land: (for their days, it being then the spring season, would reach to the time of the first ripe 21 grapes.) So they went up, and viewed the country from the 22 wilderness of Sin, as far as Roob on the way to Aimath. Then they went up, ona course parallel with the front of the desart ; then turned down to Chebron, where were the Achimans and the Sessians, and the Thelamins, descendants of Enach. Now 23 Chebron was built seven years before Tanis m Egypt. And having come to the valley of grapes, and viewed it, they cut there a branch with a cluster of grapes on it, and carried it on 24 poles, with some pomegranates and figs: and they called the name of that place, Valley of Grapes ; because of the bunch 25 of grapes-which the children of Israel cut there. And having viewed the land, they set out thence on their return, after forty 26 days, and journeying on came to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the Israelites in the wilderness of Pharan Kades, and made report to them and to all the congregation, 27 and shewed them the fruit of the land. And they gave him a minute detail and said, We went to the country to which thou didst send us, a land flowing with milk and honey, and this 28 is the fruit of it. But nevertheless because the nation which
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inhabiteth it is bold and the cities strong, defended with walls, and very large, and we have seen there the race of Enach; and the Amalekites dwell in the land to the south, and the Chet- tites, and the Evites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, in- habit the hilly country ; and the Chananites dwell on the sea shore, and along the river Jordan—(Here Chaleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, We have only to go up, and we shall possess it, for we are stronger than they. But the men who went up with him said) We will not go up; for we are not able to go up against that nation; for it is much more power- ful than we are. And they gave an astonishing account of the land which they had viewed, to the children of Israel, saying,. The land through which we passed to view it, is a land which devoureth them who dwell therein; and all the people which we saw are men of immense stature. There indeed we
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pers—indeed we were nothing else before them. Upon this, all the congregation, raising their voices, shouted aloud, and the people wept that whole night. And all the Israelites mur- mured against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or even in this wilderness! If we must die, why doth the Lord lead us into that land to fall in battle ? Our wives and our children will be for a prey. Now therefore it is better for us to return to Egypt. Then they said to one another, Let us appoint a leader, and return to Egypt. Upon this Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the congregation of the children of Is- rael, and Joshua the son of Nave, and Chaleb the son of Je- phonne, two of them who had viewed the land, rent their clothes, and spoke to all the congregation of the Israelites, say- ing, The land which we viewed is indeed a most excellent land. If the Lord delighteth in us, he will lead us to that land, and give itto us. Itis a land flowing with milk and honey. Only rebel not against the Lord, and you need not be afraid of the people of the land, for they are food for us. For their time is over, and the Lord is with us. Fear them not. And when all the congregation ordered to stone them with stones, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud, over the tabernacle of the testimony, to all the children of Israel. And the Lord
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said to Moses, How long shall this people provoke me? And
how long will they disbelieve me, notwithstanding all the mi- racles which I have done among them? Let me smite them with pestilence and destroy them, and I will make thee and the house of thy father a great nation and much more nume- rous than this. Thereupon Moses said to the Lord, Though Egypt may publish that thou by thy mighty power didst bring this people out from among them—Nay though all the inhabi- tants of this land have heard that thou the Lord art among this people—that they with their eyes may behold thee, O Lord, exposed to view; and that thy cloud hath stood over them, and that thou marchest before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; yet when thou shalt destroy this people as one man, then will all the nations who have heard of thy name speak, saying, Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which, with an oath, he promised. them, he hath destroyed them in the wilderness. Now there- fore let thy power, O Lord, be exalted. As thou hast spoken, saying, ‘‘ The Lord is long suffering, abundant in mercy and true, taking away iniquities, transgressions and sins; and, when he will not by purification clear the guilty, retributing the sins of fathers on children to the third and fourth. generation,” forgive the sin of this people according to thy great mercy, as thou hast been gracious to them from Egypt even to this time. Then the Lord said to Moses, I am merciful to them accord-
1 ing to thy word. But as I live, and my name liveth, and the
glory of the Lord shall fill the whole earth; because all these men, who have seen my glory, and the wonders which I have done in Egypt, and in this wilderness, have actually tempted me now the tenth time, and have not hearkened to my voice, they indeed shall not see the land which I, with an oath, pro- mised their fathers. But with regard to their children who are here. with me—as many as have not known good or evil—every one who is too young to be taught by experience, to them I will give the land. As for all them who have provoked me, they shall not see it; But with regard to my servant Chaleb, be- cause there was a different spirit in him, and he followed me, him I will bring into the land to which he went, and his seed shall inherit it. Now the Amalekites and the Chananites dwell
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in that valley, turn therefore to-morrow, and remove into the wilderness by the way to the Red sea. Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
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casses shall fail—the whole review of you—even all of you who have been reviewed, from twenty years old, and upwards, who have murmured against me. None of you shall come into that land, respecting which I stretched forth my hand to cause you to dwell therein, save only Chaleb son of Jephonne, and Joshua son of Nave. But as for your children, which you said would be for a prey, them I will bring into the land, and they shall inherit that land which you have rejected. Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness, and in this wilderness your children shall be fed forty years. ‘They shall bear your whoredom until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. According to the number of days in which you explored the land, counting each of the forty days a year, you shall bear your sins forty years, and shall know the vengeance of my wrath. I the Lord have spoken. In this manner I will assuredly deal with this wicked congregation, which hath risen up against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die, with those men whom Moses sent to view the land, and who, on their return, murmured against it before the congregation, to raise an evil report concerning it. Now the men who spoke ill against the land were struck dead before the Lord, and Jo- shua son of Nave and Chaleb son of Jephonne alone survived of all the men who had gone to view the land.
When Moses rehearsed these words to all the children of Is- rael, the people mourned exceedingly, .and rising early the next morning they went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Be- hold, here we are, we will go up to the place which the Lord hath said, for we have sinned. Though Moses said, Why do you transgress the command of the Lord? Things will not prosper with you. Do not go up, for the Lord is not with you. You will therefore fall before the face of your enemies. Be-
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cause the Amalekites and the Chananites are there before you, you will therefore fall by the sword. Because you have turned back, and disobeyed the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be
44 among you. Notwithstanding this, they obstinately went up to
the top of the mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the
45 Lord, and Moses, did not depart out of the camp. And the
Amalekites and the Chananites, who were in ambush on the mountain, came down, and drove them back, and smote them even to Ermon. So they returned to the camp.
XV. Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the 2 children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When you are 3 come into the land of your habitation, which I give you, and
thou wilt offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, whether it be an offering of homage, or a sacrifice to magnify a vow, or a free will offering; or at your festivals, to make a smell of fra- erance to the Lord; if they be from the herds or the flocks, he 4 who bringeth his gift to the Lord must also bring for a sacri- fice of flour, the tenth of an ephah of fine flour, made up with 5 the fourth of an hin of oil—and for a libation you shall pour the fourth of an hin of wine upon the whole burnt offering, or upon the sacrifice; for every lamb you shall do this, as an of-
_ 6 fering of homage, a smell of fragrance for the Lord: But for a
ram, when you offer one, for a whole burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, thou shalt offer two tenths of fine flour, made up with
7 the third of an hin of oil, for a sacrifice: and for a libation you shall offer a third of an hin of wine, for a smell of fragrance to
8 the Lord. And if you make your offering from the herds, for a whole burnt offering, or for a sacrifice to magnify a vow, or
9 for an offering of thanksgiving to the Lord; he who offereth must bring, with the young bull, three tenths of fine flour mix-
10 ed up with the half of an hin of oil, fora sacrifice; and the half ° of an hin of wine for a libation, as an offering of homage, a
11 smell of fragrance for the Lord. Thus thou shalt do for every young bull, or for every ram, or for every lamb, or kid of the
12 goats. According to the number which you offer, thus you 13 shall do for every one, according to their number. Every one born in the land shall prepare these things in this manner, when
he maketh offerings of homage for a smell of fragrance for the
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whoever there may be among your generations, who will make an offering of homage, a smell of fragrance for the Lord, in the same manner as you do, so shall he do. The congregation is the Lord’s.
There shall be one law for you, and for the proselytes among you is a perpetual law for your generations. As you are, so shall the proselyte be before the Lord. There shall be one law, and one rule of rectitude for you and for the proselyte settled
among you.
Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the chil- dren of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When you come to the land to which Jam conducting you, this must be done. When you are about to eat of the bread of the land, you shall set apart a separate portion as a dedication to the Lord. As the first fruits of your dough you shalt set apart a loaf for this separate portion. Asa dedication from the threshing floor, so shall you set this apart, as the first portion of your dough, and you shall give it to the Lord as a dedication throughout your generations. And when you shall be guilty of a failure, and shall not have performed all these commands which the Lord hath delivered to Moses—even all that the Lord hath enjoined on you by the ministry of Moses, from the day the Lord gave them in charge to you, and thenceforward throughout your generations, then shall this be done. If, escaping the notice of the congregation, it hath been done inadvertently, the whole congregation shall offer a young bull from the herd, without blemish, for a whole burnt offering, for a smell of fragrance for the Lord, with its sacrifice, and its libation, according to the rule prescribed, and one kid of the goats for asin offering. — And the priest shall make atonement for the whole congrega- tion of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them. Because it was done through inadvertency, and they have brought their gift, an offering of homage to the Lord for their sin before the Lord, for their involuntary acts; therefore for- giveness shall be extended to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, even to the stranger settled among you; because it was an act of ignorance in the whole people. And if any individual sin ignorantly, he shall bring a she-goat of the first year for a sin offering; and the pricst shall make an
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atonement for the person who hath been guilty through igno- rance, and hath sinned inadvertently before the Lord. In mak- ing atonement for him who shall act inadvertently, there shall be the same law for the stranger among the children of Israel, and for the proselyte who hath joined them and sinned inad- vertently, as for them. But if any person, whether a native or a proselyte, shall presumptuously transgress, he provoketh God; that person shall be cut off from among his people. Be- cause he hath despised the statute of the Lord, and hath bro- ken his commandments, that person shall be blotted out: his sin shall be upon him.
When the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the sabbath day. And they who found him gatheving wood on the sabbath day, brought him before Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation of the children of Israel; and they committed him to custody, for it had not been determined what should be done to him. Whereupon the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Let the man be put to death. Let all the congregation stone hia with stones. So all the congregation led him out of the camp, and the whole congregation stoned him with stones without the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the chil- dren of Israel, and thou shalt say to them. Let them make for themselves tufts on the corners of their mantles, through- out all their generations; and on the tufts at the corners you. shall put-a blue ribbon, and have it on the tufts, that when you see them you may remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them, and not turn aside after your imaginations, and your own eyes, by following of which you have gone a whoring—that you may remember, and do all my commands, and be dedicated to your God. Iam the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I the Lord am your God.
XVI. When Kore son of Issaar, son of Kaath, son of Levi,
spoke, backed by Dathan and Abiron, the son of Eliab, and
2 by Aun, son of Phaleth, son of Reuben,—when they rose up
against Moses, with two hundred and fifty men of the sons of Israel, leaders of the congregation, eminent for counsel and
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3 men of renown—when they rose ina body against Moses and
Aaron, and said, Be it known to you that the whole congre- gation are holy, and the Lord is among them. Why then do
4 you set yourselves against the congregation of the Lord? Mo-
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ses, upon hearing this, fell on his face, and spoke to Kore, and to all his company, saying, God hath seen and known who are his, and who are holy, and hath brought them near to himself. Even those whom he chose he hath brought near to himself. Do this. Take for yourselves censers, thou Kore, and. all you his company; and put fire therein, and lay incense thereon before the Lord to-morrow. And let the man whom the Lord hath chosen be the holy man. Let this suffice you, ye sons of Levi. Moreover, Moses said to Kore, Hearken to me, ye sons of Levi; Is this a small thing to you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from among the congregation of Israel, and brought you near to himself, to perform the holy services of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to attend before the tabernacle to perform them? He hath indeed brought thee near, andallthy brethren the children of Leviwith thee. And do you seek in this manner to officiate also as priests—Thou and all this thy company who are tumultuously assembled before God? As for Aaron, who is he that you murmur against him ? Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiron, the sons of Eliab ; but they said we will not go up. Is it asmall matter that thou hast been bringing us up to a land flowing with milk and ho- ney, to kill us in this wilderness, that thou tyrannisest over us? Thou art a chief! And thou hast brought us to a land flow- ing with milk and honey! and hast given us a portion of land, and vineyards! Fain wouldst thou put out the eyes of these men! We will not go up. Upon this Moses was greatly in- censed, and said to the Lord, Respect not their sacrifice. I have not taken from any of them an object of desire, nor have I injured any of them. Then Moses said to Kore, Hallow thy company and be ready before the Lord, thou and Aaron and they, to-morrow. And take every one his censer, and put in- cense thereon, and present before the Lord, every one, his cen- ser, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also and Aaron, each his censer. And when every one had taken his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense on it, and Moses and Aaron stood
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at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony; and Kore had collected against them all his company, at the doors of the ta- bernacle of the testimony, the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole congregation. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, Separate yourselves from among this congre- gation, and I will consume them all at once. At this they fell on their faces and said,.O God, the God of the spirits even
of all flesh! If one man hath sinned, is the wrath of the Lord
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against the whole congregation ? Then the Lord spoke to Mo- ses, saying, Speak to the congregation, and say, Withdraw all around from the congregation of Kore. Accordingly Moses, arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron; and all the elders of Israel accompanied him. And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves from the tents of these wicked men, and touch not any of the things which belong to them, lest you be consumed with them in their sins. And when they had drawn back, all around, from the tent of Kore, Dathan and Abiron came out, and stood at the doors of their tents, with their wives and their children, and their attendants. And Moses said, By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works, and that they are not of myself.—If these men die the common death of all men; or if their vi- sitation be according to the visitation of all men, the Lord hath not sent me: but if the Lord demonstrate by a miracle, and the earth opening its mouth, shall swallow up them and their households, and their tents, and all that belong to them ; and they go down alive to the mansion of the dead; then you will know that these men have provoked the Lord. And when he had made an end of speaking all these words, the earth was rent under them; and the earth opened; and it swallowed up them, and their households, and all the men who were with Kore, and all their cattle. And they, and all that belonged to them, went down alive to the mansion of the dead, and the earth covered them. And they were destroyed from among the congregation. And all the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry; for they said, Perhaps the earth may swallow us up. And there went forth a fire from the Lord, and con- sumed the two hundred and fifty men, who were offering in- cense !
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Then the Lord said to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, the son of Aaron, Gather up the brasen censers from among them who were burned; but as for the strange fire, scatter it there. Because they have hallowed the censers of these sinful men with their lives, therefore make them up into thin plates, as a cover for the altar. Because they were presented before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed, and made a sien for the children of Israel. So Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, took the brasen censers which they who were burned up had presented; and of them made a cover for the altar, a memorial to the children of Israel, that none of another family, who is not of the seed of Aaron, should come near to present incense be- fore the Lord, lest he be like Kore, and his confederacy, as the Lord spoke to him by the ministry of Moses.
On the next day, when the people murmured against Mo- ses and Aaron, saying, You have slain the people of the Lord— when, in their insurrection against Moses and Aaron, the con- gregation were rushing upon the tabernacle of the testimony, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared: And Moses went in, with Aaron, in front of the tabernacle of the testimony, and the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, Withdraw from among this congregation, and I will destroy them all at once. Whereupon they fell on their face. And Mo- ses said to Aaron, Take the censer, and put therein fire from the altar, and throw incense on it, and carry it with all haste to the camp, and make atonement for them; for wrath is gone forth from the presence of the Lord, and hath begun to slay the people. So Aaron took as Moses commanded him, and ran into the congregation; (Now the destruction among the people had already begun) and he threw on the incense, and made atonement for the people, and stood between the dead and the living; and the plague ceased. Now they who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died on the account of Kore.
When Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the taber-
XVII. nacle of the testimony, and the plague had ceased, the
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archal families twelve staves; and write every one’s name on his staff; and on the staff of Levi write Aaron’s name; for he is one staff. The chief of the house of the head family in every tribe shall give; and thou shalt lay them in the tabernacle of the testimony, over against the testimony. By these I will there make myself known to thee; and it shall come to pass, that the staff of the man whom I will chuse, shall bloom; and I will re- move from me this murmuring of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you. So Moses spoke to the children of
Asrael, and all the chiefs gave him, every one a stafl—for every
chief a staff, according to the houses of their patriarchal fami- lies, twelve staves, with Aaron’s staff among theirs. And Mo- ses laid the staves before the Lord in the tabernacle of the tes- timony. And on the next day when Moses went in, with Aaron, into the tabernacle of the testimony, behold Aaron’s staff, for the house of Levi, had bloomed, and brought forth a bud, and had shot forth blossoms, and produced almonds. And Moses brought out all the staves from the presence of the Lord, be- fore all the children of Israel. And when they saw and. had taken, every one his staff, the Lord said to Moses, Lay up Aaron’s staffagain before the testimonies, to be kept as a sign for the children of these zebellious men; and let their murmur- ing cease from me that they may not die. So Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded Moses. And when they had done so, the sons of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we have been wasted, we have been destroyed, we have been cut off suddenly; every one who toucheth the tabernacle of the Lord
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Aaron, saying, Thou, and thy sons, and the house of thy father, shall bear the sins of the holy things; and thou, and thy sons, shall bear the sins of your priesthood; take therefore to thyself thy brethren, the tribe of Levi, the community of thy father, and let them be joined to thee, and perform holy service for thee. While thou, and thy sons with thee, are before the tabernacle of the testimony, they shall keep guard for thee, and guard the tabernacle of the testimony: but let them not approach to the holy utensils, nor to the altar, lest they die, and you with them. They shall be joined with thee, and shall keep guard over the tabernacle of the testimony, according to all the holy services
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of the tabernacle, and none of another family shall come to thee. And you shall keep the charge of the holy things, and of the altar, so that there shall not be wrath among the children of Is- rael. I have indeed taken your brethren, the Levites, from among the children of Israel, as a gift presented to the Lord to perform the services of the tabernacle of the testimony ; there- fore thou, and thy sons with thee, shall keep your priesthood, as far as the altar is concerned, and what is within the veil; and you shall perform these services as a privilege of your priest- hood; and any one of another family who approacheth shall be put to death.
Moreover the Lord said to Aaron, Behold I have given you the charge of the separated portions taken from all the dedications made to me by the children of Israel. To thee I have given them fora reward ; and tothy sonsafter thee. Let this therefore be your perpetual due from the hallowed dedications of the homage offerings—from all their gifts, and from all their sacrifices, and from all their trespass offerings, and from all their sin offerings. Whatever they give me, a portion of the hallow- ed things shall be for thee and thy sons. In the holy place of the holies you shall eat them. Every male, namely, thou and thy sons shall eat them. They shall be hallowed to thee. You shall have also a portion from the dedications which the Is- raelites make by setting apart, and from all the dedications made by being laid on hands—These I have given to thee, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee, as an everlasting due. Every one in thy house, who is clean, may eat these. Every dedication of oil, and every dedication of wine, every dedica- tion of food of all kinds which they give to the Lord, these I have given to thee. All the first fruits in their land, which they bring for the Lord, shall belong to thee. Every one in thy house, who is clean, may eat these. Every thing which is de- voted by the children of Israel shall belong to thee. And every firstling of all flesh, which they bring for the Lord, whether of man or beast, shall belong to thee: but the first born of man shall be redeemed, and. thou shalt cause them to redeem the firstlings of all cattle which are not clean. Now the redemption of the former, at a month old, shall be the set price of five she- kels after the holy shekel, which is twenty oboli: but the first-
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lings of kine, and the firstlings of sheep, and the firstlings of
goats, thou shalt not suffer them to redeem. They are hallow- ed; therefore thou shalt pour out their blood before the altar, and offer their suet as an offering of homage, for a smell of fra- grance for the Lord. And the flesh shall be for thee. Like the dedicated breast, and like the right shoulder, it shall be thine. Every dedication of holy things, which the children of Israel set apart for the Lord, I have given to thee, and thy sons, and thy daughters, as an everlasting due. It is a covenant of salt for ever, before the Lord, with thee and thy seed after thee. Moreover the Lord said to Aaron, Thou shalt have no in- heritance in their land, nor shalt thou have a portion among them; for I am thy portion, and thy inheritance, among the children of Israel. And behold I have given the Levites all the tenth in Israel, as a portion for their services. Inasmuch as they are to perform service at the tabernacle of the testimony, and the children of Israel are no more to come to the tabernacle of. the testimony, to beara sin which incurreth death, but the Le- vites themselves are to perform the service of the tabernacle, and to bear their sins, this shall be a perpetual due for their ge-
nerations, and they shall have no inheritance among the chil-
dren of Israel. Because I have given the Levites for their por- tion the tithes of the children of Israel, which they set apart for the Lord, as a dedication, therefore I have said to them, they shall have no lot of inheritance among the Israelites.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Thou shalt speak to the Levites and say to them; When you take from the chil- dren of Israel the tenth which Ihave given you from them for a lot of inheritance, you shall set apart from it, as a dedication for the Lord, a tenth of the tenth; and these dedications’ of yours shall be reckoned to you as corn from the threshing floor, and as a dedication from the press. Thus you shall acs quit yourselves of all the dedications of the Lord—of all your tenths which you receive from the children of Israel. And you shall give the dedication set apart from it for the Lord to Aa- ron the priest. From all your gifts you shall set apart a dedi- cation for the Lord, and from all the first fruits, the hallowed
30 part of it. Moreover thou shalt say unto them, When you set
apart the first fruits of it, then it shall be reckoned to the Le- VOL. Εἰ Kk
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vites as produce from the threshing floor, and as produce from the press. And you may eat it every where, you and your households. Because it is your wages for your services which you perform at the tabernacle of the testumony ; therefore you shall not bear sin by reason of it, because you have set apart the first fruits of it. But you must not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, lest you die.
XIX. Again the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
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This is the purification of the law in respect to all the things which the Lord hath enjoined, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and let them bring thee a red heifer, without ble- mish, which hath no spot in her, and on which there hath never been puta yoke. And thou shalt give her to Eleazar the priest; and they shall lead her out of the camp, to a clean place, and kill her in his presence. And Eleazar shall take some of the blood thereof, and shall sprinkle, over against the front of the tabernacle of the testimony, some of the blood thereof, seven times. Then they shall burn her in his sight; and when her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, and dung, are burned, the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the midst of the cinders of the heifer. "Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and wash his whole body with water, and, after that, he shall come into the camp. And the priest shall be unclean until the evening. And he who burned her shall wash his clothes, and wash his body with water, and be unclean until evening. And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them without the camp, in a clean place, and water of sprink- ling shall be kept in store for the congregation of Israel. It is a purification. And he who gathereth up the ashes of the heifer, shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even- ing. And it shall be for the children of Israel, and for the pro- selytes who have joined them, an everlasting ordinance, that whoever toucheth the dead body of a man shall be unclean seven days. He shall be purified on the third, and on the se- venth day, then he shall be clean: but if he be not purified on the third, and on the seventh day, he shall not be clean. If any person, who hath touched the dead, die, without being puri- fied, he hath defiled the tabernacle of the Lord ; that soul shall
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be blotted out from among Israel. Because the water of sprink-
14 ling hath not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean. His impu- rity is stillin him. This also is the law, that if any man die in a house, every one who goeth into the house, and all the things
15 in the house, shall be unclean seven days. And every open ves-
16 sel which hath not a cover fastened on it, is unclean. And every one who, in the open field, toucheth one slain, or dead,
17 ora human bone, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Now, for one who is unclean, they shall take some of the
18 burnt ashes of the purification, and pour spring water thereon, in a vessel ; and a man who is clean shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the house, and on the vessels, and on the persons who may be in the house, and on him who hath touched a human bone, or a man who
19 hath been slain, or one dead, or a grave. The clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean, on the third day, and on the seventh day. And onthe seventh day he shall purify himself, and shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and
20 be unclean until evening. And whoever shall be defiled, and not purified, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation, be- . cause he hath. defiled the holy things of the Lord. Because the water of sprinkling hath not been sprinkled on him, he is un-
21 clean. And it shall be an everlasting statute for you, that he who sprinkleth the water of sprinkling, shall wash his clothes; and he who toucheth the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until evening: and whatever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean ; and the person who toucheth it shall be unclean until evening.
XX. When the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came to the wilderness of Sin, in the first month, the people took up their abode at Kades; and there Mariam died, and there she
2 was.buried. And there being no water for the congregation, 3 they assembled tumultuously against Moses and Aaron ; and the people reviled Moses, and said, O! that we had died in the 4 destruction of our brethren before the Lord! Why have you brought the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, to 5 kill us and our cattle ὃ Why is this? Have you brought us out of Egypt, that we might come to this vile place—a place where ng seed can be sown, where there are no fig trees, nor
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vines, nor pomegranates, nor even water to drink ? Where- upon Moses and Aaron: went from the presence of the congre- gation, to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and fell on their faces. And the glory of the Lord appeared to them.
_And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take thy staff, and as-
semble the congregation, thou, and Aaron thy brother; and speak to that rock before them, and it will give its water. And you shall bring water for them from that rock, and give drink to the congregation, and their cattle. So Moses’ took the staff which was before the Lord, as the Lord commanded. And Mo- ses and Aaron assembled the congregation, at some distance over against the rock, and he said to them, Hear me, γα rebels! Can we bring water for you out of this rock? Then Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock twice with the staff, and there esichied out much water, so that the congregation, and their cattle, drank. Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you have not believed, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, therefore you shall not lead this congre- gation into the land which I have given them. This is the water . of Strife, because the children of Israel uttered reproaches be- fore the Lord, and he was hallowed among them..
Then Moses sent messengers from Kades, to the king of Edom, saying, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the trouble that hath befallen us. Our fathers went down in- to Egypt, and we have sojourned in Egypt many years. And . when the Egyptians ill treated us and our fathers, we cried to the Lord, and the Lord hearkened to our voice; and having sent a messenger he hath brought us out of Egypt, and we are now at Kades, a city on the extremity of thy borders. Let us pass through thy land. We will not march through the fields, nor vineyards, nor drink water out of thy cisterns. We will march along the king’s high way, and will not turn aside to the right, nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders. But Edom said to him, Thou shalt not pass through me. If thou attempt it, I will come out to meet thee in battle. Where- upon the children of Israel said, Let us pass through along the mountains, and if I, or my cattle drink of thy water, I will
‘make thee compensation. Grant but this. It is but a small
matter. Let us march through along the mountain. But he
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said, Thou shalt not pass through me. And Edom came out to meet him with a great multitude, and a strong hand. As Edom would not grant Israel a passage through his borders,
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from Kades, the Israelites—the whole congregation came to mount Hor.
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron at mount Hor, on the borders of the land of Edom, saying, Let Aaron be gathered to his people. For you shall not enter the land which I have given the children of Israel for a possession, because you provoked me at the water of strife. Take Aaron thy brother, and Eleazar his son, and make them go up to mount Hor, in the view of the whole congregation, and strip Aaron of his robes, and put them on Eleazar his son : and let Aaron be composed, and die there. So Moses did as the Lord com- manded him.—And having taken them up to mount Hor, in the view of the whole congregation, he stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died on the top of the mount. And Moses and. Kleazar came down from the mount. And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, the whole house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.
XXII. When the Chananite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in
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front of the wilderness, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he made war on Israel, and took some of them prisoners; whereupon Israel vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If thou wilt deliver this people into my hand, I will devote them and their cities to destruction. And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up these Cha-
_ nanites into their hands, and they anathematised them and their
cities, and called the name of that place Anathema.
‘Now when they had removed from mount Hor, by the way to the Red sea, and were marching round the land of Edom, the people became dispirited in the march, and spoke against God, and against Moses, saying, Why hast thou brought us out of Egypt to kill us in this wilderness ; for we have neither bread, nor water, and our soul loatheth this
6 light food. Whereupon the Lord. sent the most deadly ser- 7 pents among the people, and they bit the people. And
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when many of the ‘children of Israel died, the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee ; pray therefore to the Lord, and let him take away the serpents from us. So Moses prayed to the Lord for the people, and the Lord said to Moses, Make thee a serpent, and put it on astandard; and it shall come to pass that when a serpent biteth a man, every one who is bit- ten shall live by looking at that. So Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it ona standard, and it came to pass that when a serpent bit a man, he looked up to that serpent, and lived. And the Israelites removed, and encamped at Oboth; and having removed from Oboth, they encamped at Achelgai, on the borders of the desart, which is in front of Moab, towards the rising of the sun. And removing from that place, they en- camped in the vale of Zared, from which they removed, and encamped on the banks of Arnon, in the wilderness, on the borders of the Amorites; for Arnon is the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. For this cause it is said in a book, The war of the Lord burned Zoob and the vales of Arnon, And made the vales the habitation of Er; And he adjoineth the borders of Moab. Thence they came to Weil; this is the well concerning which the Lord said to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water to drink. ‘Then sung Israel this song to the well, Begin to him the alternate song of the well. Chiefs digged it: the kings of nations hewed it out, In their reign when they ruled over them. And from /Vell they moved on to Manthanaiem; and an Manthanaeim to Naaliel; and ‘from Naaliel to Bamoth; and from Bamoth to Nepe, which is in that plain of Moab border- ing on the craggy cliff, namely, that which looketh towards the wilderness. Now Moses had sent messengers to Seon, king of the
2 Amorites, with a message of peace, saying, Let us pass through
thy land. We will march by the highway; we will not turn aside into the fields, nor into the vineyards ; nor will we drink water out of thy wells. Let us march along the king’s highway,
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until we pass thy borders. But Seon would not grant Israel a passage through his territories. He indeed assembled all his people, and went out to the wilderness, to attack Israel, and came to Jessa, and drew up in array against Israel. Where- upon Israel smote him with the slaughter of the sword, and took possession of his land, from Arnon to Jabok, even to the Ammanites; for Jazer is the boundary of the Ammanites. So Israel took all those cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Hesebon, and in all those under the same do- minion with it; for Hesebon was the city of Seon the king of the Amorites. He indeed had made war on a former king of Moab, and had taken all his land from Aroer to Arnon; for this cause the poets say, Come to Hesebon that it may be rebuilded, _ And that the city of Seon may be inhabited. For a fire went forth from Hesebon— Anda flame from the city of Seon; Which devoured even to Moab— Which devoured the pillars of Arnon. Alas! for thee O Moab! Thou wast undone, O people of Chamos! Their sons were delivered up to save their lives; And their daughters were captives to Seon, king of the Amorites, And their seed was destroyed from Hesebon even to Daibon. And against Moab their wives rekindled a fire.
And when Israel had taken possession of all the cities of the Amorites: Moses sent to view Jazer, and they took it, and all the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites who were there. Then they turned and went up by the way of Basan. And when Og king of Basan came out to meet them, he and all his people, for battle at Adraim, the Lord said to Moses, Be not afraid of him; for into thy hands I will deliver him, and all his people, and all his land; And thou shalt do to him, as thou hast done to Seon, the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Hesebon. So he smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was not one left to be taken alive. And they took possession of their land.
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tents on the west of Moab, along the Jordan, over against Je- richo; and Balak, son of Sepphor, had seen all that Israel had done to the meiarites: though Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people because they were numerous, yet Moab was in- censed at the sight of the Israelites, and said to the Senate of Madiam, Now will this congregation lick up all around us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. Now Balak, son of Sepphor, was at that time king of Moab, he therefore had sent messengers to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pathoura, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to invite him to come to him, saying, Behold there is a people come out of Egypt; and lo! they have covered the face of this land, and are settled down near me. Now therefore come, curse for me this people; for they are stronger than I. Perhaps I may be abie to smite some of them, and drive them out of this land: for I know that they whom thou blessest are blessed, and they whom thou
cursest are cursed. So the ambassadors of Moab, and the am-
bassadors of Madiam, went with the rewards of divination in their hands, and when they came to Balaam; and rehearsed to him the words of Balak, he said to them, Tarry here this night, and I will give you an answer according to what the Lord shall say to me. Sothe chiefs of Moab tarried with Balaam. And God came to Ba- laam, and said to him, What would these men with thee? And Balaam said to God, Balak son of Sepphor, king of Moab, hath sent them to me, saying, Behold there is a people come out of Egypt, who have covered the face of this land, and they are settled down near me; now therefore come and curse them for me; perhaps I may be able to smite them, and drive them out of this land. ‘Thereupon God said to Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them, nor curse that people, for they are blessed. So when Balaam arose in the morning, he said to the chiefs of Ba- lak, Return speedily to your Lord, for God doth not permit me to go with you. And the chiefs of Moab arose, and went to Balak, and said to him, Balaam refuseth to come with us. Then Balak sent again other princes, more in number, and of greater dignity than them, and they went to Balaam and said to him, Thus saith Balak, the son of Sepphor, I entreat thee delay not to come to me, for I will promote thee to great honour,
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and do for thee whatever thou sayest; therefore come, curse this people for me. In reply to which Balaam said to the prin- ces of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot transgress the word of the Lord God, to do any thing, small or great, of my own mere will. Now therefore tarry you also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will further say to me. And God came to Balaam by night, and said to him, If these men come to call thee, arise and go with them: but what I say to thee, that thou shalt do. Where- upon Balaam arose in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. And God was angry, because he went of himself to him; and the angel of God arose to stop him on the way. Now he was mounted on his ass, and had two servants with him. And when the ass saw the angel of God standing opposite, in the way, with a drawn sword in his hand, the ass turned aside out of the way into the field; at which he struck the ass with his staff, to turn her into the road. Then the angel of God took a station between the rows of the vines, there being a hedge on this side, and a hedge on that. And when the ass saw the angel of God, she threw herself against the wall, and bruised Balaam’s foot against the wall. Where- upon he struck her again. Then the angel of God again retir- ed, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no turning, to the right, or to the left. And when the ass saw the angel of God, she lay down under Balaam; at which Balaam was in- flamed with wrath, and gave the ass a severe blow with the staff. Thereupon God opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to thee that thou hast cor- rected me this third time? And Balaam said to the ass, because thou hast mocked me, and had I a sword in my hand I should now have run it through thee. And the ass said to Balaam, Am I not the ass on which thou hast ridden from thy youth even to this day? Did I ever through stubbornness, do sucha thing as this to thee. Andhe said, No. Then God opened the eyes of Balaam; and when he saw the angel of the Lord stand- ing opposite, in the way, with a drawn sword in his hand, he bowed down, and fell flat on his face. And the angel of God said to him, Why didst thou strike thy ass three times? Be- hold I came out to stop thee, because thy journey is not seemly VOL. I, ἘΠ
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in my sight, and the ass, seeing me, turned aside from me these three times. And had she not turned aside from me I should now have killed thee; but I would have preserved her alive. Then Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have sinned in- advertently ; for I did not know that thou stoodest in the way against me. Now therefore, if it is not agreeable to thee, I will turn back. And the angel of God said to Balaam, Go with these men; but whatever word I speak to thee be careful to deliver that. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. And when Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him, to a city of Moab, which is on Arnon, which is a part of the boundary. And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not send for thee? Why then didst thou not come to me? Am not I able to promote thee to honour? And Balaam said to Balak, Behold now I am come to thee, shall I be able to say any thing? Whatever word God shall put in my mouth, that I will speak. So Balaam went with Balak, and when they came to the cities of Sheepcots, Balak sacrificed sheep, and young bulls, and sent them to Balaam, and the princes with him. And early next morning Balak took Balaam, and led him up to the top of the pillar of Baal, and from it shewed him some part of the peo-
XXIII. ple. Whereupon Balaam said to Balak, Build for me
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here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven young bulls, and seven rams. And when Balak had done as Balaam had ordered him; and had offered a bull, and a ram, on each altar, then Balaam said to Balak, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will advance on. If God appear to me by any occurrence, whatever he shall shew me I will tell thee. So Balak stood by his sacri-
. fice. And Balaam went to inquire of God: and as he was going
straight forward, God appeared to Balaam: And Balaam said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and offered a young bull, and a ram, on each altar. And God put a word in the mouth of Balaam, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt say. So he returned to Balak. Now he was standing by his whole burnt offerings, and all the princes of Moab with him; And a spirit of God came upon Balaam, and he took up his parable, and said,
I am called from Mesopotamia by Balak—
By the king of Moab, from the mountains of the east,
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Come, saith he, Curse Jacob for me, And, come, for me devote Israel.
$3 How can I curse him, whom the Lord doth not curse ὃ Or how devote him whom God devoteth not ? 9 For from the top of mountains I can see him ;
Even from hills I can observe him, Behold he shall dwell, as a people by themselves, And shall not be reckoned among the nations. 10 Who hath accurately scanned the seed of Jacob ? Who can count the communities of Israel ? May my soul depart among the souls of the righteous ! _ And my offspring be as the seed of these ! ll At this Balak said to Balaam, What hast thou done to me? 12 I sent for thee to curse my enemies, and behold thou hast pro- nounced a blessing. And Balaam said to Balak, Must I not 13 be careful to speak what God hath put in my mouth? Then Balak said to him, Come with me to yet another place, from which thou shalt not have a full view of them. Thou shalt see only a part of them, and not view them all; and curse them for 14 me from that place. So he took him to a watch tower of the field on the top of a craggy cliff, and built there seven altars. And 15 when he had offered abull, and a ram, on each altar, Balaam said to Balak, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will advance on, to in- 16 quire of God. And God met Balaam and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. 17 So he returned to him. Now he was standing by his whole burnt offering, and all the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What hath the Lord spoken ? Whereupon he took up his parable, and said, 18 Stand up Balak and hear ; Listen attentively as a witness, thou son of Sepphor ! 19 God is not like a man to be deceived ; Nor like a son of man to be threatened. When he hath spoken, will he not perform ? When he shall speak, will he not stand to it ὃ
20 Behold I am constrained to bless ! Bless I will. Indeed I cannot avoid it, 2} There shall be no calamity in Jacob ;
Nor shall misery be seen in Israel.
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The Lord their God is with them ;’ The glories of princes are among them. 22 ~The God who hath brought them out of Egypt, Is to them like the glory of a unicorn. 23 For there is no augury used by Jacob— Nor divination among Israel. In due season it shall be told to Jacob, And to Israel, what God will execute. 24, Behold the people will rouse like a young lion; And, like an old lion, exult with pride. They will not go to rest till they devour prey— Until they have drunk the blood of the slain. BS Upon this Balak said to Balaam, ‘Thou shalt neither with curses, curse them for me; nor shalt thou with blessings bless 26 them. In reply to which Balaam said to Balak, Did I not tell 27 thee saying, Whatever God shall speak, that [must do. Then Balak said to Balaam, Come let me take thee to another place, that, if it please God, thou mayst curse them for me from it. 28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Phogor, which extendeth 29 into the wilderness. And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven young bulls, and 30 seven rams. And when Balak had done as Balaam ordered XXIV. him, and had offered a bull, and a ram, on every altar, Balaam, seeing that it was good in the sight of the Lord to bless Israel, did not go, as was customary with him, to look 2 for omens; but turned his face towards the wilderness. And when Balaam raised his eyes, and saw Israel encamped by tribes, a spirit of God came upon him, and he took up his para- ble, and said, 3 Balaam son of Beor saith— The man who séeth according to truth saith— 4 It is the saying of him, who hath heard the oracles of the Almighty— * Who in sleep hath seen a vision of God—whose eyes were opened. How beautiful are thy houses, Jacob! Thy tents, O Israel! 6 Like shady forests, and like gardens by a river! And like tents which the Lord hath pitched ! And like cedars by streams of water.
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There shall come forth a man from his seed,
And he shall rule over many nations :
And a kingdom greater than Gog’s shall be raised up ;
And his kingdom shall be enlarged.
God hath led him out of Egypt,
His glory is like that of the unicorn ;
He will eat up the nations of his enemies ;
And he will exhaust their fatness,
And pierce his enemy with his darts.
Couching down, he is gone to rest, like a lion—
Yes like a young lion; who dare rouse him ?
Blessed are they who bless thee,
And they who curse thee are already cursed.
At this Balak was inflamed with wrath against Balaam, and clapped his hands. And Balak said to Balaam, I sent for thee to curse my enemy, and behold thou hast blessed them a third time. Now therefore flee to thy own place. Ithought to promote thee to honour. But the Lord hath now deprived thee of that glory. Whereupon Balaam said to Balak, Did I not tell thy mes- sengers whom thou sentest to me, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot transgress the word of the Lord, to do either good or evil, of my own mere will. Whatever God may order that I will speak. And now, behold, I am quickly to return to my own place: come, let me inform thee what this people will do to thy people, in the latter days. Then taking up his parable, he said,
Balaam son of Beor saith—
It is the saying ofa man who isatrue seer,
~ Who heareth the oracles of God,
And hath knowledge from the Most High—
Who in sleep hath seen a vision of God, and whose eyes
were opened.
I can point to him, though he is not now ;
I hail him happy tho’ he is not near.
A star will arise out of Jacob—
‘There shall rise up a man out of Israel,
And he will smite the princes of Moab,
And plunder all the sons of Seth :
And Edom shall be an inheritance,
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And Esau, his enemy, shall be a heritage.
Though Israel hath done valiantly ;
Yet one shall be raised up out of Jacob,
Who will destroy him who escaped from a city. Then having taken a view of Amalek he took up his parable and said,
Amalek is the head of nations ; |
But their seed shall be destroyed. Then having taken a view of the’ Kenite, he took up’ his para- ble and said,
Strong is thy dwelling place.
But though thou hast built thy nest upon a rock—
And though Beor hath crafty chickens ;
The Assyrians will captivate thee. Then looking at Og he took up his parable and said,
Oh! Who can live when God will order such things!
For bands of Kitians will issue forth,
And afflict Assur, and afflict Hebrews:
And they themselves shall likewise be destroyed.
‘Then Balaam arose, and went away, with a view to return to
his own place, and Balak repaired home.
XXV. While Israel abode at Sattin, the people profaned them- 2 selves to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab, who
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invited them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols, and Israel con- secrated himself to Belphegor. Whereupon the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel; and the Lord said to Moses, Take all those leaders of the people and make a public ex- ample of them, for the Lord, in the face of the sun; so shall the wrath of the Lord be turned away from Israel. ‘Then Mo- ses said to the tribes of Israel, Kill ye, every one, him of his family, who hath consecrated himself to Belphegor. And be- hold there came a man of the children of Israel, who conduct- ed his brother to a Madianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and before all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of the testi- mony. Upon seeing this, Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, started up from among the congregation, and taking a javelin in his hand, went after the man—the Israelite,
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into the bed chamber, and ran them both through, the man, the Israelite, quite through, and the woman into her belly. Where- upon the plague stopped from the children of Israel. Now they who had. died of the plague were twenty four thousand. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, hath stayed my wrath from Israel, by shew- ing a zeal forme among them, so that in my jealousy I have not utterly consumed the children of Israel. Therefore say, Behold I give him the covenant of peace. It shall be to him, and to his seed after him, an everlasting covenant of the priest’s office, because he shewed a zeal for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel. Now the name of the man—the Israelite, who was slain with the Madianitish wo- man, was Zambri, son of Salmon, the chief of the patriarchal house of of the Symeonites; and the name of the Madianitish. woman, who was slain, was Chasbi, a daughter of Sour, the chief of the clan of Ommath, which is the head family of Ma- diam.
Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and say, Treat as enemies the Madianites, and smite them, for they are acting as enemies against you, with craftiness, in all their attempts to beguile you by means of Phogor, and by means of Chasbi, the daughter of a prince of Madiam, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague, on account of Phogor.
XXVI. And, after the plague, the Lord spoke to Moses, and
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Eleazar the priest, saying, Take the sum of the whole congre- gation of Israel, from twenty years old and upwards, according to the houses of their families, every one who goeth out to war in Israel. Upon which, orders were issued. by Moses, and Eleazar -the priest, at Araboth-Moab, on the Jordan over against Jericho, saying, Mrom twenty years old and upwards, as the Lord commanded Moses. Now these were the sons of Israel who came out of Egypt. Reuben, Israel’s first born. And the sons of Reuben, Enoch, and the community of the Enochites; to Phallus be- longed the community of the Phalluites; to Asron, the com- munity of the Asronites; to Charmi, the community of the Charmites—These are the communities of Reuben, and the
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muster of them was forty three thousand seven hundred and thirty. Now of the Phalluites, Eliab was chief, and the sons of Eliab were Namuel; and Dathan, and Abiron. These were, the head families of the congregation. These were they who conspired against Moses and Aaron, in the company of Kore, in the insurrection against the Lord. And the earth, opening its mouth, swallowed them up with Kore, at the time when his company died—when the fire consumed the two hundred and fifty, and they were made a sign; but the children of Kore died not.
And the children of Symeon were, the community of the Symeonites; from Namuel, the community of the Namuelites; from Jamin, the community of the Jaminites; from Jachin, the community of the Jachinites; from Zara, the community of the Zaraites; from Saul, the community of the Saulites. These communities of Symeon, from the muster of them, were twenty two thousand two hundred.
And the sons of Judas were Er and Aunan, but Er and Aunan died in the land of Chanaan, so that these were the chil- dren of Judas, according to their communities—from Selom, the community of the Selomites; from Phares, the communi- ty of the Pharesites; from Zara, the community of the Zara- ites. And the Pharesites were—from Asron, the community of the Asronites; from Jamun, the community of the Jamu- nites. These communities of Judas, according to the review. of them, were seventy six thousand five hundred.
And the children of Issachar were, according to their com- munities—from Thola, the community of the Tholaites; from Phua, the community ofthe Phuaites; from Jasub, the com- munity of the Jasubites; from Samram, the community of the Samramites. These communities of Issachar, from the review of them, were sixty four thousand four hundred.
The children of Zabulon were, according to their commu- nities—from Sared, the community of the Saredites; from Allon, the community of the Allonites ; from Allel, the com- munity of the Allelites. These communities of Zabulon, from the review of them, were sixty thousand five hundred.
The children of Gad, by their communities, were—from Saphon, the community of the Saphonites ; from Aggi, the
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community of the Aggites; from Suni, the community of the Sunites; from Azeni, the community of the Azenites; from Addi, the community of the Addites; from Aroadi, the com- munity of the Aroadites; from Ariel, the community of the Arielites ; these communities of the children of Gad, from the review of them, were forty thousand five hundred.
The children of Aser, by their communities, were—from Jamin, the community of the Jaminites ; from Jesu, the com- munity of the Jesuites; from Baria, the community of the . Bariaites; from Chober, the community of the Choberites; from Melchiel, the community of the Melchielites; now the name of Aser’s daughter was Sara: these communities of Aser were from the review of them, fifty threé thousand four hundred.
The children of Joseph by their communities were—Ma- nasses and Ephraim. The children of Manasses were from Machir, the community of the Machirites. Galaad also being a son of Machir, from Galaad, the community of the Galaad- ites. And these also were Galaadites, from Achiezer, the community of the Achiezerites; from Cheleg, the community of the Chelegites; from Esriel, the community of the Esriel- ites; from Sychem, the community of the Sychemites; from Symaer, the community of the Symaerites; and from Opher, the community of the Opherites. Now Salpaad the son of Opher had no sons; but he had daughters, and these were the names of Salpaad’s daughters, Maala and Nua, and Egla, and Melcha, and Thersa. These communities of Manasses were, from the review of them, fifty two thousand seven hundred.
And these were the children of Ephraim, from Suthala, the community of the Suthalites; from Tanach, the community of the Tanachites; these also were Suthalites—from Eden, the community of the Edenites ; these communities of Ephraim were ‘from the review of them, thirty two thousand five hun- dred. These were the communities of Joseph, by their com- munities. ~~
The children of Benjamin, according to their communities, were—of Bale, the community of the Balites; of Asuber,
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phanites; now Adar and Noeman being sons of Bale—of Adar, was the community of the Adarites; and of Noeman, the community of the Noemanites. These Benj jaminites, ac- cording to their communities were, from the review of them, forty five thousand five hundred.
And the children of Dan, according to their communitics, were of Same, the community of the Sameites. These were the communities of Dan, according to their communities. All the communities of the Sameites were, according to the review of them, sixty four thousand four hundred. Bee
The children of Nephthaleim, by their communities, were— of Asiel, the community of the Asielites; of Gauni, the com- munity of the Gaunites; of Jeser, the community of the Je- serites; of Sellem, the community of the Sellemites. ‘These
communities of Nephthaleim were from the review of them,
forty five thousand four hundred.
This muster of the Israelites was six hundred and one thou- sand and seven hundred and thirty.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, _ saying, Among these let the land be divided, that they may inherit it, by the number of names. To those who are many, thou shalt enlarge the inhe- ritance; and to them who are few, thou shalt sie the less in- heritance. To every one, as they have been reviewed, their in- heritance shall be given. Among these names the land shall be parcelled out, by lot. They shall inherit according to the tribes of their patriarchal families. By lot thou shalt parcel out their inheritance, to the many and the few.
Now these were the children of Levi, according to their communities—of Gerson, the community of the Gersonites ;* of Kaath, the community of the Kaathites; of Merari, the com- munity of the Merarites. These are also communities of the children of Levi—the community of the Lobenites, the com- munity of the Chebronites, the community of the Korites, the community of the Musites. And Kaath begot Ambram, whose wife’s name was Jochabed, a daughter of Le¥i and she bore these for Levi in Egypt—She bore by Ambram, Aaron,. and Moses, and Mariam their sister. And to Aaron were born Na- dab and Abiud, and Eleazar and Ithamar. But Nadab and ἡ Abiud died when they presented strange fire before the Lord,
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in the wilderness of Sina. From the review of them, they were twenty three thousand, including every male, from a month old and upwards; for'they were not reviewed among the children of Israel; because there was no portion given them among the children of Israel. Now this was the review of Moses and Ele- azar the priest, who reviewed the Israelites at Arabeth-Moab, on the Jordan, over against Jericho; and among them there was not aman of those who had been reviewed by Mosesand Aaron, when they reviewed the Israelites in the wilderness of Sina. Because the Lord said to them, they shall assuredly die in the wilderness; therefore there was not one of them left, save Cha- leb son of Jephonne, and Joshua son of Nave.
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son of Galaad, son of Machir, of the community of Manasses, one of the sons of Joseph (now these were their names; Maala, and Nua, and Egla, and Melcha, and Thersa) and standing be- fore Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the chiefs, and before the whole congregation, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, they said} Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the congregation which con- spired against the Lord, in the assembly of Kore. Because he died for his own sin, and had no sons, let not the name of our father be blotted out from among his community. Seeing he hath not a son, give us a possessjon among our father’s bre- thren. Whereupon Moses laid their case before the Lord. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘The daughters of Sal- paad have spoken right. Thou shalt give them the possession
_of an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and vest in them
their father’s lot. And thou shalt say to the children of Israel, If any man die, and hath no son, you shall vest his inheritance in his daughter; and if he hath no daughter, you shall give his inheritance to his brother; and if he hath no brothers, you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brother; and if there be no brothers of his father, you shall give the inheritance to one of his house, who is the nearest of kin to him, of his tribe, that he may inherit what belonged to him. And this shall be to the children of Israel a rule of decision, as the Lord-commanded
’ Moses.
Then the Lord said to Moses, Go up that mountain which
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is on the bank of the Jordan—that mount Nabo, and take a view of the land of Chanaan, which I give to the children of Is- rael, by apossessory right. And when thou hast seen it, thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother was ga- thered on mount Hor, because you transgressed my command in the wilderness of Sin. When the people resisted the hallow- ing of me, you did not hallow me at the water before them.
(This alludeth to the water of strife at Kades in the widerness.)
Upon this Moses said to the Lord, Let the Lord, the God of the spirits, and of all flesh, look out a man to be set over this congregation, who shall go out before them, and come in before them; and who shall lead them out, and bring them in; so that the congregation of the Lord may not be like a flock which hath no shepherd. Then the Lord spoke. to Moses, saying, Take as thy associate Joshua, son of Nave, a man who hath a spirit in him, and thou shalt lay thy hands on him, and set him before Eleazar, the priest, and give him a charge before the whole congregation, and give a charge before them concerning him. And thou shalt put some of thy glory on him, that the children of Israel may hearken to him. And he shall stand be- fore Eleazar, the priest, and they shall ask him the determina- tion of the manifestations before the Lord. Andiat his com- mand they shall go out; and at his command he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation, shall come in.
So Moses did as the Lord commanded him; and hav- ing taken Joshua, he set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation, and laid his hands on him, and made him his associate, as the Lord commanded Moses.
XXVIII. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Giveacharge
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to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, You shall observe to brmg me my gifts, my oblations, my homage offer- ings for a smell of fragrance at my festivals. Moreover thou shalt say to them, These are the homage offerings which you shall present to the Lord—two lambs, of the first year, with- out blemish, every day, for a continual whole burnt offering— the one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning, and the other in the evening; and for a sacrifice of flour, thou shalt offer. the tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed up with the quarter of
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an hin of oil. It is the continual whole burnt offering, which was instituted at mount Sina, for a smell of fragrance for the Lord: and for the libation thereof, thou shalt offer, with the first lamb, a quarter of an hin of wine. In the holy place thou shalt pour out <s a libation the choicest wine to the Lord. And to- wards evening thou shalt offer the other lamb, with the like sacrifice, and the like libation; for a smell of fragrance for the Lord.
And on the day of the sabbaths, you shall bring two lambs of the first year, without blemish, and two tenths of fine flour mixed up with oil, for a sacrifice, together with a libation, as the sabbath whole burnt offering, for every sabbath, over and above the continual whole burnt offering with its libation.
And at the new moons you shall offer a whole burnt offer- ing to the Lord, two young bulls from the herd, one ram, se- ven lambs, of the first year, without blemish, three tenths of fine flour, mixed up with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour, mixed up with oil, for the ram, and a tenth of fine
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smell of fragrance—an homage offering for the Lord: and their libation shall be, the half of an hin of wine for each bull; and the third of an hin for the ram; and the fourth of an hin for every lamb. This shall be the whole burnt seine month af- ter month, for all the months of the year—Also a kid of the goats, for a sin offering. This, with its libation, shall be offered to the Lord, over and above the continual whole burnt offer- ing.
And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, shall be the passover to the Lord, and on the fifteenth day of the month shall commence the festival thereof. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. -Now, this first day shall be solemn- ly set apart for you. You shall not do any kind of sacrificial service; but you shall bring for whole burnt offerings—for an offering of homage to the Lord, two young bulls from the herd, one ram, seven lambs of the first year. You must see that they are without blemish. And their sacrifice shall be fine fiour, mixed up with oil, three tenths for each bull, and two tenths for the ram, and thou shalt prepare a tenth for every one of the
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atonement for you; over and above the whole burnt offering which is to be made every morning, and which is a continual whole burnt offering. After this manner you shall make daily offerings, during the seven days, as a gift—an offering of ho- mage, for a smell of fragrance, to the Lord: Over and above the continual whole burnt offering, thou shalt offer it with its libation. And the seventh of these days shall be solemnly set apart for you. On it you shall do no sacrificial work.
And on the day of new things when you bring for the Lord the new sacrifice of the weeks, there shall be a solemn festival for you. You shall not do any kind of sacrificial service; but you shall bring, as whole burnt offerings, for a smell of fra- grance to the Lord, two young bulls from the herd, one ram, seven lambs, of the first year, without blemish, with their sacri- fice of fine flour mixed up with oil—three tenths for each bull, and two tenths for the ram, and one tenth for every of the se- ven lambs; and one kid of the goats, for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. Over and. above the continual whole burnt offering, you shall ofler me the sacrifice of these (and see that they be without blemish) together with the libations thereof.
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month, there shall be a solemn festival for you. You shall do no sacrificial work: It shall be to you a day of alarm. And you shall offer as $ whole. burnt offerimgs—for a smell of fra- grance to the Lord, one young bull Fo the herd; one ram, seven lambs, of the first year, without blemish, with their sa- crifice—fine flour mixed up with oil—three tenths for the bull, and two tenths for the ram, and a tenth for every one of the seven lambs; and a kid of the goats, for a sin offering, to make atonement for you, over and above the whole burnt of- ferings of the new moon, with their sacrifices and their liba- tions, and the continual whole burnt offering. And their sacri- fices, and their libations, shall be according to what is prescrib- ed for them, for a smell of fragrance to the Lord.
And the tenth of this month shall be a solemn day set apart for you, on which you shall afflict your souls, and do no kind of work. But you shall offer, as whole burnt offerings for a smell of fragrance for the Lord—as offerings of homage to the Lord, one young bull from the herd, one ram, seven lambs of
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the first year (you shall see that they be without blemish) with their sacrifice—fine flour mixed up with oil; three tenths for the bull, and two tenths for the ram, and a tenth for every one of the seven lambs; and a kid of the goats, for a sin offering, to make atonement for you, over and above the sin offering of the atonement, and the continual whole burnt offering. And the sacrifice of this, and the libation of this, shall be according to what is prescribed, for a smell of fragrance—an offering of homage to the Lord.
And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, there shall be a solemn festival set apart for you. You shall do no sacrificial work. And you shall celebrate this festival to the Lord seven days. And you shall bring, for whole burnt offerings—for an offering of homage—for a smell of fragrance to the Lord, on the first day, thirteen young bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, (they shall be without ble- mish) with their sacrifices—fine flour mixed up with’ oil— three tenths for every one of the thirteen bulls, and two tenths for each of the two rams, and one tenth for every one of the fourteen lambs; and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings with their sa- crifices and their libations. And on the second day, twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, with- out blemish, with their sacrifice and their libation, for the bulls and the rams, and the lambs, according to their number agree- ably to what is prescribed for them ; and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual: whole burnt offermgs, with their sacrifices and their libations. And on the thirdyday, eleven young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, with their sacrifices and their libations, for the bulls, and the rams, and the lambs, ac- cording to their number, agreeably to what is prescribed for them and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. And on the fourth day, ten young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, with their sacrifices and their libations, for the bullsandthe rams, and the dambs, according to the number of them agreeably to what is prescribed for them; and a kid of the goats for a sin offer-
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ing, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with
their sacrifices and their libations. And on the fifth day, nine young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, with- out blemish, with their sacrifices and their libations; for the bulls and the rams, and the lambs, according to the number of them agreeably to what is prescribed for them; and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. And on the sixth day, eight young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, with their sacrifices and their libations; for the bulls, and the rams, and the lambs, according to the number of them agreeably to what is prescrib- ed for them; and akid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. And on the seventh day, seven young
‘bulls; two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without
blemish, with their sacrifices and their libations; for the bulls and the rams, and the lambs, according to the number of them agreeably to what is prescribed for them; and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. And on the eighth day, you shall close the festival. On that day you shall not do any kind of sacrificial work. But you shall bring for whole burnt offerings—for a smell of fragrance; for offerings of homage to the Lord, one young bull, one ram, seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, with their sacrifices and their libations, for the bull, and the ram, and the lambs, according to the number of them, agreeably to what is prescribed for them; and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations.
These you shall offer to the Lord at your festivals, over and above your vows, and your free will offerings, and your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your libations, and your offerings of thanksgiving. So Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that,the Lord commanded him. 2
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hath commanded. If any man vow avow to the Lord, orswear an oath, or bind himself witha solemn promise concerning his soul, he shall not break his word. Whatever hath proceeded from his mouth he shall do. And if a woman vow to the Lord, or bind herself with a solemn promise, in her father’s house, in. her youth; and her father hear her vows, and her promises with which she hath bound her soul, and hold his peace at her; all her vows, and all the promises with which she bound her soul, shall stand. They shall be binding on her. But if her father expressly disapprove on the day he heareth her vows and the promises, with which she hath bound her soul, they shall not stand. And the Lord will acquit her because her father hath disallowed her. And ifshe be married, and vows be upon her;
according to the opening of her lips—with what promises so- ever she may have bound her soul, if her husband shall hear, and hold his peace at her on the day when he heareth, so shall all her vows stand, and the promises shall stand with which she hath bound her soul. But if her husband expressly disal-
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the Lord will acquit her. But.the vows of a widow, or of one
divorced—whatever vows she may have made to bind her soul, shall stand against her. And if her vow, or the obliga- tion with which she bound her soul with an oath, be made in her husband’s house ; and her husband shall hear, and hold his peace at her, and not disallow her; all her vows and all her promises with which she hath bound her soul shall stand against her. But if her husband on the day when he heareth, actually disannul all that may have proceeded out of her lips, of what nature soever her vows may be, or the obligations with which she bound her soul, they shall not be binding on her. Her husband hath made them void, and the Lord will acquit her. Every vow, and every binding’ oath to afflict her soul, her husband may establish, or make void. And if he hold his peace at her, day after day, he shall establish upon her all
her vows, and confirm the obligations upon her, because he held
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band disannul them after the day ‘when he heard, he shall bear the sin of this.
These are the judgments which the Lord gave in charge to | Moses, between a husband and wife, and between a father and a daughter in her youth, in her father’s house.
XXXI. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Avenge the
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cause of the children of Israel on the Madianites, and after- ward thou shalt be gathered to thy people. Whereupon Mo- ses spoke to the people, saying, Arm men from among you and array them before the Lord, against Madian, to pour ven- geance from the Lord on Madian—a thousand from every tribe. You shall send them out of all the tribes to be drawn up in array. So out of the thousands of Israel they numbered a thousand from a tribe—twelve thousand. They were armed for close engagement. And Moses sent these—a thousand from every tribe; and with the army composed of them, Phi- neas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, with the holy in- struments—the trumpets for sounding a charge, in their hands. And they drew up inarray against Madian, as the Lord com- manded Moses, and slew every male; and in the slaughter they slew the kings of Madian, Evin, and Rokon, and Sur, and Ur, and Robok, the five kings of Madian. They slew also Balaam, son of Beor, with the sword among their slain. And having taken for a prey the women of the Madianites, and their furni- ture, and their cattle, and all their goods, and. spoiled their ar- my, and burned all their cities in which they dwelt, and all their sheepcots, with fire, and taken all the prey thereof, and all the spoils thereof, both of man and beast, they brought to Moses, and Eleazar, and to all the Israelites, the captives, and the spoils, and the prey, to the camp at Araboth-Moab, on the Jor- dan, over against Jericho. And when Moses went out, accom- panied with Eleazar the priest, and all the chiefs of the con- gregation, to meet them without the camp, Moses was an- ery at the officers of the army—at the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, who came from the war. And Moses said to them, Why have you saved all the women alive? For they, by the direction of Balaam, were the cause of Is- rael’s apostatizing, and transgressing the commands of the Lord, for the sake of Phogor: and there was a plague.in the
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congregation of the Lord.* Now therefore kill every male among the captives. Kill also every woman, who hath lain with man. But save alive, for yourselves, every captive among the women, who hath not known a man. And abide without the camp seven days. Every one who hath slain, or who hath touched one slain, must be purified on the third day, and on the seventh day, including yourselves and your captives. And you must purify every covering, and every vessel made of skin, and every hair cloth, and every utensil of wood.
Then Eleazar the priest, said to the men of the army, who came from the war, This is the ordinance of the law, which the Lord gave in charge to Moses, Besides the gold, and the silver, and the brass, and the iron, and the lead, and the tin, every thing which can pass through fire must be purified by fire ; but the rest are to be purified by the water of purifica- tion only. Whatever cannot pass through fire must pass through water. And on the seventh day you must wash your clothes, and you shall be clean; and after that you may come into the camp.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take the sum of the captivated prey both of man and beast ; thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs of the patriarchal houses of the con- eregation. And you shall divide the prey between the warriors who went to battle, and the whole congregation. And you shall set apart as a tribute to the Lord, from the warriors who went out to battle, one in five hundred from the captives, and from the beasts, namely, the cattle, and the sheep, and the asses. These you shall take from their half, and give to Eleazar the priest, as a portion set apart for the Lord. And from the chil- dren of Israel’s half thou shalt take one in fifty of the captives, and of the -cattle, and the sheep, and the asses—of all these beasts. And these thou shalt give to the Levites, who keep the watch at the tabernacle of the Lord. So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses. And the whole amount of the booty which the warriors had taken, was, of sheep six hundred and seventy five thousand; of cattle seven- ty two thousand, and sixty one thousand asses; and of the human species, namely, of the women who had not known man, all the souls were thirty two thousand. So that the half which was the share of those who went to war, was, from the
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number of sheep, three hundred and thirty seven thousand five hundred; of which the tribute for the Lord was six hun- dred and seventy five; and of cattle, thirty six thousand, of which the tribute for the Lord was seventy two; and of asses, thirty thousand five hundred, of which the tribute for the _ Lord was sixty one; and the human beings were sixteen thousand, of whom the tribute for the Lord was thirty two. And this tribute for the Lord, this dedication made to God by setting it apart, Moses gave to Eleazar the priest as the Lord commanded Moses. And from the half belonging to the children of Israel, between whom and the. warriors Moses had made the division; now the congregation’s half was three hundred and thirty seven thousand five hundred: sheep, thirty six thousand cattle, thirty thousand five hundred asses, and of human beings, sixteen thousand—from this half, be- longing to the children of Israel, Moses took one in fifty, of man and beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the watch at the tabernacle of the testimony, as the Lord com- manded Moses. Then all the officers over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came to Moses, and said to him, Thy servants have taken an account of all the warriors who were with us, and there is not one of them missing. We have therefore brought, as every man chanced to find a jewel of gold, either a necklace, or a brace- let, or a ring, or an ornament for the right arm, or a chain, to make atonement for us before the Lord. So Moses and Elea- zar the priest, received from them the gold—all.the wrought
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which they set apart for the Lord, was, sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. This they received from the cap- tains of thousands, and captains of hundreds. Of the spoil, which the warriors made every man for himself, Moses’ and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the captains of thou- sands, and the captains of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the testimony, to be a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.
XXXII. Now the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad,
had a great multitude of cattle, and having taken a view of the
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country of Jazer, and the region of Galaad, and seen that it was a place fit for stock, the Rewhenites and the Gadites came
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sion, and cause us not to cross the Jordan. Whereupon Mo- ses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites,, Must your bre- thren go:to war, and you sit still here? Besides, why do you divert the thoughts of the Israelites from crossing over into the land which the Lord giveth them? Did-not your fathers do so, when I sent them from’ Kades-Barne to view the land?
‘When they had passed: through the valley of grapes, and view-
ed the land, they discouraged the heart of the Israelites from going to the land which the Lord gave them; and the anger of the Lord was kindled that day, and he sware saying, These men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upwards, who know good. and. evil, shall not see the land, which I with an oath promised to Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob ; (for they have not followed me) save Chaleb, son of Jephonne, who separated himself from them, and Joshua, son of Nave, because they followed the Lord. So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he led them about in the wilderness forty years, until all that generation, who had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was sition Behold you are risen up in your fathers’ stead, a set of sinful men, to augment the wrath of the Lord against Israel. For by turning away from
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transgress against the whole congregation. Upon this they came near to him, and said, We will build
sheepcots here for our cattle, and cities for our families, but
we ourselves, completely armed, will march in the van before the children of Israel, until we bring them to their place. Our families indeed must dwell in walled cities, because of the in- habitants of the land, that we may not be under a necessi- ty of returning to our houses, until the children of Israel are
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not take ashare with them of the land beyond the river Jordan, because we have got our share on the eastern side of the Jordan. Then Moses said to them, If you will act agreeably to what you say—if you will arm yourselves for battle before the Lord, and every one, completely armed, will cross the Jordan before the Lord, until his enemy be crushed before him, and the land subdued before the Lord, after this you shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord, and acquitted by Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the Lord. But if you do not act in this manner, you will sin against the Lord, and you shall be sensible of your sin, when evils overtake you. Build therefore cities for your families, and sheepcots for your cat- tle, and perform what hath proceeded out of your mouth. And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad spake to Moses, say- ing, Thy servants will do as our Lord commandeth; our fa- milies, and our wives, and our cattle, shall remain in the cities of Galaad; but we thy servants willcross over, all armed, and ar- rayed for battle before the Lord,-as our lord saith. ‘Then Moses convened with them Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, son of Nave, and the chiefs of the patriarchal houses of the tribes of Israel, and said to them, If the Reubenites and the Gadites cross the Jordan with you,every one armed for battle before the Lord, when you shall have subdued the land before you, you shall give them the land of Galaad for a possession. But if they decline to cross with you, armed for battle before the Lord; you shall drive before you their families, and their wives, and their cattle, into the land of Chanaan, and they shall have a portion with you in the land of Chanaan. And the Reubenites and the Gadites answered, saying, All that our lord saith to his servants we will do. We will cross over, completely arm- ed before the Lord, into the land of Chanaan, and you shall give us our possession on this side of the Jordan. So Moses gave them, namely, to the Gadites and the Reubenites, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, one of the sons of Joseph, the kingdom of Seon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the land and the cities, with the bounda- ries thereof, even the cities of the land round about. And the Gadites rebuilt Daibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, and Sophar,
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and Jazer, and raised these, namely, Namram and Baithara, fenced cities, and folds for sheep. And the Reubenites rebuilt Esebon, and Eleale, and Kariatham, and Beelmeon, which they enclosed all around, and Sebama; and they named the cities which they rebuilt after their own names. Now a de- scendant of Machir, son of Manasses, had gone to Galaad, and taken it, and destroyed the Amorite who dwelt there. So Mo- ses gave Galaad to the community of Machir, son of Manas- ses, and they dwelt there. And Jair, of the tribe of Manasses, went and took their sheepcots, and called them the sheep- cots of Jair. And Nabau went and took Kaath, and its vil- lages, and called them Naboth after. his own name.
XXXII. Now these are the encampments of the Israelites.
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They removed from Ramesses, in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the next morning after the passover, the Israelites came out with a high hand, in the sight of all the Egyptians, while they were burying their dead —all those whom the Lord had smitten—even all the first born of the land of Egypt. When the Lord had executed vengeance on their gods, the children of Israel, removing from Ramesses, encamped at Sokchoth. And removing from Sokchoth, they encamped at Bouthan, which is a part of the wilderness. And they removed from Bouthan, and en- camped at the mouth of Ejirath, which is over against Beelsep- . phon. They encamped also over against Magdolus. And they removed from over against Ejirath, and crossed through the midst of the sea, into the wilderness, and having marched three days’ journey through the wilderness, they encamped at Bitterness. And they removed from Bitterness, and came to Ailam. Now at Ailam there were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees. So they encamped there by the water. And they removed from Ailam, and encamped by the Red sea. And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. And they removed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped at Raphaka. And they removed from
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Raphaka, and sideaetl at Ailus. And they removed from Ailus and encamped at Raphadin, where there was no water for the people to drink. ..And they removed from Raphadin, and encamped in the wilderness-of Sina. “And they removed from the wilderness of Sina, and encamped at The monu- ments of longing desire. And they removed from The monu- — ments of longing desire, and encamped.at Aseroth. And they removed from Aseroth, and encamped at Rathama. And they removed from Rathama, and’ encamped at Remmon-Phares.
And they removed from Remmon-Phares, and encamped at Lebona. And they removed from’ Lebona, and.encamped at Ressan. And they removed from Ressan, and encamped at Makellath. And they removed from Makellath, and encamp- ed at Saphan. And they removed from Saphan, and encamp- edat Charadath. And they removed from Charadath, and en- camped at Makeloth. And they removed from Makeloth, and encamped at Kataath. And they removed from Kataath, and encamped at Tarath. And they removed from Tarath, and en- camped at Mathekka. And they removed from Mathekka, and encamped at Selmona. And they removed from Selmona, and encamped at Masuruth. And they removed from Masuruth, and encamped at Banaia. And they removed from Banaia, and encamped at.the mountain of Gadgad. And they remov- ed from the mountain of Gadgad, and encamped at Etebatha. And they removed from Etebatha, and encamped at Ebrona. And they removed from Ebrona, and encamped at Gesion- Gaber. And they removed from Gesion-Gaber, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. And they removed from the wil- derness of Sin, and encamped in the wilderness of. Pharan, this is Kades. And they removed from Kades, and encamp- . ed at Or, the mountain bordering on the land of Edom. And Aaron the priest went up at the command of the Lord,- and died there, in the fortieth year of the children of Israel’s com- ing out of Egypt, in the fifth month, the first day of the month. And Aaron was a hundred and twenty three years old when he died at mount Or. And the Chananite king of Arad, whose fixed abode was in the land of Chanaan, received intel- ligence when the children of Israel were marching in. And they removed from mount Or, and encamped at Selmona. And
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they removed from Selmona, and encamped at Phino. And they removed from Phino, and encamped at Oboth. And they removed from Oboth, and encamped at Gai, on the borders of Moab. And they removed from Gai, and encamped at Daibon-gad. And they removed from Daibon-gad, and en- camped at Gelmon-deblathaim. And they removed from Gel- mon-deblathaim, and encamped onthe mountains Abarim, over against Nabo. And they removed from the mountains Abarim, and encamped on the west of Moab, by the Jordan, opposite to Jericho.
And when they were encamped on the Jordan, from Aisi- moth to Belsa, which is on the west of Moab, the Lord spoke to Moses on the west of Moab by the Jordan, in front of Jericho, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, You are now going to cross the Jordan into the land of Chanaan. You shall destroy all those who dwell in that land, from before you, and demolish their obelisks, and utterly de- stroy their molten images, and all their pillars you shall demo- lish. And when you have destroyed all the inhabitants of that land, you shall dwell therein; for I have given you their land by lot, and you shall divide their land, by lot, among your tribes. To those who are more numerous you shall give a larger possession ; and to those who are fewer in number you shall give a smaller possession. On whatever place any one’s name falleth, there shall be his possession. According to the tribes of your families you shall possess it. But if you do not de- stroy the inhabitants of the land from before you, it will come to pass, that those of them whom you shall leave, will be thorns in your eyes, and darts in your sides, and your mortal enemies in the land wherein you dwell. And it will come to pass that I will deal. with you as I determined to deal with them.
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ascent of Acrabin, and shall pass on to Ennak, and run along south of Kades-barne and come to the sheepcot of Arad, and pass along by Asemona: and from Asemona the boundary shall wind round along the brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be the sea. ‘Then you shall have the sea for a boundary. The great sea shall bound you: this shall be your western boundary. And your boundary on the north shall be this— from the great sea you shall measure off for yourselves, along the range of mountains—from mountain to mountain you shall measure off for yourselves: beginning at the bay of Emath, and extending along the border of Saradak, the boundary shall come out along the borders of Dephrona, and its termina- tion shall be Arsenain. This shall be your northern boundary. Then you shall measure off for yourselves the eastern boun- dary from Arsenain to Sepphamar; and from Sepphamar the boundary shall run down to Bela, on the east of the fountains, then down along the borders of Bela, on the eastern side of the sea of Chenerith; then down the Jordan; and its termination shall be the salt sea. This shall be your land and these its bounda- ries round about. So Moses gave a charge to the Israelites say- ing, Thisisthe land which you shall parcel out, by lot, in the man- ner the Lord hath commanded it to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses; because the tribe of the Reubenites, and the tribe of the Gadites, according to the houses of their families, and the half of the tribe of the Manas- sites, have received their allotments. Two tribes, and the half of a tribe, have received their lots on the south east side of the Jordan, in front of Jericho.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, say ing, These are the names of the men who shall parcel out the ida for you—Ele- azar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nave. And you shall take one chief of a tribe to divide the land among you by lot. And these are the names of the men—Of the tribe of Judas, Chaleb son of Jephonne; of the tribe of Symeon, Salamiel son of Samiud; of the tribe of Benjamin, [ἡ Idad son of gs ρ of the tribe of Dan, chief Bakchir, son of Egli; of the childrer of Joseph—of the tribe of the Manassites, ΕΣ Aniel, son of Suphi; of the tribe of the Ephraimites, chief Kamuel, son of Sabathan; of the tribe of Zabulon, chief Elisaphan, son of Pharnach; of the tribe of Issachar, chief Phaltiel, son of Oza;
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Of the tribe of Aser, chief Achior, son of Selemi; of the tribe of Nephthaleim, chief Phadael, son of Jamiud. To these the Lord gave it in charge to parcel out to the Israelites their allot- ments in the land of ‘Whakach,
XXXV. Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, on the west of
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Moab, by the Jordan, over against Jericho, saying, Command the children of Israel; and let them give the Levites, out of the lots of their possession, cities to dwell in. They shall also give the Levites the suburbs of these cities round about. The cities shall be for them to dwell in; and the suburbs thereof shall be for their cattle, even for all their beasts. Now the suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city, outwards, two thousand cubits all around. Thou shalt therefore measure off, outwards from the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, on the south side two thousand cubits, on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, and in the middle of this shall be your city; and you shall give these suburbs of the ci- ties with the cities, to the Levites. Six of the cities which you shall give shall be cities of refuge for the manslayer to flee to, and besides these you shall give forty two cities. All the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be forty eight. These cities with their suburbs, even the cities which you shall give, shall be from the possessions of the children of Israel. They shall give the Levites, out of their cities, many from those who have many, and few from them who have few; from every one according to the inheritance which they possess.
Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, You are about to cross the Jordan into the land of Chanaan, and you will set apart for yourselves cities, which shall be your places of refuge, to which the manslayer may flee. When any person killeth ano- 2 ther unwittingly, those cities will be places of refuge from the avenger of blood, that the manslayer may not die, until he stand before the congregation for trial. Therefore, with regard to the cities which you shall give, six shall be your places of refuge ;
. three of these cities you shall give on this side of the Jordan, and
three such cities you shall give in the land of Chanaan. ‘They shall be a refuge for the children of Israel, and for the prose- lyte, and the sojourner among you. These cities are to be pla-
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ces of refuge, to which every one may flee who hath smitten a person unawares. But if he hath smitten him with an instru- ment of iron, and he die, he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. And if he hath smitten him with a stone out of his-hand, by which he might be killed, and he die; he is a mur- derer; let the murderer be put to death. And if he hath smit- ten him with any instrument of wood out of his hand, by which he might be killed, and he die; he is a murderer; let the mur- derer be put to death. The avenger of blood himself shall kill him. When he meeteth him he shall slay him. And if, through hatred, he hath pushed him down, or thrown at him from am- bush, any instrument whatever, and he die; or if on account of an old grudge he hath smitten him with his hand, and he die; let him who smote be put to death: he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. The avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meeteth him. But if on a sudden, not through malice aforethought, he hath pushed him down, or thrown any instrument at him, not from ambush, nor with any stone by which he might be killed, or not seemg him, and it light upon him, and he die, and he was not his enemy, nor seeking to do him any injury, the congregation shall judge be- tween him who smote, and the avenger of blood, according to these rules of decision; and the congregation shall deliver the slayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall send him back to the city of his refuge, to which he fled; and he shall dwell there, till the death of the high priest, whom they have anointed with holy oil. And if the manslayer go out of the bounds of the city of his refuge to which he fled, and the avenger of blood find him out of the bounds of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the slayer, he is not guilty of death. For he ‘should have remained in the city of refuge till the death of the high priest. After the death of the high priest the slayer may return to the land of his possession. These shall be your rules of decision, for your generations, in all your dwellings. When any one hath slain a person, thou shalt put to death the murderer, by witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against a person to cause him to be put to death. And you shall take no ran- som for life from a manslayer who is guilty of death; for he
32 must be put to death: nor shall you take any ransom from him
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who hath fled to a city of refuge, that he may dwell again in
33 his land, until the death of the high priest. So you will not pol- lute with blood the land in which you dwell; for this blood polluteth the land; and the land cannot be cleansed from the blood which is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
34 You must not defile the land in which you dwell—in which I dwell among you; for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.
XXXVI. Then came the chiefs of the community of the chil- dren of Galaad, son of Machir, son of Manasses, of the tribe of the children of Joseph, and spoke before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the chiefs of the patriarchal
2 houses of the Israelites, and said, The Lord hath commanded our lord to give the land of inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and the Lord hath commanded our lord to give the
3 inheritance of Salpaad, our brother, to his daughters. Now they may become wives to one of the communities of the Is- raelites, and their lot may be taken from the possession of our fathers, and added to the inheritance of that tribe among which they may be married; so their inheritance may be taken from
4. the lot of our inheritance; and though there may be a jubilee of the children of Israel, still their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe among whom they may have been married, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheri-
5 tance of our patriarchal tribe. Whereupon Moses gave a charge to the children of Israel, by the command of the Lord, saying,
6 In regard to what the tribe of the children of Joseph say, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded the daughters of Salpaad, saying, Let them marry whom they please, but
7 they must marry men of the community of their father, so there shall be no’ transferring of inheritance among the children of Israel, from one tribe to another. Because the children of Is- rael must be kept together, every one in the inheritance of the
8 patriarchal family of his tribe, therefore every daughter, who by being next of kin, inheriteth a possession among the tribes of Israel, must marry one of the community of her father, that
‘the children of Israel may inherit by nearness of kin, every one
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the Israelites will be kept together every one in his inheritance.
Accordingly they did, for the daughters of Salpaad, in the manner the Lord commanded Moses, and Thersa, and Egla, and Melcha, and Nua, and Maala, the daughters of Salpaad, were married to their cousins. They were married to men of the tribe of Manasses, one of the sons of Joseph, and their in- heritance was kept in the tribe, to which the community of their father belonged.
These are the commands, and the statutes, and the judg- ments, which the Lord gave in charge, by the ministry of Moses, on the west of Moab, on the Jordan, over against Jericho.—
DEUTERONOMY.
These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel, on the bank of the Jordan, west of the wilderness which reacheth to the Red sea, between Pharantophal and Lobon, and Aulon, and Katachrusea, eleven days’ journey from Choreb, the way by mount Seir to Kades-Barne.
In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to all the children of Israel, accord- ing to all that the Lord had given him in charge to them. After he had smitten Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Ese- bon; and Og, king of Basan, who dwelt at Astaroth and Edrain, Moses began, on the bank of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, to explain the law fully, saying.
The Lord our God spoke to us at Choreb, saying, You have tarried long enough by this mount. Turn; strike your tents, and march to the mountain of the Amorites, and to all the inhabitants around Araba—to the mountain and to the plain, and to the south, and to the land of the Chananites, on the sea shore, and to Antilibanus, till you reach the river— the great river Euphrates. Behold I have delivered up the land before you. Go in, and take possession of the land, which with an oath I promised to give to your fathers—to Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob—to them and their seed after them.
Then I spoke to you at that time, saying, Iam not able alone to bear you. The Lord your God hath multiplied you;
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and behold you are this day like the stars of heaven for mul- titude. May the Lord, the God of your fathers, add to you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you as he hath promised you ! How can 1 alone bear the burden of you, even the whole weight of you, and your contentions ? Appoint for yourselves men of wisdom, knowledge and understanding, for your several tribes, and I will make them leaders over you. And you answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast proposed to do is good. So I took from among you men of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, and appointed them to be leaders over you—captains of thousands, and captains cf hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens; and promulgators of the law for your judges. And I gavea charge to your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger who is with him. Thou shalt not respect a person in ἡδλαταύοης Against the low and the high thou shalt pass sentence, and not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s. And if the matter be too hard for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it. And when I had given you in charge, at that time, all the things which you were to do, we removed from Choreb, and marched through all that great and frightful wilderness which you saw, on the way to the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God command- ed us. And when we came to Kades-barne, I said to you, You are-come to the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God giveth you. Behold the Lord your God hath delivered up to you the land before you. Go up and take pos- session of it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, commanded. you. Fear not, nor be faint hearted. Whereupon you all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them tra- verse the land for us, and bring us word what way we shall go up, and to what cities we shall come. And the proposal was agreeable to me. So I took from among you twelve men—a man for every tribe. And they turned, and went up to the mountain, and came to the valley of the bunch of grapes. And when they had thoroughly viewed it, they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good, which the Lord our God giveth us. Not-
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27 withstanding this, you would not go up; but disobeyed the command of the Lord our God, and murmured in your tents, saying, Because the Lord hateth us he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of the Amo-
28 rites, to destroy us utterly, wherever we go. When your bre- thren disheartened you, saying, It is anation great and nume- rous, and stronger than we; and the cities are large, and wal- led up to the sky.’ Indeed we have seen there sons of giants.
29 I said to you, Be not terrified, nor afraid of them. The Lord
30 your God is marching before you. He will assist you in subdu- ing them, according to all that he hath done for you in the land
31 of Egypt, and in that wilderness, which you have seen in your march to this mountain of the Amorite. The Lord thy God will take charge of thee, as a man would of a son—as he hath
32 done all the way you marched, till you came to this place. Not-
33 withstanding this speech you did not confide in the Lord our God who was marching before you in the way to chuse a place for you, conducting you by night with fire, pointing out to you the way in which you were to march; and by day, with
34 a pillar of cloud. And the Lord heard the sound of your words,
35 and being provoked to wrath, he sware saying, Not one of these men shall see that good land which I, with an oath, pro-
36 mised their fathers, save Chaleb son of Jephonne. He shall see it. And to him I will give the land to which he went up, and to his children, because he vindicateth the cause of the
37 Lord. With me also the Lord was angry on your account,
38 and said, Neither shalt thou go in there. Joshua son of Nave
39 who is thy attendant—he shall go thither. Encourage him, for he shall distribute it, by lot, to Israel. And with respect to your children, who do not know good or evil, they shall go thither, and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it.
40 But as for you, turn, and march into the wilderness, by the way
41 to the Red sea. Then you answered, and said, We have sin- ned before the Lord our God. We will go up, and fight ac- cording to all that the Lord our God commanded us. So, every one seizing his implements-of war, you assembled tumultu-
42 ously to go up the mountain. Whereupon the Lord said to me, Say to them, You shall not go up, nor fight; for lam not
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enemies. Accordingly I spoke to you; but you hearkened not to me; but transgressed.the command of the Lord, and. pre- sumptuously ascended the mountain. And the Amorites, who dwelt on the mountain, came out to meet you, and pursued you, as bees would do, and slaughtered you from Seir to Her- ma. Then you sat down, and wept before the Lord our God; but the Lord hearkened not to your voice, nor paid attention to you. So you abode at Kades many days, as many as you had
staid there before. Then we turned, and took up our march into the wilderness, by the way to the Red. sea, as the Lord spoke to me. And when we had been many days circling round mount Seir, the Lord said to me, You have been long enough circling round this mountain, therefore turn northward, and give thou a charge to this people, saying, You are about to march along by the borders of your brethren, the children of Esau who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid of you, and dread you exceedingly. You must not come to battle with them; for I will not give you a foot of their land, because I have given mount Seir to the children of Esau for a possession. Buy provisions of them for money, that you may eat, and re- ceive of them water by measure, for money, that you may drink ; (for the Lord our God had blessed thee in all the works of thy hands.)
Recollect how thou didst traverse that great and frightful wilderness. Behold! for forty years the Lord thy God was with thee. Thou wast not in want of any thing. And when we had passed by our brethren the children of Esau, who inhabit Seir, by the way of Araba, from Ailon to Gesion-gaber, and wheeling about had crossed the wilderness of Moab, the Lord said to me, Act not as enemies against the Moabites; nor come to a battle with them; for I will not give you for a possession any of their land; for I have given Aroer to the children of Lot, that they may imherit it. (Now the Ommins had formerly dwelt there, a nation great and numerous, and mighty as the Ena- kims—they as well as the Enakims may be accounted Ra- phains; but the Moabites call them Ommins. And in Seir the Chorrites were formerly settled, but the children of Esau de- stroyed them, and rooted them out from before them, and dwelt in their stead, in the same manner as Israel hath done with the
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land of their possession which the Lord hath given them.) Now therefore arise, and strike your tents, and cross the valley of Zaret.
Now the time we spent from Kades-barne till we came to the valley of Zaret, was thirty eight years; until all the genera- tion of the warriors had fallen, and died out of the camp. As the Lord had, with an oath denounced against them, the hand of the Lord was upon them to destroy them from among the host until they had all fallen. And when all the warriors had fallen, and died from among the people, the Lord spoke to me, saying, Thou art now to pass by Aroer, along the borders of Moab; when you come near to the children of Amman you must not act hostilely against them, nor come to battle with them; for I will not give thee any of the land of the children of Amman for a possession; because I have given it for a pos- session to the children of Lot. (It may be accounted the land of the Raphains, for the Raphains formerly dwelt there, but the Ammanites call them Zochommins. They, as well as the Ena- | kims, were a nation great and numerous, and much stronger than you; but the Lord destroyed them from before the Am- manites, and they took possession of the country, and have dwelt therein in their stead, even to this day. The same was the case with the children of Esau who inhabit Seir, they, i like manner, destroyed the Chorrites from before them, ton took possession of their country, and have dwelt therein, in their stead, even to this day. So it was with the Evites when they dwelt in Asedoth even to Gaza, the Cappadocians, who came out of Cappadocia, rooted them out, and dwelt in their stead.) Now therefore arise, strike your tents, and cross the vale of Arnon; behold I have delivered into thy hand Seon, king of Esebon, the Amorite, with his land. Begin to take pos- session. Join battle with him this day. Begin to impress the fear of thee, and the dread of thee, on the face of all the nations under heaven. They who hear of thy name shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
Now I had sent messengers from the wilderness of Keda- moth to Seon, king of Esebon, with words of peace, saying, Let me pass through thy land. I will march along the high- way, and not turn aside to the right, nor to the left. Thou shalt
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sell me provisions for money, that I may eat; and thou shalt sell me water for money, that I may drink, just till I can march through on foot; as the children of Esau, who dwell in Serr, and the children of Moab, who dwell in Aroer have done to me, until I cross the Jordan, to the land which the Lord our God giveth us. But Seon, king of Esebon, would not consent that we should pass by him, for the Lord our God had embold- ened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as at this day.
Then the Lord said to me, Behold I have begun to deliver up before thee Seon, king of Esebon, the Amorite, and his land. Begin therefore to take possession of his land. So Seon, king of Esebon, came out to meet us, he and all his people, to bat- tle at Jassa. And the Lord our God delivered him up before us. And we smote him and his sons, and all his people, and took all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed every city one after another; with their wives and children. We left none to be taken alive. Besides making a prey of their cattle, we took the spoils of their cities. From Aroer, which is on the banks of the brook Arnon, including the city in the vale, even to mount Galaad, there was not acity which escaped us.. The Lord our God delivered them all into our hands. Moreover, when, without approaching the children of Amman, we had taken all his territories on the brook Jabok, and his cities in the hilly country, as the Lord our God commanded us, we
turned and went up the way to Basan. And when Og, king of Basan came out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle at E.drain, the Lord said to me, Fear him not; for into thy hand I have delivered him, and all his people, and all his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Seon, the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Esebon. So the Lord our God delivered also into our hands Og, king of Basan, and all his people, and we smote him till there was none of his seed left. And we took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we did not take from them—three score cities, the whole region of Argob, belonging to Og, king of Basan; All the ci- ties fortified with high walls, bars and gates, besides the towns of the Pherezites, which were very many, we utterly destroyed. As we had done to Seon, king of Ksebon, we destroyed every
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city, one after another, and the women and children. But all the cattle, and the spoils of the cities, we took for ourselves. So, at that time, we took this land out of the hands of the two kings of the Amorites, who were on the banks of the Jordan, from the brook Arnon even to Aermon (now the Pheenicians call Aermon Sanior and the Amorites call it Sanir) including all the cities of Misor, and all Galaad, and all Basan, as far as Elcha, and Adraim, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan. (For besides Og, king of Basan, there was not one of the Ra- phains left. Behold his bed was a bed of iron. Behold it is in the citadel of the Ammanites. The length of it is nine cubits, and the breadth of it four cubits, after the cubit of a man.) And we took possession of this land, at that time, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, and the half of mount Galaad; and I gave all the cities thereof to Reuben, and Gad. And ‘the rest of Galaad, and all Basan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half of the tribe of Manasses, with all the region of Argob, even all that part of Basan which is to be accounted the Jand of the Raphains. (Now when Jair the Manassite took the region of Argob, even to the borders of Gergesi, and Macha- thi, he called it after his own name Basan-Thavoth-Jair which is now its name.)
Now when I gave Galaad to the Machirites and to Reu- ben and Gad, all below Galaad, to the brook Arnon, the middle of the brook being the boundary ; and as far as Jabok, this brook being the boundary of the Ammanites, and Araba, and the Jordan the boundary of Machanareth, even to the sea of Araba, the salt sea below Asedoth, the Phasga of the East, I gave youa charge at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land for a possession, you shall go armed before your brethren, the children of Israel, all of you who are fit for war, (but your wives, and your children, and your cat- tle, for I know that you have much cattle, are to dwell in your cities, which I have given you) until the Lord your God shall have given your brethren rest, as well as you; and until they shall have taken possession of the land which the Lord our God giveth them, on the other side of the Jordan. Then you shall return, every one to his possession which I have given you. And at the same time I gave a charge to Joshua, saying,
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Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God hath done to these two kings. In the same manner the Lord our God will deal with all those kingdoms against which you are going to cross over. You shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord our God will fight for you. I also supplicated the Lord, at that time, saying, O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy majesty, and thy power, and thy mighty hand, and thy outstretched arm; for what god is there in heaven, or on earth, who can do as thou hast done, or according to thy ma- jesty. Let me cross over, and see that land, that good land which is beyond the Jordan, and that goodly mountain Antili- banus. But the Lord overlooked me, because of you, and would not hearken to me. And the Lord said to me, Let this
suffice thee. Speak no more on this subject. Go up to the
top of the craggy mountain, and raise thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and take a view of it with thine eyes; for thou shalt not cross this Jordan. And give a charze to Joshua, and strengthen and encourage him; for he shall cross over before this people, and shall give them the possession of all this land which thou hast seen. So we halted at the forest, near the house of Phogor.
Now therefore, hear, O Israel, the rules of rectitude, and the judgments, which I this day teach you to practise, that you may live, and multiply, and go in, and possess the land, which the Lord the God of your fathers giveth you. You shall not
_add any thing to what I command you; nor shall you dimi-
nish from it. You shall keep the commandments of the Lord our God, which I, this day, give you in charge. Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God did because of Beelphe- gor—that as for every man who went after Beelphegor—him the Lord our God destroyed from among you. But as for you who adhered to the Lord your God, you are all alive this day.
Behold, I have taught you rules of rectitude, and judgments,
as the Lord éominatidled me; that you may act agreeably thereto, in the land to which you are going, to take possession of it. Therefore keep them, and practise them. For this wiil be your wisdom, and your understanding, in the sight of all the nations. Whoever shall chance to hear all these rules of recti- tude, will say, Behold this is a wise and understanding people
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hath God near them, as the Lord our God is on all occasions, if we call upon him! And how great must the nation be, which hath such rules of rectitude, and such righteous judg- ments, as are contained in the whole law, which I this day lay before you.
Take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently. For- get not all the things which thine eyes have seen, and let them not depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; that thou mayst impress upon thy children, and thy childrens’ children, that day when you stood in the presence of the Lord our God at Choreb, on the day of the solemn assembly. For the Lord said to me, Assemble the people before me, and let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days they live on the earth. And let them teach their children. So you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain. Though the mountain was blazing with fire up to heaven, there was dark- ness, thick darkness, aturbid tempest. And the Lord uttered to you, from the midst of the fire, the sound of words which you heard. You saw no similitude, but only heard a voice. And when he had declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments, he wrote them on two tables of stone. And the Lord command- ed me at that time to teach you rules of rectitude, and judg- ments, for you to practise in the land to which you are going, to take possession of it. Therefore watch your souls with dili- gence; for you saw no similitude on the day when the Lord spoke to you at Choreb, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire; that you may not transgress, and make for yourselves a graven image—any kind of image, the likeness of man or woman; the likeness of any of the beasts which are on the earth; the likeness of any winged bird, which flieth in the air; the likeness of any reptile, which creepeth on the ground; the likeness of any fish which is in the waters below the earth ; and that upon looking up to heaven, and seeing the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and all the host of heaven, thou mayst not be led astray, and worship them, and perform religious ser- vice to those things which the Lord thy God hath arranged in due order, for all the nations which are under heaven. God hath
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indeed taken you and brought you out of the land of Egypt— out of the iron furnace—out of Egypt, to be to him a chosen people, as at this day; but with me the Lord God was angry for the things spoken by you, and he solemnly said that I should not cross this Jordan, and that I should not enter that land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession. For ἢ am to die in this land, and not to cross that Jordan; but you are to cross it. When you shall possess that good land, take heed to yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which he made with you, and transgress and make for yourselves a graven image of any of the things about which the Lord thy God hath given thee a charge; for the Lord thy God is a consuming fire—a zealous God. If there- fore, when you have begotten sons, and sons’ sons, and have been long in the land, you transgress, and make a graven image —the likeness of any thing whatever, and do evil in thesight of the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath, I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall surely pe- rish from the land, to which you are going, to cross the Jordan there to take possession of it. You shall not prolong your days therein, but shall be utterly rooted out. And the Lord will scatter you among all the nations, and you shall be left few in number, among ail the nations, to which the Lord will bring you. And there you shall serve other gods, the works of men’s hands, stocks and stones, which can neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. Yet there, on seeking the Lord your God you will find him, when you seek him with your whole heart and with your whole soul—In thy affliction, when all these things have come upon thee in the latter days, when thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and hearken to his voice; because the Lord thy God- is a merciful God; he will not forsake thee utterly, ner totally destroy thee. He will not forget the covenant of thy fathers, which the Lord confirmed to them with an oath. Enquire of the days which are past—those which were be- fore thee, from the day God created man on the earth, and from one end of heaven to the other; hath there ever been any thing hke this great thing? Hath any thing been heard like it? Hath any nation heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and
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art still alive? Or hath God come, and made trial to take for himself a nation out of the midst οἵ ἃ nation, by trials, and by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and with a strong hand, and an outstretched arm, and with great visions, according to all that the Lord our God hath done in Egypt, before thine eyes? So that thou must needs know that the Lord thy God is very God, and that there is none else besides him, From heaven he caused his voice to be heard to instruct thee; and on earth he shewed thee his great fire. And thou hast heard his words out of the midst of the fire. Because he loved thy fa- thers, he chose you their seed after them; and by his mighty power he hath brought thee out of Egypt, to destroy nations greater and mightier than thou art, before thee—to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a possession, as is the case with thee this day. Know therefore this day, and revolve it in thy mind, that the Lord thy God is alone God, in the heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and that there is none other besides him. You shall therefore keep his commandments,
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Then Moses set apart three cities on the side of Jordan, to- wards the rising of the sun, for the slayer to flee to. Whoever should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past, might flee to one of these cities, and live, namely, Bo- sor, in the wilderness, in the plain, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth, in Galaaditis, for the Gadites; and Gaulon, in Ba- san, for the Manassites.
Tuts is the law which Moses laid before the children of Israel—these are the testimonies, and the rules of rectitude, and the judgments, which Moses delivered in his speech to the Israelites, after they came out of the land of Egypt on the bank of the Jordan, in the vale near the house of Phogor, in the land of Seon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Esebon, whom Moses and the Israelites slew after their coming out of the land of Egypt, when they took possession both of this land, and the land of Og king of Basan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were on the side of the Jordan towards the
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When Moses had convened all Israel, he atid to them, Hear, O Israel, the rules of rectitude and the judgments, which I this day deliver in your hearing, that you may learn them, and may be careful to perform them.
The Lord your God made a covenant with you at Choreb. It was not only with your fathers that the Lord made this co- venant, but with you also—with you who are all here alive this day. Face to face the Lord spoke to you, at that moun- tain, out of the midst of the fire. I indeed stood between the Lord and you, at that time, to declare to you the words of the Lord, because you were terrified at the fire, and did not go up to the mountain; and he said, lam the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bon- dage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol, nor the likeness of any thing in the heaven above, or of any “i the things which are on the earth below, or which are in the waters below the earth. Thou shalt not worship them, nor serve them; for lam the Lord thy God, a zealous God, retributing, to them who hate me, the sins of fa- thers upon children, to the third and fourth generation, and shewing mercy for thousands [of generations] to them who love me, and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord thy God will not purify him who taketh his name in vain. Keep the day of the sabbaths to hallow it, asthe Lord thy God hath com- manded thee. Labour six days, and do all thy works; but on the seventh day are the sabbaths for the Lord thy God. On it thou shalt not-do any work—neither thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man servant nor thy maid servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the proselyte who sojourneth with thee; that thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and thy labouring beast may rest as well as thou. Re- member that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence, with a strong
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16 and hallow it. Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst live long in the land which the Lord thy
17 God giveth thee. Thou shalt not commit murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. ‘Thou shalt not steal. ‘Thou shalt
21 not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife; thou shalt not covet thy neigh- bour’s house, nor his field, nor his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any of his cattle, nor any thing which is thy neighbour’s.
22 ‘These are the injunctions which the Lord delivered ver- bally, to all your congregation, atthe mount, out of the midst of the fire. There was darkness, thick darkness, a turbid tem- pest, and a loud voice. And he added no more. And having written them on two tables of stone, he gave them to me.
23 Now when you heard the voice from the midst of the fire (the mountain indeed was burning with fire) you came to me, even
24 all the leaders of your tribes, and your elders, and said, Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his glory, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire. We have this day seen
25 that God can speak to man, and he may live. Now therefore let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we conti- nue any longer to hear the voice of the Lord our God; and we
26 shall die. For what mortal, who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have,
27 can live. Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our God may say, and thou shalt rehearse to us all that the Lord our
28 God may speak to thee, and we will hear and do it. And the Lord heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me. And the Lord said to me, I have heard the sound of the words of this people, even all that they have spoken to thee. All that
29 they have said is right. O that they may have their heart so dis- posed in them as to fear me, and to keep my commandments continually, that it may be well with them, and their children
30 for ever. Go say to them, Return to your houses. But as for
31 thee, Stand thou here with me, and I will speak to thee all the commandments, and the rules of rectitude, and the judg- ments, which thou shalt teach them; and Jet them act accord-
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ingly in the land which I give them for a possession. Be care- ful therefore to do as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Turn not aside to the right, nor to the left, from walking in all the way which the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that he may give thee rest, and that it may be well with thee, and that you may live long in the land, of which you shall take pos- session.
Now these are the commandments, and the rules of rec- titude, and the judgments, which the Lord our God command- ed you to be taught, that you may act conformably thereto in the land to which you are going, there to take possession of it; that you may fear the Lord your God. You shail keep all his statutes, and his commandments, which I this day command you, both thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, all the days of thy life, that you may live many days. There- fore hear, O Israel, and be careful to perform; that it may be well with thee, and that you may be greatly multiplied, as the Lord, the God of thy fathers, hath promised to give thee a land flowing with milk and honey. These indeed are the rules of rectitude, and the judgments, which the Lord gave in charge to the children of Israel, in the wilderness, on ther coming out of the land of Egypt.
Hear O Israel! The Lord is our God. The Lord is one. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole understanding, and. with thy whole soul, and with thy whole might. And these injunctions, which I this day give thee in charge, shall be in thy heart, and in thy soul; and thou shalt impress them on thy children, and speak of them, when thou sittest at home, and when thou art walking abroad, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up; and thou shalt bind them for a sign on thy right hand, and it shall be immoveably before thine eyes. You shall also write them on the posts of your houses and gates. And when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into the land, which, with an oath he promised to thy fathers, to Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob, to give thee cities, great and beautiful, which thou hast not builded—houses full of all good things, which thou hast not filled; cisterns of hewn stone, which thoy hast not hewed; vineyards, and olive yards which
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thou hast not planted; and when thou hast eaten, and art filled,
12 take heed to thyself, that thou forget not the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt—out of the house
13 of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy’ God, and serve him
14 alone, and cleave to him, and swear by his name. Go not af-
15 ter other gods—after any of the gods of the nations around you. (For the zealous God—the Lord thy God is among you) lest the Lord thy God, being provoked to wrath against thee,
16 destroy thee from the face of the land. Thou shalt not try the
17 Lord thy God, as you tried him at Temptation. Thou shalt di- ligently keep the commandments of the Lord thy God—all the testimonies, and the rules of rectitude, which he shall give
18 thee in charge; and thou shalt do what is well pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord thy God, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst go in, and take possession of
19 that good land, out of which the Lord hath, with an oath, pro- mised your fathers to drive all thine enemies from before thee,
20 as the Lord hath spoken. And when thy son shall, in time to come, ask thee, saying, What is the meaning of these testi- monies, and these rules of rectitude, and these judgments,
21 which the Lord our God hath enjoined on us? Then thou shalt say to thy son, We were servants to Pharao, in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us out thence, with a
22 strong hand, and with an outstretched arm. And when the Lord had shewn signs, and wonders, great, and grievous, in
23 Egypt, on Pharao, and on his household, in our sight, he brought us out thence, to give us this land, which, with an
24 oath, he promised to give our fathers; and the Lord com- manded us to practise all these rules—to fear the Lord our God, that it may be well with us always, that we may live, as
25 we now do. For we shall find mercy, if we be careful to per- form all these commandments in the sight of the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
VII. Now when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into that land, to which thou art going, there to possess it, and hath re- moved from before thee mighty nations—the Chettite, and the Gergasite, and the Amorite, and the Chananite, and the Phe- resite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, seven nations, more
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shall deliver them into thy hands, thou shalt smite them; thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt not make a covenant with them. You shall neither shew them mercy, nor contract mar- riages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son. For she will cause thy son to apostatise from me, and to serve other gods, and the Lord will be provoked to wrath against you, and speedily destroy thee. But in this manner thou shalt deal with them—their al- tars you shall destroy; their pillars you shall break to pieces; their groves you shall cut down; and the graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire. For thou art a people dedicated to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to bea peculiar people to himself, in preference to all the na- tions which are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were the most numerous of all the nations, that the Lord preferred you, and made choice of you; for you are the fewest of all the nations: but because the Lord loved you, therefore in performance of the oath which he swore to your fathers, the Lord led you out with a strong hand, and the Lord redeemed thee from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord thy God is the only God—the God to be confided in, who keepeth covenant and mercy for thousands of generations with them who love him, and keep his commandments; and who requiteth to their face them who hate him, so as to. destroy them. To them in- deed who hate him he will not be slack; to their face he will requite them. Therefore keep the commandments, and the rules of rectitude, and these judgments, which I this day com- mand thee to do. And it shall come to pass, that if you hearken tothese rules, and keep and practise them, the Lord thy God will keep with thee the covenant, and the mercy, which he, with an oath, confirmed to your fathers. And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; and he wiil bless the offspring of thy womb, and the product of thy land—thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, thy herds of cattle, and thy flocks of sheep, in the land which he, with an oath, promised thy fathers to give thee. Thou shalt be blessed above all the nations. There shall not be a male without a progeny, nor a female barren among you, or your cattle. And the Lord will remove from thee every
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malady, and will not lay upon thee any of the sore diseases of Egypt, which thou hast seen, which thou hast known: but will lay them upon all that hate thee. And thou shalt consume all the spoils of the nations, which the Lord thy God giveth thee: Thine eye shall not have pity on them. And thou shalt not per- form religious service to their gods; for this is a’snare for thee. Now if thou shouldst say in thy heart, This nation 15 stronger than I; how shall I be able to exterminate them? Be not afraid of them; but keep up a lively remembrance of all that the Lord. thy God did to Pharao, and to all the Egyptians—the great trials which thine eyes have seen,—the signs and great won- ders—the mighty hand, and the outstretched seat the Lord thy God brought thee out, so will the Lord your God deal with all the nations, of whom you are afraid. The Lord thy God will indeed send hornets against them, until they who are left, and hid from thee, are utterly destroyed. ‘Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the Lord thy God—the Great and Mighty God, is with thee. The Lord thy God will indeed con- sume those nations from before thee, by little and little. Thou wilt not be enabled to destroy them at once, lest the land be- come a waste, and the wild beasts multiply against thee. But the Lord thy God will deliver them into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy them with a great destruction, until you may ut- terly exterminate them. When he shall deliver their kings into your hands, you shall destroy their name out of that place. None shall be able to stand before thee, until thou hast utterly destroyed them. The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire. Thou shalt not covet the silver nor the gold thereof. Thou shalt not take any of it for thyself, lest thou be ensnared by it. Because it is an abomination to the Lord: thy God, therefore thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house ; for thou wilt be an Anathema as wellas it. Thou shalt utterly detest it, and hold it in utter abomination; for it 15 an Anathema. [ἃ devoted thing. ]
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you shall be careful to perform, that you may live, and be mul- tiplied, and go in, and possess the land which the Lord your
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in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and prove thee, and know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or not. And when he had afflicted thee, and suffered thee to hunger, then he fed thee with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might shew thee, that man can live not on bread only; but that man can live on any thing which God is pleased to appoint. Thy garments did not be- come too old for thee, nor were thy shoes worn out from un- der thee; nor the feet galled during the whole forty years; so that thou must know in thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son, so the Lord thy God ‘will chasten thee; keep therefore the
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and fearing him. For the Lord thy God will bring thee to a sood, and extensive land, where there are brooks of water, and. fountains from the deeps, issuing forth from the plains, and from the hills—a land of wheat, "ane barley, where there are vineyards, and fig trees, and pomegranates—a land of oil-olive and honey—a land wherein thou shalt eat bread, without scar- city, and in which thou shalt not want-any thing—-a land, the stones of whichare iron, and out of the mountains of which thou shalt dig brass. Therefore when thou hast eaten, and art satis- fied, thou shalt bless the Lord thy God in that good land, which he hath given thee. Take heed to thyself, that thou forget not the Lord thy God, so as not to keep his commandments, and his judgments, and his rules of rectitude, which I this day command thee. When thou hast eaten, and art satisfied, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein, and when thy herds, and thy flocks, are multiplied, and thou hast silver and
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not elated in heart, nor forget the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage— who conducted you through that great and frightful wilder- ness; where there were biting serpents and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water—who brought a fountain of water for thee out of a flinty rock—who fed thee in the wil- derness with manna, which thou didst not know, and which was not known by thy fathers, that he might afflict thee, and try thee, and do thee good in thy latter days.
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18 my own hand hath procured me this great wealth : but remem- ber the Lord thy God, that it is he who giveth thee power to procure wealth, that he may establish the covenant which the
19 Lord made with thy fathers, as at this day. Indeed if thou for- get the Lord thy God, and go after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I call heaven and earth this day to witness
20 against you, that you shall surely perish. In like manner as the other nations which the Lord God destroyed before you, so shall you perish, because you have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord your God.
IX. Hear, O Israel! Thou art now about to cross the Jordan, to go in to possess nations much greater and stronger than
2 you, large cities, which are walled up to the sky, a people ereat and numerous, and of great stature, the children of Enak, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard it said,
Who can stand before the sons of Enak? Know therefore this
day, that the Lord thy God will himself march before thee.
He is a consuming fire. He willdestroy them. He will cause
them to turn back from before thy face, and will destroy them
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thy God hath destroyed those nations from before thee, speak not in thy heart, saying, On the account of my righteousness
5 the Lord hath brought me in to possess this good land. It is
not on the account of thy righteousness, nor for the sanctity of thy heart, that thou goest in to possess their land; but, be- cause of the wickedness of those nations, the Lord will drive them out from before thee, and that he may establish his cove- nant which the Lord made with our fathers—with Abraham,
6 and Isaak, and Jacob. Know therefore this day, that it is not
for thy righteousness that the Lord thy God giveth thee that
good land fora possession; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
Remember—never forget how often thou hast provoked to
wrath the Lord thy God, in the wilderness. From the day you
came out of Egypt, till your coming to this place, you have
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you provoked the Lord, so that the anger of the Lord was kind-
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the mount forty days, and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water ; and the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, written with the finger of God—upon them indeed were writ- ten all the words which the Lord had spoken to you at the mount, on the day of the solemn assembly. And after the for- ty days, and the forty nights, when the Lord gave me the two tables of stone—the tables of the covenant, the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from this place: for thy people, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt, have transgressed. They have gone aside quickly out of the way, to which thou didst enjoin them, and have made for themselves a molten image. Moreover the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have spoken to thee once and again and said, 1 have seen this peo- ple, and behold it is a stiffmecked people; now therefore let ° me utterly destroy them, and blot out their name from under | heaven; and I will make thee a nation, great and powerful, and much more numerous than this. Whereupon I turned, and came down from the mount. Now the mount was blazing with fire up to heaven, and I had in my two hands the two tables of the testimonies. And when I saw that you had sin- ned before the Lord your God, and that you had made for yourselves a molten image, and had turned aside from the way in which the Lord had commanded you to walk; hav- ing hold of the two tables, I threw them out of my hands and broke them before your eyes. Then I made supplication before the Lord, a second time, as I had done before, forty days and forty nights—(I neither ate bread nor drank wa. ter)—for your sins which you had committed by doing evil in the sight of the Lord God, to provoke him to wrath. Even now I tremble on account of the wrath and indignation. For the anger of the Lord was kindled against you, to destroy you utterly. But the Lord hearkened to me at that time also. Eyen against Aaron, his wrath was kindled to destroy him; But I prayed for Aaron also at that time. Now I had taken your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire; and having stamped, and ground it, till it was very fine, and like dust, I threw the dust into the torrent which ran down out of the mount. At Burning also, and at Tempjation, and at
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When I was making supplication before the Lord, forty days, and forty nights, as I had done before (for the Lord spoke of destroying you utterly,) I prayed to God, and said, O Lord, thou king of all the gods, destroy not thy people, and thy he- ritage, whom thou hast redeemed, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with thy mighty power, and with thy strong hand, and with thine outstretched arm. Remémber Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself. Look not upon the stubbornness of this people, nor upon their wickedness, and their sins, lest they who dwell in the land, out of which thou hast brought them, should speak, saying, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them; and be- cause he hated them, he led them out into the wilderness to kill them. Now these are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Kgypt, with thy mighty power, and with thy strong hand, and with thine outstretched arm.
At that time the Lord said to me, Hew thee out two ta- bles of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mount; and thou shalt make thee an ark of wood, and thou shalt write on these tables the words which were on the first tables, which thou didst break, and shalt put them in the ark. So when I had made an ark of incorruptible wood, and hewed two tables of stone, like the first, and had gone up the mount with the two tables in my hand; and he had written on these tables, according to the former writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spoke to you. at the mount, out of the midst of the fire; and the Lord had given them to me, and I had turned, and come down from the mount, and had put theseta- bles in the ark which I had made, and they were there as the Lord commanded me, then the children of Israel removed out of Beroth, the country belonging to the children of Jakin, into
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When I had been on the mount forty days, and forty nights, the Lord hearkened to me at that time also, for the Lord was not willing to destroy you utterly ; and the Lord said to me, Go, march before this people, and let them go in, and take possession of the land which I solemnly promised their fathers to give them. Now therefore, O Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul—to keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and his rules of rectitude, which I this day command thee, that it may be well with thee ? Behold the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, belong to the Lord thy God, the earth also, and all that are therein. Nevertheless the Lord made choice of your fathers to love them; and he chose you, their seed, after them, in preference to all the nations, as at this day. Circumcise therefore the stubbornness of your hearts, and be no more stiff- necked. For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords—the God, great, and mighty, and awful. He respect- eth not persons, nor taketh a bribe. He administereth justice to the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. Thou 'shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and cleave to him, and swear by his name. He is thy boast; and he is thy God, who hath done for thee those great, and those mar- vellous things which thine eyes have seen. With seventy souls thy fathers went down to Egypt, and now the Lord thy God
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and his rules of rectitude, and his commandments, and his judgments, continually. You must now know, for I am not addressing your children, who have not known, nor seen, the chastisement of the Lord thy God, and his great acts, and his outstretched arm, and his signs, and his wonders, which he did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharao, king of Egypt, and to all his land; and what he did to the army of the Egyptians— to their chariots, and their cavalry, and their host—how the Lord caused the water of the Red sea to overwhelm them, when they were pursuing you, and destroyed them even to this day: and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place ; and what he did to Dathan and Abiron, the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, whom the earth, opening its mouth, swallowed up, with their houses, and their tents, and all their substance with them, in the midst of all Israel. Because your eyes have seen all these great acts of the Lord which he hath done among you; therefore you shall keep all his commandments which I this day give thee in charge, that you may live, and multiply, and go in, and possess that land to which you are going to cross the Jordan, there to take posses- sion of it—that you may prolong your days in that land, which the Lord, with an oath to your fathers, promised to give to them, and to their seed after them—a land flowing with milk and honey. For the land to which you are going, to take pos- session of it, is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where, when they have sown the seed, they can water it with their feet, like a garden of herbs. But the land to which you are gomg, to take possession of it, is a land of hills and dales, which drinketh up water from the rain of heaven— aland over which the Lord thy God keepeth a continual watch. The eyes of the Lord thy God are upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end thereof. And if you will hearken diligently to all the commands which I this day com- mand thee, to love the Lord thy God, and to serve him with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, he will give rain for thy land in due season—the former and the latter rain; and thou shalt gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. He will also give grass in thy fields for thy cattle.
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that thy heart be not elated; and that you do not transgress, 17 and serve other gods, and worship them, lest the Lord, being provoked to wrath against you, shut up heaven, so that there shall be no rain, and the land yield not its products, and ye quickly perish from that good land, which the Lord/hath given 18 you. Therefore lay up these things in your heart, and in your soul, and bind them fora sign on your hand, that they may be 19 immoveably before your eyes. And you shall teach them to your children, by speaking of them, when thou sittest at home, and when thou walkest abroad, and when thou liest down to 20 sleep, and when thou risest up. And you shall write them on 21 the door posts of your houses, ‘and of your gates; that you may prolong your lives, that the days of your children in the land which the Lord solemnly promised your fathers to give 22 them, may be as the days of heaven over the earth. For it shall come to pass, that if you hearken diligently to all these com- mands, which I this day enjoin you to do—to love the Lord 23 our God,and to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him, the Lord will drive out all those nations from before you, and you shall possess nations much greater and stronger than you. 24. Every place on which you shall imprint the track of your feet shall be yours, from the wilderness to Antilibanus, and from 25 the river, the great river Euphrates, to the western sea. These shall be your boundaries. None shall be able to stand before you. For the Lord your God will impress the fear of you, and the dread of you, on the face of all the land on which you shall tread, as the Lord hath said to you. 26 Behold Lam going to lay before you this day the blessing 27 and the curse—the blessing, if you will hearken to the com- mandments of the Lord your God, which I this day command 28 you—and the curse, if you will not hearken to the command- ments of the Lord our God, in all respects, as I this day com- mand you; but turn aside out of the way to which I have en- joined you, and go to serve other gods, which you do not 29 know. And when the Lord thy God hath brought thee to the land, to which thou art going to cross over, there to take pos- session of it, thou shalt put the blessing on mount Garazin, 30 and the curse on mount Gaibal. Behold are not these on the bank of the Jordan, behind the road to the setting of the sun,
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in the land of the Chananites, whose dwelling is to the west- ward, adjoining Golgol, near the lofty oak? for you are going to cross the Jordan.
When you have gone in, to possess the land which the Lord our God giveth you for a perpetual possession, and you shall dwell therein, be careful to perform all his command- ments, and all these judgments, which I this day lay before you.
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You shall utterly destroy all those places, ii in which they whom you succeed, have worshipped their gods, on the lofty mountains, and on the hills, and under every shady tree. You shall level their mounts, and break in pieces their pillars, and cut down their groves, and burn the graven images of their gods with fire, so that their name may be destroyed out of that place.
You shall not do to the Lord your God, in the manner they have done; but you shall seek out and come to the place, which the Lord thy God shall make choice of, in one of your cities, to put his name there, and to be invoked; and to that place you shall bring your whole burnt offerings, and your sa- crifices, and your oblations, and your vows, and your free will offerings, and your thank offerings, and the firstlings of your herds, and flocks; and you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and rejoice with your households, for all your possessions, and the labours of your hands, as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee. You shall not do all that we do here at this day; every one what is agreeable in his own sight; for till now you have ἡ not come to the rest, and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you: but when you cross the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord our God giveth you for a possession—when he shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and you shall dwell in safety, then there shall be a place, wherever the Lord thy God shall chuse, for his name to be invoked. To that place you shall bring all that I this day command you, your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tenths, and the oblations of your hands, and the choice
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of all your gifts which you may vow to the Lord your God; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men servants, and your maid servants, and the Levite who is at your gates, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with you. Take heed to thy- self, that thou offer not thy whole burnt offerings in every place which thou mayst see; but only in the place which the Lord thy God shall make choice of, in one of thy tribes. There you shall offer your whole burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I this day command you. Nevertheless, to satisfy thy desire, thou mayst kill and eat flesh, in every city, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee. The unclean with thee, and the clean, may eat it together, as you now do a roebuck or a deer; but you must not eat the blood: that you shall pour on the ground like water. ‘Thou shalt not be at liberty to eat, in thy cities, the tythe of thy corn, and of thy wine, and thine oil, nor the firstlings of thy herds, and thy flocks, nor any of thy vows, which you shall make, nor your thank offerings, nor the oblations of thy hands. These thou shalt eat no where but before the Lord, in the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse for himself; thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and. the stranger who is in thy cities. And when thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, for all thy possessions and all the labours of thy hand, take heed to thyself, that thou neglect not the Levite, as long as thou livest in the land. And when the Lord thy God hath enlarged thy borders, as he hath said to thee, if thou shalt say, I will eat flesh; if thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayst, to satisfy the longing of thy soul, eat flesh: and if the place, which the Lord thy God may ha¥e cho- sen for his name to be invoked, be far from thee, thou mayst slay, in the manner I have commanded thee, some of thy herd or thy flock, which God hath given thee, and eat in thy cities, according to the longing of thy soul. As the roebuck and the deer is eaten so thou shalt eat it. The unclean and the clean may alike eat it. But be very cautious not to eat blood. For his blood is life. Life must not be eaten with the flesh. You must not eat it. You must pour it out on the ground, like wa- ter. Thou shalt not eat it, that it may be well with thee, and
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Observe and hear, that thou mayst do all the things which I command thee, that it may be well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever.
When thou hast done what is well pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord thy God; and when the Lord thy God shall have driven out from before thee the nations, to which thou art going, to take possession of their land, and thou shalt pos- sess it, and dwell therein, take heed to thyself that thou seek not to follow them after they are driven out from before thee, saying, How did these nations sacrifice to their gods? I will sa- crifice in hke manner. Thou shalt not do so to thy God; for they sacrificed to their gods the abominations of the Lord, which he hated; for they burned their sons, and their daughters, with fire, to their gods.
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if thy brother, the son of thy father, or of thy mother, or thine own son, or daughter, or the wife in thy bosom, or a friend who is as thine own soul, speak privately to thee saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known—any of the gods of the nations around you, of those near thee, or those far distant from thee, from one end of the earth to the other; thou shalt not consent, nor hearken to him; neither shall thine eye pity him, nor shalt thou spare him, nor conceal him. Thou shalt surely inform against him, and thy hands shall be upon him, among the foremost, to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the whole people. And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death, because he sought to make thee apostatise from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt—out of the house of bondage. So all Israel will hear, and be afraid, and no more proceed to do any such wickedness as this among you. And if thou shalt hear it said, that in one of the cities, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to dwell in, there are wicked men gone forth among you, who have seduced all the inhabitants of their land, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you know not; thou shalt examine, and make inquiry, and search diligently: And behold, if the report is evidently true, and such abomination hath been committed among you; thou shalt surely destroy all the inhabitants of that land, with the slaugh- ter of the sword. With an Anathema thou shalt devote to de- struction, it and all that are in it. And thou shalt collect all the spoils of it into the streets thereof, and burn with fire the city, and all the spoils thereof, with all the inhabitants, in the sight of the Lord thy God. And it shall be uninhabited for ever. It shall never be rebuilt any more; nor shall any thing of what is devoted to destruction cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his wrath, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion on thee, and multiply thee, in the man- ner he solemnly promised thy fathers, if thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments which I this day command you—to do what is comely and well pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.
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Because thou art a people dedicated to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself, above all the nations on the face of the earth, you shall not eat any abomination. These are the beasts which you shall eat, young beeves, and sheep, and goats, deer and roebucks, and the pygarg, and oryx, and camelopardal—every beast which
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The feast of tabernacles thou shalt keep for thyself seven days. When thou hast gathered in from thy threshing floor, and from thy press, thou shalt rejoice at this thy festival, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who 15 in thy cities. Seven days thou shalt cele- brate this festival to the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen for himself. So when the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy productions, and in all the works of thy hands, and thou shalt be made glad, every male shall, three times in the year, appear before the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord shall chuse—at the festival of unleaven- ed bread, and at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of ta- bernacles. ‘Thou shalt not appear before the Lord thy God empty handed. Every one of you shall bring according to the ability of his hand, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee.
Thou shalt appoint for thyself judges, and promulgators of the law, in the cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee, in every tribe. And they shall administer just judgment to the people. They shall not wrest judgment, nor respect persons, nor shall they receive a gift. For gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. Thou shalt pur- sue righteously what is right, that you may live, and go in, and possess the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not plant a grove for thyself, nor make for thy- self a wood near the altar of thy God, nor set up for thyself a pillar: these are things which the Lord thy God hateth.
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thee, and thou hast made strict inquiry, and behold the thing hath been actually done, and such an abomination hath been committed in Israel, thou shalt bring out that man, or that woman, and you shall stone them with stones, till they die. On the testimony of two or three witnesses the guilty person shall be put to death; but shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness. And the hand of the witness shall be upon him, among the first, to put him to death, and after- wards the hand of the people. So thou shalt remove the wick- edness from among you.
And if any cause which requireth judicial decision—an ac- tion of murder, an action of appeal, a case of leprosy, an action of plaint and denial—-any causes which require decision in any of your cities, be too difficult for thee, thou shalt arise, and go up to the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen, and there come to the priests, the Levites, or to the judge, who- ever he may be in those days, and they shall inquire, and de- clare to thee the sentence of judgment, and thou shalt act ac- cording to what they declare to thee from the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen: and thou shalt be careful to do according to what is expounded to thee for law. According to the law, and according to the sentence of judgment, which they tell thee, thou shalt do. Thou shalt not deviate from what they tell thee, either to the right, or to the left. And if any man act presumptuously, so as not to hearken to the priest who hath stood to minister to the name of the Lord thy God ; or to the judge who may be in those days; that man shall be put to death. So thou shalt remove the evil person from among Is- rael, and all the people, when they hear, will be struck ‘with awe, and no more act presumptuously.
And when thou art come to the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and hast taken possession of it, and dwelt therein, if thou shouldst say, I will set a chief over me, as the other nations around me do; thou shalt surely set, as chief over thee, him whom the Lord thy God shall chuse. Thou shalt ap- point one of thy brethren chief over thee. Thou shalt not be at liberty to set a stranger over thee, because he is not thy brother. Because he is not to multiply cavalry for himself, he must not eyen cause his people to go back to Egypt: in order that
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he may not multiply his cavalry: the Lord indeed. hath said, You shall not henceforth return that way any more. Neither shall he multiply wives to himself; that his heart may not turn aside; nor shall he greatly multiply for himself silver and gold. And whenheis settled in his government, he shall write for him- self this repetition of the law in a book, from that which is in the custody of the priests, the Levites. And he shall keep it by him, and shall read therein all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord thy God, and to keep all these com- mandments, and execute all these judgments ; that his heart may not be lifted up above his brethren—that he may not turn aside from these commandments, to the right, or to the left, to the end that he and his sons may long enjoy his government among the children of Israel.
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shall have no portion, nor lot, with Israel. The homage offer- ings of the Lord are their lot. Them they shall eat; and they shall not have a lot of inheritance among their brethren. The Lord himself is their lot of inheritance, as he hath said to them. Now this shall be the priest’s due from the people—from them who offer sacrifices, whether a young bull, or a sheep, thou shalt give to the priest the shoulder, and the cheeks, and the maw. ‘Thou shalt also give him the dedications of thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, and the dedications of the fleeces of thy flock. Because the Lord hath chosen him, out of all thy tribes, to stand before the Lord God, to minister and to bless, in his name; therefore with regard to him and his sons, among the children of Israel, if, out of any one of all these cities of the children of Israel where he dwelleth, a Levite cometh, with all the desire of his soul, to the place which the Lord hath cho- sen, that he may minister to the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who attend there before the Lord thy God, he shall eat the allotted portion, over and above what may come from the sale of his patrimony.
‘When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after +he abomina- tions of those nations. Let there not be found among you any one who purifieth his son, or his daughter, with fire; or who prac- tiseth divinations, or consulteth omens, or augury, or maketh
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use of drugs to practise incantation, or a belly speaker, or an astrologer, or a necromancer; for every one who practiseth such things is an abomination to the Lord thy God; for, be- cause of these abominations, the Lord will root them out from before you. Thou shalt be complete in the sight of the Lord thy God. For these nations which thou art about to possess will hearken to enchanters and diviners; but the Lord thy God hath not permitted thee to do so. The Lord thy God will raise up for thee, from among thy brethren, a prophet like me; to him you shall hearken. According to all that thou didst request of the Lord thy God at Choreb, in the day of the solemn as- sembly, when you said, Let us no more hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and let us no more behold this great fire, lest we die, the Lord then said to me, They have spoken right in all that they have said to thee: I will raise up for them, from among their brethren, a prophet like thee, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them as I command. him: and whosoever will not hearken to what that prophet shall speak in my name, I will execute vengeance on him. But the prophet who shall wickedly presume to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall be put to death. Now if thou shalt say in thy heart, How shall I know the word which the Lord hath not spoken ? When the
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One witness shall not be sufficient to. testify against a man for any iniquity, or any crime, or any sin, which he may com- mit. By the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, every thing shall be established. And ifa false wit- ness rise up against a man, and accuse him of any crime, the
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and see horsemen, and charioteers, and a people more nume- rous than thou art; be not afraid of them; for the Lord thy God is with thee—he who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And when thou art near coming to battle, the priest shall approach, and speak to the people, and say to them, Hear, O Israel! You are now going to battle against your enemies; let not your heart be discouraged; fear not, nor be dismayed, nor turn aside from before them; for the Lord your God go- eth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, and to save you. Then the scribes shall speak to the people, and'say, If there be any man who hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it, let him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. Or is there any man who hath planted a vineyard, and hath not been regaled with it; let him go, and return to his family, lest he die in the bat- tle, and another man be regaled with it. Or is there any man who hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her home; let him go, and return to his family, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her. And the scribes shall further speak to the people, and say, Is there any man fearful, and faint hearted ; let him go, and return to his family, lest he make the heart of his brother faint as his own. And when the scribes have done speaking to the people, they shall appoint the chiefs of the ar- my to lead on the people. And when thou art come to a city, to fight against it, thou shalt call upon the inhabitants to come out peaceably. And if they return thee a peaceful answer, and open to thee; all the people who are found therein shall be tri- butary to thee, and be thy subjects. But if they hearken not to thee, and make war against thee, thou shalt besiege it, until the Lord thy God.deliver it into thy hands. And when thou hast smitten all the males therein with the slaughter of the sword, thou shalt take for thyself, besides the women and the children, all the cattle, and all spoils that are in the city, and eat all the
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prey of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God giveth thee. In this manner thou shalt treat ail the cities which are at a great distance from thee, which are not of the cities of those nations whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession. Of these you shall save none alive that breatheth: but, with an Anathema; thou shalt devote to destruction the Chettite and the Amorite, and the Chananite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergasite, as the Lord thy
‘God hath commanded thee; that they may not teach you all
their abominations which they have performed to their gods; and that you may not sin before the Lord your God: Now when thou shalt sit down before a city, many days, to war against it till it be taken, thou shalt not destroy. the trees there- of by striking an ax against them. That especially, the fruit of which thou mayst eat, thou shalt not cut down. Doth any man wish to have a tree in the field for the purpose of a ram- part for thee; let it be that only which thou knowest is not a fruit bearing tree. This thou mayst destroy and cut down, to build ramparts against the city which resisteth thee, until it be delivered up.
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And when thou goest out to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thy hands, and thou ἢ hast taken their prey, and hast seen, among the captives, a wo- man of a comely appearance, and hast loved her, and hast ta- ken her to thyself for a wife, and brought her home to thy house, thou shalt shave her head, and pare her nails, and take from her the garments of her captivity, and she shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father, and her mother, a full month, and after that thou mayst go in unto her, and cohabit with her, and she shall be thy wife. And in case thou dislike her, thou shalt send her away free. She shall not be sold for money. Thou shalt not deal falsely with her, because thou hast hum- bled her.
If any man hath two wives, and one of them be beloved, and the other hated; and both the beloved, and the hated, bear him children, and the son of the hated be the first born, he shall not be at liberty, when he bequeatheth his substance to his children, to give the right of primogeniture to the son of the beloved, and overlook the son of the hated, who is the first born; but shall acknowledge the son of the hated as his first born, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath, be- cause he is the head of his children, and the rights of primo- geniture belong to him.
If any man hath a stubborn, and rebellious son, who heark- eneth not to the voice of his father, nor to the voice of his mo- ther; and they have corrected him, and he will not hearken to them; his father and his mother shall take him, and bring him out to the senate of his city, and to the gate of the place; and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is stub- born and rebellious; he hearkeneth not to our voice. He is de- voted to revelling and drunkenness. Thereupon the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death. So thou shalt remove the wicked from among you; and the rest, who hear, will be struck with awe.
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to deatli; and you hang him ona gibbet; his body shall not remain on the gibbet; but you shall bury it the same day. Be- cause every one who is hanged on a gibbet is accursed of God; therefore you shall not defile the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession.
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A woman shall not wear what appertaineth to man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment; for every one who doth such things is an abommmation to the Lord thy God. ᾿
If there chance to be before thee in the way, either ina tree, or on the ground, a bird’s nest, with young or eggs; and the dam be sitting on the young, or on the eggs; thou shalt not take the dam with the young. Thou shalt let the dam go; but thou mayst take the young for thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst prolong thy days.
When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a bat- tlement for thy roof, that thou mayst not occasion death by thy house, by any one’s falling from it.
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard, when the product of it 15 consecrated, with seed of another kind, that the seed which thou sowest may not be consecrated, with the product of thy vineyard.
Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.
Thou shalt not wear, without scouring, a garment of wool and flax in the same piece.
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and spread groundless reports concerning her, and give her an ἢ ill name, and say, I took this woman to wife, but when I came to her, I did not find her tokens of virginity ; thereupon the father and mother of the damsel taking the tokens of their child’s virginity, shall carry them to the senate, to the gate. And the father of the girl shall say to the senate, I gave this my daughter to that man for a wife; but he now hateth her, and hath spread groundless reports concerning her, saying, I found not the tokens of virginity in thy daughter. Now these are the proofs of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread. the garment before the senate of the city. Whereupon the senate of the city shall take the man, and chastise him, and fine him a hundred shekels, and give them to the father of the young woman, because he brought an ill name on a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife. He shall not be at liberty to put her away all his days. But if his accusation be founded in truth, and proofs of virginity cannot be found for the young woman, they shall carry out the young woman to the doors of her father’s house, and stone her with stones, till she die, be- cause she hath committed folly in Israel, by making her father’s house a place of prostitution. So thou shalt remove evil from among you.
If a man be found lying with a woman who is married, you shall put them both to death; both the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So shalt thou take away evil from Is- rael.
If a virgin be betrothed to a husband; anda man find her in a city, and lie with her, you shall bring them both out to the gate of the city, and stone them with stones, till they die—the young woman, because she did not cry aloud in the city, and the man because he humbled the wife of his neighbour. So thou shalt remove evil from among you. But if the man found the woman who was betrothed, in the field, and by force lay with her, you shall put him only to death who lay with her. The young woman is not guilty of death. As when a man hath risen up against his neighbour, and killed him, even so is this matter: for he found her in the field. ‘The young woman who was betrothed, cried aloud, but there was noneto help her.
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and by force lie with her, and be found, the man who hath lain with her shall pay the father of the young woman fifty di- drachms of silver, and she shall be his wife: because he hath humbled her, he shall not be at liberty to put her away, all the days of his life.
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ting, shall not come into the congregation of the Lord; nor shall the son of a harlot come into the congregation of the Lord. An Amorite, and a Moabite, shall not come into the congregation of the Lord : even to the tenth generation, they shall not come into the congregation of the Lord—nay; even for ever; because they did not meet you with bread and water on the way, when you were coming out of Egypt; and be- cause they hired against thee, Balaam, son of Beor, of Meso- potamia, to curse thee; but the Lord thy God would not hearken to Balaam. Nay, the Lord thy God turned the curses into a blessing, because the Lord thy God loved thee. Thou shalt not propose terms of peace with them, nor what is condu- cive to their welfare, all thy days, forever. Thou shalt not abominate an Idumean; for he is thy brother. Thou shalt not hold in abhorrence an Egyptian ; because thou wast a so- journer in his land. If either of these have sons, they may come into the congregation of the Lord, in the third generation.
When thou goest out to encamp against thine enemies, thou shalt be on thy guard against every evil thing. If there be with thee a man who is unclean, by reason of any nightly pollution, he shall go out of the camp, or he shall not come into the camp; but towards evening he shall wash his body with water, and when the sun is set, he may come into the camp. Moreover thou shalt have a place without the camp, and thou shalt go out thither. And thou shalt have in thy gir- dle a spaddle, and when thou hast eased thyself abroad, thou shalt dig with it, and. cover thy uncleanness. Because the Lord thy God walketh about in thy camp, to save thee, and subdue thine enemy before thee, therefore thy camp must be holy. There must be nothing unseemly seen with thee, that he may not turn away from thee.
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There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a whoremonger of the sons of Israel. ‘There shall not be a prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall any of the Israelites be a votary of prostitution.
Thou shalt not bring the hire of an harlot, nor the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord, for any vow, for’ both are an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt not take interest of thy brother, for money, nor for victuals, nor for any thing which thou mayst lend him. To astranger thou mayst lend on interest; but to thy brother thou shalt not lend on interest; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works, in the land to which thou art going to take possession of it.
If thou vowest a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it; for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee ; and it would be a sin inthee. Ifthou dost not chuse to make a vow, itis no sin in thee. Thou must be careful of what have proceeded from thy lips; and offer, in the manner thou hast vowed to the Lord thy God, the gift which thou hast pro- mised with thy mouth.
If thou comest into thy neighbour’s field of standing corn, thou mayst gather ears with thy hands; but thou shalt not put a sickle into thy neighbour’s field of standing grain. And if thou comest into thy neighbour’s vineyard, thou mayst eat grapes, till thy soul is satisfied, but thou shalt not put any into a vessel.
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If any man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to battle, nor shall he be charged with any business. He shall be free at home one year, that he may cheer his wife whom he hath taken.
Thou shalt not take in pledge an upper, nor a lower mil- stone, for this is taking a man’s life in pledge.
If any man be found stealing any of his brethren, the chil- dren of Israel, or, having got him in his power, selleth him, the thief shall be put to death. So shalt thou remove evil from among you.
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If a debt of any kind be due to thee from thy neighbour, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge. ‘Thou shalt stand without, and the man who is thy debtor shall bring the pledge out to thee. And if the man be very poor, thou shalt not go to sleep with his pledge. Thou shalt surely restore him his pledge at the going down of the sun, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee, and there shall be mercy for thee in the sight of the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt not withhold the wages ofa poor and needy man, whether he be one of thy brethren, or of the strangers who are in thy cities.. Thou shalt pay him his wages on the very day: let not the sun set upon it. For he is poor, and dependeth on it; and he will cry to the Lord against thee, and it will be a sin in thee.
athers shall not be put to death for children; nor the children for fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow. Thou shalt not take the garment of a widow in pledge, but remember that thou wast a servant in the Jand of Egypt, and that thence the Lord thy God redeemed thee; therefore I command thee to do this thing.
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20 hans. And when thou gatherest thine olives, thou shalt not tur) back to gather what was left behind thee: it shall be for thestranger and the orphan and the widow; and thou shalt re- mmber that thou wast a stranger in the land of Egypt; there-
91] ἴφε I command thee to do this thing. And when thou gatherest i the vintage, thou shalt not glean after thee. The gleanings
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- hou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of
Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.
ἜΧΕΝ, When a controversy happeneth between men, and /they have come to a trial, and the trial is over, and the righte- ous is acquitted, and the criminal known; in case the criminal
t deserve to be beaten, thou shalt make him lie down, before
- the judges; and they shall cause him to be beaten, in their pre-
8. sence, according to his wickedness. With the number of forty
stripes they may cause him to be beaten. They shall not ex-
ceed that. If thou shouldst proceed to inflict more stripes than these, thy brother will become vile in thy sight.
4 Thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn.
5 When brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and hath no issue, the wife of him who died shall not marry a man abroad, who is not near of kin. The brother of her husband shall go in unto her, and take her to wife, and cohabit with her;
6 and the child which she shall bear shall go by the name of him > who died, so that his name shall not be blotted out from among |
7 Israel. And if any man decline to take his brother’s wife, the woman shall go to the gate, to the senate, and say, My hus- band’s brother refuseth to raise up his brother’s name in Israel.
8 My husband’s brother hath refused. Thereupon the senate of
his city shall send for him, and say to him, Thou must stand
9 up, and say, I will not take her. Upon which his brother’s wife shall come, in the presence of the senate, and loose one shoe from his foot, and spit before his face, and addressing him, say, So shall be done to the man who will not build up his bro-
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When men fight together—a man with his brother, if the wife of one of them come to rescue her husband out ¢ the hand of him who is beating him, and stretching forth her iand,
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eye shall not have compassion on her.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a geat and asmall; nor shall there be in thy house, different measurs, a great and a small. Thou shalt have a just and true weigt, and thou shalt have a just and true measure; that thy days my be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for possession; for every one who doth these things—every on who committeth imjustice, is an abomination to the Lord. thy God.
Remember what Amalek did to thee by the way, when thou wast coming out of the land of Egypt—how he rose up against thee, in the way, and smote thy rear, those who were fainty behind thee. Thou indeed wast hungry, and fainty, and he feared not God. Therefore when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies around thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession, thou shalt blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Thou must not forget.
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our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression, the Lord himself brought us out of Egypt with his great power, and with his strong hand, and outstretched arm, and with great vi- sions, and with signs, and with wonders, and brought us to this place, and gave us this land—a land flowing with milk and honey. Now therefore, behold, I have brought this offering of the products of the land, which thou, O Lord, hast given me— a land flowing with milk and honey. ‘Then thou shalt leave it before the Lord thy God; and when thou hast worshipped be- fore the Lord thy God, thou shalt regale thyself with all the good things which the Lord thy God hath given thee, thou, and thy family, and the Levite, and the proselyte who is with thee.
And when thou hast finished tything the tenth of all thy produce in the third year, thou shalt give another tenth to the Levite, and the proselyte, and the orphan, and the widow, that they may eat in thy cities, and be regaled. Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have removed the hallowed things clean out of my house, and have given them to the Levite, and the proselyte, and the orphan, and the widow, according to all the commands which thou hast commanded me. I have not transgressed thy command, nor forgot it. Ihave not, in my mourning, eaten any of them, nor offered any of them in ho- mage to an unclean thing, nor given any of them to the dead. { have hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God. I have done as thou hast commanded me. Look down from thy holy habitation—from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and this land which thou hast given them, as thou didst solemnly pro- mise our fathers to give us a land flowing with milk and honey.
This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to prac- tise all these rules of rectitude and these judgments; you shall therefore keep, and perform them, with your whole heart, and with your whole soul. Thou hast this day chosen God to be thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his rules of recti- tude, and his judgments, and to hearken to his voice. And the Lord hath this day chosen thee to be a peculiar people to him- self, as he hath said, that thou mayst keep his commandments,
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When you have crossed the Jordan, into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee; thou shalt set up for thyself large stones, and plaister them with mortar, and thou shalt write on those stones all the words of this law. Soon as you have crossed the Jordan—when you are come to. the land which the Lord the God of thy fathers giveth thee—a land flowing with milk and honey, asthe Lord the God of thy fa- thers promised thee, you shall, immediately after your cross- ing the Jordan, set up these stones, which I this day command. thee, at mount Garizin, and thou shalt plaister them with mor- tar, and build there an altar to the Lord thy God—an altar of stones. Thou shalt not lift up a tool upon it. Of unwrought stones thou shalt build the altar to the Lord thy God, and of- fer upon it whole burnt offerings to the Lord thy God. Then thou shalt offer there a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and when thou hast eaten, and art filled, and hast rejoiced before the Lord. thy God; then thou shalt write upon the stones all this law, in the plainest manner.
Then Moses with the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Is- rael, saying,
Be silent and hear, O Israel. Thou art this day made a people for the Lord thy God; therefore thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and perform all his command- ments, and his rules of rectitude, which I this day com- mand thee. Then Moses gave acharge to the people that day, saying, Having crossed the Jordan, these shall stand on mount Garizin to bless the people—Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. And these shall stand at the curse on mount Gaibal, Reuben, Gad, and Aser, Zabulon, Dan, and Nephthaleim : and the Levites shall address all Israel, and say with a loud voice,
Cursed the man who shall make a graven, or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of artists;
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though he set it up in a secret place. And all fhe τὸ ον shall answer and say, Amen. 16 Cursed he who slighteth his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. 17 Cursed he who removeth his neighbour’s landsmark. And all the people shall say, Amen. 18 Cursed he who leadeth the blind out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. 19 Cursed he who perverteth the judgment of the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. 20 Cursed he who lieth with his father’s wife, because he hath uncovered his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen. 21 Cursed he who lieth with any beast. And all the people shall say, Amen. 22 Cursed he who lieth with his sister, by the same father, or mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. 25 Cursed he who lieth with his daughter in law. And all the people shall say, Amen. 24 Cursed he who lieth with the sister of his wife. And all the people shall say, Amen. 25 Cursed he who smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
26 Cursed he who taketh bribes to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen. 27 Cursed be every man who will not persevere in all the
words of this law, to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. XXVIII. - Nowit shall come to pass, that if thou wilt hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and per- form ‘all these commandments which I this day give thee in charge, the Lord thy God will set thee high above all the na- tions of the earth; and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and find thee. 2 If thou wilt hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy 3 God, Blessed shalt thou be in the city; and blessed shalt thou 4 be in the field ; blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the
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Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed when thou goest out. May the Lord thy God deliver up thine enemies, who rise up against thee, ‘to be smitten before thee. They shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
The Lord send upon thee the blessing in thy store houses, and on all the labours of thy hands, in the land which the Lord thy God eiveth thee.
The Lord establish thee a holy people for himself, as he solemnly promised thy fathers. If thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and walk in all his ways, then shall all the nations of the earth see that thou art called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of thee ; and the Lord thy God will multiply thee, for good, in the offspring of thy body, and in the increase of thy cattle, and in the products of thy ground, in the land which he solemnly promised thy fathers to give thee.
The Lord open for thee his good treasury, the heaven, to give thy land the rain in due season. May he bless all the works of thy hands, so that thou mayst lend to many nations, and not borrow of them; and that thou mayst rule over many na- tions, and they not rule over thee. May the Lord establish thee for a head and not for a tail, so that thou mayst be above, and
not beneath. If thou wilt hearken io the voice of the Lord thy God, to
keep all that I this day enjoin thee, thou wilt not turn aside from all the commandments whichI this day command thee, either to the right, or to the left, to go after other gods, to serve them.
But in case thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to keep all his commandments which I this day give thee in charge, all these evils shall come upon thee and overtake thee—
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed thou in the field. Cursed shall be thy granaries, and thy stores. Cursed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the preducts of thy land, thy herds and thy flocks. Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed thou when thou goest out. The Lord
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send upon thee want, and famine, and destruction on all the labour of thy hands, until he utterly root thee out, and until he destroy thee quickly, on the account of thy wicked devices. Seeing thou hast forsaken me, may the Lord make the pesti- lence cleave to thee, until it utterly consume thee from the land to which thou art going, to take possession of it. The Lord smite thee with anxiety, and fever, and chilness, and restless- ness, and blasting, and mildew, that they may pursue thee un- til they utterly destroy thee. And when the heaven over thy head shall be brass, and the earth under thy feet iron, may the Lord thy God make the rain of thy land dust, so that dust from heaven may descend until it waste thee, and until it de- stroy thee speedily. May the Lord deliver thee up to slaugh- ter before thine enemies, so that thou mayst go out one way to meet them, and flee seven ways from before them; and be a dispersion among all the kingdoms of the earth; and your dead carcasses be food for the birds of the air, and the wild beasts of the earth, and there be none to fray them away. The Lord smite thee with the Egyptian boil in thy. seat, and with wild fire, and with itching, so that. thou canst not be cured. The Lord smite thee with madness, and blindness, and as- tonishment of heart, so that thou mayst grope about at noon day, asa blind man gropeth in darkness; and Jet him not pros- per thy ways, so thou shalt then be injured, and spoiled conti- nually, and there will be none to help thee. Thou wilt take a wife, and another man shall have her. Thou wilt build a house, but shalt not dwell therein. Thou wilt plant a vineyard, but shalt not gather the grapes thereof. Thy ox will be slaughtered before thy face, and thou shalt not eat thereof. Thy ass will be taken from thee, and shall not be restored; thy flocks will be given to thine enemies, and there shall be none to help thee; thy sons, and thy daughters, will be given to another nation, and thine eyes will melt in looking at them; there will be no strength i in thy hand. A nation, which thou knowest not will eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy labours; and thou shalt be injured, and oppressed continually, and driven to mad- ness at the sight of thine eyes, which thou shalt see.
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36 of thy feet to the crown of thy head. The Lord carry away thee, and thy rulers, whom thou mayst set over thee, to
a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers knew, that thou
37 mayst there serve other gods—stocks andstones; and be there for a bye word, and a proverb, anda public example to all the
38 nations to which the Lord shall bring thee. There thou shalt carry out much seed into the field, and shalt bring little home,
39 for the locust shall devour it; thou shalt plant a vineyard and dress it; but shalt not press out wine, nor regale thyself from
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41 oil, for thine olive tree shall cast its fruit: thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but shalt not have them with thee; for they
42 shall go into captivity. All thy trees and the products. of thy 3 land, shall be consumed with blasting. The stranger who is with thee shall rise higher and higher ; but thou shalt fall low- 44, er and lower. He shall lend to thee; and thou shalt not lend 45 tohim: He shall be head; and thou shalt be tail. All these curses shall actually come upon thee, and pursue thee, and overtake thee, until he root thee out, and utterly destroy thee because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments, and his rules of rectitude,
46 which he commanded thee, And they shall be signs for thee, and wonders for thine affiivitic forever.
47 Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with glad- ness, and with a good understanding, for the abundance of all
48 things; diesen thou shalt serve thine enemies, whom the Lord will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and m nakedness, and in want of all things, and thou shalt wear a yoke
AQ of iron on thy neck, until it utterly destroy thee. The Lord will bring against thee a nation from afar—from the extremi-
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51 elder, nor compassionate a youth. And it shall devour the in- crease of thy cattle, and the products of thy land, so as not to leave thee corn, wine, oil, herds or flocks, until it hath destroyed thee, and wasted thee in thy cities—until they have demolished
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-effeminacy will look with an evil eye on her husband in her
bosom, ‘and on her son, and her daughter, even the female in- fant she bore, or the male child which she may have brought forth; for on the account of the want of all things, she will eat these secretly in thy siege, and in that affliction of thine with
which thine enemy will afflict thee in thy cities. If thou wilt not hearken to do all the words of this law,
which are written in this book, to fear this glorious, this won- derful name, Zhe Lord thy God, the Lord will make thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, wonderful beyond con- ception—he will make them great, and marvellous, and thy
diseases sore, and lasting, and will bring upon thee all the af-
fliction of Egypt—that grievous affliction which thou didst dread on their account, and they shall cleave to thee. The Lord will also bring upon thee every sickness, and every plague, which is not written, and every one which is written in this book of the law, until he root thee out. And you shall be left few in number, instead of being, as you were, like the stars of heaven for multitude. Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, therefore it shall come to pass, that as the Lord delighted in you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you, in rooting you out; and you shall be removed speedily from the land to which
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—stocks and stones, which neither thou, nor thy fathers have known. But even among these nations he willnot give thee rest, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. Indeed the Lord will give thee there a strange trembling heart, and failing eyes, and a desponding soul, and thy life shall hang in sus- pence before thine eyes, and thou shalt be in terror, day and night, and have no assurance of thy‘life. In the morning thou wilt say; How will it be with me in the evening! And in the evening thou wilt say, How may it be with me in the morning! on account of the terror of thy heart with which thou shalt be affrighted, and on account of the sights of thine eyes which tion shalt 566. And the Lord will send thee back into Egypt, in ships, (by the way which I ordered thou shalt see it no more :) and thou shalt there be exposed to sale to your ene- mies, for bond men and bond women, and there willbe no κω chaser.
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the stranger who 3 is in your camp, from the hewer. of wood to the drawer of water, to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, and into the curses which the Lord thy God this day
vakaveth to thee, that he may establish thee a people for himself.
So he himself will be thy God, as he said to thee, and as he hath sworn to thy fathers, Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob. Now I make:this covenant, and this oath, not with you only, but both with those who are here: this day, with you before the Lord your God, and with those who are not here with you this day. Inasmuch as you know how we lived in the land of | Egypt, and have seen, as we passed through the nations,
through which you passed, their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them ; is’ there any man among you, or any woman, or family, or tribe, whose understanding hath turned them from the Lord your God, to go and serve the gods of those nations? Is there any
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forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out 26 of the land of Egypt, and went and served strange gods, which 27 they did not know, and which he had not arranged for them, therefore the Lord was provoked to wrath against this land, to bring upon it all the curses-which are written in the book of 28 the law; and the Lord rooted them out from their land, with’ wrath, and anger, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land, as at this day. 29 The things which are secret are for the Lord our God; but the things bie are manifest are for us and our children forever, XXX. that we may perform all the words of this law; there- fore when all these things have come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee; and thou shalt re- ceive them into thy heart, among all the nations where the Lord may have dispersed thee; and shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and hearken to his voice, according to all that I this day com- 3 mand thee, with thy whole heart and with*thy whole soul; the Lord will heal thy sins, and have compassion on thee, and ga- ther thee again out of all the nations among which the Lord 4 hath dispersed thee. ‘Though thy dispersion may have been from one end of the earth to the other, thence the Lord thy | God will gather thee, and thence the Lord thy God will take thee, and thence thy God will bring thee, into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: And he will deal kindly with thee, and make thee more numerous than thy fathers: And the Lord will purify thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, that thou mayst live. And the Lord thy God will lay all these curses upon thine enemies, and upon them 8 who hate thee, and have persecuted thee. When thou shalt return, and hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and per- 9 form these commandments of his, which I this day enjoin thee, the Lord thy God will bless thee in every work of thy hands, in the offspring of thy body, and in the increase of thy cattle, and in the products of thy land; for the Lord thy God will turn again to rejoice over thee fer good, as he rejoiced over thy fa- 10 thers, if thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to keep his commandments, and his rules of rectitude, and these
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Behold I have this day set before thee Life and Death, Good and Evil. If thou wilt hearken to the commandments of the Lord thy God which I this day enjoin thee, to love the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his rules of rectitude, and his judgments, you shall live, and multiply, and the Lord thy God will bless thee in all the land to which thou art going, there to take possession of it. But if thy heart turn aside, and thou wilt not hearken, but go astray, and worship other gods, and serve them, I announce to thee this day, that you shall surely perish, and shall not prolong your lives in the land, to which you are about to cross the J ordan, to take pos- session of it. I call heaven and earth this day to witness against
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before you. Chuse thou life, that thou and thy seed may live, by loving the Lord thy God, and hearkening to his voice, and cleaving to him. For this is thy life, and the lengthening of thy days, to dwell in the land which the Lord solemnly promised thy fathers, Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob, that he would give them.
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the same manner as the ‘Lord rooted them out, and delivered them up to you. And you shall do to them as I have com- manded you. Act manfully, and be strong; fear not, nor be faint hearted, nor terrified at them; for the Lord thy God, who goeth before you, is with you—is among ΜΝ May he never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Then Moses called Joshua, and said to sited before all Is- rael, Be courageous, and strong; for thou shalt go before this ° people, into’'the land which the Lord solemnly promised your fathers to give them; and thou shalt put them in possession of , it; and the Lord, who marcheth with thee, will not leave thee nor forsake thee. Fear not, nor be dismayed.
Now Moses had written the words of this law in’a book ; so he gave it. to the priests, the children of Levi, who carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to the elders of the children of Isracl.. And Moses gave them a charge on that day saying, At the end of every seven years, at the,Solemnity of | the Release, during the festival of tabernacles,.when all Israel ᾿ assemble, to appear before the Lord your God, in the place which the Lord shall chuse; you shall read this law before all Israel, in their hearing. Let the people be'assembled, the men, and the women, and the children, and the proselyte who is in your cities, that they may hear, and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God; and let them hearken to do all the words of this law. And let their children who have not known, hearken, and learn to fear the Lord thy God, all the days they live in the land to w hich "you are going, to cross the J ee there to take possession of it.
Now when the. Lord said to Moses, Behold the time of thy death approacheth, call Joshua, and stand at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony, and I will give him a charge ; thereupon Moses went with Joshua to the tabernacle of the testimony, and they stood at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony, and the Lord. descended in a cloud, and stood at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony, and while the pil- lar of the cloud stood at the doors of the tabernacle of the tes- timony, the Lord said to Moses, Behold when thou sleepest with thy fathers, this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land to which they are going.
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I have made with them, I shall be provoked to wrath against them that day, and I will leave them, and turn away my face from them, and they shall be devoured. And when many evils and afflictions shall befal them, then will one say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have befallen me. But I will turn away my face from them, on that day, because of all their wickedness which they have committed, because they have turned to strange gods. Now therefore write the words of this Ode and teach it to the chil- dren of Israel, and put it into their mouth, that this Ode may be an open witness for me among the children of Israel. For when I bring them into that good land, which I solemnly pro- mised their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat, and be satiated, and they will turn to strange gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant; but this Ode will rise up, and witness against them; for it shall never be forgotten out of their mouth, nor out of the mouth of their seed: for I know their wickedness, what they do even now before I have brought them into that good land which I solemnly promised their fathers.
So Moses wrote the Ode that day and taught it to the chil- dren of Israel. And the Lord gave a charge to Joshua, and said, Be courageous, and strong, for thou shalt conduct the children of Israel into the land which the Lord solemnly pro- mised them, and he will be with thee.
Now when Moses had made an end of writing all the words of this law ina book, even to the close, he gave a charge to the Levites, who carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, say- ing, Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; and it shall be there for a witness against thee: for I know thy contentious disposition, and thy stiffneck. For evennow while I am yetalive with you, you have been rebellious against God; how then can it be otherwise after my death? Assemble before me the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your un- der officers, that I may speak in their hearing all these words, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. For I know that after my death you will commit iniquity, and turn aside
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out of the way which I commanded you, and evils will befal you in the latter days, because you will do evil before the Lord, to provoke him to wrath by the works of your hands.
Then fora conclusion Moses spoke in the hearing of all the
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They have sinned! blemished children are not his. Crooked and perverse generation ! Do ye thus requite the Lord ? Are the people so foolish and unwise ? Did not this thy father purchase thee ? Did he not make and fashion thee ?
Remember the days of old; Consider the years of ages past ; Ask thy father; he can tell thee— Thine elders; they can inform thee : When the Most High divided nations— When he dispersed the children of Adam, He settled the boundaries of nations, According to the number of God’s messengers ; And the Lord’s portion was his people Jacob— Israel was his lot of inheritance.
He sustained them in the wilderness, In the drought of heat, in a land without water. He led them about, and instructed them— He kept them as the apple of his eye.
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Would spread out his wings, and receiye them, And bear them up on his shoulders ;
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And there was nota strange god with them.
He brought them up to the strength of this land, He fed them with the products of the fields— They sucked honey out of a rock,
And oil out ofa flinty rock ; With butter of kine, and with milk of sheep ; With the fattest of lambs and rams, young bulls and goats, And with bread of the choicest wheat ; And they drank wine, the pure juice of the grape. When Jacob had eaten and was filled, Then he who was beloved began to kick ; He grew fat, waxed thick, and became corpulent, Then he forsook the God who made him ; And apostatised from God his saviour.
They exasperated me with strange gods,
With their abominations they provoked me, They sacrificed to demons, and not to God— To gods, which they had never known, Which had started up, new and fictitious,
Of which their fathers had no knowledge.
The God who begot thee, thou hast forsaken,
And hast forgot the God who nourished thee :
And the Lord saw, and was provoked to jealousy —
He was provoked at the temper of his sons and daughters, And said, I will turn away my face from them,
And shew what shall befal them in the latter days.
Because they are a perverse generation—
Children, who have no faith in them— They have provoked me by what is not God— Have exasperated me with their idols ; I therefore will provoke them by what is-not a nation, By a foolish nation I will vex them. Since a fire is kindled because of my wrath, It shall burn down tothe lowest Hades ; It shall consume the land, and the products thereof ; It shall set on fire the foundations of mountains :
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charge to your children, that they may keep, and perform all
A7 the words of this law; for this is not a vain thing for you; for it is your life; and, for the sake of this word, you shall prolong your days in the land to which you are going, to cross the Jordan to take possession.
A8 Then the Lord spoke to Moses that day, saying, Go up the mountain Abarim, to that mount Nabo, which is in the land of Moab; fronting Jericho, and take a view of the land of
49 Chanaan, which I give to the children of Israel; and die on
50 the mount to which thou goest up, and be gathered to thy peo- ple, in the same manner as thy brother Aaron died on mount
51 Or, and was gathered to his people, because you disobeyed my word among the children of Israel, at the water of strife,
52 at Kades, in the wilderness of Sin. Because you did not hal- low me among the children of Israel, thou shalt see the land at a distance, but shalt not go in thither.
XXXII. —_ Now this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God blessed the children of Israel, before his death; and he said,
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And shined upon us out of Seir;
He hasted from mount Paran,
With myriads from Kades;
His angels with him on his right.
He compassionated his people ; All the sanctified are under thy sway, But these are immediately under thee. 4 From His words Moses received the law Which he gave in charge to us, An inheritance for the assemblies of Jacob.
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And be thou his help from enemies. And of Levi he said. Assign ye to Levi his manifestations, And his truth to this man for the Holy One Whom they tried at Temptation. Whom they reviled at the water of Contradiction. With regard to him who saith to his father and to his mother I have not beheld thee, And hath not acknowledged his brethren, And hath renounced his own children, He it is who hath observed thine Oracles And diligently kept thy covenant. Let them explain thy rules of rectitude for Jacob And thy law for Israel: Let them lay incense continually, When thou art angry, on thine altar. Bless, O Lord, his endeavours, And accept the works of his hands. Pierce the loins of enemies, Who have risen up against him: And let them who hate him never rise up. And. of Benjamin he said, Beloved! He shall dwell securely under the Lord. God overshadoweth him continually, And hath taken up his rest between his shoulders. And of Joseph he said, His land is a special blessing of the Lord On account of heavenly seasons and dew, And on account of abysses of fountains from beneath, And on account of the productions, in due season Of the sun’s revolutions and the changes of the moon, As his land of plenty is beautified With summits of ancient mountains And with summits of everlasting hills ; So may the things acceptable To him who appeared in the bush, Come upon the head of Joseph; He indeed is glorified
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In being the head over brothers. His beauty is that of a firstling bull, His horns are the horns of an Unicorn, With these he will push the nations at once, Even from the limits of the land. These are the myriads of Ephraim ; And these the thousands of Manasses. And of Zabulon he said, Rejoice, O Zabulon, in thine outgoings ; And let Issachar rejoice in his abodes. They shall utterly root out nations. And there you shall invoke, And there offer the sacrifice of righteousness. For the riches of the sea shall feed thee, And a commerce with the dwellers on the sea coast. And of Gad he said Biessed is he who enlargeth Gad. Like a lion he lay down to rest,
Having broken an arm and a chief.
He took a view of his portion Because land was there divided. - When chiefs assembled with the leaders of tribes; The Lord executed Justice And determined his cause with Israel. And of Dan he said Dan is a lion’s whelp; He will make excursions beyond Basan. And of Nephthaleim he said, Nephthaleim hath abundance of good things ; May he be filled with blessings from the Lord! He shall possess the west and the south. ᾿ And of Aser he said, Aser is blessed with children, He will be acceptable to his brethren.
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And he is mighty to give support. _
The governance of God will protect thee °
When under the power ofveverlasting arms.
He will drive out the enemy before thee, ' Saying, Be devoted to destruction!
And Israel shall dwell securely alone,
In the land of Jacob, fed with corn and wine:
And the heaven shall drop with dew for thee. .
Blessed art thou, O Israel! .
* Who is like thee, O people saved by the Lord!
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So Moses the servant of the Lord died, by the command of the Lord, in the land of Moab ; ; and he was buried at Gai near the house of Phogor. But none knoweth his γε pid at this day.
Though Moses was-an hundred aid Wenig years old, ἐξ eyes were not dim, nor was his natural strength abated. And the children. of Israel mourned for Moses, τᾶ Araboth Moab, by the Jordan, over against Jericho, thirty days. And when the days of.mourning for Moses were fulfilled, as Joshua son of Nave was filled with a spirit of wisdom, (for Moses had laid his hands upon him) the children of Israel hearkened. to him, and did as the-Lord commanded Moses. - But there no more arose a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, in all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do
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dead, now-therefore arise, and cross the Jordan, thou and all the people, into the land which I give them. Every place, on which you tread with the sole of your feet, I will give you, as I said to Moses. The wilderness, and yonder Antilibanus, to the river, the great river Euphrates, and to the farthest sea, at the setting of the sun, shall be your boundaries. Not a man shall withstand you all the days of thy life. As I was with Mo- ses, so will I be with thee. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Be strong and of good courage ; for thou shalt parcel out to this people the land, ener I solely promised their fa-
thers to give to them. Therefore be strong, and courageous,
to watch, and to do as my servant Moses commanded. Thou must not deviate from them, to the right or to the left. That thou mayst clearly understand all that thou art to do, the book of the Law must never be out of thy mouth. Thou must study it day and night, that thou mayst know how to do all that are written. Then shalt thou be prospered; and thou wilt make thy ways prosperous; and then thou shalt have a good understand- ing. Behold I have commanded thee; be strong and coura- geous: fear not, nor be dismayed; for the Lord thy God is ‘with thee whithersoever thou goest.
‘ Upon this Joshua gave ἀῤάμχθ to the officers of the nen saying; Go through the camp of the people, and give them or- ders, saying, Prepare all necessary provisions; for in three days you are to cross the Jordan, to go in and take possession of the land which the Lord the God of your fathers giveth you. Then Joshua said to Reuben, and Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, Remember what Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you saying; The Lord your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land. Let your wives, and your children, and your cattle abide in the land which he hath given you; but-you, all your able bodied men, well equipt, shall cross
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15 our God shall give your brethren rest, as well as you; and un- til they possess the land which the Lord our God giveth them. Then you shall return, every one to his possession, which Mo- ses gave you on the east side of the Jordan.
16 Thereupon they answered and said to Joshua, All that thou commandest we will do. And wherever thou sendest us we will go. As we have hearkened to Moses in all things, so will
17 we bitentferi to thee. Let but the Lord our God be with thee,
18 as he was with Moses, and whosoever shall disobey thee, and not hearken to all thy commands which thou shalt give him, let him be put to death. But be thou strong and courageous.
II. Now Joshua son of Nave had sent from Sattin two young — men to spy, saying, Go up, and take a view of the land, and particularly of Jericho. And the two young men, having set’ out, entered Jericho, and went to the house of a harlot,
2 whose name was Rahab, and lodged there. And news being ᾿ carried to the king of Jericho, saying, Some men of the chil-
3 dren of Israel are come here to spy the land, the king of Je- richo sent a message to Rahab, saying, Bring out the men, who came to thy house to night ; for they are come to spy the
4 land.” Now the woman had taken the two men, and hid them: 5 so she spoke to the messengers, saying, The men came to me; _ »but at dark, when the gate was shutting, the men went out, and 6 Ido not know where they are gone. Pursue them: perhaps you may overtake them. Now she had taken them up to the top of the house, and concealed them under flax, which was
7 piled up for her on the top of the house. And the men pursu- ἡ ed them by the way to thé Jordan, to the fords, and the gate
8 was shut. So when the pursuers were gone after them, she went up to the men, on the top of the house, before they had
9 gone to sleep, and said to them, I know that the Lord hath given you this land; for the dread of you is fallen upon us:
10 for we have héard that the Lord God dried up the Red sea on your account, when you came out of Egypt, and all that he hath done to the two kings of the Amorites who were on {πε΄ borders of the Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom you have utterly
11 destroyed: and, upon hearing these things, we became faint hearted, and there Was no spirit in any of us because of you.
Chi dH. Ὁ ΜΠ ΜΟΒΒΕΗΝ . Since, then, the Lord your God is God in heaven above, ΜΝ 12 in the earth beneath, swear now to me by the Lord your God, - because I shew thercy to you, that you will shew mercy to my 13 father’s house; and that you will save alive my father’s house- hold, my mother, and my brothers, and all my family, and all τς that,belong to them, and that you will deliver my soul from 14 death.” And the men said to her, Our life for yours even to | death. Then she said to them. When the Lord delivereth up to you this city, you will deal mercifully and truly with me. 15 So she lowered them down through a window. Now she said 16 to them, Flee to the mountains, slast the pursuers meet you, and hide yourselves there three days, until they who are in pursuit of you have returned; and afterwards you may go 17 your way. And the men said to her, We are sincere. in the 18 ‘oath which*we have sworn to thee. Behold when we enter any _ part of the city, thou shalt put up this signal—Thou shalt tye this scarlet rope to the window, through which thou shalt have ‘let us down; and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, _. and thy brothers, and all thy father’s household, home to thy 19 house. And it shall be that whoever goeth out of the door of thy house, into the street, shall incur the guilt of his own death, and we shall be clear of blame in regard to this oath which we have-sworn to thee. But for all who are with thee in the house 20 we will be answerable. But if any one injure us, or if thou dis- _ close these our terms, we shall be clear of this oath to thee. 21 And she said to them, Let it be’ as you say. So she dismis- 22 sed them, and they went away, and came to the hilly country, and stayed there three days. And the pursuers examined all 23 the roads, but did not find them. Then the two young men turned, and came down from the mountain, and crossed over to Joshua son of Nave, and told him. all that had happened to 24 them. And they said to him, Because the Lord hath delivered up all that land into our hands, therefore all the inhabitants of Ill. the land are in the utmost consternation because of us. There-_ upon Joshua arose early next morning, and removed from Sat- tin; and having come to the Jordan, they halted there some 2 time before’ they crossed. And after three days the officers went through the camp, and gave a charge to the people, say- 3 ing, When you see the Ark ofthe covenant of the Lord our
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God, and our priests, and the Levites carrying it, you shall
4. remove from your places, and march after it. But let there be’
a considerable distance between you and it.. You shall keep’ at the distance of about two thousand cubits. You must not come near it, that you may know the way you are to march;
5 for you have never heretofore gone this way. Then Joshua
said to the people, Purify yourselves against to-morrow ; for
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the Lord, and march before the people; and the priests had ©” 7 taken up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and were march,
ing before the people, the Lord: said to Joshua, This day Tbe-- gin to exalt thee in the sight of all the children of Israel, that; they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be -with’
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the ark of the covenant, and say, Soon as you are come to a "part of the water of the Jordan, you shall halt at the Jordan:
9 Then Joshua said to the sons of Israel, Draw near, and hear 10 the word of the Lord our God. By this you will know that |
the living God is among you, and that he will surely root οὐδ΄. ' from before you the Chananitey and the Chettite, and the Phe-. - rezite, and the Evite, and the Amorite, and Gergasite, and the
11 Jebusite. Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord. of. the |. 13 whole earth is about to cross the Jordan; and it shall come to ᾿
pass, that when the feet of the priests who are carryimg the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth shall rest. in the
water of the Jordan, the water of the Jordan shall fail, and the wa: + 14. ter whichis coming down shall be stopped. Sothe people remov-
ed from their tents to cross the Jordan, and the priests’ carried - "Ὁ 15 the Ark of the covenant of: the Lord before the people.’ And.
soon as the priests who were carrying the ark of the coveriant came to the Jordan, and the feet δῇ the priests, who .were carrying the ark of the covenant of the’ Lord, were» dipped
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17 and the people stood over against Jericho. Then the priests who carried the Ark of the covenant of the Lord stood on dry ᾿ ground, and all the children of Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the people had finished crossing the Jordan. TV. And when all the people had entirely crossed the Jordan, _ 2 the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying, Take men from among the 3 people, one from every tribe, and give them orders. And you shall take up, out of the middle of the Jordan, twelve smooth |... -stones,.and carry them with you, and place them in your en- “ΤΑ, campment, wherever you encamp to night. So Joshua called out twelve men ‘of eminent dignity from among the children * 5. op Israel, one from every tribe, and said to them, Go on before τς mé-in the presence of the Lord, into the middle of the Jordan, and let every one take up thence a stone, and carry it on his . ‘shoulders, according to the number of the twelve tribes of Is- ον 6 rael; that they may be to you an everlasting memorial; that when thy son shall hereafter ask thee, saying, What are these stones: to us? thou mayst explain them to thy son, and say, Because the river Jordan dried up at the presence of the Ark of the covenant of the. Lord of the whole earth, when it crossed it, ᾿ς therefore you-shall have these stones for an everlasting memo- 8 rial for the children of Israel. Accordingly these sons of Israel ᾿ did.as the Lord commanded Joshua, and having taken up twelve stones, out of the midst of the Jordan, as the Lord com- manded Joshua, when the Israelites had done crossing, they carried them with them to the place“of encampment, and de- 9 posited them there; and Joshua caused’twelve éther stones to __ be ‘placed in the Jordan, in the very spot under -the feet of _ . ‘the priests who'carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and 10 they are there at this day. Now the priests, who carried the ark of the covenant, stood in the Jordan, until Joshua had executed . all that the Lord commanded him to declare to the people. i1 And the people hasted and crossed over. . And when all the _ people had done crossing, then the “Ark of the covenant of the 12 Lord:crossed over, with the stones before them. And the Reu- _ benites, and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, crossed over well armed before the children of Israel, as. Mo- 13 ses had commanded them. Forty thousand, well equipped for war, ckossed over before the Lord, in battle array, to the city
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day of the first month, and the children of Israel encamped at Galgala, on the eastern border of Jericho; and Joshua set up —
Jordan, and said, When your children ask you, saying, What .
; stones are these ? Tell your children.that Israel crossed that ©.
Jordan on dry ground, the Lord our God haying dried up the’. water of the Jordan before them, until they crossed over, as the Lord.our God had done to the Red sea, which the Lord ᾿ our God dried up before us, until we passed through it, that all the nations of the earth might know, that the power of the. Lord is great, and that you may worship the Lord our God by every thing which you do. Now when the kings of the Amorites, who were on the border of the Jordan, and the kings of Pheenicia, who were on © the sea coast, heard that the Lord God had dried up the river. Jordan before the Israelites, when they crossed, their hearts were melted, and they were struck with consternation, and. there was no spirit in them because of the Israelites. And at that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make thee stone knives. of
the hardest flint, and having again a fixed‘abode, circumcise ~~
the children of Israel. So Joshua made sharp knives.of stone, ᾿ς and circumcised the children of Israel at the place called Hill of foreskins. And in this manner Joshua purified the children of Israel—All who had been born on the way, and all who had formerly been uncircumcised, when they came out of Egypt,
all these Joshua circumcised; for Israél had been led about for-
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of them were uncircumcised, being the children of those warri- ors who came out of the land of Egypt; who disobeyed the commands of God, and to whom he denounced, that they should not see the land which the Lord solemnly promised their fathers that he would give—a land flowing with milk and honey; and instead of them he raised up these their children, whom Joshua circumcised, because, being born on the way, they were uncircumcised. And being now circumcised, they were to continue there at rest, in the camp, until they were healed. And the Lord said: to Joshua son of Nave, This day I have taken away from you the reproach of Egypt. So he call-
ed the name of that place Galgala. And on the. fourteenth of
the same month, towards evening, the children of Israel pre- pared the passover, on the confines of Jericho, in the plain of
Jordan, and ate of the corn of the land, unleavened cakes and
parched corn. On that very day, after they had eaten the corn of'the land, the manna ceased, and there was no more a sup- ply of manna for the children of Israel. So they ener the country of the Pheenicians that year.
Now when Joshua was by Jericho, he raised his eyes, and sawa man standing before him, witha drawn sword in his hand, upon which J eshte: advancing, said to him, Art thou one of us or, of our enemies ? And he said to him, I am the captain general of the host of the Lord, just arrived. At this Joshua prostrated himself, with his face’ to the ground, and said to him, My lord, what. dost thou command thy servant ? And the Lord’s captain general said to Joshua, Loose the sandals from thy feet, for the place on which thou didst stand is holy
ground. (Now Jericho was shut up, and barricadoed, so that none eame out of it, nor went in.) Then the Lord said to Joshua, Behold, I deliver into thy hand, Jericho, and the king thereof, who is'in it, and the mighty men of valour. Therefore
array thou the warriors’ around it. And when you blow the - trumpets, let all the people at the same time shout; and upon .
their shouting, the walls of the city will fall of their own ac- cord; and all the people shall enter, every one straight forward into the city. | Ne Thereupon Joshua son of Nave went to the priests, and iat to them, saying, Order the people to march round, and
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encompass the city, and let the warriors march armed before the Lord; and let the seven priests, who have the seven holy trumpets, march also before the Lord, and blow a long blast. And let the ark of the covenant of the Lord accompany them. Let the warriors march before, and the priests follow in the rear, after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, blowing the trumpets. Then Joshua gave a charge to the people, saying, Shout not, nor let any one hear your’ voice, till the day when He shall command you to shout. Then you shall shout. So when the ark of the covenant had gone round, it straightway returned to the camp, and lodged there. And on the second day Joshua arose, early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the seven priests with the seven trumpets, marched on before the Lord and after them came the warriors, and all the rest of the multitude followed the ark of the covenant of the Lord. And the priests sounded the trumpets; and all the multitude compassed the city six times, very near, and returned again to the camp. Thus they did six days. But on the seventh day—they arose very early, and went round the city that day seven times. And, at the se- venth round, the priests sounded the trumpets, and Joshua said. to the Israelites, Shout, for the Lord hath delivered up the city to you. And this city shall be an Anathema. It, and all that are in it, shall be devoted to the Lord of Sabaoth; save Rahab the harlot. Her you shall save alive, and all that are in her house. But be you very careful to abstain from the Anathema, lest peradventure you through covetousness, take something of what is devoted, and make the camp of the Israelites an Ana- thema, and destroy us. ΑἹ] the silver, and the gold, and the brass, and the iron, shall be consecrated to the Lord, and car- ried to the Lord’s treasury. Then the priests sounded the trumpets; and when the people heard the trumpets, all the peo- ple together uttered a great, loud, and continued shout, where- upon the whole wall round about fell, and all the people went up into the city. \ Now when Joshua devoted it, and all that were in it, men and women, young and old, ox and ass, to the edge of the sword, he said to the two young men who had been sent as spies, Go to the house of the woman, and bring her out thence, VOL. 1. 3A
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23 with all that she hath. And when the two young men, who i had spied the city had gone to the house of the woman, and —
had brought out Rahab the harlot, and her father, and her mo-
ther, and her brothers, and her kindred, and all that were with
24 her, and placed them without the camp of Israel, the city was burned with fire, with all that were in it, save the silver, and gold, and the brass, and iron, which they gave to be carried
25 to the treasury of the Lord. So Joshua saved Rahab the harlot, and all her father’s household alive. And at this day they dwell among Israel, because she concealed the spies whom Joshua
26 had sent to spy Jericho. And on that day Joshua uttered an imprecation before the Lord, saying, Cursed be the man who shall rebuild this city. With his first born let him lay the foun- dation, and with his youngest son erect its gates.
oF Thus the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread
VII. = through all the land. But the children of Israel committed
a great trespass. They set apart for themselves some of the
Anathema. Achar son of Charmi, son of Zambri, son of Za-
ra, of the tribe of Juda, had taken some of what was devoted,
and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of
Israel; so that when Joshua sent men to Gai, which is over
against Baithel, saying, Take a view of Gai; and the men had
gone up, and viewed Gai, and returned to Joshua, and said to him, Let not the whole people go up, but let only about two or three thousand go up, and storm the city; thou needest not
A lead the whole people thither, for they are few in number; and
about three thousand men had gone up, they fled before the
5 men of Gai; and the men of Gai slew of them about thirty six
men, and pursued them from the gate, and drove them from
6 the steep. Whereupon the heart of the people was dismayed,
and became like water; and Joshua rent his clothes. Now when Joshua had prostrated himself, with his face on the ground, before the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they had put dust on their heads, Joshua said, Alas,
7 O Lord! Why hath thy servant caused this people to cross
the Jordan, to deliver them up to the Amorite to destroy us?
8 Should we have tarried, and dwelt on the other side of the Jor-
dan? What can I say, seeing Israel hath turned back from
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ants of this land hear this, they will encompass us, and drive us from this land. What then wilt thou do in respect to thy great name? ‘Thereupon the Lord said to Joshua, Arise; why hast thou fallen on thy face? This people hath sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them. They have stolen some of what was devoted, and put it among their stuff: therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before the face of their enemies. They shall turn back before their ene- mies, because they are become devoted. I willno more be with you, unless you remove the Anathema from among you. Arise, hallow the people, and order them to hallow themselves, against to-morrow. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, The Anathema is among you., You cannot stand before your enemies, until you remove the Anathema from among you. You shall therefore all assemble to-morrow, by tribes; and whatever tribe the Lord shall point out, you shall present it by communities; and whatever community the Lord shall point out, you shall present it by houses; and whatever house the Lord shall point out, you shall present it man by man; and whoever is pointed out, he shall be burned with fire, and all that he hath, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and committed iniquity in Israel.
Accordingly Joshua arose early in the morning, and brought forward the people by tribes, and the tribe of Juda was pointed out. And when it was presented by communities, the commu- nity of the Zaraites was pointed out; and when it was presented man by man, Achar son of Zambri, son of Zara, was pointed out. Whereupon Joshua said to Achar, Give glory this day to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession, and tell me what thou hast done, and conceal it not from me. And Achar answered Joshua, and said, I have indeed sinned before the Lord, the God of Israel. Thus and thus have I done. I saw, among the spoil, a piece of tissue, and two hundred didrachms of silver, and an ingot of gold, of about fifty didrachms, and I coveted them, and took them, and behold they are hid in my tent, and the silver is hid under them. Then Joshua sent messen- gers, who ran to the tent, in the camp, and the things were hid in his tent, and the silver under them. So they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua, and the elders of Israel,
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24 who laid them before the Lord. Then Joshua took Achar, son of Zara, and led him up to the valley of Achor, with his sons, and his daughters, and his cattle, and his asses, and all his flocks, and his tent, and all his goods, and all the people ac-
25 companied him. And when he had led them up to Emek- Achor, Joshua said to Achar, Why hast thou destroyed us ? The Lord destroy thee, as at this day! Then all Israel stoned
26 him with stones. And when they had raised over him a great heap of stones, the Lord ceased from the fierceness of his an- ger. For this cause he called that place Emek-Achor, which is its name at this day.
VIII. Then the Lord said to Joshua, Fear not, nor be dismay- ed. Take with thee all the men who are warriors, and arise,
2 and go upto Gai. Behold I have delivered into thy hands, the king of Gai, and his land; and thou shalt treat Gai, as thou hast treated Jericho, and its king; but the plunder of the cattle thou shalt take for thyself. Lay thee an ambush for the city, behind it. So Joshua arose, and all the warriors, to go up against Gai. And Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty
4 men of valour, and sent them away by night; and he gave them
orders, saying, Lie in ambush behind the city; be not at a great
5 distance from the city, and be all ready; and I, and all the peo-
ple who are with me, will advance to the city, and when the inhabitants of Gai come out to meet us, as before, we will flee
6 from before them ; and as they come after us we will draw them
off from the city ;-for they will say, They are fleeing from us,
7 as they did before. Then you will rise from the ambush, and
8 rush into the city. Act agreeably to these orders; behold I
9 have commanded you. So Joshua despatched them, and they
went to lie in ambush, and took their station, between Baithel
10 and Gai, on the west of Gai., And Joshua arose early next morning and reviewed the people, and he and the elders went
11 up before the people to Gai. All the warriors went up with him, and marching on, came before the city, on the east side,
12 now the ambush was on the west side of the city. And when
14 the king of Gai saw them, he hasted, and went out to meet them, straight to battle, he and all his people with him; for he
15 did not know that there was an ambush behind the city. At
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they pursued the Israelites, and were drawn off from the city. There was not a man left in Gai, who did not pursue Israel.
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said to Joshua, Stretch forth thy hand, with the spear in thy hand, towards the city; for into thy hands I have delivered it, and the men in ambush will rise quickly from their place. So _ Joshua stretched forth his hand, with the spear towards the 9 city; and the men in ambush immediately arose from their place. They started up at the instant he stretched forth his hand, and rushed into the city; and having taken it, they hasted. and set it on fire. And when the inhabitants of Gai looked back, they saw a smoke rising from the city, up to heaven, and had no where to flee, this way or that. For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, they turned, and smote the men of Gai; and the others issued out of the city to meet them, so that they were in the midst of the army, some being on one side, and some on the other; and they smote them until there was not one left alive, nor any who escaped. They took the king of Gai alive, and brought him to Joshua, and when the Israelites had made an end of slaying all that were in Gai, and all that were in the plains, and on the mountain, at the steep, from which at the last they had driven them, Joshua returned to Gai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. Now they who fell on that day, including men and. women, even all the inhabitants of Gai, were twelve thousand. Over and above the spoils which were in the city, the Israel-’ ites took all the prey for themselves, according to the command of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Joshua. Then Joshua burned the city with fire, and made it an uninhabitable heap forever, as at this day. And he hanged the king of Gai on a gibbet; and he continued on the gibbet till the evening. But, at the setting of the sun, Joshua gave orders, and they took down his body from the gibbet, and threw it into a pit; and raised over ita heap of stones, which remaineth to this day. When the kings of the Amorites, who dwelt on the border of the Jordan, and those in the hilly country, and those in the plain, and those along the coast of the great sea, and those bor- dering on Antilibanus, namely the Chettites, and the Chanan-
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ites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Amorites,
2 and the Gergasites, and the Jebusites, heard of these things,
, they assembled together to attack Joshua and Israel, all at the
same time.
VII. 30 ἴῃ the mean while Joshua built an altar to the Lord
31 the God of Israel, on mount Garizin, as Moses the servant of
the Lord commanded Israel, as it is written in the law of Mo-
ses, an altar of unwrought stones which iron had never struck,
and offered thereon whole burnt offerings to the Lord, and a
$2 sacrifice of thanksgiving. And when Joshua had written on the
stones the repetition of the law of Moses, in the presence of the
33 children of Israel, then all Israel with their elders, and their judg-
es, and their under officers, marched out, some on one side, and’
some on the other side of the Ark, which was at a distance be-
fore them; and the priests and the Levites carried the Ark of
the covenant of the Lord; and the proselyte, as well as the
home born, attended. One half were on mount Garizin, and
the other half on mount Gaibal, as Moses the servant of the
34 Lord commanded; first to bless the people; and afterwards, as
Joshua read all the words of that law, the blessings, and the cur-
ses, according to all that were written in the law of Moses.
35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded Joshua,
which Joshua did not read in the hearing of all the congrega-
tion of Israel, to the men and women, and to the children, and the proselytes who sojourned with Israel.
TX. Now when the inhabitants of Gabaon heard all that the
Lord had done to Jericho, and Gai, they acted with subtilty.
4 They went and furnished themselves with provisions, and
made other suitable preparations, and taking old bags en their
5 shoulders, and old skins of wine which were cracked, and
bound up, and shoes for their feet, the under part of which
were hollow, and the upper part old and clouted, and the gar-
ments they put on being worn out, and the bread for their
6 journey dry, mouldy, and worm eaten, they came to Joshua,
to the camp of Israel, at Galgala, and said to Joshua and Israel,
We are come from a far distant land, now therefore make a
7 covenant with us. And the children of Israel said to the Chor-
rite, Perhaps thou dwellest near me; how then can I make a
8 coyenant with thee? Thereupon they said to Joshua, Weare thy
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servants. And Joshua said tothem, Whence are you? And whence come you? And they said, Thy servants are come from a very far distant country, because of the name of the Lord thy God; for we have heard of his name, and of all that he hath done in Egypt, and what he hath done to the kings of the Amo- rites, who were on the border of the Jordan, to Seon king of the Amorites, and to Og the king of Basan, who dwelt at As- teroth and Edrain. At the news of which, our elders and all the inhabitants of our land spoke to us saying; Take for your- selves provisions for the journey, and go and meet them, and say to them, We are thy servants; make a covenant with us. These loaves we took hot for our journey, on the day we set out to come to you; but nowtheyare dry, and become mouldy; these skins of wine were filled new; but they are cracked; and. these our garments, and our shoes, are worn out with the length of the journey. Then the rulers took some of their provisions, and did not consult the Lord. And Joshua made peace with them, and they entered into a covenant with them to save their lives; and the chiefs of the congregation swore to them. But three days after they had entered into covenant with them, they heard that they were in the neighbourhood, and dwelt close by them. Whereupon the children of Israel removed, and came to their cities. Now their cities were Gabaon, and Kephira, and Berot, and the cities of Jarim; But the children of Israel did not make war on them, because all the chiefs had sworn to them by the Lord the God of Israel. When all the congre- gation murmured at the chiefs, the chiefs said to all the con- gregation, We have sworn to them by the Lord the God of Israel; now therefore we cannot touchthem. This we will do. We will let them live and protect them; that there may be no wrath against us because of the oath which we have sworn to them. They shall live; but they shall be hewers of wood, and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the chiefs have said to them. For Joshua had called them, and said to them, Why did you impose upon me saying, We are far distant from thee, seeing you are our nearest neighbour? Now therefore you are cursed, and not one of you shall escape servitude—from being a hewer of wood, and a drawer of water, for me and my God. And they answered Joshua saying, We were told all that
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the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses, to give you this land, and to extirpate us, and all the inhabitants thereof from before you, therefore we were in great terror for our lives
25 because of you, and we did this. And now behold we are in your power, deal with us as you please, and as it seemeth good
26 to you. So they dealt with them in this manner, and Joshua saved them that day out of the hand of the Israelites, and they
27 did not destroy them. And on that day Joshua made them hewers of wood, and drawers of water, for the whole congre- gation, and for the altar of God. For this cause the inhabitants of Gabaon are hewers of wood, and drawers of water, for the altar of God, even at this day, and are to be so for the place which the Lord will chuse.
X. Now when Adonibezek, the king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Gai, and utterly destroyed it; (As they had done to Jericho, and the king thereof, so had they done to Gai, and its king) and that the inhabitants of Gabaon had gone over
2 to Joshua and Israel; (Now there was a great dread on account of them, for he knew that Gabaon was a great city, ike one of the chief cities, and that ail the inhabitants thereof were men
3 of valour;) Adonibezek, the king of Jerusalem sent to Elam, king of Chebron, and to Phedon, king of Jerimuth, and to Jephtha, king of Liachis, and to Dabin, maha of Odollam, say-
4 ing, Haste, come up to me, and help me, aw let us smite Ga-
5 dd for they have revolted to Joshua and the Israelites. So the five kings of the Jebusites, the king of Jerusalem, and the king of Chebron, and the king of Jerimuth, and the king of “Lachis, and the king of Odollam, went up, they and their peo-
6 ple, and encamped about Gabaon, and besieged it. ‘Thereupon the inhabitants of Gabaon sent to Joshua, to the camp of Israel, at Galgala, saying, Slack not thy hands from thy servants. Come up to us with all speed, and help us, and deliver us; for all the kings of the Amorites who mhabit the hilly country are
7 assembled against us. So Joshua went up from Galgala, he
8 and all the people of war with him, every man of valour. And the Lord said to Joshua, Be not afraid of them, for I have de-
9 livered them into thy hands. There shall not one of them be left before you. And when Joshua came upon them suddenly, hav-
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a panic, on account of the children of Israel, and the Lord routed them, with a great slaughter, at Gabaon. And they pursued them by the way of the ascent of Oronin, and smote them even to Azeka, and to Makeda. And as they were fleeing from before Israel, at the descent of Oronin, the Lord poured a storm of hail stones from heaven upon them, all the way to Azeka; so that there were more who died by the hail stones, than the children of Israel slew with the sword in battle. Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, on the day God delivered up the Amorite into the hand of Israel. When he had discomfited them at Gabaon, and they were routed before the children of Israel, Joshua said, Let the sun: stand over against Gabaon, and the moon over against the valley of Ailon. So the sun stood still, and the moon in its station—until God executed vengeance on their enemies, the sun stood in the midst of heaven; it ad- vanced not to the setting, to the end of a day. So that there never was such a day before, nor after it such an instance of God’s hearkening to man. Because the Lord fought conjointly with Israel, therefore the five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makeda. And when it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hidden in the cave at Makeda, Jo- shua said, Roll stones on the mouth of the cave, and set men to keep watch over them; but as for you, halt not; pursue your enemies, and attack their rear, and suffer them not to enter their cities; for the Lord our God hath delivered them into our hands. And when Joshua, and all Israel, had made an end of slaughtering them till they were utterly routed, and those who had escaped had got into fortified cities, all the peo- ple returned safe to Joshua to Makeda, and there was not a murmur on the tongue of any one among the children of Israel.
2 Then Joshua said, Open the cave, and bring out the five kings
out of the cave. So they brought the five kings out of the cave; the king of Jerusalem, and the king of Chebron, and the king of Jerimuth, and the king of Lachis, and the king of Odollam. And when they had brought them out to Joshua, he called together all Israel, namely the chief commanders of the army who went out with him, and said to them, Go near, and put your feet on the necks of those men. And when they had gone near, and put their feet on their necks, Joshua said VOL. I. 3B
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to them, Fear them not, nor be dismayed. Be strong and of good courage; for thus will the Lord do to all your enemies, against whom you fight. So Joshua slew them, and hanged them on five gibbets, and they hung on the gibbets till even- ing. And at the setting of the sun Joshua gave orders, and they took them down from the gibbets, and threw them into the cave, and rolled stones on the cave, which still remain. Now on that day they took Makeda, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed every thing therein which breathed. There was not one left who escaped or fled. And when they had done to the king of Makeda as they did to the king of Jericho, Joshua, and all Israel with him, marched from Makeda to Lebna and besieged it; and the Lord delivered it into the hands of Israel, and they took it and the king thereof, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and every thing in it which had breath. There was not one left in it who escaped, or fled. And when they had done to the king thereof as they. did to the king of Jericho, Joshua, and all Israel with him, marched from Lebna to Lachis, and encamped about it, and besieged it. And the Lord delivered Lachis into the hands of Israel; and they took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed it as they had done Lebna. At that time Elam, king of Gazer, having come up to assist Lachis, Joshua smote him with the edge of the sword, till there wasnone of them left who escaped, or fled. Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, went from Lachis to Odollam, and encamped about it, and besieged it. “And the Lord deli- vered it into the hand of Israel, and they took it that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword. And when they had slain every living soul therein, as they had done at Lachis, Joshua, and all Israel with him, went to Chebron, and encamped about it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and every living soul therein. Not one escaped. As they had done to Odollam, they utterly destroyed it, and all that were in it. ‘Then Joshua, and all Israel, wheeled round to Dabir, and encamped about it, and took it, and the king thereof, and the villages thereof. And he smote it with the edge of the sword. And they utterly de- stroyed it, and every soul in it. They did not leave one alive.
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and Nageb, and the plain, and Asedoth, and the kings thereof. They did not leave one of them alive: They utterly destroyed every one who breathed the breath of life, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded. From Kades-barne to Gaza, Joshua smote at one time all the land of Gosom, quite to Gabaon, all their kings, and their land, for the Lord the God of Israel fought for Israel.
Now when Jabis, king of Azor, heard this, he sent to Jo- bab king of Maran, and to the king of Symoon, and to the king of Aziph, and to the kings who bordered on great Sidon, to the hilly country, and to Araba over against Keneroth, and to the plain, and to Phenaeddor, and to the Chananites, on the eastern shore of the sea, and to the Amorites, on the sea shore, and tothe Chettites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites, on the mountain, and to the Evites, and to those at the foot of
| Aermon, to the land of Massuma; and they, and their kings
with them, came out like the sand of the sea for multitude, with horses and chariots in great abundance. And when all these kings had assembled, and formed a junction, and en- camped at the water of Maron to fight against Israel; the Lord said to Joshua, Be not afraid of them, for to-morrow, about this time, I will deliver them up vanquished before Israel. Thou shalt hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire. So Joshua and all the warriors came upon them suddenly, at the water of Maron, and fell upon them in the hilly coun- try: and the Lord delivered them into the hands of Israel, and they pursued them with slaughter, to great Sidon, and to Ma- seron, and to the plains of Massoch, eastward, and hewed them down till there was none of them left alive. And Joshua did to them as the Lord commanded him. Their horses he ham- stringed; and their chariots he burned with fire. And at that time Joshua turned back, and took Asor, and the king thereof. (Now Asor was formerly the head of all these kingdoms.) And they slew every living soul in it, with the sword, and utterly destroyed all, so that there was not one left in it alive. And they burned Asor with fire. Then Joshua took all the cities of those kingdoms, and the kings thereof, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them, as Moses
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13 the servant of the Lord had commanded. (But Israel did not burn any of the cities which were built on lofty situations, ex-
14 cept Asor; this alone Israel burned;) And the Israelites took all the spoils thereof for themselves, and exterminated the in- habitants with the edge of the sword, until they destroyed them.
15 They did not leave a breathing soul of them. As the Lord commanded his servant Moses, and as Moses gave it in charge
to Joshua, so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that
16 Moses commanded him. So Joshua took all the hilly country, and all the land of Nageb, and all the land of Gosom, and the
17 plain, and that to the west, and the mountain of Israel, and the lowlands adjoining the mountain, from mount Chelcha, and that which stretcheth up to Seir, even to Balagad, and the plains of Libanus, at the foot of mount Aermon. He took, and
18 smote, and slew, all the kings thereof. Joshua indeed waged war against those kings for several years, so.that there was not
19 a city which Israel did not take. They took them all by battle. 20 For the Lord permitted them to assume courage to come to battle with Israel, that they might be utterly destroyed, that no mercy might be shewn them; but that they might be utterly
21 destroyed, as the Lord commanded Moses. At that time also, Joshua went, and rooted out the Enakims from the hilly coun- try, from Chebron, and from Dabir, and from Anaboth, and from the whole race of Israel, and from all the mountain of 22 Juda. Them, with their cities, Joshua destroyed. So that, by means of the children of Israel, there was not one of the Ena- kims left, except some who were in Gaza, and in Geth, and in
23 Aseldo. And when Joshua had taken all the land as the Lord commanded Moses, he gave it for an inheritance to Israel, in parcels, according to their tribes; and the land rested from war. XII. Now these are the kings of the land, whom the Israelites slew, and whose land they possessed, on the east side of the Jordan, from the vale of Arnon to mount Aermon, compre-
2 hending all the land of Araba to the east—Seon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Esebon; whose dominion extended from Arnon which is in the vale, along part of the vale, and the
3 half of Galaad to Jabok, the boundary of the Ammonites, comprehending Araba, to the east side of the sea of Cheneroth, and to the sea of Araba, the east side of the salt sea, the way
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in front of Aseimoth, that leading from Thaiman, at the foot
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whose dominion extended from mount Aermon, and from Sek- chai, over all the land of Basan, to the borders of Gergesi, and over Machi, and the half of Galaad, to the borders of Seon king of Esebon. These, Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel, smote; and Moses gave this land for a possession to Reuben, and Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses.
And these are the kings of the Amorites, whom Joshua and the children of Israel slew, on the west side of the Jordan, ἡ from Balagad in the valley of Libanus, to mount Chelcha, as you go up to Seir; and which Joshua gave for a possession to the tribes of Israel, according to their respective lots, compre- hending the Chettites, and the Amorites, and the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Jebusites, on the mountains, and in the plains, and in Araba, and in Asedoth, and in the wilderness, and in Nageb: the king of Jericho, and the king of Gai, which is near Bethel; the king of Jerusalem; the king of Chebron; the king of Jerimuth; the king of La- chis; the king of Ailam; the king of Gazer; the king-of Da- bir: the king of Gadir; the king of Ermath; the king of Ader; the king of Lebna; the king of Odollam; the king of Elath; the king of Taphut; the king of Opher; the king of Ophek of Arok; the king of Asom; the king of Symoon ; the king of Mambroth; the king of Aziph; the king of Kades; the king of Zachak; the king of Maredoth; the king of Jekom of Carmel; the king of Odollam of Phennealdor; the king of Gei of Gali- lee; the king of 'Thersa; all these kings were twenty nine.
XI. Joshua was now far advanced in years, therefore the
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man, throughout the whole land, lieth Chanaan before Gaza; And the Sidonians extend to Aphek, and to the borders of the Amorites. Now all the land of Galiath-phylistiim, and all Libanus, from the rising of the sun—from Galgal, at the foot of mount Aermon, to the bay of Aimath—all the inhabitants of the hilly country, from Libanus to Masereth-ememphomaim —all the Sidonjans—them I will myself drive out from before Israel ; but distribute thou it, by lot, to Israel, as I have com- manded thee. Now therefore divide this land, for a possession among the nine tribes, and the half of the tribe of Manasses.
Thou “shalt give it from the Jordan to the great sea, at the set- ting of the sun: that great sea shall be your boundary. To the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, Moses hath given on the eastern border of the Jor- dan.
Moses the servant of the Lord had given them from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, that city which is in the middle of the vale, and all Misor from Maidaban—all the cities of Seon, king of the Amorites, who reigned at Esebon, to the borders of the children of Ammon; and Galaaditis; and the country of the Geserites, and the Machatites ; all mount Aermon; and all Basanitis to Acha; all the kingdom of Og, in Basanitis, who reigned in Astaroth and Edrain, he was a remnant of the giants, and Moses smote him and destroyed him. Now the children of Israel had not destroyed the Gesir- ites, nor the Machatite, who was a Chananite. And the king of Gesiri, and the Machatite, still dwelt among the Israelites. But to the tribe of Levi there was no possession given. The Lord, the God of Israel is himself their possession, -as the Lord said to them.
Now this was the distribution which Moses made to the children of Israel at Araboth-Moab, on the border of the Jor- dan, over against Jericho.—To the tribe of Reuben, according to their communities, Moses gave, and these were their bor- ders; from Aroer, which isin front of the vale of Arnon, includ- ing the city in the vale of Arnon, all the Misor to Esebon, and all the cities in Misor, namely Daibon, and Baimon-baal, and house of Meelboth, and Basan, and Bakedmoth, and Mai-
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mount Enab, and Baithphogor, and Asedothphasga, and Bai- thaseinoth, even all the cities of Misor, and all the kingdom of Seon king of the Amorites, whom Moses slew, and with him the leaders of Madiam, Evi, and Robok, and Sour, and Our, and Robe, the chief; at the rifling of Sion, when the Israelites slew the inhabitants of Sion, and inthe route, Balaam son of Beor the prophet. These were the borders of Reuben, and Jor- dan was a boundary. This was the possession of the children of Reuben, according to their communities, and these were their cities and their sheepcots. And to the children of Gad, according to their communities, Moses gave, and these were their borders, Jazer, all the cities of Galaad, and the half of the land of Ammon, even to Araba, which is in front of Arad, and from Esebon to Araboth, over against Massepha, and Bo- tanim, and Maan to the border of Daibon, and Jinadom, and Othargai, and Bainthanabra, and Sokchotha, and Saphan, and the residue of the kingdom of Seon, king of Esebon. And the Jordan is their boundary, toa part of the sea of Cheneroth, on the east side of the Jordan. This is the possession of the children of Gad, according to their communities, and accord- ing to their cities. According to their communities they can face their enemies ; for their cities, and their sheepcots, were distributed according to their communities.
And to the half of the tribe of Manasses, according to their communities, Moses gave, and these were their borders; from Maan, all the kingdom of Basan, even all the kingdom of Og, king of Basan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Basani- tis, sixty cities, and the half of Galaad, and in Astaroth, and in Edrain, the cities of the kingdom of Og, in Basanitis. These he gave to the Machirites, the children of Manasses, to one half of the Machirites, the children of Manasses, according to their communities. These were they to whom Moses gave possessions on the east side of the Jordan, at Araboth-Moab, on the bank of the Jordan over against Jericho.
XIV. Now these are they of the children of Israel who got pos-
sessions in the land of Chanaan, to whom Eleazar the priest, and Joshua son of Nave, and the chiefs of the partriarchal fa-
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shua, to nine tribes and the half οἵα tribe on this side the Jor- dan; but to the Levites he gave no lot among them. Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasses and Ephraim; there was therefore no portion of land given to the Levites,
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Now the children of Juda had come to Joshua at Galgal, and Chaleb the son of Jephonne, the Kenezite said to him, Thou knowest the word which the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, respecting me and thee at Kades-barne; for I was forty years old, when Moses the servant of God sent me from Kades-barne to spy the land, and I made him a report to his mind. My brethren who went up with me disturbed the heart of the people; but I determined to follow the Lord my God; so Moses solemnly promised that day, saying, The land to which thou hast gone up shall. be thy lot, and thy children’s forever, for a possession, because thou hast determined to fol- low the Lord our God. Now the Lord hath kept me alive as he said. This is the forty fifth year since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, and Israel commenced their wanderings in the wilderness. And behold I am now eighty five years of age ; yet I am now as strong as when Moses sent me; as able now as then to go out and come in to battle; now therefore I ask of thee that mountain, as the Lord said on that day; for thou didst hear the word on that day. The Enakims indeed are now there ; the cities are fortified and large; if then the Lord be with me, I will exterminate them, as the Lord said to me. Thereupon Joshua blessed him, and gave to Chaleb son of Jephonne, the Kenezite, Chebron for a possession. For this cause Chebron had -become the possession of Chaleb son of Jephonne, the Kenezite, at this day, because he followed the command of the Lord God of Israel. Now the name of Chebron, formerly, was city Argob. It was the metropolis of the Enakims.
XV. Now when the land had rest from war, the borders of the
tribe of Juda, according to their communities, were south- ward along the borders of Idumea, from the wilderness of Sin
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the south, the boundary beginneth its course over against the steep of Akrabin, and runneth round Sena, then goeth up south of Kades-barne, and runneth by Asoron, and goeth up to Sarada; and quitting this directly west of Kades, it proceed- eth on to Selmona, and thence to the torrent of Egypt, and the termination of this their boundary was to be at the sea. This is their southern boundary. And their boundary on the east is the whole extent of the salt sea to the Jordan. And their boun- dary on the north, beginning at the head of the sea, and a part of the Jordan, runneth up to Baithaglaam, and passeth along
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advanceth on to the fourth part of the valley of Achor, then goeth down to Galgal, which is over against the steep of Adam- min, whichis onthe south side of the valley ; thence it striketh off to the water of the fountain of the sun, and its termination there is to be the fountain Rogel ; thence the boundary goeth up to the valley of Ennom, on the south side of Jebus, which is Jeru- salem; then the boundary turneth off to the top of the moun- tain which is to the west, in front of the valley of Ennom, which is the northern part of the land of Raphain; and from the top of the mountain the boundary turneth off to the fountain of water, Naphtho; and thence to the mountain Ephron; thence the boundary is to stretch on to Baal, which is the city Jarim, then the boundary is tocome round west of Baal, and pass on to mount Assar, on the back and north side of the city Jarim, which is Chaslon, and go down to the city of the sun, passing it on the south side; then the boundary goeth out back of Akkaron northward; thence the boundary is to pass on to Sokchoth, and thence turning southward, to pass onto Lebna. And the termination of this boundary is to be at the sea. And with re- gard to the western boundary, the great sea is to be that bound- ary. These were the boundaries of the children of Juda, ac- cording to their communities round about.
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Achima. And when Chaleb went up thence, against the inha- bitants of Dabir, (now the name of Dabir formerly was The City of Letters) Chaleb said, Whoever will take the city of letters and subdue it, I will give him my daughter Aschan for a wife. Whereupon Gothoniel son of Chenez, Chaleb’s bro- ther took it. So he gave him his daughter Aschan for a wife. And as she was going out to him she consulted with him, say- ing, Let me ask a field of my father. And when she had cried aloud from the ass, and Chaleb said te her, What is the mat- ter with thee? she said to him, Give me a blessing. Seeing thou hast sent me to the land of Nageb, give me Botthanis. So he gave her the upper and lower Gonaithla.
This was the lot of inheritance of the children of Juda; and the cities belonging to the tribe of the children of Juda; on the borders of Edom, adjoining the wilderness, were Baise- leel, and Ara, and Asor, and [kam and Regma, and Aruel, and. Kades, and Asorionain, and Mainam, and Balmainan, with their villages; and the cities of the Aserons, which is Aser, and Sen, and Salmaa, and Molada, and Seri, and Baiphalath, and Cholaseola, and Bersabee, with their villages and sheep- cots: Bala, and Bakok, and Asom, and Elboydad, and Baith- el, and Erma, and Sekelak, and Macharim, and Sethannak, and Labos, and Sale, and Eromoth, twenty nine cities with their villages. In the plain, Astaol, and Raa, and Assa, and Ra- men, and Tano, and Iluthoth, and Maiani, and Jermuth, and Odollam, and Membra, and Saocho, and Jaseka, and Sakarim, and Gadera, with its villages—fourteen cities, with their villa- ges: Senna, and Adosan, and Magadalgad, and Dalad, and Mas- pha, and Jachareel, and Basedoth, and Ideadalea, and Chabra,and Maches, and Maachos, and Geddor, and Bagadiel, and Noman, and Machedan; sixteen cities with their villages. Lebna, and Ithak, and Anoch, and Jana, and Nasib, and Keilam, and Akiezi, and Kezib, and Bathesar, and Ailom, ten cities with their villages: Akkaron, and the villages thereof, with their sheepcots ; bordering on Akkaron, Gemna, and all that lay near Asedoth, with their villages ; Asiedoth, and the shcep- cots thereof, Gaza, and the villages thereof, and its sheepcots, to the brook of Egypt; and the great sea is the boundary. And m the hilly country, Samir, and Jether, and Socha, and Renna, and city of letters, this is Dabir, and Anon, and Ks,
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and Man, and Aisam, and Gosom, and Chalu, and Channa. and Gelom; eleven cities with their villages; Airem, and 52 Remna, and Soma, and Jemain, and Baithachu, and Phakua, and Eyma, and city Arbok, this is Chebron, and Soraith, 55 nine cities with their sheepcots: Maor, and Chermel, and Ozib,and Itan, and Jariel, and Arikam, and Zakanaim, and Ga- 58 baa, and Thamnatha, nine cities with their villages; Ailua, and Bethsur, and Geddon, and Magaroth, and Baithanam, and 60 Thekum, six cities with their villages : Theko, and Ephratha, this is Baithlehem, and Phagor, and Aitan, and Kulon, and Tatam, and Thobes, and Karem, and Galem, and Thether, and Manocho, eleven cities with their villages: Kariath-baal, this is the city Jarim, and Sotheba, two cities with their sheep- 61 cots: and Baddargis, and Tharabaam, and Ainon, and Aio- chioza, and Naphlazon, and the cities Sadon and Agkades, 63 seven cities with their villages. But the Jebusites dwelt in Je- rusalem, and the children of Juda were not able to destroy them. So the Jebusites had dwelt in Jerusalem to this day. XVI. And the borders of the children of Joseph were from the Jordan, in front of Jericho eastward, and to go up from Je- 2 richo to the hilly country—the wilderness to Baithel-louza, and having come out to Baithel, the boundary is to run along the borders of Achatarothi, and proceed westward, along the bor- ders of Aptalim, till it reacheth the borders of lower Baithoron ; 4 and the termination thereof is to be at the sea. And when the children of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasses, got their posses- sions, the borders of the children of Ephraim, according to their communities were these. The boundary of their posses- sion from the east were Ataroth, and Erok, till it reached the 6 upper Baithoron, and Gazara; then the boundary was to pro- ceed westward to Ikasmon, on the north side of Therma, then to come round eastward to Thenasa, and Selles, and from the east border of that to pass on to Janoka, and to Macho, and Ataroth, including their villages; then to come to Jericho, 8 and terminate at the Jordan: And from Taphu the boundary was to run westward by Chelkana and to terminate at the sea. This possession of the tribe of Ephraim, according to. their 9 communities, with the cities set apart for the children of Ephraim, in the inheritance of the children of Manasses, com-
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ses were these—Because he was the first born of Joseph, Ma- chir the first born of Manasses, the father of Galaad, being a man of war, had a possession in Galaaditis, and in Basanitis ; and the rest of the sons of Manasses had possessions according to their communities, namely, the sons of Jezi, and the sons of Kelez, and the sons of Jeziel, and the sons of Sychem, and the sons of Symarim, and the sons of Opher. These were the males according to their communities. Now Salpaad, son of Opher, had no sons, but only daughters; and these were the names of the daughters of Salpaad, Maala, and Noua, and Egla, and Melcha, and Thersa; and they stood before Elea- zar the priest, and before Joshua, and before the chiefs and said, God hath, by the ministry of Moses, commanded to give us. an inheritance among our brethren. Accordingly there was a possession given them, by the command of the Lord, among their father’s brothers, and their lot happened to be on the borders of Anassa, the plain of Labek, a part of the land of Galaad, on the bank of the Jordan, because the daughters of the children of Manasses had a possession in the midst of their brethren; and Galaad belonged to the rest of the children of Manasses.
Now these were the borders of the children of Manasses; Delanath, which is in front of the children of Anath, and ex- tendeth to the borders, to Jamin, and Jassib, to the fountain ‘Thaphthoth, is to belong to Manasses; but Thapheth, which is within the bounds of the Manassites, is to belong to the chil-: dren of Ephraim. Thence the boundary is to go down to the vale of Karana, on the south side, over against the vale of Ja- riel; but Tereminthus, which is within the bounds of a city of Manasses, is to belong to Ephraim; then the border of Ma- nasses runneth northward, to the brook, and his boundary is to be the sea. The south side belonged to Ephraim, and the north side to Manasses, and the sea was to be their boundary. And on the north they were to jom upon Aser, and on the east upon Issachar. And Manasses was to have in Issachar, and in
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Aser, Baithsan, with their villages, and the inhabitants of Dor, - and its villages, and the inhabitants of Mageddo, and its villa-
12 ges, and the third part of Mapheta, and its villages; but the Manassites were not able to exterminate the inhabitants of
13 these cities. The Chananites had begun to settle in that land, and when the Israelites became strong, they brought the Chu- nanites into subjection, and did not utterly extirpate them.
14 When the children of Joseph complained to Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given us but one lot, and one portion, to in- herit, seeing I am a numerous people, and God hath blessed
15 me? Joshua said to them, If thou art a numerous people, go
up into the forest and clear it for thyself, if the mountain 16 Ephraim be too narrow for thee. Whereupon they said we are not satisfied with mount Ephraim, and the Chananites, who dwell there in Baithsan, and its villages, and in the valley of 17 Jezrael, have choice horses, and iron. But Joshua said to the children of Joseph, If thou art a numerous people, and hast great power, thou wilt not have one lot only, for the forest will 18 be thine. Though it is a forest thou canst clear it, and it shall be thine when thou hast rooted out the Chananites. For though they have choice horses, thou shalt excel them in strength. XVIII. When all the congregation of Israel assembled at Se- 2 lo, and fixed there the tabernacle of the testimony, and the land was subdued under them, but there still remained among the children of Israel seven tribes who had not received their por-
3 tions, Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long will you
be devoid of courage, to take possession of the land which
4 the Lord our God hath given? Appoint from among you three
men of a tribe, and let them arise, and go through the land, and lay before me a draught of it, as it ought to be divided.
5 And when they came to him he distinguished for them seven
portions, saying, Let Juda stand. Their boundary is south of this. And let the children of Joseph stand. Their boundary is north of this. Divide ye therefore the land into seven parcels, and bring them to me, and I will cast the lot for you before the 7 Lord our God; for the children of Levi are to have no lot among you; for the priesthood of the Lord is their portion; and Gad and Reuben, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, have received their possession on the eastern bank of the Jor-
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dan—that which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them. So the men prepared to set out, and when they were going to tra- verse the land, Joshua gave them a charge, saying, Go and tra- verse the land, and come to me, and I will here cast the lots for you before the Lord, at Selo. So they went, and traversed the land, and when they had viewed it, and written it by cities in seven parcels in books, they brought them to Joshua, and Joshua cast lots for them at Selo, before the Lord, and the lot of the tribe of Benjamin came out first, accordiag to their com- munities, and the bounds of their lot came out between the children of Juda, and the children of Joseph; and these were their borders. On the north their boundary was to go up from the Jordan, back of Jericho, on the north side, and to run west- ward to the mountain, and come out at Mabdaritis-Baithon; thence the boundary was to run to the border of Louza, back of Louza on the south side of it, this is Baithel; thence the boundary was to run down to Maatarob-Orech, by the high land which is south of the lower Baithoron; thence the bound- ary was to wind, and proceed to that part on the south which overlookeththe sea, from the mountain before Baithoron south- ward, and to terminate at Kariathbaal, that is Kariathiarim, a
city of the children of Juda. This was the western part. And
with regard to the southern part; from a part of Kariathbaal, the boundary jwas to run to Gasin, by the fountain of water Naphtho; thence the boundary was to run down part of the way, that is, in front of the forest Sonnam, which is the north- ern part of Emek-raphain; thence down to Gehenna, back of Jebusi, south of it, down to the fountain Rogel; then to turn. off to the fountain Baithsamys, and pass on to Galiloth, which is over against the steep of Aithamin; then down to the stone of Baion, one of the sons of Reuben; then to run back of Baithabara, north of it, down to the border at the north end of the sea; and the termination of this boundary was to be at the north bay of the salt sea, and at the south end of the Jordan. This was the southern boundary. And the Jordan was to be the eastern boundary. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, and these their borders round about, according to their communities. And the cities of the Benjaminites accord- ing to their communities were Jericho, and Bethegaio, and
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τ and Phara, and Ephratha, and Karapha, and Kephira, and Mo-
ni, and Gabaa, twelve cities with their villages: Gabaon, and Rama, and Beerotha, and Massema, and Miron, and Amoke, and Phira, and Kaphan, and Nakan, and Selekan, and Tha- reela, and Jebus, this is Jerusalem, and Gabaoth-Jarim, thirteen cities with their villages. This was the inheritance of the chil- dren of Benjamin, according to their communities.
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their inheritance was in the midst of the lots of the children of Juda. And this was their lot—Bersabe, and Semao, and Ke- ladam, and Arsola, and Bola, and Jason, and Erthula, and Bula, and Erma, and Sikelak, and Baithmachereb, and Sarsusin, and Batheroth, with their fields, thirteen cities with their villages; Eremmon, and Thalecha, and Jather, and Asan, four cities with their villages, around these their cities, as far as Balek on the way to Bameth southward. ‘This was the inheritance of the tribe of the Symeonites according to their communities. From the portion of Juda was taken the inheritance of the tribe of the Symeonites; because the portion of the children of Juda was too large for them, therefore the children of Symeon got an in- heritance in the midst of their portion.
And the third lot came out for Zabulon, according to their communities; and these were to be the bounds of their inhe- ritance—Esedekgola, the sea and Magalda, were to be their boundaries, and their boundary was to join upon Baitharaba, at the valley which is in front of Jekman: then it turned up from Sedduck, from the east of Baithsamys, along the borders of Chaselothaith, and was to turn off to Dabiroth, and go up to Phaggai; thence to come round on the other side, eastward to Gebere, by the city Katesem, and pass on by Remmonaa Matharaoza; then the boundary was to go round, northward, by Amoth, and the termination of it was to be at Gaphael. In- cluding Katanath, and Nabaal, and Symoon, and Jericho, and Baithman, this was the inheritance of the children of Zabulon, according to their communities, their cities and their villages.
And the fourth lot came out for Issachar, and their borders were Jazel, and Chassaloth, and Sunam, and Agin, and Siona, and Reeroth, and Anachereth, and Dabiron, and Kison, and
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their boundary was to be the Jordan. This was the inheri-
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communities, their cities and their villages.
And the fifth lot came out for Aser, according to their com- munities; And their borders were Exaleketh, and Aleph, and Baithok, and Neaph, and Elimelech, and Amiel, and Maasa, and to join on Karmelo, westward, and on Sion and Labanath, and to turn from the rising of the sun, and Baithegeneth, and to join Zabulon, and Ekgai, and Phthaiecl, on the north; then the boundary is to come to Saphthaibaithme, and Inael, and turn off to Chobamasomel, and Elbon, and Raab, and Eme- maon, and Kanthan, till it reached great Sidon; Then the
boundary is to turn up to Rama, and to the fountain Masphas- ἡ
set, and the Tyrians; Then the boundary is to turn up to Ja- siph; and the termination of it is to be the sea, including Apo- leb, and Echozob, and Archob, and Aphek, and Raau; this was the inheritance of the children of Aser, according to their com- munities, including their cities and their villages.
And the sixth lot came out for Nephthaleim, and their bor-
ders were Moolam, and Mola, and Besemin, and Arme, and Naboch, and Jephthamai, even to Dodam, and the terminations were the Jordan; then their boundary was to turn westward, by Aththabor, and then turn off to Jakana, and join Zabulon on the south, and Aser on the west, and Jordan on the east. Now the fenced cities of the Tyrians, were Tyre and Oma- thadaketh, and Kenereth, and Armaith, and Arael, and Asor, and Kades, and Assari, and Bathaser, and Keroe, and Mega. laarim, and Baiththame, and Thessamus. This was the inhe- ritance of the children of Nephthaleim.
And the seventh lot came out for Dan; and their borders were Sarath, and Asa, and the cities Sammaus, and Salamin, and Ammon, and Silatha, and Elon, and Thamnatha, and Ak- karon, and Alkatha, and Begethon, and Gebeelan, and Azor, and Banaibakat, and Gethrimmon, and on the west of Jerakon, the border near Joppa. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the Danites, according to their communities, including their
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cities and their villages. (But the children of Dan did not root out the Amorites who distressed them on the mountains, and the Amorites did not suffer them to come down into the valley. Nay they took from them the border of their portion. Where- upon the children of Dan went and made war on Lachis, and
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there, and:called its name Lasen Dan. The Amorites conti- nued also to dwell in Elom, and Salamin, but the hand of ,Ephraim was heavy upon them, and they were made tributa- ries to them.) ᾿
Now when the children of Israel set out to enter into the land, according to their respective bounds, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nave, a portion among them. By the command of God, they gave him the city which he asked, namely Tham- nasarach, which is on mount Ephraim, and he rebuilt the city, and dwelt there,
These were the portions which Eleazar the priest, and Jo. shua son of Nave, and the chiefs of the patriarchal families, distributed by lot among the tribes of Israel, at Selo, in the presence of the Lord, at the doors of the tabernacle of the testi- mony. So they set out to take possession of the land.
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the children of Israel and say, Give the cities of refuge which I ordered you by Moses, a refuge for the manslayer who hath killed a person unawares.. And these cities shall be for you a refuge, that the slayer may not be put to death by the avenger of blood, until he stand before the congregation for trial; and he had set apart Kades, in Galilee, on mount Nephthaleim, and Sychem, on mount Ephraim, andthe city Arbok, which is Che- bron, on the mountain of Juda: And on the bank of the Jor. dan they had given Bosor, in the wilderness, in the plain, from the tribe of Reuben, and Aremoth in Galaad, from the tribe of Gad, and Gaulon in Basanitis from the tribe of Manasses. These are the cities renowned among the children of Israel and the proselytes who dwell among them, for every one who smit- eth a person unawares to flee thither, that he may not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stand before the con- gregation for trial.
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dren of Levi came to Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of | Nave, and to the chiefs of the,patriarchalfamilies, of the tribes of Israel, and spoke to them at Selo, in the land of Chanaan, saying, The Lord, by the ministry of Moses, commanded to: give us cities to dwell in, with the arable lands around for our cattle; whereupon the children of Israel gave the Levites for a possession, by the command of the Lord, the following cities with their suburbs. And the lot came out for the community of Kaath, and there fell by lot to the children of Aaron, the priests, who were Levites, out of the tribe of Juda, and from the tribe of Symeon, and from the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities; and to the rest of the Kaathites out of the tribe of Ephraim, and.out of the tribe of Dan, and from half of the tribe of Manasses by lot ten cities; andto the Gersonites, from the tribe of Issachar, and from the tribe of Aser, and from the tribe of Nephthaleim, and from the half of the tribe of Manas- ses in Basan, thirteen cities; And to the Merarites, according to their communities, from the tribe of Reuben, and from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zabulon, by lot, twelve ci- ties. These cities, with their suburbs, the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites, as the Lord commanded Moses. So the tribe of the children of Juda, and the tribe of the children of Symeon, gave, and there were given from the tribe of the children of Benjamin, the following cities which were assigned to the children of Aaron, of the community of Kaath, who were Levites—because the lot fell to them, they gave them Kari- atharbok, the capital of the Enakims, which is Chebron, on the mountain of Juda. Now the suburbs around it, and the fields belonging to the city, and the villages thereof, Joshua had giv- en to the children of Chaleb, son of Jephonne, for a possession ; but to the sons of Aaron, they gave Chebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with what was set apart for it as such, ted Lemma with its suburbs, and Ailom with its suburbs, and Tema with its suburbs, and Gella with its suburbs, and Dabir with its suburbs, and Asa with its suburbs, and Tanu with its suburbs, and Baithsamys with its suburbs, nine cities from these two tribes; and from the tribe of Benjamin, Gabaon with its suburbs, and Gatheth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs, and Gamala with its suburbs, four cities. All the cities of the children of Aaron the priests were thirteen.
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20 Andtothe conMutnities ofthe Kaathites, the Levites, the rest of the Kaathites, was assigned, from the tribe of Ephraim, the city of their»priests; and they gave them Sychem, the city of refuge for the manslayer with its appurtenances, and Gazara with its fields and its suburbs, and Baithoron with its suburbs, four cities; and from the tribe of Dan, Elkothaim with its sub- urbs, and Gethedan with its suburbs, and Ailon with its sub-
25 urbs, and Getheremmon with its suburbs, four cities; and from the half of the tribe of Manasses, Tanach with its suburbs, and
96 Jebatha with its suburbs, two cities. All the cities for the re- maining communities of the Kaathites were ten, with their suburbs. _
27 And to the children of Gerson, the Levites, they gave out of the half of the tribe of Manasses, the city set apart for the manslayers, Gaulon in Basanitis with its suburbs, and Bosora
28 with its suburbs, two cities; and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kison with its suburbs, and Lebba with its suburbs, and Rem- math with its suburbs, and Fountain of letters with its suburbs,
30 four cities; and out of the tribe of Aser, Basellan with its su- burbs, and Dabbon with its suburbs, and Chelkat with its su-
22 burbs, and Raab with its suburbs, four cities; and out of the
» tribe of Nephthaleim, Kades in Galilee, the city set apart for the slayer, with its suburbs, and Nemmath with its suburbs, and Themmon with its suburbs, three cities. All the cities οὗ the Gersonites, according to their communities, were thirteen cities.
94 And to the community of the Merarites, the rest of the Levites, they gave out of the tribe of Zabulon, Maan with its suburbs, and Kades with its suburbs, and Sella with its su-
36 burbs, three cities; and on the bank of the Jordan, over against Jericho, out of the tribe of Reuben, the city of refuge for the slayer, namely, Bosor, in the wilderness, which is called Miso with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs, and Dekmon with its suburbs, and Mapha with its suburbs, four cities ;
38 and from the tribe of Gad, the city of refuge for the slayer, namely, Ramoth in Galaad with its suburbs, and Kamin with its suburbs, and Esbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs; all the cities four. All the cities for the children of
Ch. XXII. JOSHUA. . a % : Merari, according to their communities, béing the remaining families of the tribe of Levi, were twelve cities with their 41 borders. All the cities of the Levites, in the wills of the pos-
session of the children of Israel, were forty eight with’ the .
42 grounds appropriate to them, around ‘these cities. ΑἹ] these cities had every one a circuit of ground around it. Now when Joshua had finished dividing the land among them by their borders, the children of Israek gave Joshua a portion, by the command of the Lord. They gave him the city which he asked. They gave him Thamnasachar on mount Ephraim, and Joshua rebuilt the city, and dwelt there- in. And Joshua took the stone knives with which he had ¢ir- cumcised the children of Israel, who were born by the way in the wilderness, and deposited them at Thamnasachar. 48 Thus the Lord gave Israel all the land which he solemnly promised to give to their fathers, and they took possession of 44. jt, and dwelt therein; and the Lord gave them rest’ round about, as he sware to their fathers. Ofalltheir enemies not one rose up against them. The Lord delivered all their enemiés 45 into their hands. There was not a failure of any of the good things which the Lord spoke to the children of Israel. "Bhey were all accomplished. XXII. Then Joshua convened the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, and 2 said to them, You have hearkened to all that Moses ii ser- vant of the Lord commanded you; and you have obeyed my 3 orders according to all that he commanded you. You have not for these many years left your brethren: even to this day you 4, havekept the command of the Lord your God.Now the Lord our God hath given our brethren rest as he promised them. Now therefore return and go to your homes, and to the land of your possession, which Moses gave you on the bank of the Jordan. 5 But be very careful to perform the commandments and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you to do, to love the Lord our God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, and to cleave to him and serve him with your 6 whole heart, and with your whole soul. Then Joshua blessed them and dismissed them, and they set out on their return to their homes.
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- ϑ' « 7 #Now toone half of the tribe of Manasses Moses had given a possession in Basanitis, and to the other half Joshua gave * one on the western side of the Jordan, among their brethren. 8 So when Joshua had sent them away to their homes, and. blessed them, {πον δεῖ out homewards with much wealth, for they had shared with their brethren, vast numbers of cattle, and a great abundance of silver, and gold, and iron, and rai- 9 ment, the spoil of their enemies. And when the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, had set out from the children of Israel, at Selo in the land of Chanaan, to go to,Galaad, to the land of their pos- session, which they had got rons Moses by the.command of 10 the Lord, and were come to Galaad of the Jordan, which is in . the land of Chanaan, the Reubenites and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses built there an altar by the Jor- 11 dan—an altar great and conspicuous. And when the Israelites heard it'said, Behold the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses have built an altar on the borders 12 of the land of Chanaan, at Galaad of the J ordan, on the bank “of the children of Israel, all the Israelites assembled at Selo, 13 to &o up to war against them. And the children of Israel sent ‘to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, to the land of Galaad, Phineas, son of Elea- 14 zar, son of Aaron, the chief priest, and ten of the chiefs with him, a chief from the head family of every tribe of Israel. Now 15 the chiefs of the head families are the chiliarchs of Israel. And when they came to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, to the land of Galaad, they spoke to 16 them, saying, Thus saith the whole congregation of the Lord, What trespass is this which you have committed in the pre- sence of the God of Israel, to turn away this day from the Lord, having built for yourselves an altar that you may apos- 17 tatize from the Lord? Is the sin of Phogor a small matter to you? Because we have not been cleansed. from it even to this day, though there was a plague in the congregation of the 18 Lord; are you therefore now turned away from the Lord? For the consequence will be, if you this day apostatize from the Lord, there will be to-morrow wrath against all Israel. 19 Now if the land of your possession be too small for you, come
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over to the land of the possession.of the Lord, where the*ta- bernacle of the Lord is pitched, and take a possession among us, and do not become apostates from God, nor revolt from the Lord by building for yourselves an altar apart from the al- tar of the Lord our God. Behold when Achar, son of Zara, committed a trespass in regard to the Anathema, was there not wrath against all the congregation of Israel, so that he perish- ed not alone for his sin ? a?
In reply to this the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the» half of the tribe of Manasses, said to the chiliarchs of Israel, The Lord God is our God, and. God himself our God hath seen, and Israel themselves may determine. If through apos- tacy we have trespassed in the sight of the Lord, let him not. this day deliver us. Or if we have built an altar for ourselves, to apostatize from the Lord our God, or to offer thereon a sacri- fice of whole burnt offeri ings, or to offer thereon a sacrifice of thanksgiving, let the Lord make inquisition. Indeed from a sacred regard to this matter we have done this, saying, That your children may not hereafter say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord God of Israel ? The Lord hath” made the Jordan a boundary between us and you; so that you have no portion m the Lord. And so your children may make our children'strangers, that they may not worship the Lord, we therefore determined to act in this manner—to build this altar, not for the purpose of homage offerings, nor for sacrifices; but that it may be a witness between us and you, and our poste- rity after us, of our right to perform the service of the Lord before him, with our homage offerings, and our incense offer- ings, and our sacrifices of thanksgiving; so that your children may not say to our children, You have no portion in the Lord. For we said, If it should ever happen that they should speak so to us, or to our posterity hereafter, they may say, Behold the similitude of the altar of the Lord which our fathers made, not for the purpose of homage offerings, nor for sacrifices, but to be a witness between you and us, and our children after us. God forbid that we should turn away from the Lord, by apostatizing this day from the Lord, so far as to build an altar for the purpose of homage offerings, or incense offermgs, or sacrifices of thanksgiving, over and above the altar of the Lord, which is before his tabernacle.
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nasses, had spoken, they were pleased. And Phineas the priest said to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, This day we perceive that the Lord is with us, be- cause you have not committed a trespass before the Lord, and be- cause you haye delivered the Israelites out of the hand of the Lord.
So Phineas the priest returned, with the chiefs, from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, and from the half of the tribe of Manasses, from Galaad to the land of Chanaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them this answer, and
-it pleased them. Upon their delivering this message to the
children of Israel, they blessed the God of the Israelites, and no more talked of going up against them to battle, to lay waste the land of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half of the tribe of Manasses, So they dwelt therein, and Joshua gave a name to the altar of Reuben, and Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, and said, It is a witness for them that the Lord is their God.—
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rael rest from all their enemies round about, Joshua being far advanced in years, convoked all the sons of Israel, their senate, and their chiefs, and their judges, and their under ofhicers, and said to them, Iam grown old, and am far advanced in years. Now you have seen all that the Lord our God. hath done to these nations for your sake; for it is the Lord your God who hath fought for you. You see that I have thrown in among the lots for your tribes, the nations which are left by you, with all the nations which I have exterminated between the Jordan and the great sea, which is to be your western boundary. The Lord our God will himself root them outfrom before you until they be destroyed. He will send the wild beasts against them, until they utterly destroy them and their kings from before you, so that you may possess their land, as the Lord our God hath spoken to you. Be strong therefore to keep with all diligence, and to do all that are written in the book of the law of Moses, that you may not turn aside to the right, nor to the left. That you may have no fellowship with those nations which are left,
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the names of their gods must not be mentioned among you; nor shall you perform religious service to them, nor worship them; but you shall Bleavel to the Lord our God, as you have done to this day. Then will the Lord root them out from be- fore you, though they are great and powerful nations. None indeed. have been able to stand before you even to this day. One of you hath chased a thousand, because the Lord our God himself fought for you, as he ‘promised you. Therefore take good heed to love the Lord our God. For if you tun away, and join yourselves with those nations which are left with you, and intermarry with them, and be mixed with them, and they with you; be assured that the Lord will no more drive out those nations from before you; but they shall be to you snares and stumbling blocks, and nails in your heels, and darts in your eyes, until you be destroyed from this good land, which the Lord your God hath given you. As 55: me, I am going , speedily the way of all το are on the earth. Now you must know in your heart, and in your soul, that not one word hath failed of all that the Lord our God hath said. With respect to all that have come to us, not one of them have failed. Now as all the good things, which the Lord hath spoken respecting you, have come to you, so the Lord God will bring upon you all the evil things, until he destroy you from this good land, which the Lord hath given you, when you transgress the co- venant of the Lord our God, which he hath commanded us, and go and serve other gods and worship them.
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. seed, and gave him Isaak ; and to Isaak, Jacob and Esau; and
to Esau I gave mount Seir for a possession; but Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt, and became there a nation, great, numerous and powerful. And when the Egyptians af-
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and we cried to the Lord, he puta cloud and darkness between us and the Egyptians; and brought the sea upon them, and it overwhelmed them. Your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in the land of Egypt. And when you had been many years in the wilderness, he brought us to the land of the Amorites, who dwelt on the border of the Jordan; and the Lord deliver- ed them into our hands, and you took possession of their land, and extirpated. them from before you. And when Balak, son of Sepphor, king of Moab, arose and drew up in array against Israel, and sent for Balaam to curse us, the Lord thy God would not destroy thee, nay he caused him to bless us with blessings, and rescued us out of their hands, and delivered them up. And when you crossed the Jordan, and came to Jericho, and the Amorites who inhabited Jericho, and the Cha- nanites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Jebu- sites, and the Chettites, and the Gergasites, fought against us,
the Lord delivered them into our hands. Indeed he sent be- fore you the hornet, and drove them out from before us, even the twelve kings of the Amorites, not with thy sword, nor with thy bow, and hath given youa land, on which you did not be- stow labour, and cities which you did not build, and you are settled therein, and are eating of vineyards, and olive yards, which you did not plant. Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with sincerity and truth, and put away the strange gods which our fathers worshipped in Beyond the river, and in Igypt, and serve the Lord. But if it seemeth not good to you to serve the Lord, chuse for yourselves this day whom you will serve, either the gods of your fathers who were in Beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we, will serve the Lord; for he is holy.
Upon this the people answered, and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods. The Lord is our God. He is God. He hath brought up us and our fathers
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out of Egypt, and preserved us all the way we went, and among all the nations through which we passed, and the Lord hath driven out from before us the Amorites, and all the na- tions who dwelt in this land; therefore we will serve none but the Lord; for he is our God. ;
And Joshua said to the people, You may not be able to serve the Lord, because he is the Holy God, and will be zeal- ous. He will not bear with your sins and your iniquities. When you forsake the Lord, and serve other gods, he will come and afflict you; and consume you, proportionably to the good he hath done you.
And the people said to Joshua, Nay, we will serve none but the Lord.
Then Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord to serve him. Now therefore put away the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord God of Israel. And the people said to Joshua, We will serve the Lord, and hearken to his voice.
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and eave it to them as a law, and a solemn decision at Selo, before the tabernacle of the Lord God of Israel. And when he had written these words in the book of the laws of God, he took a great stone, and set it up under ἃ fir tree which was over against the Lord, and Joshua said to the people, Behold this stone shall be among you for a witness, that it hath heard all that were said by the Lord, for he hath this day spoken to you ; and this shall be among you for a witness in the latter days, whenever you prove false to the Lord my God.
Then Joshua dismissed the people, and they departed every one to his place: and. Israel. served the Lord all the
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Joshua, and who had seen all the works of the Lord which he had done for Israel. And after those things, Joshua the son of Nave, the servant of the Lord died at the age of a hundred and ten years ; and they buried him in the boundaries of his inhe- ritance, at Thaminasachar, on mount Ephraim, north of mount Gaas. There they deposited with him, in the grave in which
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Now the children of Israel'had brought up out of Egypt, the bones of Joseph, and they buried them at Sikimoi, in that portion of the field which Jacob purchased of the Amorites who dwelt at Sikimoi, fora hundred lambs, and which he gave to Joseph for an inheritance.
And after these things, Eleazar son of με, the chief priest, died, and was buried in Gabaar, which belonged to Phineas his son, which he had given him on mount Ephraim. At that time the children of Israel took up the ark of God, and carried it about among them. And Phineas officiated as priest in the room of his father Eleazar. And when he died, he was buried in Gabaar, which belonged to him. As for the children of Israel, they had gone to their several homes, and to their re- spective cities. And when the children of Israel fell to wor- shipping Astarte, and Astaroth, and the gods of the nations around them, the Lord delivered them into the hands of Eglon king of Moab, and he exercised dominion over them eighteen years. *
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Now, after the decease of Joshua,the children of Israel in- quired of the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us as our leader against the Chananites, to conduct the war against them? And the Lord said, Juda shall go up. Behold I have delivered the land into his hand. Whereupon Juda said to his brother Symeon, Come up with me in my lot, and let us array our- selves against the Chananites, and I will go up with thee in thy lot. So Symeon went up with him. And Juda went up, and the Lord delivered into their hands the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and they smote them in Bezek, to the num- ber of ten thousand men. When they came up with Adoni- bezek, in Bezek, they drew up in array against him, and smote the Chananites and the Pherezites. And Adonibezek fled, and they pursued him, and took him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. Whereupon Adonibezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut
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off, have been under my table, gathering up the offals thereof; therefore as 1 have done, so hath God requited me: And ee brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there. 8 (Now the children of Juda had fought against Jerusalem, : and taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and 9 burned the city with fire; And, after that, the children of Juda had gone down to wage war with the Chananites, who 10 inhabited the hilly country, and the south, and the plain. And when Juda went against the Chananites who dwelt in Chebron, (the name of whieh city formerly was Kariath-arbok-sepher, ) Chebron came out against them ; and they smote Sessi, and Achiman, and Tholmi, descendants of Enak, and they” went 11 up thence against the inhabitants of Dabir, (now the name of 12. Dabir formerly was Kariath-sepher [city of letters ]) and Cha- leb said, whoever will smite the city of letters, and take it, I 13 will give him my daughter Ascha for a wife ; whereupon Go- thoniel, the younger son of Kenez, Chaleb’s brother, took it, 14 and Chaleb gave him his daughter Ascha for a wife, and when she was going home to him, Gothoniel persuaded her to ask a field af her Hither: so she murmured, and with a loud voice said, as ‘she was riding, Thou hast sent me away to the land of the south. And Chaleb said to her, What is the matter with 15 thee? And Ascha said to him, Give me, I beseech thee, a blessing. Since thou hast sent me away to the land of the south, thou shouldst therefore give mea portion of water. Thereupon Chaleb gave her according to her desire, a portion 16 of high lands, and a portion of low grounds. Now the children of Jothor, the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up from the city of palm trees, with the children of Juda, into the wilder- ness, which is in the south of Juda, at the steep of Arad, and dwelt with this tribe.) 17 Then Juda went with his brother Symeon, and smote the Chananites who dwelt in Sepheth, and utterly destroyed them, 18 and called the name of that city Anathema. Though Juda did not take possession of Gaza, nor the borders thereof, nor of Ascalon nor its borders, nor of Akkaron, nor its borders, nor 19 of Azotus, nor the grounds about it; yet the Lord was with him, and he took possession of the mountain, for they were not enabled to drive out the inhabitants of the vale, because
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Chaleb, as Moses had said, he had from thence taken posses- sion of the three cities of the children of Enak.
Neither did the children of Benjamin dispossess the Jebu- sites, who dwelt at Jerusalem; so the Jebusites have continu- ed to dwell at Jerusalem, with the children of Benjamin, to this day.
With regard to the children of Joseph, they went up to Baithel, and “the Lord was with them; and they encamped near, and kept a watch upon Baithel. (Now the name of that
city formerly was Louza.) And they who kept watch, looked,
and behold a man came out of the city ; and they took him, and said to him, Shew us the way into the city, and we will shew thee mercy. So he shewed them the entrance into the city, and they smote the city with the edge of the sword: but they suffered the man and his family to depart. And the man went to the land of Chettin, and built there a city, and called its name Louza, and this continueth to be its name to this day.
But Manasses did not take Baithsan, [which is now called Scy- thopolis ] nor its towns; nor the lands about it; nor Thanek, nor any of its towns; nor the inhabitants of Dor, nor any of its towns; nor the inhabitants of Balak, nor any of the habitations about it, nor its towns; nor the inhabitants of Magedo, nor any of the habitations around it, nor its towns; nor the inhabitants of Jeb. laam, nor any of its surrounding habitations, nor its towns; So the Chananites took the opportunity to settle im that land ; but when Israel grew strong, they subjected the Chananites to tribute, but did not utterly root them out. Neither did Ephra- im drive out the Chananites who dwelt in Gazer. So the Cha- nanites dwelt among them in Gazer, and became tributaries,
Neither did Zabulon drive out the inhabitants of Kedron, nor the inhabitants of Domana; so the Chananites continued to dwell among them and became tributary to them.
Neither did Aser drive out the inhabitants of Akcho; but it became tributary to them; nor the inhabitants of Dor; nor the inhabitants of Sidon; nor the imhabitants of Dalaph; nor the Aschazites; nor the Chebdaites; nor the Naites; nor the Ereo- ites. So Aser dwelt in the midst of the Chananites who inha- bited that land, because he could not drive them out.
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dwelt in the midst of the Chananites who inhabited that land. And the mhabitants of Baithsamys and Baitheneth became tri- butary to them.
As for the children of Dan, the Amorites harassed them on the mountains, for they did not suffer them to go down into the vale. And the Amorites began to settle on the shelly moun- tains, on that frequented by bears, and on that frequented by ~ foxes, namely on Myrsinoni, and on Thalabin. But the hand. of the house of Joseph was heavy on the Amorites, and they became tributary to them. Now the border of the Amorites reached from the steep of Akrabin, from that rock and up- wards.
So there went up a messenger of the Lord from Galgal to Wailing, namely to Baithel, to the house of Israel, and said to them, Thus saith the Lord, I caused you to come up out of Egypt, and brought you into this land which I solemnly pro- mised your fathers, and I said I will never break my covenant with you; therefore you shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land, nor worship their gods; but you shall break to pieces their graven images, and demolish their al- tars. But you have not hearkened to my voice. Because you have done these things, therefore I have said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be curbs for you ; and their gods shall be to you a stumbling block. And when the messenger of the Lord had spoken these words to all the children of Israel, the people wept aloud. So they called the name of that place, Wailing, and there ith sacrificed to the Lord.
Now when Joshua had dismissed the people, and every man had gone to his inheritance to take possession of the land, though the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and. all the days of the elders who had lived long with Joshua, and who knew all the great works which the Lord had done for Israel; yet when Joshua son of Nave, the servant of the Lord, died, at the age of a hundred and ten years, and they had buried him in the border of his inheritance at Thamnathares, on mount Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaas; and
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all that generation was gathered to their fathers, and another
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17 them. When they indeed hearkened not to the judges, because they went a whoring after other gods, and worshipped them, and turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers had walked—did not act in obedience to the commands of the
18 Lord; still because the Lord raised up judges for them, there- fore the Lord was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, because the Lord was mollified by their groaning, by reason of them who
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22 He indeed had spared them, that by them he might prove Israel whether they would, or would not, keep the ways of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers had kept them: and hay- ing determined to spare those nations so as not to root them out speedily, the Lord did not deliver them into the hands of Joshua.
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who would be unacquainted with the wars of Chanaan, to in- struct in the art of war, not only the present, but the succeed- ing generations of the children of Israel, who knew not these things—namely the five Satrapies of the Philistines, and all the Chananites, and the Sidonians, and the Evites who inha- bited Libanus from mount Aermon to Laboemath. But while he was by them»proving Israel, to know whether they would hearken to the commandments of the Lord, which he had given in charge to their fathers by the hand of Moses, the childrea of Israel dwelt among the Chananites, and the Chettites, and the Amorites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Jebu- sites, and they took their daughters to be their wives; and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. Thus the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baalims and the bowers. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he deliver- ed them into the hands of Cousarsathaim, king of Syrian Meso- potamia, and the children of Israel served him eight years. But when the Israelites cried to the Lord, he raised up a saviour for them, and delivered them, namely Gothoniel the youngest son of Kenez, Chaleb’s brother. The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Isracl, and went out to war against Chon- sarsathaim, and the Lord delivered Chousarsathaim, king of Syrian Mesopotamia, into his hands; and his hand prevailed against Chousarsathaim, and the land had rest. Forty years. But when Gothoniel son of Kenez died, the children of Israel proceeded to do evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened [glon, king of Moab, against Israel, because.they did evil in the sight of the Lord; and he gathered to him all the Ammonites, and the Amalekites, and came and smote Is- racl, and took possession of the city of palm trees; and the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years. But when the Israelites cried to the Lord, he raised up for them a deliverer, namely Aod son of Gera, the Jeminite, a man who could use both hands alike. When the children of Israel sent presents by him to Eglon king of Moab, Aod made for him- self a two edged dagger, a span long, and girded it under his
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we military robe, on his right thigh, and went and presented the gifts to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very polite man. So when Aod had made an end of presenting the gifts, and had ‘sent away the men who carried the presents, he him- self returned from the sculptures which are back of Galgal. 19 And Aod said, I have a private message to thee, O king. 20 Whereupon Eglon said to him, Be silent. And when he had sent away from him all his attendants, Aod went into him. Now he was sitting alone in his summer parlour, up stairs. And Aod said, I have a message of God to thee, O king. Upon 21 which Eglon arose from his seat, near him. And as he was rising, Aod stretched forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and plunged it into his belly, and thrust 22 the haft in also after the blade, and the fat closed upon the 23 blade, for he did not draw the dagger out of his belly. Then Aod went out by the stairs into the porch. He went out beyond the guards, having shut behind him the doors of the parlour, 24 and bolted them. And when he was gone, Eglon’s servants came, but finding the doors of the parlour bolted, they said, 25 Perhaps he is uncovering his feet in the summer parlour. And when they had waited till they were ashamed, and behold. the parlour door is not opened, they took the key and opened it, and behold their lord was fallen—dead upon the floor! But Aod escaped while they were in confusion, and none attended to him; and having passed the sculptures he got safe to Setei- 27 rotha. And when Aod came to the land of Israel, he sounded a horn on mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel went down with him from the mountain, and he before them. And he said to them, Follow me down, for the Lord God hath de- livered our enemies—Moab into our hands. So they followed him down, and took possession of the fords of the Jordan before 29 Moab, and suffered not a man to pass. And they slew of Moab that day about ten thousand men, their whole strength, even 30 every man of valour. Not aman escaped. So Moab was hum- bled that day, under the hand of Israel, and the land had rest. 31 Eighty years. Now Aod judged them till he died. And after him arose Samegar, son of Dinach, who had slain of the Phi- listines six hundred men with an ox goad, and who also saved Israel. VOL. I. 3F
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But the children of Israel proceeded again to do evil in the sight of the Lord, when Aod was dead, and the Lord de- livered Israel into the hand of Jabin king of Chanaan, who reigned in Asor. Now the captain general of his army was Si- sara, and he dwelt at Arisoth of the nations. And the children of Israel cried tothe Lord, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he oppressed Israel grievously, twenty years.
Now Debbora, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, judged Israel at that time, and had taken her seat under the palm grove of Debbora, between Ramaand Baithel, on mount Ephraim; and the children of Israel went up to her for judgment. And Deb- bora sent for Barak, son of Abineem, of Kades-Nephthaleim, and said to him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded thee? Go therefore to mount Thabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Nephthaleim, and of the chil- dren of Zabulon, and I will bring out to thee, to the brook Kison, Sisara the captain general of Jabin’s army, with his cha- riots, and his multitude, and deliver him into thy hands. Where-. upon Barak said to her, If thou wilt go with me I will go; but if thou wilt not go, I will not go: for I do not know the day when the Lord would prosper the angel with me. And, she said Γ will certainly go with thee; but know, that in the journey which thou takest, the honour of the victory will not be thine ; for the Lord will deliver Sisara into the hands of a woman. So Debbora arose, and went with Barak, of Kades... And Barak called out Zabulon and Nephthaleim from Kades, and there went up after him ten thousand men, and Debbora went up with him. Now Chaber, the Kinite, had removed from Kaina, from among the children of Jobab, Moses’ father in law, and had pitched his tent in the oak grove which is near Kades. And when Sisara was told that Barak, son of Abincem, was gone up to mount Thabor, he called out all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all his people with him, from Ari- soth of the nations to the brook Kison.. And Debbora said to Barak, Arise, for this is the day, on which the Lord hath de- livered Sisara into thy hand; for the Lord will march before thee. So Barak went down from mount Thabor with ten thou- sand men after him; And the Lord discomfited Sisara, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword, be-
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fore Barak. And Sisara alighted from his chariot and fled on foot. And Barak pursued the chariots, and the army, to Ari- soth of the nations. And the whole army of Sisara fell by the edge of the sword. There was not even a man left.
Now Sisara had fled, on foot, to the tent of Jael, the wife of Chaber the Kinite; for-there was peace between Jabin king of Asor, and the house of Chaber the Kinite. And Jael went out to meet Sisara, and said to him, Turn in my lord’; turn in tome. Be not afraid. So he turned in to her—into the tent; and she covered him witha mantle. And Sisara said to her Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. Whereupon she opened the milk vessel, and gave him drink, and then covered him. And Sisara said to her, Stand, I pray thee, at the door of the tent, and if any man come to thee and ask thee, saying, Is there a man here? thou shalt say, There is not. Then Jael, the wife of Chaber, took the pin of the tent, and a mallet in her hand, and went in softly to him, and drove the pin into his temple, and it went through into the ground. And he fainted away, and was involved in darkness, And when he was dead, behold Barak came in pursuit of Sisara. And Jael went out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. So he went in with her, and behold Sisara lay dead with the pin in his temples. So God, on that day, subdued Jabin king of Chanaan before the children of Israel, and the hand of the Israelites prospered, and prevailed against Jabin king of Chanaan, until they utterly destroyed him.
Then sung Debbora, and Barak son of Abineem, on that day, saying,
Revelation was revealed in Israel
When the people offered thank offerings;
Praise ye the Lord.
Hear, O kings! and give ear, O princes!
I will sing to Jam, to the Lord Jam;
J will sing to the Lord, the God of Israel.
O Lord! in thy march out of Seir, .
When thou didst remove from the fields of Edom;
The earth trembled, and heaven distilled dew ;
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The mountains shook at the presence of the Lord Eloi, That Sina, at the presence of the Lord God of Israel. In the days of Samegar son of Anath—in the days of Jael; They forsook the high ways, and travelled in bye paths—
They travelled in crooked winding roads.
The mighty men of Israel were faint hearted ; They were faint hearted till Debbora arose— Until there arose a mother in Israel. They had chosen new gods; Then was war made upon the cities of chiefs, if a buckler was seen, Or a spear among forty thousand in Israel. My heart was fixed on what were enjoined Israel. Ye among the people who offer thank offerings, Praise ye the Lord. Ye who. have mounted your asses at noon day, Ye who sit in the seat of judgment, Ye who travel the high ways to the publick assemblies, Make proclamation on the road, on account of the voice of them Who shout amidst the drawers of water. There let them rehearse gracious deliverances. Increase, O Lord, gracious deliverances in Israel. Then went the people of the Lord down to their cities. Awake, awake, Debbora! Awake, awake, utter a song. Arise, Barak! And lead thy captivity captive, son of Abi- neem! Then went down a remnant to the mighty— The Lord’s people went down to him with my valiant men. Ephraim rooted out them in Amelek; After thee was Benjamin with thy people; With me went down the scouting Machirites, And from Zabulon, they who array with the marshal’s staff. The leaders in Issachar also were with Debbora and Barak. Thus was Barak in the vales. He had sent a courier to the factions of Reuticel The bold hearted are just setting out.
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Why did they tarry among their sheepfolds ?
Was it to hear the bleating of their flocks?
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Why abode Galaad beyond the Jordan where he dwelt?
And why doth Dan sojourn in ships?
Aser seated himself on the sea shore,
And chuseth to dwell in his extreme borders.
The people of Zabulon jeoparded their lives to death;
And Nephthaleim came to the high places of the field. Kings had drawn themselves up in array.
Then fought the kings of Chanaan at Thanach—
At the waters of Mageddo ;
They had not received the gift of silver.
The stars from heaven were drawn up in array—
From their orbits they fought against Sisara.
The torrent of Kison swept them away—
The ancient torrent—the torrent Kison.
My mighty soul shall trample them down.
When the feet of the horse were entangled,
With precipitate speed, they who were able, fled. Curse Meroz, said the messenger of the Lord,
Curse ye it bitterly.
Cursed be every one who dwelleth therein,
Because they came not to the help of the Lord—
To the help of the Lord among the mighty. Blessed among women be Jael the wife of Chaber the
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Above women in tents may she be blessed.
He asked for water; she gave him milk;
From her churning vessel she brought him whey.
She stretched forth her left hand to the tent pin ;
And her right hand to the workman’s mallet.
And with the mallet she smote Sisara.
She drove the pin into his head and smote him;
She drove the pin quite through his temples.
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Through a window the mother of Sisara looked earnestly ;
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Why is his chariot so long a coming?
Why tarry the wheels of his chariot?
Her wise ladies answered her—
Nay she returned an answer to herself,
Shall they not find him dividing spoil?
Will he shew compassion to the head of a man?
Sisara shall have spoils of richest dyes—
Spoils of richest dyes of needle work.
Rich dyes of embroidery are the spoils for his neck ! So perish all thine enemies, O Lord,
But let them who love thee be like
The going forth of the Sun in his might.
So the land had rest.. Forty years.
Again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them mto the hand of Madiam seven years. And the hand of Madiam prevailed against Is- rael, so that because of Madiam, the Israelites made for them- selves those dens which are in the mountains, and those caves and strong holds in cliffs. And when the Israelites had sown, Madiam and Amelek came up, and the children of the ‘east came up with them, and encamped against them, and destroy- ed their fruits, all the way to Gaza. In all the land of Israel they did not leave sustenance for life, nor among the herds a bull or a jack ass. For they came up with cattle. And their tents were pitched like locusts for multitude: and they and
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_ Then there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under the fir tree, which is at Ephratha, in the land of father Joas, the Esdrite. Now Gideon, his son, was beating out corn in the wine press, with an intent to flee from before Madiam. And the an- gel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, The Lord is with thee—the Mighty Lord of Hosts. Whereupon Gideon said to him, With me, my lord! But if the Lord is with us, why have these evils befallen us? And where are all his wond- rous works, of which our fathers have told us, saying, Hath not the Lord brought us up out of Egypt? But he hath now cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Madiam. Then the angel of the Lord turned towards him and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel out of the hand of Ma- diam. Behold I have sent thee. Upon which Gideon said to him, Me, my lord! How can I save Israel? Behold my thou- sand is weak in Manasses; and I am the least in my father’s house. And the angel of the Lord said to him, The Lord will be with thee, and thou shalt smite Madiam like one man. Whereupon Gideon said to him, If I have found favour in thy sight, and thou wilt now do for me all that thou hast said to me, go not away, I beseech thee, from this place till I come to thee, and bring out the sacrifice, and set it before thee. And he said, I will assuredly tarry till thou return. Thereupon Gi- deon went, and prepared a kid of the goats, and unleavened. cakes of an epha of barley meal; and having put the flesh ina basket, and the soup in a pot, he brought them out to him un- der the fir tree, and set them before him. Then the angel of God said tohim, Take the flesh, and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on that rock, and pour out the soup close by. And when he had done so, the angel of the Lord stretched out the point of the staff in his hand, and touched the flesh and. the unleavened cakes; and fire came up out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of the Lord vanished out of his sight.
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23. gel of the Lord face to face. And the Lord said to him, Peace 24 be to thee. Fear not. Thou shalt not die. Upon which Gide- on built there an altar to the Lord, and called_it, Peace of the Lord. ‘Yo this day it is stillat Ephratha, which belonged to fa- 25 ther Esdri. And on that same night the Lord said to him, Take the young bull—the bull belonging to thy father, the second bull of seven years old, and having demolished the altar of Baal which is for thy father, and destroyed the arbour near it, thou 26 shalt build an altar to the Lord thy God, on the top of Maozi, in the parade ; and thou shalt take the second bull, and offer whole burnt offerings on the wood of the arbour which thou 27 hast demolished. So Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had spoken. to him. But as he was afraid of doing it by day, because of his father’s house, and the men of 28 the city, he did it by night. And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, and lo! the altar of Baal was pulled down, and the arbour near it destroyed, and they saw the second bull 29 which he had offered on the altar which he had built, they said one to another, Who hath done this? And when they had made diligent inquiry, and found, and knew that Gideon son of Joas had done the deed, the men of the city said to Joas, 30 Bring out thy son, and let him be put to death, because he hath pulled down the altar of Baal, and because he hath destroyed 31 the arbour which was beside it. Whereupon Gideon son of Joas said to all the men who had risen up against him, Do you now plead for Baal, and will you save him? Whoever shall plead for Baal, let him be put to death this morning. If he is a god, let him plead for himself, because somebody hath pulled down 32 his altar. So this gave him on that day the name of Jerobaal, as he said, Let Baal plead for himself, because this altar of his is pulled down. 38 Nowall Madiam, and Amalek, and the children of the east, had assembled together and encamped in the valley of Jesrael. 34. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he sounded 35 ahorn, and called out Abiezer after him. He also sent mes- sengers to all Manasses, and through Aser, and through Za- 36 bulon, and through Nephthaleim. And when they came up to 37 meet him, Ghideants said to God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast spoken, behold I lay this fleece of wool on
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morning, and all the people with him, and they encamped by the well Arad. Now the camp of Madiam was to the north of him, at the foot of Gabaathamorai, in the valley. And the Lord said to Gideon, The people with thee are too numerous for me to deliver Madiam into their hands. Perhaps they may boast agaist me saying, My own hand hath saved me. Now there- fore speak in the hearing of the people, and say, If any man is fearful, or timorous, let him depart from mount Galaad. So there returned of the people twenty two thousand: and ten thousand were left. And the Lord said to Gideon, The peo- ple are still too numerous: bring them to the water, and I will purge them there for thee. And it shall be that of whomsoever I say, This man shall go with thee; he shall go with thee. And of whomsoever I say, This man shall not go with thee—he shall not go with thee. So he took the people to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, Whosoever shall lap of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him thou shalt set apart ; likewise every one who shall bow down on his knees to drink. And it came to pass that the number of them who lapped, by putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all.the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, By these three hundred men who have lapped I will save you, and deliver Madiam into thy hands. Let all those people therefore go, every man to his home. So they took the people’s provisions at their hands, and their trumpets ; and having dismissed all the rest of Israel, every man to his tent, he retained the three hundred. VOL. I. a G
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the man Ephraim said to Gideon, What is this that thou hast done to us in not calling upon us when thou wentest out to fight Madiam? And they spoke sharply to him. But he said to them, What have I now done in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abie- zer ? The Lord hath delivered into your hand the princes of Madiam, Oreb and Zeb. Now what have I been enabled to do in comparison of you ? And upon his saying this, their an- ger against him abated. And when Gideon came to the Jor- dan, and crossed it, he and the three hundred men who were with him, hungry, but still pursuing, he said to the men of Sokchoth, Give, I pray you, bread to feed the people who fol- low me, for they are fainty, and behold I am pursuing Zebee and Salmana, the kings of Madiam. And the chiefs of Sok- choth said, Is the hand of Zebee and Salmana now in thy hand, that we should give thy army bread? Thereupon Gideon said, For this, when the Lord hath delivered Zebee and Salmana into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wil- derness, even with those of Barkenim. And he went up thence to Phanuel, and spoke to them in like manner; and the men of Phanuel answered him as the men of Sokchoth had done. Whereupon Gideon said to the men of Phanuel, When 1 re- turn in peace, I will demolish'that tower. Now Zebee and Sal- mana were at Karkar, and their army with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of the whole host of the fo- reign tribes, they who had fallen bemg a hundred and twenty
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thousand men who drew the sword. So Gideon went up by the way of them who dwell in tents, eastward of Nabai and Jegebal, and smote the camp, though the camp thought them- selvessecure. And Zebee and Salmana fled, and he pursued them, and took the two kings of Madiam, Zebee and Salmana, and dis- comfited the whole host. And when Gideon, son of Joas, returned from the engagement, back from the engagement at Ares; he caughta young man ofthe men of Sokchoth, and inquired of him, and he wrote down for him the names of the chiefs of Sokchoth, and of their elders, seventy seven men. And when Gideon came to the chiefs of Sokchoth, he said, Behold Zebee and Salmana, with whom you upbraided me, saying, Is the hand of Zebee and Salmana now in thy hand, that we should give bread. to the men with thee who are fainty? ‘Then he took the elders of the city, and scourged them with the thorns of the wilder- ness, even with those of Barkenim. And when he had scourg- ed the men of that city, in the midst of them, he demolished the tower of Phanuel, and slew the men of that city. Then he said to Zebee and Salmana, What sort of men were they whom ye slew at Thabor ? And they said, As thou art so were they. They resembled the children of a king. Whereupon Gideon said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the Lord liveth, if you had saved them alive, I would not have killed you. Then he said to Jether his first born, Arise and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword, for he was afraid, for he was yet very young. Whereupon Zebee and Salmana said, Arise thou thyself, and fall upon us, for thou hast the strength of aman. So Gideon arose, and slew Zebee and Sal- mana, and took the ornaments which were on the necks of their camels. Then Israel said to Gideon, My lord, rule over us, both thou and thy son, and thy son’s son, because thou hast saved us out of the hand of Madiam. But Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you. Nor shall my son rule over you. The Lord will rule over you. Then Gideon said to them. I have a favour to ask of you. Give me every man the ear- rings of his spoils; for the enemy wore gold ear-rings, be- cause they were Ismaelites. And they said, We will give them cheerfully. So he spread his mantle, and they threw thereon, every man, the ear-rings of his spoils; and the weight of the
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gold ear-rimgs, which he had requested, was a thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, exclusive of the necklaces, and. bracelets, and the garments, and purple robes, which were on the kings of Madiam, and exclusive of the chains which were about the neck of their camels. And of this Gideon made an ephod, and set it up in his city in Ephratha; and all Israel went there a whoring after it, and it became a stumbling block to Gideon, and his house.
Thus Madiam was subdued before the children of Israel, so that they never any more raised their head. And the land had rest forty years during the days of Gideon. And Jerobaal son of Joas, went and dwelt at his house.
Now Gideon had seventy sons who proceeded from his loins, for he had many wives. He had moreover a concubine, in Sychem, and she also bore him a son, and called his name Abimelech. And Gideon son of Joas died in his city, and was buried in the tomb of his father Joas, in Ephratha Abiesdri. And when Gideon was dead the children of Israel turned, and went a whoring after the Baalims, and made for themselves a covenant with Baal, that he should be their god. The children of Israel neither remembered the Lord God who had delivered them out of the hands of all those who afflicted them round about; nor did they deal kindly with the house of Jerobaal, namely Gideon, according to all the good which he had done for Israel.
For when Abimelech, son of Jerobaal, went to Sychem, to his mother’s brethren, and. spoke to them, and to all the rela- tions of the house of his mother’s father, saying, Speak I pray you in the hearing of all the men of Sychem, Which is best for you—that seventy men, even all the sons of Jerobaal, should rule over you—or that one man should rule over you? Re- member also that am your bone and your flesh, his mother’s brethren spoke all these words for him in the hearing of the men of Sychem, and their heart inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother. So they gave him seventy weight of silver, out of the house of Baal-berith; and Abime- lech hired for himself vain profligate men, who followed him; and he went to his father’s house at Ephratha, and slew his brothers, the sons of Jerobaal, seventy men, on one stone. Jo- tham indeed, the youngest son of Jerobaal was left, for he had
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hid himself. Then all the Sychemites, and all the house of Bethmaalo, assembled and went and proclaimed Abimelech king, near the oak grove, which was invented for the assem- bling at Sychem. When the news of this was told Jotham, he went and stood on the top of mount Garizin, and raising his voice, he wept, and said to them, Hear me, ye Sychemites, that God may hear you. The trees went forth to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive, Reign thou over us. But the olive said to them, Shall I leave my fatness with which men honour God, and go to wave over the trees? Then the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou and reign over us. But the fig tree said to them, Shall I leave my sweetness, and good fruit, and go to wave over the trees? Then the trees said to the vine, Come and reign over us. But the vine said to them, Shall I leave my wine, which cheereth gods and men, and go to wave over the trees? Then all the trees said to the bramble, Come thou and reign over us. Upon which the bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me to reign over you, come and stand inmy shade; if not, let a fire go out from me, and con- sume the cedars of Lebanon. Now therefore if you have acted with truth and*uprightness in making Abimelech king; and if you have dealt righteously with Jerobaal, and his house, or done to him according to the deserving of his hand—As my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Madiam, and you have risen up against my father’s house, and have slain his seventy sons on one stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his concubine, king over the
men of Sychem, because he is your brother—if therefore you |
have this day acted with truth, and uprightness, im regard to Jerobaal, and his house, may you have joy in Abimelech, and he have joy in you: but if ποῦ; may a fire come out from Abi- melech, and consume the Sychemites, and the house of Beth- maalo; and may a fire come out from the Sychemites, and the house of Bethmaalo, and consume Abimelech. Then Jotham fled, and left his country, and went to Baier, and dwelt there for fear of his brother Abimelech.
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sons of Jerobaal, and lay their blood, on the head of their *brother Abimelech, who slew them, and on the Sychemites be- cause they strengthened his hands to kill his brothers. And the Sychemites set men inambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along by them that way: and king Abimelech had information of this. But when Gaal son of Jobel came with his brethren, and joined the Sychemites, the men of Sychem put confidence in him, and went out into the fields, and gathered their vintage, and trod out their grapes, and uttered the usual shouts of joy, and car- ried offerings to the house of their god, and ate and drank,
and cursed Abimelech. And Gaal son of Jobel said, Who is Abimelech? And who is the son of Sychem, that we should serve him? Is not this son of Jerobaal and Zebul his over- seer—his slave, with all the men of Emmor, the property of father Sychem? Why then should we serve him? O that this people were under my hand! I would depose Abimelech, and say to him, Increase thy army, and come out. When Zebul,
the ruler of the city, heard the words of Gaal, son of Jobel, he was fired with indignation, and sent messengers secretly to Abimelech, saying, Behold Gaal, son of Jobel, with his bre- thren, are come to Sychem, and lo! they have set the city against thee. Now therefore arise by night, thou, and the peo-
ple with thee, and lie in wait in the fields; so that in the morn- ing, soon as the, sun is up, thou mayst rise betimes, and ap-
proach the city, and behold when he and the people with him go out, and meet thee, thou shalt do to him as the occasion may direct. Accordingly Abimelech arose by night, and all the people with him, and lay in wait against Sychem, in four companies. And Gaal son of Jobel went out and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, and Abimelech, and the people with him, arose from the ambush. And when Gaal son of Jo- bel saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold there are people coming down from the tops of the mountains. And Zebul said to him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains like men. And Gaal spoke again, and said, Behold there are people com- ing down, westward, from the middle ground, and there is ano- ther company ‘coming by the way of Elon-maonenim. ‘Then Zebul said to him, Where is now thy mouth with which thou
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thee, and fight them. Whereupon Gaal went out before the men of Sychem, and drew up inarray against Abimelech, and
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fell many wounded, even to the entrance of the gate. Then Abi- melech went to Aremo, and Zebul expelled Gaal and his bre- thren, that they should not dwell in Sychem. And the next morning the people went out to the fields. When this was told Abimelech, he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the fields. And when he had taken a view, and behold the people came out of the city, he rose upon them, and smote them; and Abimelech, and the offi- cers who were with him, rushed forward and took post at the entrance of the gate of the city, and the two other companies fell upon all in the fields, and smote them. And Abimelech fought against the city the whole day, and having taken the city, he slew the people in it, and demolished the city, and sowed it with salt. Now when all the men of the tower of Sy- chem heard this, they repaired to the fort Baithel-berith. And when it was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Sychem were assembled together, he went up to mount Sel- mon, with all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut a bough of a tree, and took it and put it on his shoulder, and said to the people who were with him, Haste and do as I—what you have seen me do. So they cut every man a bough, and went after Abimelech, and piled them up against the fort, and set the fort on fire about them, so that all the men of the tower of Sychem died, about a thousand men and women. Then Abimelech went from Baithel-berith, and encamped against Thebes, and took it. But there was a strong tower in the midst of the city, and all the men and the women of the city fled thither, and shut the gate after them, and went up to the top of the tower. And Abime- lech came to the tower, and when they opposed him, Abime- lech went near to the gate of the tower to set it on fire, and a woman threw a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head,
and fractured his scull; whereupon he cried hastily to the young man who carried his armour, and said to him, Draw my sword,
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and kill me, that they may not say, A woman killed him. So his servant run him through, and he died. And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they went every man to his place. Thus God turned upon Abimelech the wicked- ness which he had committed against his father, in killing his seventy brothers. God also turned upon the head of the men of Sychem all their wickedness, and upon them came the curse of Jotham son of Jerobaal. |
And after Abimelech, there arose to defend Israel, Thola son of Phuah, the son of his father’s brother, a man of Issachar, and he dwelt at Samir on mount Ephraim. And when he had judged Israel twenty three years, he died, and was buried at Samir. And after him arose Jair the Galaadite, and he judged Israel twenty two years. Now he had thirty two sons, who rode on thirty two ass-colts, and they had thirty two cities, which are called, The folds of Jair, to this day, in the land of Galaad. And Jair died, and was buried at Ramnon. And the children of Israel proceeded again to do evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals, and the Astartes, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord, and did not serve him. Whereupon the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon, and they afflicted, and oppressed the children of Is- racl, at that time eighteen years, even all the children of Israel who were on the border of the Jordan, in the land of the Amo- rites, in Galaad. Moreover the children of Ammon crossed the Jordan to fight against Juda, and Benjamin, and against Ephraim, so that the Israelites were grievously oppressed. And when the children of Israel cried to the Lord, and said, We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken God, and served Baals, the Lord said to the Israelites, Did I not de- liver you out of Egypt, and from the Amorites and the Ammon- ites, and the Philistines, and the Sidonians, and Amalek, and Madiam, who afflicted you ? When you cried to me, I saved you out of their hands. But you have forsaken me, and served other gods, therefore I will deliver you no more. Go and cry to
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15 deliver you in the time of your tribulation. And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We have sinned. Do thou thyself | to us, whatever seemeth good in thine‘eyes, but deliver us this
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18 in Galaad; and the children of Israel assembled and encamped. at the watch tower. And the people, the chiefs of Galaad, said to one another, Whoever will undertake to fight the chil- dren of Ammon, he shall be ruler over all the inhabitants of Galaad.
ΧΙ. Now Jephthae, the Galaadite, was at the head of an army. He was the son of a harlot, who bore Jephthae to Galaad.
2 Galaad’s wife also bore him sons; and when the wife’s sons grew up, they thrust out Jephthae, and said to him, Thou shalt have no inheritance in the house of our father; for thou art the
3 son of a concubine. Upon which Jephthae fled from the face of his brothers, and dwelt in the land of Tob. And there were gathered to Jephthae men of desperate fortunes, who went out
4 with him. Now when the children of Ammon came out in
5 array to fight against Israel, the elders of Galaad went to brmg Jephthae from the land of Tob, and they said to him, Come and
7 be our leader that we may fight the Ammonites ; whereupon Jephthae said to the elders of Galaad, Have you not hated me, and driven me from my father’s house, and sent me away from you? Why then are you come to me now when you are in dis-
8 tress? And the elders of Galaad said to him, It is for this very reason, that we have now come to thee. Therefore thou must — come with us, and fight the children of Ammon, and thou shalt
9 be our chief over all the inhabitants of Galaad. Then Jephthae said to the elders of Galaad, If you take me back to fight the children of Ammon, and the Lord deliver them up before me,
10 I shall be your chief? And the elders of Galaad said to him, Let the Lord be witness between us, if we do not according
11 to this thy word. Thereupon Jephthae went with the elders of Galaad, and the people made him head and leader over them.
12 And when Jephthae had repeated all these his terms before the Lord, at Massepha, he sent messengers to the king of the Am.-
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come up against me to fight in my land? And the king of the Ammonites said to Jephthae’s messengers—Because Israel took my land when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon to Jabok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore me those lands peaceably, and I will: depart. Thereupon Jephthae again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, and said to him, Thus saith Jephthae, Israel did not take the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon. For when they came out of Egypt, Israel marched through the wilderness to the sea of Siph, and came to Kades; and Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Let me,I pray thee, march through thy land; but the king of Edom did not consent. ‘They sent also to the king of Moab; but the king of Moab did not con- sent. So after halting at Kades, Israel marched through the wilderness, and went round the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came eastward of Moab, and encamped on the bank of the Arnon, but did not enter the borders of Moab; for Arnon was the boundary of Moab. ‘Then Israel sent mes- sengers to Seon, king of the Amorites—the king of Esebon, and said to him, Let us we pray thee pass through thy land to our place; but Seon would not trust Israel to pass through along his border, but assembled all his people, and encamped at Jasa, and came to an engagement with Israel. And the Lord God of Israel delivered into the hands of Israel, Seon and all his people, and they smote him. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited the country from Arnon to Jabok and from the wilderness to the Jordan. Now therefore hath the Lord God of Israel removed the Amorites
| from before his people, and art thou to possess them? If thy
god Chamos were to put thee in possession of any places, wouldst thou not possess them ? And shall not we succeed all those whom the Lord our God hath removed from before us? Besides, art thou in any respect better than Balak, son of Sep- phor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend with Israel, or go to war with them about this, all the while they lived in Ese- bon, and the borders thereof, and in the land of Aroer, and the borders thereof, and in all the cities along the Jordan, for three hundred years? Why didst thou not in all this time recover
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them. Now therefore I call God to witness, that I have not sinned against thee, and that thou dealest wrongfully in going to war with me. Let the Lord, whois Judge, judge this day between Israel andthe Ammonites. And when the kingof the Ammonites hearkened not to the message which Jephthae sent him, the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthae, and he marched through Galaad, and Manasses, and passed the watch tower of Galaad, into the border of the children of Am- mon.
_ And Jephthae vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, Ifthou deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, it shail be, that whosoever cometh from the door of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall be for the Lord. Him will I dedicate as a whole burnt offering. And when Jephthae passed on to come to battle with the chil- dren of Ammon, the Lord delivered them into his hand, and he smote them from Aroer all the way to Arnon, through the number of twenty cities, and even to Ebelcharmin, with a pro- digious slaughter. And when the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel, and Jephthae came to Massepha, to his house, behold his daughter came out to meet him, with timbrels and, choirs. Now she was his only child. Besides her, he had neither son nor daughter. And when he saw her he rent his clothes, and said, Alas! alas! my daugh- ter! Thou hast indeed troubled me; and thou thyself mayst be in trouble with me, for 1 have opened my mouth to the Lord against thee, and I cannot go back. Upon which she said to him, Hast thou, my father, opened thy mouth to the Lord? Do to me according to what hath proceeded out of thy mouth, since the Lord hath executed vengeance for thee on thine enemies—on the children of Ammon. .Then she said to her father, Grant me; my father, I pray thee, this favour. Let me alone two months, and 1 will go up and down on the moun- tains, and bewail my virginity—lI call God to witness, with only my female attendants. Andhe said, Go. So he sent heraway two months, and she went with her female attendants, and bewailed her virgin state on the mountains. And at the end of twomonths she returned to her father and he performed with her his vow,
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custom in Israel, from year to year, for the daughters of Israel to go and bewail the daughter of Jephthae, the Galaadite, four days in the year.
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and said to Jephthae, Why didst thou go to fight the Am- monites, and not call on us to go with thee? We will burn thy house over thee with fire. And Jephthae said to them, When 1 and my people, and the children of Ammon, were at hard conflict, I called on you; but you did not save me out of their hands. So when I saw that thou wast not a deliverer, I put my life in my hand, and went against the Ammonites, and the Lord delivered them into my hand. Why then are you come up this day to fight against me ? Then Jephthae re-as- sembled all the men of Galaad, and came to an engagement with Ephraim. And the men of Galaad smote Ephraim. Be- cause they of Ephraim who were saved, said, You Galaadites belong partly to Ephraim, and partly to Manasses, therefore the Galaadites seized the passages of the Jordan before Ephraim; and when those of Ephraim who escaped, said, Let us cross over; the men of Galaad said to them, Art thou an Ephraimite ? And when any said, No, then they said to him, say Stachys. And if he did not pronounce it distinctly, they took him, and slew him at the passages of the Jordan. So there fell | of Ephraim, at that time, forty two thousand men.
And Jephthae judged Israel six years. Then Jephthae the Galaadite died, and was buried in his own city, Galaad. And after him, Abaissan of Bethlehem, judged Israel. And he had thirty sons and thirty daughters. His daughters he sent abroad, and he brought from abroad thirty daughters for his sons, and he judged Israel seven years. And Abaissan died, and was buried in Bethlehem. And after him Ailom, the Zabulonite,
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in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines, forty years. Now there was a man of Saraa, a community of the Danites, whose name was Manoe; and his wife was barren, and never had a child. And an angel of the Lord appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold, thou art barren and hast never hada child. But thou shalt conceive a son. Now therefore be careful not to drink wine, nor any fermented liquor, nor eat any thing which is unclean. For behold thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and on his head a razor shall not come; for the child shall be a Na- zarite to God from the womb. And he shall begin to save Is- rael out of the hand of the Philistines. And the woman went, and told her husband, saying, There came to me a man of God, and his visage was like that of an angel of God, very awful, so that I did not ask him whence he was, nor did he tell me his name. But he said to me, Behold thou art with child, and shalt bear a son. Now therefore thou must not drink wine nor any fermented liquor, nor eat any thing unclean; for the child shall be consecrated to God, from the womb to the day of his death. Whereupon Manoe prayed to the Lord, and said, O Lord Adonaie! grant me that the man of God, whom thou didst send, may come to us again, and instruct us what we shall.do to the child which is to be born. And God hearkened to the voice of Manoe, and the angel of God came again to the woman. Now she was sitting in the field, and Manoe her husband was not with her. So the woman hasted, and ran and told her husband, and said to him, The man hath appeared to me, who came to me before. Upon which Manoe arose, and went with his wife, and when he came to the man, he said to him, Art thou the man who spoke to my wife? And the angel said, Lam. Then Manoe said, Now the thing will come to pass. How is the child to be educated, and what is he to do? And the angel of the Lord said to Manoe, He must abstain from all the things which I mentioned to this woman. He must eat nothing which proceedeth from the vine, nor drink wine, nor any fermented liquor, nor eat any thing which is unclean. He must observe all that I have commanded her. Then Manoe said to the angel of the Lord, Let us de- tain thee here till we set before thee a kid of the goats.. And
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the ail of the Lord said to Manoe, Though thou detain me I cannot eat of thy victuals; but if thou wouldst offer a whole burnt offering, offer it to the Lord. Because Manoe did not know that he was an angel of the Lord, therefore Manoe said to him, What is thy name, that when thy word cometh to pass we may honour thee? And the angel of the Lord said to Ma- noe, Why askest thou my name? It is indeed Wonderful. Then Manoe took the kid of the goats, with the sacrifice of flour, and carried them up upon the rock for the Lord. And he went apart to offer the sacrifice, while Manoe and his wife were looking on. And when the flame ascended above the altar, up towards heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. When Manoe and his wife saw this, they fell flat with their face to the ground. And as the angel of the Lord no more ap- peared to Manoe and his wife, Manoe then knew that he was an angel of the Lord; whereupon he said to his wife, We shall surely die, for we have seen God. But his wife said to him, Had it been the will of the Lord to cause us to die, he would not have received at our hand a whole burnt offering, and a sa- crifice; nor would he have shewed us all these things; nor would he, as on this occasion, have caused us to hear these things.
So the woman bore a son, and called his name Sampson ; and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him; and the Spirit of the Lord began to go out with him, at the camp of Dan, between Saraa and Esthaol.
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went down, and spoke to the woman, and the matter was sett- _ led to Sampson’s satisfaction. And when he returned, the year
after, to take his wife, he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion, and behold there was a swarm of bees, and honey in the lion’s mouth. So he took out some of the combs in his hand, and went on eating; and when he came to his father and his mother, he gave them, and they ate thereof. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s mouth. And when his father went down to the woman, Samp-
son made an entertainment there seven days; for so young men | usually do. Now when they saw him, they made choice of | thirty men to be with him, And Sampson said to them, I - will propound to you a riddle; if you explain it during the | seven days of the entertainment, or find out the meaning of © it, I will give you thirty Sindons, and thirty suits of apparel:
but if you cannot tell me, you shall give me thirty Sindons and thirty changes of apparel. And they said, Propound thy riddle that we may hear it. Then he said to them, What eatable came from the eater; and, from the fierce, what that is sweet? And when in the course of three days they could not explain the riddle, they on the fourth day said to Sampson’s wife, Ask we pray thee thy husband, and get him to explain the riddle to thee, lest we burn thee and thy father’s house with fire. Have you invited us to do us an injury? So Sampson’s wife wept before him, and said, ‘Thou dost but hate me, and hast not loved me; for thou hast not told me the riddle which thou hast propounded to the children of my people. And Sampson said to her, If I have not told it to my father and my mother, should I tell thee? But as she continued to weep before him, during the seven days, while the feast lasted, he at length on the se- venth day told her, because she importuned him; and she told the children of her people. So the men of the city said to him on the seventh day, before the sun was set, What is sweeter than honey, and what fiercer than a lion? Upon which Samp- son said to them, If you had not ploughed with my heifer, vou
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doors of the city gate with the two posts, and lifted them up
with the bar, and laid them on his shoulders, and went up to the top of the mountain which looketh towards Chebron, and de- posited them there.
And after this he loved a woman at Alsorach, whose name was Dalida; and the chiefs of the Philistines went up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength
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lieth, and how we may prevail over him, and bind him so as to humble him; and we will give thee, every one of us eleven 6 hundred pieces of silver. Upon this Dalida said to Sampson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and with 7 what thou couldst be bound so as to be humbled. And Samp- son said to her, Were they to bind me with seven thongs, wet, but not rotten, I should lose my strength, and be as other men.
8 So the chiefs of the Philistines brought her seven thongs, wet, 9 but not rotten, and she bound him with them. Now she had - men lying in wait in her chamber. ‘Then she said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson. Upon which he broke the thongs, as one would break a thread of tow, when it is touched 10 with fire. So his strength was not known. Then Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, thou hast deceived me and told me lies. 11 Now therefore tell me with what thou canst be bound. And he said to her, Were they to bind me with new ropes which have never been used, I should lose my strength, and be like
12 other men. So Dalida took new ropes, and bound him with ἡ them, and the men in ambush came out of the chamber and she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson ! Where-
13 upon he broke them from his arms like a thread. Then Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, thou hast deceived me and told me lies. Tell me, I pray thee, with what thou canst be bound. And he said to her, If thou wert to weave these seven locks
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weak, and be like all other men. When Dalida saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent for the chiefs of the Philis- tines, and said, Come up this once more, for he hath told me all his heart. So the chiefs of the Philistines went up to her, and carried the money in their hands. And when Dalida had lulled Sampson to sleep on her knees, she sent for a man, and he shaved off the seven locks of his head, and began to hum- ble him; for his strength was gone from him. And when Da- lida said, The Philistines are upon thee Sampson! He awoke from his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times hereto- fore, and rouse myself. He indeed did not know that the Lo had departed from him. Then the Philistines seized him Ν put out his eyes, and carried him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass, and he was kept grinding in the pri- son house.
Now when the hairs of his head began to grow as when he was shaven, the chiefs of the Philistines assembled to offer a - great sacrifice to their god Dagon, and to rejoice. And they said; God hath delivered Sampson, our great enemy ito our hand. And when the people saw him, they sung praises to their god, saying, Our god hath delivered our enemy into our hands—him who wasted our land, and multiplied the number of our slain. Now when their heart was elated with joy, they said, Call Sampson from the prison, and let him make sport for us; so they called Sampson from the prison, and he made sport for them; and when they had beaten him with rods, they set him between the pillars.. Then Sampson said to the young man who had hold of his hand, Let go, that I may feel the pil- lars on which the house resteth, and lean upon them. Now the house was full of men and women; and all the chiefs of the Philistines were there ; and on the top of the house there were about three thousand men and women looking at Samp- son’s sports. ‘Then Sampson wept before the Lord, and said, O Adonaie, Lord, remember me, I beseech thee, and strength-
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and the house fell upon the chiefs and on all the people in it.
So that those whom Sampson slew at his death were more
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came up and buried him between Saraaand Esthaol in the tomb
of his father Manoe. Now he had judged Israel twenty years. The idolatry of the house of Micah and of the Danites.
XVII. There was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was
Micah; and he said to his mother, With regard to the eleven hundred pieces of silver which thou hadst taken for thyself,
d for which thou didst lay me under a curse, and speak in my hearing, behold the money is in my possession. I took it. And his mother said, Blessed of the Lord is my son. And when he gave his mother the eleven hundred _ pieces of silver, his mother said, I indeed had dedicated this money to the Lord, out of my hand, for my son to make a graven and a molten image. Now therefore I will give it to thee. So when he gave his mother the money, she took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silver smith, and of it he made a graven and a molten image, and it,ivas in the house of Mi- cah. So the house of Micah was to him the house of a god. And he made an ephod and theraphia, and consecrated one of his sons, and he became his priest. Now in those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. And there was a young man of Bethlehem, a community of Juda, but he was a Levite and sojourner there. And this man went from Bethlehem, the city of Juda, to so- - journ wherever he could find a place, and came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, with a view to proceed on in his journey. And Micah saidto him, Whence comest thou? and he in reply, said, lam a Levite of Bethlehem Juda, and I am going to sojourn wherever I can find a place. Whereupon Micah said to him, Abide with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten pieces of silver a year, and a suit of clothes, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in and began his abode with the man; and he treated the youth as one of his sons. And when Micah had consecrated the Levite, and he became his priest, and was in Micah’s house, Micah said, Now I know that the Lord will do me good, because 1 have got a Levite for a priest.
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men who had gone to spy the land of Laisa, addressing their brethren, said, You know that at this house there is an ephod, and a theraphin, and a graven anda molten image ; 15 now consider therefore what you are to do. Upon this they turned aside, and went to the house of the young Levite, to the 16 house of Micah, and saluted him. While the six hundred Da. nites, who were equipt with implements of war, stood at the gate of the city, the five men, who had gone to spy the land, 18 went up and entered the house of Micah, while the priest was standing there, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and τὴ the theraphin, and the molten image. And when the priest said * τὸ them, What are you doing? they said to him, Hold thy peace. Put thy hand on thy mouth and come with us, and be to usa father and a priest. Is it better for thee to be the priest of the house of one man, than to be the priest of a tribe, and of the house of a community of Israel? And the priest’s heart 20 was delighted. So he took the ephod, and the theraphin, and the graven, and the molten image, and went into the midst of 21 the people. And they turned and went away, and sent the chil- 22 dren, and the cattle, and the heavy baggage before them. And when they were at a considerable distance from the house of Micah, behold Micah and the men, the families adjacent to Micah’s house, uttered the shout of war and overtook the Dan- 23 ites. Upon which the sons of Dan turned about and said to Micah, What is the matter with thee that thou hast raised the 24 shout of war? And Micah said, Because you have taken my grayen image, which I made, and the priest; and have gone away. What more could have happened to me? Why then do 25 you say to me, Why dost thou shout? And the sons of Dan said to him, Let not thy voice be heard among us. Should warm spirited men come to an engagement with us they will endan- 26 ger thy life, and the life of thy household, Then the sons of Dan proceeded on in their march. And when Micah saw that 27 they were too strong for him, he returned to his house. So the sons of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who was with him, and went to Laisa, to a people living at ease, and in a state of security, and smote them with the edge of the 28 sword, and burned the city with fire. There was none to deliver them, for they were far from the Sidonians, and had no inter.
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course with any man. It is situate in the valley of the house of
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name of the city Dan after the name of their father Dan who
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graven image, and Jonathan, a Gersonite, son of Manasses, he
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XIX. In those days when there was no king in Israel, there was a
certain Levite who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, and
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when she had been there four months, her husband arose and went after her, with an intent to speak affectionately to her, and bring her back to him. And he had a young man with him, and acouple of asses. And when she introduced him to her father’s house, and the young woman’s father saw him, he 4. was rejoiced to meet him. And his father in law, the young woman’s father, detained him, and he:abode with him three days, and they eat, and drank, and lodged there. And on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, and he got up to depart, the father of the young woman said to his son in law, Comfort thy heart with a morsel of bread, and after that 6 you shall go. So they two sat down, and eat and drank to- gether, and the father of the young woman said to the man, Come I pray thee, stay all night and let thy heart be merry. 7 And when the man arose to depart, his father in law pressed 8 him; so he sat down, and staid there that night. And he arose early in the morning of the fifth day with a view to depart; but the father of the young woman said, Comfort thy heart, I 9 pray thee; and then travel on till the close of the day. And when they two had eaten, and the man arose to depart, with his concubine and his servant, his father in law—the young wo- man’s father said to him, Behold the day is spent till near af- ternoon, lodge here to night, and let thy heart be merry, and set out on your journey early in the morning, and thou wilt reach
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Peace be to thee. But let all thy wants be upon me. But thou ~ must not lodge in the street. So he took him to his house, and provided a place for the asses. And when they had washed their feet, they ate and drank. But while they were cheering their hearts, behold the men of the city—sons of transgressors, surrounded the house, and knocked at the door, and spake to the man, the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring out the man who came to thy house that we may know him. Upon this the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said, Do not, my brethren; do not, I pray you, the man an
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folly. Behold here is my daughter, a virgin, and his concubine; I will bring them out, and you may humble them and do to them what scemeth good in your eyes, but to the man you must not do such an act of folly. But the men would not heark- en to him. Then the man took his concubine, and brought her out to them, and they knew her, and abused her the whole night till the morning. And soon as the day began to dawn they let her go. And the woman went at the dawn of day and threw herself down at the door of the house where her husband was, until it should be light. And when her husband arose in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out with a design to proceed on in his journey, behold the woman, his concubine, was lying at the doors of the house with her hands on the threshold. And he said to her, Arise and let us depart. But she made no answer; for she was dead. So he took her up, upon the ass, and went to his place, and took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her into twelve pieces, and sent them through all the borders of Israel. Where- upon every one who saw them said, There never was such a thing done or seen from the day the children of Israel came out of Egypt to this day. Appoint for yourselves a counsel over
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the ambush of Israel came up from their place, from Maraa- gabo, and there came over against Gabaa ten thousand men, chosen out of all Israel; and the battle was fierce, for they did not know that evil was coming upon them. And the Lord smote Benjamin before the children of Israel. And the chil- dren of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty five thou- sand one hundred men. All these drew the sword. When the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten—now the Israelites had given way to Benjamin because they trusted to the ambush which they had laid for Gabaa; but when they retreated, the ambush was put in motion, and rushed forward
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against Gabaa, and poured into it, and smote the city with the edge of the sword. The children of Israel indeed had settled a signal of battle with the ambush, and that they should raise a coun- ter signal of smoke from the city. So when the sons of Israel saw that the men in ambush had taken Gabaa, they halted, in order of battle. Now Benjamin had begun to smite dead of the men of Israel about thirty men, for they said, They fall again before us, as in the former engagement. But when the counter sign ascended over the city, higher and higher, like a pillar of smoke, Benjamin looked back, and behold, the destruction of the city ascended up to heaven. So when Israel faced about, the men of Benjamin were struck with consternation, for they saw that evil was coming upon them, and they looked about before the children of Israel, towards the way of the wilder- ness, and fled. But the battle overtook them. And they sur- rounded and destroyed them who came from the cities. They cut down Benjamin and pursued them closely from Nua to over against Gabaa, towards the rising of the sun, and there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men. All these were men of valour. Now the rest of them had looked about, and fled towards the wilderness to the rock of Remmon; but of them the children of Israel gleaned up five thousand men. And the children of Israel went down after them to Gedan, and smote of them two thousand men. So that all who fell of Benjamin were twenty five thousand men who that day drew the sword. All these were men of valour. And the remainder, being six hundred men, turned and fled to the wilderness, to the rock of Remmon, and abode at Rock Remmon four months. And the children of Israel turned back upon the Benjaminites, and smote them with the edge of the sword, beginning at the city Methla, including cattle and every thing throughout all the cities. And the cities which they came to, they burned with fire.
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the day following the people arose early in the morning, and built there an altar, and offered whole burnt offerings and sacri- fices. Then the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who came not up before the Lord at the general assembly? For they had denounced the great curse against those who came not up before the Lord to Massepha, saying, Let him assuredly be put to death. Now the children of Israel had felt compassion for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is now one tribe cut off from Israel, What shall we do for wives for the few who are left, seeing we have sworn by the Lord, that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives ὃ. So when they said, Who is there among the tribes of Israel who came not up before the Lord to Massepha? and behold not a man had come to the camp from Jabis Galaad to the general assembly, and the people were reviewed, and there was not a man of the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad; the congre- gation sent thither twelve thousand men from among the young warriors, and gave them a charge saying, Go and smite the in- habitants of Jabis Galaad with the edge of the sword: And this you shall do, You shall devote to destruction every male, and every woman who hath cohabited with man: but the virgins you shall preserve alive. And having done so they found among, the inhabitants four hundred young virgins who had not coha- bited with man, and brought them to the camp at Selom which is in the land of Chanaan. Then all the congregation sent, and spoke to the children of Benjamin at Rock Remmon, and in- vited them to peace. And when Benjamin returned to the chil- dren of {srael at that time, the Israelites gave them the women whom they had saved alive from among the daughters of Jabis Galaad. So they were pleased, and the people relented for Ben- jamin, because the Lord had rade a breach among the tribes of Israel. Then the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for the rest? For all the women of Benjamin are destroyed: (Now they had determined that the inheritance of the Benjaminites should belong to them who had escaped, that a tribe might not be blotted out from Israel :) for we can- not give them any of our daughters for wives; for we have sworn among the children of Israel, saying, Cursed be the man who giveth a wife to a Benjaminite. Then they said, Behold
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Now when the Judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man went from Bethlehem Juda to sojourn in the coun- try of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The man’s name was Elimelech, and his wife’s name was Noemin, and the names ofhis two sons, Maalonand Chelaion. They were Ephrath- ites of Bethlehem Juda. They went to the country of Moab, and while they were there, Elimelech, the husband of Noemin, died, and she was left with her two sons. And they took for themselves wives of the daughters of Moab, the name of the one was Orpha, and the name of the other Ruth. And when they had dwelt there about ten years, both Maalon and Che- laion died, so that the woman was bereaved of her husband, and her two sons. Whereupon she arose with her two daugh- ters in law, and set out on her return from the country of Mo- ab; for she had heard, in the country of Moab, that the Lord
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had visited his people in giving them bread. So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters in law. And when they had travelled some part of the way on their | return to the land of Juda, Noemin said to her two daughters inlaw, Go, I pray you, return each to her mother’s house. | May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have done with the dead, and with me. The Lord grant, that you may find rest, each in the house of her husband. So she kissed them, and they wept aloud, and said to her, We will go back with thee to thy people. But Noemin said, Return, I pray you, my _ daughters! for why should you go with me? Have I yet any more sons in my womb to be husbands for you? Return, 1 pray you, my daughters! For I am too old to have a husband— for should I say, [am in condition to marry, and should I bear sons, would you wait for them till they grow up; or should you be restrained by them from having husbands? No, my daughters. Indeed it grieveth me much for your sakes, that the hand of the Lord hath gone forth against me.
And when they had raised their voice, and wept again, Orpha kissed her mother in law, and returned to her people ; but Ruth followed her. Then Noemin said to Ruth; Behold thy sister in law is gone back to her people, and to her gods, return thou also, I pray thee, after thy sister in law. Where- upon Ruth said, Force me not to leave thee, nor to return from following thee; for whither soever thou goest, I will go; and wherever thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be | my people; and thy God, my God; and wherever thou diest, I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do soto me and 4 more also, if any thing but death shall part me and thee. And when Noemin saw that she was steadfastly determined to go with her, she refrained from speaking to her any more. So | they both proceeded on till they came to Bethlehem. And when they arrived at Bethlehem, all the city was moved about | them, and they said, Is this Noemin? But she said to them, Call me not, [ pray you, oemin. Call me, Bitter: for the | Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full; but the Lord hath brought me back empty. Why therefore do you call me Noemin, seeing the Lord hath brought me low, and the Almighty hath afflicted me ὃ
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because thou hast spoken affectionately to thy servant, behold — let me therefore be like one of thy maid servants. Then Boaz — said to her, It is now meal time, draw near, and eat of the bread, —
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left. And when she arose to glean, Boaz gave a charge to his servants, saying, Let her glean among the sheaves, and put her not to the blush. And when you carry out, carry out for her. Leave also for her some out of the bundles, and let her eat, and glean, and rebuke her not. So she gleaned in the field till evening, and beat out what she had gathered, and it was about an epha of barley. And she took it up, and went to the city. And when her mother in law saw what she had gathered, and Ruth had taken out, and given her some of the bread that was left after she had been satisfied, her mother in law said to
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been at work? Blessed be he who hath taken notice of thee. And when Ruth told her mother in law where she had been at work, and said, The man’s name is Boaz, with whom I work- ed to day. Noemin said to her daughter in law, Blessed is he of the Lord, because he hath not dropped his kindness to the living, nor to the dead. ‘Then Noemin said to her, The man is near of kin to us. He is one of our nearest relations. And Ruth said to her mother in law, Indeed he also said to me, Thou must keep close by my maids till they finish my whole harvest. And Noemin said to her daughter in law Ruth, it is good my daughter that thou hast gone out with his maids, therefore let them not meet thee in another field. So Ruth kept fast by the maids of Boaz, to glean till they finished the
barley and wheat harvest. Then she abode at home with her mother in law. And Noemin her mother in law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek a rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? Now is not Boaz our relation, with whose girls thou hast been ? Behold he is winnowing barley in the threshing floor. This very night therefore thou shalt wash, and anoint thyself, and put on thy raiment, and go up to the threshing floor. But make not thyself known to the man till
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of the Lord God, my daughter; for thou hast shewn more
kindness in this last act than in the former, in not going after young men either poor or rich. Now therefore, my daughter, be not afraid, I will do for thee all thou hast said; for all the tribe of my people know that thou art a virtuous woman. Now in- deed it is true that [am a near relation; but there is a rela- tion nearer of kin than I. Tarry this night, and it shall be, in the morning, that ifhe perform to thee the part of a kinsman, well: let him do so. But if he decline to perform to thee the part of a kinsman, I myself will do the kinsman’s part for thee, as the Lord liveth. Go to sleep till the morning. So she lay at his feet till the morning, and arose before one could know another. And Boaz said, Let it not be known that a woman ᾿ came to the threshing floor. Then he said to her, Bring the sash which is girt about thee. So she held it, and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her, and went to the city. And Ruth went to her mother in law. And her mother in law said to her, My daughter! And when Ruth had told her all that the man had done to her; and said to her, He gave me al- so these six measures of barley; for said he to me, Thou must not go empty to thy mother in law; she said, Sit still my daugh- ter till thou know the issue of this matter ; for the man will not ᾿ rest till the affair is now brought to a conclusion.
And Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. And behold when the kinsman of whom Boaz had spoken was pas- sing by, Boaz said to him, Turn aside and sit down here thou hidden man. So he turned aside, and sat down. Then Boaz
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to our brother Elimelech, and which is given to Noemin, who is returned from the country of Moab,I have promised to open thine ear, saying, Purchase it in the presence of these men who are sitting here, even in the presence of the elders of my peo- ple. If thou wilt do the kinsman’s part, do it; but if thou wilt not perform the office of a kinsman, tell me, that I may know; for there is none besides thee to perform the office of a kins- man, except myself, who am next after thee. And he said, I will do the kinsman’s part. Then Boaz said, On the day thou purchasest the field of Noemin, thou must purchase it with Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance. Thereupon the relation said, I cannot take upon me the office of a kinsman, lest I mar my own inheritance. Take thou upon thyself that office of a kins- man which is my right; for I cannot perform it. Now it was the custom heretofore in Israel, in regard to the transfer of the right of consanguinity, in order to give it validity, that the man loosed his sandal, and gave it to his neighbour, who took upon him his right of consanguinity, and this was the evidence in Israel. So when the relation said to Boaz, Purchase thou for thyself, what by the law of consanguinity it was my right to purchase, he loosed his sandal, and gave it to him. There- upon Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, You are this day witnesses that I have purchased all that belonged to Elimelech, and all that belonged to Chelaion and Maalon, at the hand of Noemin; and that I have purchased Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Maalon, to be a wife to myself, to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance; that the name of the deceased may not be blotted out from among his bre- thren, and from the tribe of his people. You are this day wit- nesses. And all the people who were in the ‘gate-said, We are witnesses. Then the elders said, The Lord make this thy wife who is coming to thy house, like Rachel and like Leia, who both built up the house of Israel, and laid the foundation of power in Ephratha, that there may be a name in Bethlehem :
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mar bore to Juda, from the seed which the Lord will give thee from this young woman. So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went in unto her, and the Lord gave her con- ception, and she bore a son. Whereupon the women said to Noemin, Blessed be the Lord who hath not left thee this day without a kinsman to make thy name famous in Israel. He shall be to thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age. For thy daughter in law, who loved thee, hath brought forth a son. She is better to thee than seven sons. And Noe- min took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became its nurse, and the neighbours gave it a name, saying, A son is born to Noemin, and-called its name Obed. He was the father of Jessai, the father of David.
Now this is the genealogy of Phares. Phares begot Esrom, and Esrom begot Aram; and Aram begot Aminadab; and Aminadab, Naasson; and Naasson, Salmon; and Salmon, Boaz; and Boaz, Obed; and Obed, Jessai; and Jessai, David.
I. KINGS, OR I. SAMUEL.
There was a man of Armathaim-Sipha, of mount Ephraim, whose name was Elkana, son of Jeremeel, son of Eliu, son of Thoke, at Nasib- Ephraim. And he had two wives. The name of the one was Anna, and the name of the other Phennana. And Phennana had children; but Anna had not a child. And this man went up, year after year, out of his city—from Ar- mathaim, to worship, and sacrifice to the Lord God of Sabba- oth, at Selom; for Eli and his two sons, Ophni and Phineas, the priests of the Lord, were there. And his custom was, on the day when Elkana had offered sacrifices, he gave portions to his wife Phennana, and her children, and to Anna he gaye one portion, because she had nota child. Nevertheless, Elka- na loved Anna more than the other, though the Lord had shut up her womb. But because the Lord had not given her a child, such was her affliction and anxiety on the account of this, that,she became disconsolate, because the Lord had shut up her womb, so as not to give her a child. Thus he acted, year after year, when he went up to the house of the Lord. And when she was become disconsolate, and was weeping,
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and did not eat, Elkana her husband said to her, Anna! and she said to him, Here, my lord. And he said to her, What isthe mat- ter with thee, that thou weepest? And why dost thou not eat? And why is thy heart grieved? Am not I better to thee than ten sons? Thereupon Anna rose up, after they had eaten at | Selom, and stood before the Lord. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat at the door posts of the temple of the Lord. And she being in bitterness of soul, prayed to the Lord, and wept sore. And she vowed a vow to the Lord, saying, O Ado- nai, Lord, Eloe Sabbaoth! If thou wilt look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and give thy handmaid a man child, I will dedicate him before thee, as a gift to the day of his death; and he shall not drink wine, nor fermented li- quor, nor shall a razor come on his head. And while she was continuing her prayer before the Lord, Eli the priest observed her mouth. When she spoke in her heart, her lips moved, but her voice was not heard, so Eli thought that she was drunk. Thereupon Eli’s servant said to her, How long wilt thou be drunk? ‘Take away thy wine, and depart from the pre- sence of the Lord. And Anna answered, and said, No, my lord. Iam a woman in deep affliction. Ihave not drunk wine nor strong drink; but am pouring out my soul before the Lord. Count not thy handmaid a daughter of wickedness, because, out of the abundance of my deep meditation, I have continued till now. Then Eli in reply said to her, Go in peace. May the God of Israel grant thee thy petition, which thou hast asked of him. And she said, Thy servant hath found favour in thy sight. Then the woman went away, and when she came to her lodging, she ate and drank with her husband, and her countenance was no more dejected. And they arose early in the morning, and worshipped the Lord, and set out on their journey. And when Elkana came to his house at Armathaim, he knew his wife Anna; and the Lord remembered her, and she conceived, and at the appointed time bore a son, and. call- ed his name Samuel, because, said she, I asked him of the Lord God of Sabbaoth. And when the man Elkana went up, with his household, to offer at Selom his annual sacrifice, and his vows, and all the tythes of his land, Anna did not go up with him; for she said to her husband, Not till the boy can go
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men was very great before the Lord; because they set at naught the sacrifice of the Lord. But Samuel ministered be- fore the Lord, being a child girded with a linen ephod. And his mother made for him a little doublet, and brought it up for him every year, when she came up with her husband, to offer their annual sacrifice. Now Eli had blessed Elkana, and his wife saying, The Lord grant thee seed from this woman in re- turn for the loan which thou hast lent to the Lord. And when the man returned to his place the Lord visited Anna, and she bore three sons more, and two daughters. But the lad Samuel grew up before the Lord.
Now Eli was very old; and when he heard what his sons did to the children of Israel, he said to them, Why do you act in the manner I hear from the mouth of all the people of the Lord ? Do not so my sons; for the reports which I hear are not good, thatthe people cannot serve God. If one man sin against another, intercession can be made for him to the Lord; but if he sin against the Lord, who can intercede for him? But they hearkened not to the voice of their father, where- fore the Lord determined to destroy them. But the child Sa- muel proceeded on, and was in favour with the Lord, and with men. And there came a man of God to Eli and said, Thus saith the Lord, I revealed myself clearly to the house of thy father, when they were servants to the house of Pharao, in the land of Egypt. And I chose the house of thy father out of all the sceptres of Israel, to serve me in the priest’s office, to go up to my altar, and to burn incense, and wear an ephod; and I gave the house of thy father all the burnt offerings of the children of Israel for meat. Why then hast thou looked with an impudent eye on my incense offerings, and on my sacrifice of flour, and honoured thy sons above me, by indulging them with the dedicated part of every sacrifice of Israel, in prefer- ence to me? For this cause, thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, I said, Thy house, and the house of thy father, shall go out before me for ever; but now the Lord saith, Far be this from me; for I will honour them only who honour me. And he who despiseth me shall be despised. Behold the days are com- ing when I will root out thy seed, and the seed of thy father’s house ; so that thou shalt not have an old man in thy house
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my altar, that his eyes may fail and his soul melt; but all
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which shall come upon thy two sons, shall bea sign to thee.
Ophniand Phineas shall both be put to death on the same day.
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that is in my heart and in my mind; and I will build for him
a faithful house, and he shall go out before my anointed for
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come to bow down before him, for a piece of silver, saying, Put me into one of the priestly offices that I may eat bread.
ΠῚ. Now when the child Samuel was ministering to the Lord
before Eli the priest (in those days the word of the Lord was
2 precious—there was no distinct vision) it came to pass at that
time, when Eli was sleeping in his place, his eyes having then ὦ
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of God was replenished, and Samuel was sleeping at the temple,
where the ark of God was, the Lord called, Samuel! Samuel !
Whereupon he said, Here I am, and ran to Eli, and said, Here I
am, for thou didst call me. And he said, I did not call thee. Re-
turn, and go to sleep. Sohe returned and went to sleep. And the
Lord again called Samuel! Samuel! Whereupon he went to Eli,
a second time, and said, Here I am; for thou didst call me. And
7 he said I did not call thee, Return, and go to sleep. Thus before
Samuel knew God, or the word of the Lord was revealed to him,
8 the Lord proceeded to call Samuel the third time; whereupon
Samuel arose, and went to Eli, and said, Here I am, for thou
9 didstcall me. Then Eli conjectured that the Lord had called
him ; therefore he said, Return my son, and go to sleep, and
if he call thee thou shalt say, Speak, for thy servant heareth.
10 So Samuel went, and lay down in his place, and the Lord
came, and stood over against him, and called him as before.
11 AndSamuelsaid, Speak for thy servant heareth. Then the Lord
said to Samuel, Behold I am about to execute my words in Is-
rael, at which both the ears of every one who heareth them shall
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sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be expiated with incense or sacrifices for ever. And Sa- muel lay till the morning, and arose early in the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord, but was afraid to tell the vision. Then Eli said to Samuel, Samuel, my son! And he said, Here Iam. And he said, What was the word spoken to thee? Hide it not from me, I pray thee. God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me, of all that was spoken to thee in thy hearing. Then Samuel told him all the words. He did not hide any thing from him. Where- upon Eli said, He is the Lord. He will do what is good in his sight.
And Samuel grew up, and the Lord was with him, so that not one of his words fell to the ground. And all Israel, from Dan to Bersabee, knew that Samuel was a faithful prophet of the Lord. And the Lord continued to manifest himself at Se- lom; for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel, and it was con- fidently believed that Samuel would be the prophet of the Lord to all Israel, from one end of the land to the other.
Now Eli was very old, and his sons continued their cour- ses. And their way was evil in the sight of the Lord. And in those days the Philistines assembled for war against Israel; and Israel went out to meet them for battle, and encamped at Abenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek. And the Philistines drew up in array for-battle against Israel, and the battle was unfavourable; for Israel gave way before the Philis- tines, and there were smitten in the engagement, on the field of battle, four thousand men. And when the people came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why hath the Lord caused us this day to shrink before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of our God from Selom, and let it go forth from the midst of us, and it will save us out of the hands of our enemies. So the people sentto Selom, and broughtthence the ark of the Lord who is enthroned on the cherubim. And both the sons of Eli, Ophni and Phineas, went with the ark. And when the ark of the Lord came to the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, and the earth resounded. Upon hearing the noise of the . shouting, the. Philistines said, What great shouting is this in
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7 the camp of the Hebrews? And when they understood that the ark of the Lord was come to the camp, the Philistines were struck with terror, and said, The gods are come to them into the camp. Alas for us? Deliver us, O Lord, this day! for sucha
8 thing hath never been done heretofore. Alas for us! Who can deliver us out of the hands of these strong gods? These are the gods who continued smiting Egypt with every plague: and
9 in the wilderness—Be strong and quit yourselves like men, Ὁ Philistines, that you may not become slaves to the Hebrews, as
10 they have been to us. Quit yourselves like men, and fight
them. So they fought them, and Israel gave way, and fled °
every man to his tent. And there was a very great slaughter;
11 and there fell of Israel thirty thousand warriors. And the ark of God was taken, and Ophni and Phineas, the two sons of Eh,
12 were both slain. And there ran a Jeminite from the battle, and came to Selom the same day, with his clothes rent and dust
13 on his head. And when he came, lo! Eli was sitting on his seat, by the gate, watching the way; for his heart trembled
14 for the ark of God. And when the man went into the city, and ~ told the news, the city raised a cry. And upon hearing the sound of the cry, Eli said, What noise of crying is this ? Then
15 the man came in haste, and told Eli. Now Eli was ninety years of age, and his eyes were dim so that he could not see. And just as Eli said to the men who stood round him, What
16 noise of crying is this? The man came in haste to Eli, and said to him, I am he who came the from army, and fied to-day
17 from the engagement. Whereupon Eli said, What was the is- sue, my son? And the young man in reply, said, Israel fled before the face of the Philistines, and there was a great slaugh- ter among the people, and both thy sons are dead, and the ark
18 of God is taken. Soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward from his seat by the gate, and his back was broken, and he died; for he was an old man and heavy. Now
19 he had judged Israel twenty years. And when his daughter in law, the wife of Phineas, who was with child, heard the news, that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she burst into tears and travailed, for
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hast brought forth a son; but she made them no answer: her heart regarded it not; but she called her son Ouaibarcha- both, for the ark of God, and for her father in law, and for her
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Now when the Philistines had taken the ark of God, they carried it from Abenezer to Azotus. And the Philistines took the Ark of the Lord, and carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside Dagon. But when the Azotians arose in the morning, and went into the temple of Dagon, they looked, and lo! Dagon had fallen on its face before the ark of God. There- upon they raised up Dagon, and set him in his place. But the hand of the Lord was heavy on the Azotians; and he afflicted them, and smote them in the hinder parts, throughout Azotus and its territories. And when they arose early next morning, behold Dagon was fallen prostrate before the ark of the cove- nant of the Lord; and the head of Dagon, and both his hands, had been hurled away in front of the Amapheth, and the palms of both his hands had fallen on the threshold, so that nothing but the trunk of Dagon was left. For this cause the priests of Dagon, and every one who goeth into the temple of Dagon, do not, even at this day, tread on the threshold of the temple of Dagon, at Azotus, but step over it.
Still the hand of the Lord was heavy upon Azotus, and pressed them down. Leaks broke out in their vessels, and their country swarmed with mice, and in the city there was a great confusion of mortality. And when the men of Azotus saw that this was the case, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us, for his hand is grievous upon us, and our god Dagon. So they sent, and convened to them the lords of the Philistines, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? Whereupon the Gethites said, Let the ark of the God come to us. So the ark of the God of Israel went to Geth. And when it went there, the hand of the Lord was upon that city, with very great destruction, and smote the men of that city, both small and great. He smote them in their hinder parts, and the Gethites made stools for themselves. Then they sent the ark of God to Ascalon. But when the ark of God came to Ascalon, the Ascalonites cried out saying, Why have
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you brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and 11 our people? So they sent and assembled the lords of the Phi- listines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and 12 let it abide in its own place, and not kill us and our people. For a very deadly disorder broke out in the city, as soon as the ark of the God of Israel entered there ; and they who were alive, and had not yet died, were smitten in their hinder parts. And the cry of the city ascended up to heaven. VI. When the ark had been in the country of the Philistines seven months, and the land poured forth swarms of mice, the 2 Philistines then called for their priests, and their diviners, and their sorcerers, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the 3 Lord? Tell us how we shall send it to its place. Whereupon they said, If you send away the ark of the covenant of the Lord God of Israel, you must not send it away empty, but make: some atonement for the injury done it, and then you shall be A healed, and he will be appeased with you: otherwise his hand will not be removed from you. And they said, What atone- ment shall we make to it? ‘To which they replied, According to the number of the lords of the Philistines, five golden stools, for this is correspondent to the plague among you, both among your chiefs and people; and golden mice, as a sem- blance of those mice of yours, which destroy the land. And you shall give glory to the Lord, that he may remove his hand 6 from you, and from your gods, and from your land. Now why do you continue obstinate, as Egypt and Pharao did? Did they not when he had insulted them, send the people away, 7 and they departed? Now therefore, take and provide a new cart, and two heifets lately calved, without their young, and yoke the heifers to the cart, and bring home their calves from them. Then take the ark, and put it in the cart, with the jew- els of gold which you shall give for an atonement, and lay them on a bed, Bersechthan, by its side, and send it away. And when you have driven it off, you shall quit it, and look. If it taketh the road to its own borders, leading by Baithsamus, then hath he done us this great evil; but ifnot, we shall then know that his hand hath not touched us, but that this is a ca- 10 sualty which hath befallen us. Accordingly the Philistines did so. They took two heifers which had lately calved, and yoked them
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to the cart, and shut up their calves at home; and laid the ark of the Lord in the cart, with the bed Ergab, and the golden mice. And the cows took the straight road to the high way leading to Baithsamus, and proceeded on in one track, and
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Now the people of Baithsamus were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and when they raised their eyes, and saw the ark of the Lord, they rejoiced at meeting it. So when the cart came into the field of Osea of Baithsamus, they set up there a great stone near it. Then cutting to pieces the wood of the cart, they offered the cows as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Then the Levites took up the ark of the Lord, and the
_bed Ergab with it, and the jewels of gold which were by it,
and laid them on the great stone. And the men of Baithsamus offered whole burnt offerings, and sacrifices, that day to the Lord. And when the five lords of the Philistines saw this, they returned to Ascalon the same day. Now these were the golden stools which the Philistines gave for an atonement to the Lord—one for Azotus, one for Gaza, one for Ascalon, one for Gath, and one for Akkaron. And the golden mice were according to the number of all the cities which belonged to the five lords of the Philistines, from the fenced city to the village of the Pherezites, and to the great stone, on which they had laid the ark of the Lord, and which is in the field of Osea, the Baithsamite.
But among the men of Baithsamus, the sons of Jechonias did not receive it with joy—because they looked into the ark of the Lord, therefore he smote among them seventy men, in- cluding fifty of the men’s chiliad. Thereupon the people mourned, because the Lord had inflicted a very great blow on that community; and the men of Baithsamus said, Who will be able to pass by before the Lord, the holy God? And, To whom shall the ark of the Lord go up ftom us. Then they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kariathiarim, saying, The Philistines have sent back the ark of the Lord, Come down
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Now when the Philistines heard that all the children of Is- rael were assembled at Massepha, the lords of the Philistines came up against Israel. Upon hearing this the children of Is- rael were terrified because of the Philistines, and said to Sa- muel, Cease not to cry to the Lord thy God for us, that he may save us out of the hand of the Philistines. Thereupon Samuel took a sucking lamb, and, with all the people, offered it asa whole burnt offering to the Lord. And Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel; and the Lord heard him. Now while Sa- muel was offering the whole burnt offering, the Philistines advanced to battle against Israel; and the Lord thundered that day with a great voice against the Philistines, and they were discomfited, and fled before Israel. And the men of Israel went out from Massepha, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them to below Baithcor. Then Samuel took a stone, and set it up between Massepha and the old town, and called its name Abenezer, (the stone of the helper;) for he said, Even at this place the Lord helped us. And the Lord humbled the Philis- tines so that they came no more into the borders of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel; So that the cities which the Philistines had taken from the Israelites were restored. They delivered them
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up to Israel, from Ascalon to Azob. So Israel recovered their border out of the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace 15 between Israel and the Amorites. And Samuel judged Israel 16 all the days of his life, and went yearly, in rotation, to Baithel, and Galgala, and Massepha, and judged Israel in all those holy 17 places. And his return was to Armathaim; for his house was there. And there he judged Israel, and there he built an altar
to the Lord. Vill. Now when Samuel grew old he appointed his sons 2 judges over Israel. And these were the names of his sons. His first born was Joel, and the name of his second son was Abia. 3 They were judges in Bersabee. But his sons did not walk in 4 his way. They turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and 5 perverted justice. Whereupon all the chief men of Israel as- sembled, and came to Armathaim, to Samuel, and said to him, Behold thou art grown old, and thy sons do not walk in thy way. Now therefore appoint a king over us to judge us like 6 the other nations. And the thing was evil in the sight of Sa- 7 muel, that they should say, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord. And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken to the voice of this people as they have spoken to thee. For they have not rejected thee; but they have rejected me, 8 that I should not reign over them. According to all that they have done to me, from the day I brought them out of Egypt even to this day—as they have forsaken me, and served strange 9 gods, so they do also to thee. Now therefore hearken to their voice. Nevertheless testify to them, and tell them the preroga- 10 tive of the king who shall reign over them. Upon this Samuel 11 told the people who asked of him a king, all the words of the Lord, and said, This will be the prerogative of the king who shall reign aver you. He will take your sons, and appoint them 12 for his chariots, and for his horsemen, and some to run before his chariots, and others to be made for him captains of hun. dreds, and captains of thousands, and some to reap his harvest, and gather his vintage, and to make his implements of war, and 13 arms for his chariots. And he will take your daughters for con- 14 fectioners, and cooks, and bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive orchards, and give them to 15 his slaves. And he will take the tegth of your crops, and vine-
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16 yards, and give it to his officers and vassals. He will take also — your men servants, and your maid servants, and the best of — your herds, and your asses, even the tenth of them, for his own
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18 be his slaves. And in that day you will cry aloud, because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves: but the Lord will not hearken to you in those days, because you have chosen
19 a king for yourselves. But the people would not hearken to
20. Samuel, but said to him, None but a king shall be over us, We will be like all the nations, and our king shall judge us, and
21 go out before us, and fight our battles. And when Samuel heard all the words of the people, and rehearsed them in the
22 hearing of the Lord, the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken to their voice, and appoint a king over them. Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, Depart every man to his city.
IX. Now there was a man of the children of Benjamin whose name was Kis, son of Abiel, son of Jared, son of Bachir, son
2 of Aphek, son of Jemenaius, the head of the family. He was a man in authority ; and he had a son whose name was Saul, a man of great stature, and comely appearance. There was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he. From the shoulders and upwards he was taller than any in § the land. And the asses of Kis, Saul’s father, being lost, Kis said to his son Saul, Take with thee one of the servants, and A arise, and go seek the asses. So when they had passed through mount Ephraim, they passed through the land of Sel- cha, but found them not. Then they passed through the land of Segalin, but they were not there, then they passed through 5 the land of Jamin but did not find them. And when they came to Siph, Saul said to the servant who was with him, Come, let us return, lest my father, forgetting the asses, be 6 concerned for us. Thereupon the servant said to him, Behold, I pray thee, there is a man of Godin this city, and he isa man in high repute. Whatever he saith will surely come to pass. Now therefore let us go, that he may tell us which way we should 7 go. And Saul said to the servant who was with him, But be- hold, if we go what can we carry to the man of God? For the bread in our vessels is spent, and we have nothing else with 8 us tocarry to the man,of God. In reply to which the servant
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again said to Saul, Behold Ihave in my handaquarter of ashekel of silver, thou shalt give that to the man of God, that he may tell 9 us eur way. Now heretofore in Israel, when any one went to consult God, he spoke thus, Come let us go to the Seer; for
10 the people in former times called the prophet, ὅθε εκ. Then Saul said to his servant, It is.well, Come, let us go. So they
11 went to the city, where the man of God was. And as they were going up the ascent to the city, they met the women coming out to draw water, and said to them, Is the Seer here ?
12 And the women in reply said to them, He is. Behold he is be-
_ fore you. He has just come to the city to-day, because there 13 is, to-day, a sacrifice for the people in the Bama. So when you enter the city you will find him there, before he goeth up to the Bama to eat. For the people will not eat till he come; for
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14 therefore go up, for to-day you will find him. So they went up to the city, and as they were entering into the middle of the city, behold Samuel came out over against them with
15 an intent to go up to the Bama. Now the Lord had made a revelation to Samuel, the day before Saul came to him, saying,
16 About this time to-morrow I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand
of the Philistines; for I have looked upon the affliction of this
17 people; for their cry hath come up to me. And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him, Behold the man, whom I men- 18 tioned tothee! That man shall rule over my people. So when Saul drew near to Samuel, in the midst of the city, and said
to him, Tell me, I pray thee, which is the house of the Seer, Samuel in reply said to Saul, lam he. Go up before me to the Bama, and dine with me to-day. And in the morning I will
20 dismiss thee, and tell thee all that is in thy heart. But with re- . spect to.thy asses which were lost three days ago, give thyself
no concern about them, for they are found. Now for whom are
the best things of Israel? Are they not for thee and thy father’s
21 house? Whereupon Saul answered and said, Am not La Je-
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took Saul, and his servant, and conducted them to the place of entertainment, and seated them at the head of those who were invited, who were about seventy men. And Samuel said to the cook, Bring me the portion which I gave thee, and which I ordered thee to lay by. Now the cook had boiled the shoulder, and when he set it before Saul, Samuel said to Saul, Behold what was reserved, Set it before thee and eat. Because for ἃ testimony it was laid by for thee, in preference to the rest, help thyself to it. So Saul dined, and went down that day with Sa- muel from the Bama to the city, and a bed being spread for him on the house top, he went to sleep. And Samuel went up to him early in the morning, and called Saul on the house top and said, Arise, and I will dismiss thee. Thereupon he arose and went out, he and Samuel, till they were out of the city. And as they were going down to the border of the city, Sa- muel said to Saul, Order thy servant to go on before us; but
stand thou still, and hear the word of God. Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said to him, Hath not the Lord anointed thee to be ruler over his people Israel? ‘Thou therefore shalt rule over the peo- ple of the Lord, and save them out of the hand of their enemies. And this shall be to thee the sign that the Lord hath anointed thee to be ruler over his heritage—Soon as:thou shalt depart from me to-day, thou wilt meet two men at Rachel’s tomb, on mount Benjamin, coming in haste, and they will say to thee, The asses which you went to seek, are found; and behold thy father hath left off caring for the asses, and is anxiously con- cerned for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? And when thou shalt go thence, and from that place come to the Oaks of Thabor, thou wilt there meet three men going up to God to Baithel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three bas- kets of bread, and the other carrying a flagon of wine. And they will salute thee courteously, and give thee two of the best loaves, which thou shalt receive at their hand. And after that thou shalt go to the mount of God, where there is a garrison of the Philistines under Nasib the Philistine; And when you there enter the city, thou wilt meet a choir of prophets coming down from the Bama, with nablas, and tympanums, and pipes,
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Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and be changed into another man. Now when these signs are come to thee; do thou as the occasion may require; for God is with thee. But when thou shalt go down to Galgal, behold I will go down to thee, to offer a burnt offering and peace offerings. Thou shalt wait seven days till 1 come to thee. And I will let thee know what thou art to do. Accordingly, soon as he turned his back to depart from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all the signs came to pass that day. And when he went thence to the mount, behold a choir of prophets met him, anda Spirit of God came upon him, and he pro- phesied in the midst of them. Now they were all acquainted with him heretofore, and when they saw him among the pro- phets, the people said one to another, What is this which hath happened to the son of Kis? Is Saul also among the prophets? And some of them in reply, said, Who is his father 9. There- fore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets ? And when he had done prophesying, and came to the mount, his uncle said to him and _ his servant, Where have you been traveliing ? And they said, To seek the asses. And when we saw that they were not to be found, we went to Samuel. Whereupon his uncle said to Saul, Tell me, I pray thee, what did Samuel say to thee ? And Saul said to his uncle, He told me that the asses were found. But the matter relating to the kingdom he did not tell him.
Then Samuel summoned all the people before the Lord, to Massepha, and said to the children of Israel, Thus hath the Lord the God of Israel spoken, saying, I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, and delivered them out of the hand of Pharao, king of Egypt, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms which oppressed you. But you have this day reject- ed God, who is himself your Saviour from all your troubles, and your afflictions; and have said Nay, but thou shalt set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your communities. So Samuel pre- sented all the tribes of Israel, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen by lot. Then he presented the tribe of Benjamin by communities, and the community of Mattari was chosen by lot. Then they presented the community of Mattari by indi-
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22 viduals, and Saul son of Kis, was chosen by lot. And when they sought for him, he could not be found. Whereupon Sa- muel again inquired of the Lord, whether he would come thi-
23 ther. And the Lord said, Behold he is hid among the bag- gage. So one ran and took him thence, and set him in the midst of the people, and he was taller than the people by the
24 shoulders and upwards. And Samuel said to all the people, Have you seen him whom the Lord hath chosen for himself, that there is none like him among you all ? And when all the
25 people acknowledged himand said, God save the king; then Samuel told the people the prerogative of the king, and wrote it ina book, and laid it up before the Lord. Then Samuel dis- missed all the people, and they went away, every man to his
26 place. And Saul went to his house at Gabaa, and there went with Saul a band of men, whose hearts the Lord had touched.
27 But turbulent men said, How can this man save us? And they despised him, and did not bring him gifts.
XI. About a month after this Nahas, the Ammanite, came up and encamped against Jabis Galaad, and all the men of Jabis Galaad said to Nahas, the Ammanite, Makea covenant with us,
2 and we will serve thee. Thereupon Nahas the Ammanite said to them, On this condition I will make a covenant with you, that I may put out all your right eyes, and make you a reproach to Is-
3 rael. And the men of Jabis said to him, Grant us seven days that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and if there
4. be none to deliver us, we will come out to thee. Now when the
messengers came to Gabaa, to Saul, and delivered this mes- sage in the hearing of the people, all the people raised their voice, and wept. And behold Saul came, at noon, out of the field. And Saul said, Why are the people weeping? And when they told him the words of the men of Jabis, a Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and his anger was greatly inflamed against them, and taking two heifers, he cut them in pieces, and sent them to all the borders of Israel, by the hands of mes- sengers, saying, So shall be done to every man’s cattle who soeth not out after Saul and after Samuel. Anda dread of the
Lord came on all the people of Israel, and they came out as one
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seventy thousand, he said to the messengers who came, Thus shall you say to the men of Jabis, To-morrow, by the time the sun is warm, you shall have help. So when the messengers came to the city, and told the men of Jabis, they were rejoiced. And the men of Jabis said to Nahas the Ammanite, To-mor- row we will come out to you, that you may do to us what is good in your sight. Now, on the morrow, Saul divided the people into three armies, .and they entered the camp in the morning watch, and smote the Ammanites till the day grew warm; and when they who were left, were dispersed, so that not two of them were found together, the people said to Sa- muel, Who is he who said, Saul shall not reign over us? De- liver up those men, that we may put them to death. Where- upon Saul said, Not aman shall this day be put to death; for to day the Lord hath wrought salvation in Israel. ‘Then Sa- muel spoke to the people, saying, Let us go up to Galgal, and there renew the kingdom. So all the people went to Galgal ; and Samuel anointed Saul to be king, before the Lord, at Gal- gal, and there they offered sacrifices, and peace offerings before the Lord, and Samuel and all the people rejoiced with exceed- ing great joy. |
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Lord in his dealings with you and your fathers. When Jacob went down with his children to Egypt, and the Egyptians humbled them, your fathers cried to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron; and they brought your fathers out of Egypt. But when he settled them in this place, they forgot the Lord their God, therefore he delivered them into the hands of Sisara, the captain general of Jabis, king of Asor, and into the hands of the foreign tribes, and into the hands of the king of Moab, and with these fought against them. And when they cried to the Lord, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and served the Baals, and the groves; but now deliver us out of the hands of our enemies, and we will serve thee ; he sent Jerubaal, and Barak, and Jephthae, and,
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round about, and you dwelt securely. But when you saw that Nahas, the king of the Ammanites, had come out against you, you said, None but a king shall reign over us. Still however the Lord our God is our king, even now, (when, Lo! the king whom you have chosen; and behold the Lord hath set a king over you;) provided you fear the Lord, and serve him, and hearken to his voice, and dispute not the command of the Lord, and both you, and the king who reigneth over you, continue walking after the Lord. But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lani or if you dispute the command of the Lord, the hand of the Lord will be against you and your king. Now therefore stand up and see this great thing which the Lord will do in your sight. Is it not riow wheat harvest? I will invoke the Lord, and he will send thunder and rain, that you may know, and see that the evil is great which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king. Then Samuel invoked the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that very day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for thy ser- vants to the Lord thy God, that we may not die, because we have added evil to all our sins, in asking for ourselves a king.
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20 Whereupon Samuel said to the people, Fear not. You have done all this evil; yet turn not away from following the Lord;
21 but serve the Lord with your whole heart, and do not trans- gress by following those imaginary beings which can effect
22 nothing, and which cannot deliver, for they are nothing; for the Lord will not cast off his people for his great name’s sake:
23 for the Lord hath in mercy taken you for his people. And as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceas-
24 ing to pray for you. I will indeed serve the Lord, and point out the good and straight way: im addition to this, fear ye the Lord, and serve him with truth, and with your whole heart; for you have seen what great things he hath done with you.
25 But if you proceed on in wickedness, both you and your king shall be devoted to destruction. .
XIII. Then Saul chose for himself three thousand men from among the men of Israel, two thousand of whom were with Saul αὐ Machmas and mount Baithel, and one thousand with Jonathan, at Gabaa, in Benjamin. And the rest of the people
3 he dismissed every man to his tent. And Jonathan smote Na- sib, the Philistine, who was in the fortress, and the Philistines heard of it, and Saul sounded a trumpet through all the land, saying, The servants have revolted. And when all Israel heard the news that Saul had smitten Nasib the Philistine; though
Israel had been put to shame by the Philistines, yet all the
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Philistines assembled for battle against Israel; and there came up against Israel, thirty thousand charioteers, and six thousand cavalry, and people like the sand on the sea shore for multi- tude, and they encamped at Machmas, over against Baitho- 6 ron, southward. And when Israel saw that they were strict- ly enjoined_not to offer sacrifices, the people hid themselves in caves, and in dens, and among rocks, and in pits, and wells, and some crossed the Jordan into the land of Gad, and Ga-
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my supplication to the Lord, therefore I forced myself, and offered the whole burnt offering. And Samuel said to Saul, It is of no availto thee, because thou hast not kept my com-
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had prepared thy kingdom over Israel for ever: but now thy kingdom will not be continued to thee. But the Lord will seek for himself a man after his own heart; and the Lord will ap- point him to be ruler over his people, because thou hast not kept all that the Lord commanded thee. Then Samuel arose, and departed from Galgal, and the remnant of the people went up after Saul, to overtake the men of war. And when they were come from Galgal to Gabaa of Benjamin, Saul reviewed the people who were with him, about six hundred men. So Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were with them, halted at Gabaa of Benjamin, and wept.
Now while the Philistines lay encamped at Machmas, there went out spoilers from the field of the Philistines, in three bands. One band took the way of Gophera, to the land of So- gel; another took the way to Baithoron, and another took the way of Gabaa, which leadeth by Gai to Sabim. (Now there was not a blacksmith to be found in all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, The Hebrews must not make a sword or a spear; so that all the Israelites went down to the land of the Philistines, every one to get a scythe, or a tool made; and every one to get his ax, or hissickle. And when a vine dresser wanted to prune his vineyard, his tools cost him three shekels for a saw; and his ax and his pruning hook cost the same. So that in the days of the battle of Machmas there was not a sword, or a spear found in the hand of all the people who were with Saul and Jonathan. They were to be found with Saul only, and Jonathan his son.)
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Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to his servant who carried his arms, Come, let us go over to Messab of the Philistines, that is on yonder side: but he did not tell his father. Now Saul had posted himself on the top of the hill, in the pomegranate grove, at Magdon, and there were with him about six hundred men; and Achia, son of Achitob, the brother of Jochabed, son of Phineas, son of Eli, was the priest of God at Selom, wear- ing the ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan was gone. Now in the middle of the passage where Jonathan sought to cross over to the army of the Philistines, there was a point of a rock on this side, and the point of a rock on that, the name of the one was Bases, and the name of the other Senna. There was one way on the north for going to Machmas, and another way on the south, for going to Gabaa. And when Jonathan said to his servant who carried his arms, Come let us go over to Messab of these uncircumcised Philistines, it may be, the Lord may do something for us, for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few; his armour bearer said to him, Do whatever thy heart is inclined to; behold I am with thee. As thy heart is, so is mine. Then Jonathan said, Behold we are going to cross over to these men, therefore we must shew curselves before them. If they say to us, Stand off there till we tell you, then we must stand where we are, and not go up to them: but if they say to us, Come up to us, then let us go up, for the Lord hath delivered them into our hands. This shall be a sign to us. So they both went to Messab of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, Behold the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they hid themselves. And the men of Messab, addressing Jonathan, and his armour bearer, said, Come up to us, and we will let you know something. Upon which Jonathan said to his armour bearer,Come up aiter me; for the Lord hath delivered them into the hands of Is- rael. So Jonathan clambered up upon his hands and feet, and his armour bearer with him; and they turned back at the sight of Jonathan, and he smote them; and his armour bearer be- hind him, supplied him. Now the first slaughter which Jona- than, with his armour bearer made, was about twenty men,
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They had now smitten on that day those of the Philistines at Machmas, and as the people were very fainty, they turned upon the spoils; and when they took sheep, or cattle, or calves, they slew them on the ground, and eat them with the blood. And when it was told Saul, saying, The people have sinned against the Lord by eating with the blood, Saul said, Ye of Gethaim, roll forme here a great stone. Then Saul said, Dis- perse yourselves among the people, and order them to bring here every man his ox, and every one his sheep, and kill it on this stone, and do not sin against the Lord by eating with the blood. So the people brought every one, what he had at hand and they slaughtered them,there. And Saul built an altar there to the Lord. This was the first altar which Saul built to the Lord. Then Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines this night, and make devastation among them till the morning light, and not leave a man among them. And they said, Do what is good in thy sight. But the priest said, Let us draw near hither to God. Whereupon Saul consulted God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? Wilt thou deliver them into the hands of Israel? But he answered him not that day. Then Saul said, Present here,all the chiefs of Israel, and know and see by whom this sin hath been done this day; for as the Lord liveth who hath saved Israel, if the answer be given against Jonathan my son, he shall surely be put to death. But there was not one of the people who answered. Then he said to all the men of Is- rael, You shall be one lot, and Land my son Jonathan shall be the other lot. And the people said to Saul, Do what seemeth good in thy sight. Then Saul said, O Lord the God of Israel, why hast thou not answered thy servant this day? If the fault be in me, or in Jonathan my son, O Lord God of Israel make us manifest. And when he said these words, Give I beseech
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Now Saul cast losts for the administration of government. Every work over Israel was determined by lot. And he made war on all his enemies round about, on Moab, and on the chil- dren of Ammon, and the children of Edom, and on Baithaior, and on the king of Suba, and on the Philistines, and whither- soever he turned he was saved. He formed also an army and smote Amelek, and deliveréd Israel out of the hand of those who had trampled on them. Now the sons of Saul were Jona- than, and Jessiou, and Melchisa, and these were the names of his two daughters. The name of his first born was Merob, and the name of his second Melchol. And the name of his wife was Achinoam. She was the daughter of Achimaas. And the name of his captain general was Abenner. He was the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle; for Kis the father of Saul, and Ner the fa- ther of Abenner, were sons of Jamin, son of Abiel.
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16 the rest I have utterly destroyed. And Samuel said, Permit me to tell thee what the Lord said to me last night. And he
17 said to him, Speak. Then Samuel said to Saul, Wast thou not in his sight a little leader of a family of a tribe of Israel? yet
18 the Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel; and the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said to thee, Go and destroy utterly. Thou shalt slay those who have Manel against me; namely Amelek; and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast to-
19 tally destroyed them. Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but rush upon the spoil, and do evil in the
20 sight of the Lord? And Saul said to Samuel, Because I heark- ened to the voice of the people. But I have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag king οἵ Amelek, and utterly destroyed Amelek, and the people have taken of
21 the spoils, flocks and herds, as first fruits of the destruction, 22 to sacrifice them before the Lord our God, at Galgal. And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in whole burnt offerings, and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold obedience is better than good sacrifice; and to heark-
23 en, is better than the fat of rams. Because divination is a sin, the consulting Theraphin bringeth sorrow and distress: because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, therefore the Lord
24 hath rejected thee from being king over Israel. Then Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the word of the Lord, and thy orders, because I feared the people
25 and hearkened to their voice. Now therefore bear away my sin, I beseech thee, and return with me that I may worship
26 the Lord thy God. And Samuel said to Saul, I cannot return with thee. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, therefore the Lord will reject thee from being king over Israel. 27,And when Samuel turned his face to go away, Saul took hold 28 of the skirt of his mantle, and rent it. ‘Thereupon Samuel said to him, The Lord hath rent thy regal government from Israel, this day, out of thy hand, and will give it to a neighbour of thine, 29 who is better than thou, and Israel shall be rent in twain. He will not change, nor alter his mind, for he is not a man, that he
SO should change his mind. Then Saul said, I have sinned; but honour me, I beseech thee, in the presence of the elders of Is- rael, and before my people, and return up with me, that I may
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31 worship the Lord thy God. So Samuel returned up after Saul, and when he had worshipped the Lord, Samuel said , Bring Ὅς 32 fore me Agag the king of Amelek. And when hove came before him, trembling, Agag said, Ah! how bitter is death ! 33 Whereupon Samuel said to Agag, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be made childless among women. So Samuel slew Agag before the Lord at Galgal. 34 Then Samuel went to Armathaim, and’Saul went up to his 35 house to Gabaa, and Samuel came no more to see Saul to the day of his death. Because Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lord repented XVI. that he had made Saul king over Israel, therefore the Lord said to Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul ? As for me, I have rejected reins from being king over Israel. Till thy horn with oil, and come, let me send thee to Jessai to 2 Bethlehem; for I have seen among his sons a king-for’me. And Samuel said, How can I go? Saul will hear and will kill me. And the Lord said, Take with thee‘a heifer from the kine, 8 and thou shalt say, I come to sacrifice to the Lord; and thou shalt invite Jessai to the sacrifice, and I will let thee know what thou shalt do, and thou shalt anoint him whom I point out 4. to thee. So Samuel did alt that the Lord spoke to him. Now when he came to Bethlehem, the elders of the city were sur- 5 prised at meeting him, and said, Seer! Is thy coming peace- able ? And he said, It is peaceable. I come to sacrifice to the 6 Lord. Sanctify yourselves, and rejoice with me to-day. And when he was hallowing Jessai and his sons and inviting them - to the sacrifice, he beheld Eliab as they were coming in and 7 said, Is not the Lord’s anointed before him? But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, nor the height of his stature, for I have rejected him: for God looketh not superficially as man looketh; for man looketh at the outward 8 appearance, but God will look to the heart. Then Jessai called Aminadab, and he passed by before Samuel. And when he 9 said God hath not chosen him, Jessai brought forward Sama; 10 but he said, Neither hath the Lord made choice of him. And when Jessai had brought his seven sons before Samuel, Samuel 11 said, The Lord hath not made a choice among these. Then Samuel said to Jessai, Are these all thy children? And he said, VOL. 1. 3 P
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he was of aruddy complexion, with beautiful eyes, and comely
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13 and anoint David, for he is good. So Samuel took the horn
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of the Lord departed from Saul; and an evil spirit from the
15 Lord tormented him. Whereupon the servants of Saul said to
him, Behold now an evil spirit from the Lord tormenteth thee.
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our lord a man who 15 skilled in playing on a kynara. And when
the evil spirit is upon thee, let him oa, on his kynara, and it
17 will be good for thee and give thee ease. And Saul said to his
servants, Look out, I pray you, for a man who playeth well,
18 and bring him tome. Then one of his servants answered and
said, Behold [have seenason of Jessai the Bethlemite. He is
skilled in music, and isa man of understanding anda warrior,
graceful in speech, and of a comely appearance, and the Lord is
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took a gomer of bread, and a skin of wine, and a kid of the
goats, and sent them to Saul by the hand of his son David.
21 And when David came to Saul, and stood before him, he loved
22 him greatly, and made him his armour bearer. And Saul sent
to Jessai, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for
23 he hath found favour in my sight. And whenever the evil spirit
came upon Saul, David took his kynara, and played with his
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with a vale between them, there came forth a mighty man from the line of the Philistines. His name was Goliath, of Geth. His height was four cubits and a span. And he had a helmet on his head, and was élad with a breast plate of chain work ; and the weight of his breast plate was five thousand shekels.
It was of brass and steel: and the greaves on his legs were of
brass; and he had a target of brass between his shoulders. And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam: and his javelin was six hundred shekels of iron. And his armour bearer walk- ed before him. And he steod, and cried with a loud voice, to the line of Israel, and said to them, Why come ye out to array yourselves for battle against us? Am not I a Philistine ; and you Hebrews the servants of Saul? Chuse out for yourselves aman, and let him come down to me. And if he be able to fight with me, and kill me, we will be your slaves; but if I prevail, and kill him, you shall be our slaves, and serve us. Then the Philistine said, Behold I have now this day defied the army of Israel. Give me a man that we may fight at single combat. When Saul, and all Israel, heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly terrified. Whereupon David said to Saul, Let not, I pray thee, the heart of my lord be dis- couraged, thy servant will go and fight this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Thou canst not go against the Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth, and he isa warrior
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his father’s flock. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a sheep from the flock, I went out after him, and smote him, and rescued it out of his mouth. And if he rose up against me, I seized him by the throat, and smote, and killed him. Thy servant hath slain a lion anda bear ; and this uncircum- cised Philistine shall be like one of them. Shall I not go and smite him, and remove, this day, a reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised, that he should defy the army of the living God? The Lord who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear—he will deliver me out of the hand of this uncircumcised Philistine. ‘Then Saul said to David, Go; and the Lord be with thee. And when Saul had clad David with a coat of mail, and put a helmet of brass on his head, and girded his sword on David over the.
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39 coat of mail, he essayed to walk about once or twice. Then David said to Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not been 40 accustomed to them. So they took them off him. Then he took his staff in his hand, and having ‘chosen for himself: five smooth stones, out of the brook, he put them in the shep- herd’s scrip, which he kept for a purse, and with a sling in 42 his hand, he went out to meet the man—the Philistine. When Goliath saw David, He despised him exceedingly ; for he was a mere youth, and was of a ruddy complexion with beautiful 43 eyes. And the Philistine said to David, Am Ia dog, that thou shouldst come out against me with a stick, and with stones? 44 And David said, Nay, but worse thana dog. Upon which the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And when the Philistine said to David, Come hither to me, and I will give thy flesh to 45 the birds of the air, and the beasts of the earth, David said to the Philistine, Thou comest against me with a sword, and a spear, and a shield, but 1 am coming to thee with the name of the Lord God of Sabbaoth, of the army of Israel, which thou 46 hast, this day, defied. And the Lord will deliver thee this day into my hand, and I will kill thee, and cut off thy head, and give thy carcass, and the carcasses of the army of the Philis- tines this day, to the birds of the air, and to the wild beasts of 47 the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel; and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saveth not with a sword or a spear. For the battle is the Lord’s, 48 and the Lord will deliver you into our hands. Then the Phi- 49 listine arose and went to meet David. And David put his hand in the scrip, and took out a stone, and slinged it, and smote the Philistine on the forehead, and the stone pierced through the helmet, into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the 51 ground. And David ran, and stood upon him, and took his 52 sword, and killed him, and cut off his head. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled; and the men of Israel, and Juda, arose, and shouted, and pursued them to the entrance of Geth, and to the gate of Ascalon. And the wounded of the Philistines fell on the road to the gates, all 53 the way to Geth, and evento Akkaron. And when the men of Israel returned from pursuing the Philistines, they trampled 54. down their camps. And David took the head of the Philistine, and carried it to Jerusalem; but his arms he laid up in his tent.
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And David his ten thousands, the thing appeared evil in the eyes of Saul, because of this expression; and he said, The ten thousands they have ascribed to David; and to me they have ascribed thousands. And Saul became afraid of David, and removed him from about his person, and made him a captain over a thousand, and he went out and came in before the people. And David behaved wisely in all his ways, and the Lord was with him. And when Saul saw with what great wisdom he conducted himself, he
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cause he went out and came in before the people. And Mel- chol, the daughter of Saul, fell in love with David. When this was told Saul, it was well pleasing in his sight, and Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him. Now the hand of the Philistines was against Saul, therefore Saul gave orders to his servants, saying, Speak privately to David, and say, Behold the king is well pleased with thee; and all his servants love thee, therefore thou must be the king’s son in law. But when the servants of Saul rehearsed these words in the hearing of David, David said, Is it a light matter in your eyes to be son in law to a king? As for me, I am aman of humble condition, and not entitled to honour. And when Saul’s servants told him the words which David had spoken, Saul said, Thus shall you say to David, The king desireth no other dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. Now Saul thought to throw him into the hands of the Philistines. When Saul’s servants told David these words, the condition on which he was to be the king’s son in law, pleased David. Therefore he arose and went with his men, and smote among the Philistines a hundred men, and brought their foreskins, and contracted to be the king’s son in law, and he gave him his daughter Melchol to wife.
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nathan, and said, What have I done? And what is my offence? And wherein have I sinned in the sight of thy father, that he seeketh my life? And Jonathan said to him, God forbid! Thou must not die. Behold my father can do nothing, great or small, without telling me. Why then should he conceal from me such a thing as this? It is not so. And David in reply to Jo- nathan, said, hy father knoweth well, that I have found fa- vour in thy sight, therefore he said, Jonathan must not know this. He will not consent. But as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, it isas I said. There is but a step between me and death. Then Jonathan said to David, What doth thy soul desire? And, What shall I do for thee? And David said to Jonathan, Behold, to-morrow is the new moon. As for me, 1 will not sit down to eat. Thou shalt let me go, and I will hide myself in the field till evening. And if thy father look and in.
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bent on this mischief, to slay David, and started up from the table in great wrath, and did not eat bread the second day of the moon: for he was grieved for David, because his father was determinately set against him. And when it was morning Jonathan went out to the field, as he had fixed by appoint- ment with David, and a little boy with him. And he said to the lad, Run, find for me the dart which I threw. And as the boy was running, he threw a dart, and it passed the other; and when the boy came to the place where the dart lay which Jonathan had thrown, Jonathan cried with a loud voice after VOL. «1: 3Q :
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the matter) Jonathan gave his weapons to the servant, and said to him, Go, return to the city. And when the servant was gone, David arose from the Argab, and fell on his face, and made obeisance to him three times. And when they had kiss- ed each other, and wept over each other a great while, Jona- than said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have both sworn by the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord be a wit- ness between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed, forever. Then David arose and departed, and Jonathan re- turned to the city.
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dwelt with him all the time that David was at that fortress. And Gad the prophet said to David, Abide not in this for- tress; depart and go to the Jand of Judea. ‘Thereupon David set out, and came and took up his abode in the city Sarick. When Saul beard that David and his men who were with him shewed themselves, (Now Saul had seated himself on the emi- nence below the cultivated ground at Rama, with his spear in
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mountain, behold David and his men were coming down over against her; so she met them. Now David had said, Surely for an unrighteous fellow have I guarded all that he had in the wilderness, and we have not ordered the taking of any thing belongmg to him: but he hath rewarded me evil for good. God do so to David, and more also, if by to-morrow morning I leave of all that belong to Nabal one man—And when Abi- gaia saw David, she hasted, and alighted from her ass, and fell on her face before David, and made obeisance to him on the ground, at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, be my ini- quity. Let thy servant, I beseech thee, speak in thine audience,
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and hear the words of thy servant. Let not my lord, I pray thee, set his heart against this perverse man. For as is his name so is he. His name is Nabal, and with him is folly. But I thy: servant did not see my lord’s servants whom thou didst send. Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, as the Lord hath withheld thee from coming to shed innocent blood, it was to save thy hand for thyself. Now therefore let all thine enemies and those who seek to hurt my lord be like Nabal. And now accept this present, which thy servant hath brought for my lord, and give it to the young men who attend my lord. Forgive, I beseech thee, what is amiss in thy servant. Because the Lord will assuredly make for my lord a faithful house—because the Lord will fight the battle of my lord, there- fore there must never be iniquity found in thee. ‘Though a man may rise up to pursue thee, and seek thy life, yet will the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of life by the Lord
God; but the life of thy enemies thou shalt slg out with a
sling. And when the Lord shall do for my lord all the good things which he hath spoken concerning thee, and hath made
thee ruler over Israel, thou my lord must not have the stain or
guilt of having causelessly shed innocent blood. May the Lord therefore save the hand of my lord for himself, and kindly dis- pose my lord, that thou mayst remember thy servant, to deal kindly by her. ‘Thereupon David said to Abigaia, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who hath sent thee this day to meet me. And blessed be thy conduct, and blessed thou who hast kept me back from coming to blood, that I might save my hand for myself. For as the Lord God of Israel liveth, who hath this day withheld me from doing thee an injury, if thou hadst not hastened, and come to meet. me, I had determined that by the morning light there should not be left to Nabal one man. Then David received at her hand all that she brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to thy house. See, I have hearkened to thy voice from a personal regard to thee. hen Abigaia went to Nabal, and behold he had an entertainment at his house like that of a king, and Nabal’s heart was elated for he was very drunk, so she told him nothing less or more till the next morning. But in the morning when Nabal had recovered from his wine, his wife told him all these things,
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and his heart was confounded, and he became like a stone. And in about ten days the Lord smote Nabal, and he died. And when David heard it, he said, Blessed be the Lord who hath judged the cause of my reproach, out of the hand of Na- bal, and hath preserved his servant from the hand of wicked men. The Lord hath turned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head. Then David sent and spoke of Abigaia to take her for a wife; and when David’s servants came to Abigaia to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying, David hath sent us to thee to take thee to himself for a wife, she arose, and bowed down to the ground on her face, and said, Behold thy servant is ready to be a house maid to wash the feet of thy
servants. Then Abigaia arose, and mounted her ass, and five
maids accompanied her, and she went with David’s servants, and became his wife. Now David had taken Achinaam of Jezrael, and they were both his wives. And Saul gave his daughter Melchol, David’s wife, to Phalti, son of Amis, of Romma.
XXVI. Again the Ziphites came from the wilderness to Saul,
on the mount, and said, Behold, David is lurking with us on mount Echela, in front of Jessemon. Thereupon Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul encamped on that eminence of Kchela, which is in front of Jessemon, by the way side. Now David made his abode in that wilderness. So when David saw that Saul was coming after him, into the wilderness, he sent out spies. And when he knew that Saul was come in force out of Keila, David arose privily, and went to the place where Saul was sleeping. And Abenner, son of Ner, his captain eeneral was there, and Saul was asleep in a palanquin, and the people were encamped around him. Now David addressing Abimelech the Chettite, and Abessa, son of Saruia, the brother of Joab, had said, Who will go with me into the camp to Saul? and Abessa said, I will go with thee. So David went with Abessa, in among the people by night, and behold Saul lay
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David; for I willno more do thee harm ; because my life hath been precious in thy sight, at the very time when I was ied astray by folly, and egregiously mistaken. And David answer- ed and said, Behold here is the king’s lance; let one of the young men come over and take it. The Lord will render toeyery one according to his righteousness, and his fidelity. As the Lord delivered thee this day into my hands, and I would not
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was this day highly regarded in my eyes, so may my life be highly regarded in the sight of the Lord, and may he protect me! He indeed will deliver me out of all affliction. Then Saul said to David, Blessed art thou, my son. Thou shalt surely perform exploits, and prevail. Then David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
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David, Upon whom have you fallen? David said to Angchus, Towards the south of Judea, and towards the south of Jesme-
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XXVIII. Now in those days when the Philistines were as- sembling in their camps to go out to war with Israel, Angchus said to David, Know assuredly that thou shalt go out with me
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And Angchus said to David, Thus will I make thee captain of
my body guard during thy life. Now Samuel was dead andall Is-
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cried with a loud voice. And the woman said to Saul, Why hast thou deceived me? Thou indeed art Saul. And the king said to her, Fear not. ‘Tell me, Whom hast thou seen? And the woman said to him, I saw gods coming up out of the earth. And he said to her, What didst thou discover? And she said to him, An crect man coming up out of the earth, and he had a mantle thrown around him. So Saul knew that this was Sa- muel, and he bowed down on his face to the ground, and made obeisance to him. And Samuel said, Why hast thou troubled me, that I should come up? And Saul said, I am in great af- fliction. The Philistines are making war on me, and God hath departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by the agency of prophets, nor by dreams. Now therefore I have called thee, to let me know what 1 shall do. And Samuel said, Why dost thou ask me, seeing the Lord is departed from thee, and is with thy neighbour? The Lord indeed hath done to thee as the Lord spoke by my agency. And the Lord will rend the kingdom out of thy hand, and give it to thy neighbour, even to David. Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord, and didst not execute the fierceness of his wrath on Amelek, therefore the Lord hath done this thing to thee this day. And the Lord will deliver Israel with thee into the hands of the Philistines, and to-morrow thou, and thy sons with thee, shall fall, and the Lord will deliver the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines. At this Saul shuddered, and fell at his full length on the ground, and was struck with horror at the words of Samuel, and there was no more any strength in him, for he had not eaten bread that whole day, and that whole night. ‘Then the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was in great trepidation, she said to him, Behold I pray thee, thy servant hath hearkened to thy voice. I put my life in my hand, and heard the words which thou didst speak to me; now therefore, hearken, I pray thee, to the voice of thy servant, and let me set before thee a morsel of bread, and eat that thou mayst have strength; for thou art to travel. And when he declined eating, his servants and the woman pressed him; so he hearkened to their voice, and arose from the ground,
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spread abroad on the face of the whole land, eating and drinking, and celebrating a festival, for all the great spoil which they had taken from the country of the Philistines, and from the land of Judea. And David came upon them, and smote them, from break of day till late in the evening, and part of the next day, so that not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled. And David recovered all that the Amelekites had taken. He recovered also his two wives. There was none missing among them, small or great, nor any of the spoils, nor sons nor daughters, nor any thing of what they had taken. David recovered all. He took also all their flocks, and herds, and drove them before the spoils. And of this prey it was said, These are David’s prey. And when David came to the two hundred that were left to follow David, and whom he had caused to halt by the brook Bosor, they came out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. But when David introduced them to the peo- ple, and they had saluted them; all the turbulent and. bad men among the warriors, who went with David, answered and said,
Because they did not accompany us in the pursuit we will not give them any of the spoils which we have taken, save that every one may take his wife and children. Let them take these and depart. But David said, You must not do so, since the Lord hath given them to us and preserved us. The Lord in- deed hath delivered into our hands this wandering horde, which came against us, who then will hearken to your words? For these are not less entitled to them than we are. For as is the share of him who goeth down to the battle, so shall be the share of him who guardeth the baggage. They shall all share alike. So from that day forward this was the rule, and it became a statute, and an established custom in Israel even to this day. And when David came to Sekelak, he sent some of the spoils
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of the spoils of the enemies of the Lord for those at Baithsur, and for those at South Rama, aid for those at Gethor, and for those at Aroer, and for those at Ammadi, and for those at Saphi, and for those at Esthie, and for those at Geth, and for those at Kimath, and for those at Saphek, and for those at ‘Themath, and for those at Carmel, and for those in the cities
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