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1829.

The Names and Order of all the Books of the Old and New Testaments, with the
Number of their Chapters.

THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.

Genesis hath Chapters - - - 50
Exodus ------ 40

Leviticus ------ 27

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

L Samuel

IL Samuel

I. Kings 22

IL Kings

I. Chronicles

n. Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

25
29
36
10
13
10
42
150
31

THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.

Ecclesiastes

The Song of Solomon

Isaiah - - _

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel - - -

Daniel - _ -

Hosea - - -

Joel - - - -

Amos - - -

Obadiah - - -

Jonah - - -

Micah - . .

Nahum - - .

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai -

Zechariah

Malachi - - -

Matthew - - .

Mark . . . -

Luke - - - -
John - - _ -

The Acts of the Apostles
The Epistle to the Romans
I. Corinthians
IL Corinthians
Galatians - - -
Ephesians . - _

Philippians - - -
Colossians
I. Thessalonians
n. Thessalonians

I. Timothy

TI. Timothy -

Titus

Philemon

To the Hebrews

The Epistle of James

L Peter

n. Peter

L John

H. John

HL John

Jude

Revelation

6
4
3
1
13
5

3
6
1
1
1
22

THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES,

CALLED

GENESIS.

CHAP. I.

IN the beginning God created the hea-
ven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and
void ; and darkness loas upon the face of the
deep : and the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters.

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

4 And God saw the light, that it tons
good : and God divided the light from the
darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night : and the evening
and the morning were the first day.

6 IT And God said, Let there be a firma-
ment in the midst of the waters, and let it
divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament; and
divided the waters which were under the
firmament from the waters which were above
the firmament : and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Hea-
ven : and the evening and the morning
were the second day.

9 H And God said, Let the waters under
the heaven be gathered together unto one
place, and let the dry land appear : and it
was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth ;
and the gathering together of the waters
called he Seas : and God saw that it was
good.

11 And God said. Let the earth bring
forth grass, the herb yielding seed, ajtd the
fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose
seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was

30.

12 And the earth brought forth grass,
and herb yielding seed after his kind, antl
the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in
itself, after his kind : and God saw that it
was good.

13 And the evening and the morning
were tlie third day.

14 ^ And God said. Let there be lights
in the firmament of the heaven, to divide
the day from the night : and let them be for
signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.

15 And let them be for lights in the fir-
mament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth : and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights ; the
greater light to rule the day and the lesser

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

17 And God set them in the firmament of
the heaven, to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day, and over the
night, and to divide the light from the dark-
ness : and God saw that it was good.

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

20 H And God said. Let the waters bring
forth abundantly the moving creature that
hath life, and fowl that may fly above the
earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and
every living creature that rnoveth, which
the waters brought forth abundantly after
their kind, and every winged fowl after his
kind : and God saw that it teas good.

22 And God blessed them, saying. Be
fruitfiil, and multiply, and fill the waters in
the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

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

24 t And God said. Let the earth bring
forth the living creature after his kind, cat-
tle, and creeping thing, and beast of the
earth after his kind : and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth
after his kind, and cattle after their kind,
and every thin^ that creepeth upon the
earth after his liind : and God saw that it
was good.

26 H And God said. Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness : and let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth, and over every creep-
ing thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him ; male
and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said
unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth, and subdue it : and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the fowl of the air, and over everj^ living
thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 ^ And God said, Beliold, I have given
j'ou every herb bearing seed, which is upon
the face of all the earth, and every tree, in
the which is the fruit of a tree yielding
seed ; to you it shall be for meat.

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

Tlic first sabbath.

GENESIS.

Marriage instituted.

that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there
is Hfe, I have given every green herb for
meat : and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had
made, and beliold, it was very good. And
the evening and the morning were the sixth
day.

CHAP. II.

THUS the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the host of them.

2 And on the seventh day God ended his
work which he had made ; and he rested
on the seventh day from all his work which
he had made.

3 And God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it : because that in it he had rested
from all his work which God created and
made.

4 H These are the generations of the
heavens and of the earth when they were
created, in the day that the Lord God made
the earth and the heavens,

5 And every plant of the field before it
was in the earth, and every herb of the field
before it grew : for the Lord God had not
caused it to rain upon the earth, and there
was not a man to till the ground.

6 But there went up a mist from the earth,
and watered the whole face of the ground.

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

8 H And the Lord God planted a gar-
den eastward in Eden ; and there he put
the man whom he had formed.

9 And out of the ground made the Lord
God to grow every tree that is pleasant to
the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life
also in the midst of the garden, and the tree
of knowledge of good and evil.

10 If And a river went out of Eden to wa-
ter the garden : and from thence it was
parted, and became into four heads.

11 The name of the first is Pison: that
is it which compasseth the whole land of
Havilah, where there is gold ;

12 And the gold of that land is good :
there is bdellium and the onyx-stone.

13 And the name of the second river is
Gihon : th.e same is it that compasseth the
whole land of Ethiopia.

14 And the name of the third river is
Hiddekel : that is it which goeth toward
the east of Assyria. And the fourth river
is Euphrates.

15 H And the Lord God took the man,
and put him into the garden of Eden, to
dress it, and to keep it.

16 And the Lord God commanded the
man, saying. Of every tree of the garden
thou mayest freely eat :

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, thou shalt not cat of it : for
in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die.

18 If And the Loud God said, It is not

will

good that the man should be alone : I
make him an help meet for him.

19 And out of the ground the Lord God
formed every beast ot the field, and every
fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam,
to see what he would call them : and what-
soever Adam called every living creature,
that 2vas the name thereof

20 And Adam gave names to all cattle,
and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast
of the field : but for Adam there was not
found an help meet for him.

21 If And the Lord God caused a deep
sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept ; and
he took one of his ribs, and closed up the
flesh instead thereof:

22 And the rib, which the Lord God had
taken from man, made he a woman, and
brought her unto the man.

23 And Adam said. This is now bone of
my bones, and flesh of my flesh : she shall
be called Woman, because she was taken
out of man.

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

25 And they were both naked, the man
and his wife, and were not ashamed.

CHAP. III.
OW the serpent was more subtile than
any beast of the field which the Lord
God had made : and he said unto the wo-
man. Yea, hath God said. Ye shall not eat
of every tree of the garden ?

2 And the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the
garden :

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in
the midst of the garden, God hath said. Ye
shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it,
lest ye die.

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

5 For God doth know, that in the day ye
eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened :
and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and
evil.

6 ^ And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food, and that it was pleas-
ant to the e^^es, and a tree to be desired to
make one wise ; she took of tlie fruit thereof,
and did eat ; and gave also unto her husband
with her, and he did eat.

7 And the eyes of them both were open-
ed, and they knew that they were naked :
and they sewed fig-leaves together, and
made themselves aprons.

8 And they heard the voice of the Lord
God walking in the "arden in the coo! of the
day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the Lord God amongst
the trees of the garden.

9 5f And the Lord God called unto Adam,
and said unto him, Where art thou 1

10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the
garden : and I v/as afraid, because I itrns
naked ; and I hid mvself.

The promised seed. CHAP

11 And he said, Who told thee that thou
wast naked ? Hast thou eaten of the tree
whereof I commanded thee, that thou should-
est not eat ?

12 And the man said, The woman whom
thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of
the tree, and I did eat.

13 And the Lord God said unto the wo-
man. What is this that thou hast done ? And
the woman said. The serpent beguiled me,
and I did eat.

14 H And the Lord God said unto the
serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou
art cursed above all cattle, and above every
beast ofthe field : upon thy belly shalt thou go,
and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy lite :

15 And I will put enmity between thee
and the woman, and between thy seed and
her seed : it shall bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruise his heel.

16 H Unto the woman he said, I will great-
ly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception ;
in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children :
and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and
he shall rule over thee.

17 And unto Adam he said. Because thou
hast hearkened unto the voice of thj^ wife,
and hast eaten of the tree of which I com-
manded thee, saying. Thou shalt not eat of
it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in
sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of
thy life ;

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring
forth to thee ; and thou shalt eat the herb of
the field :

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread, till' thou return unto the ground ; for
out of it wast thou taken : for dust thou art,
and unto dust shalt thou return.

20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve,
because she was the mother of all living.

21 If Unto Adam also and to his wife did
the Lord God make coats of skins, and
clothed them.

22 1i And the Lord God said, Behold,
the man is become as one of us, to know
good and evil. And now, lest he put forth
his hand, and take also of the tree of life,
and eat, and live for ever :

23 Therefore the Lord God sent him
forth from the garden of Eden, to till the
ground from whence he was taken.

24 So he drove out the man : and he
placed at the east of the garden of Eden
Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turn-
ed every way, to keep the way of the tree of
life.

CHAP. IV.
ND Adam knew Eve his wife ; and
she conceived, and bare Cain, and
said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

2 And she again bare his brother Abel.
And Abel v/as a keeper of sheep, but Cain
was a tiller of the ground.

3 And in process of time it came to pass,
that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground
an offering unto the Lord.

IV. Death of Abel

4 And Abel, he also brought of the first-
lings of his flock, and of the fat thereoC
And the Lord had respect unto Abe!, and.
to his offering :

5 But unto Cain, and to his offering, he
had not respect. And Cain was very wroth,
and his countenance fell.

6 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art
thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance
fallen ?

7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be ac-
cepted 1 and if thou doest not well, sin lieth
at the door. And unto thee shall be his de-
sire, and thou shalt rule over him.

8 H And Cain talked with Abel his bro-
ther : and it came to pass when they were in
the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his
brother, and slew him.

9 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where
is Abel thy brother ? And he said, I know
not : Am I my brother's keeper 1

10 And he said. What hast thou done?
the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto
me from the ground.

11 And now art thou cursed from the
earth, which hath opened her mouth to re-
ceive thy brother's blood from thy hand.

12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall
not henceforth j'ield unto thee her strength :
a fugitive and a vagabond shaJt thou be in
the earth.

13 And Cain said unto the Lord, My
punishment is greater than I can bear.

14 Behold thou hast driven me out this
day from the face of the earth ; and from
thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugi-
tive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it
shall come to pass, that every one that find-
eth me shall slay me.

16 And the Lord said unto him. There-
fore Vvhosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall
be taken on him seven-fold. And the Lord
set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him
should kill him.

16 And Cain went out from the pre-
sence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of
Nod, on the east of Eden.

17 H And Cain knew his wife, and she
conceived, and bare Enoch : and he builded
a city, and called the name of the citj' after
the name of his son Ejioch.

18 And unto Enoch was born Irad : and
Irad begat Mehujael : and Mehujael begat
Methusael : and ^lethusael begat Lamech.

19 "il And Lamech took unto him two
wives: the name of the one teas Adan, and
the name of the other Zillah.

20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the
father of such as dwell in tents, and of such
as have cattle.

21 And his brother's name was Jubal : he
was the father of all such as handle the harp
and organ.

22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain,
an instructor of everj- artificer in brass and
iron : and the sister of Tubal-cain tvus Naa-
mah.

Genealogy of the patriarchs.

23 And Lamech said unto his wives,
Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives
of Lamech, hearken unto my speech : for I
have slain a man to my wounding, and a
young man to my hurt.

24 If Cain sliall be avenged seven-fold,
truly Lamech seventy and seven-fold.

25 H And Adam knew his wife again,
and she bare a son, and called his name
Seth : For God, said she, hath appointed
me another seed instead of Abel, whom
Cain slew.

26 And to Seth, to him also there^ was
born a son ; and he called his name Enos :
then began men to call upon the name of
the Lord.

CHAP. V.

THIS is the book of the generations of
Adam : In the day that God created
man, in the likeness of God made he him :

2 Male and female created he them ; and
blessed them, and called their name Adam,
in the day when they were created.

3 And Adam lived an hundred and
thirty years, and begat a son in his own like-
ness, after his image ; and called his name
Seth :

4 And the days of Adam after he had
begotten Seth were eight hundred years:
and he begat sons and daughters :

5 And aU tiie days that Adam lived were
nine hundred and thirty years : and he died.

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

7 And Setii lived after he begat Enos
eight hundred and seven years, and begat
sons and daughters :

8 And all the days of Seth were nine
hundred and twelve years ; and he died.

9 IF And Enos lived ninety years, and
begat Cainan :

10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan
eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat
sons and daughters :

11 And all the days of Enos were nine
hundred and five years ; and he died.

12 H And Cainan lived seventy years,
and begat Mahalaleel :

13 And Cainan lived after he begat Ma-
halaleel eight Imndred and forty years, and
begat sons and daughters :

14 And all the days of Cainan were nine
hundred and ten years ; and he died.

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

16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat
Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and
begat sons and daughters :

17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were
eight hundred ninety and five years ; and
he died.

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

19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch
eight hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters :

20 And all the days of Jared were nine

GENESIS. Translation of Enoch.

hundred sixty and two years; and he died.

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

22 And Enoch walked with God after he
begat Methuselah three hundred years, and
begat sons and daughters :

23 And all the days of Enoch were three
hundred sixty and five years :

24 And Enoch walked A\'ith God, and he
ivas not : for God took him.

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

26 And Methuselah lived after he begat
Lamech seven hundred eighty and two
years, and begat sons and daughters :

27 And all the days of Methuselah were
nine hundred sixty and nine years ; and he
died.

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

29 And he called his name Noah, saying,
This same shall comfort us concerning our
work and toil of our hands, because of the
ground which the Lord hath cursed.

30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah
five hundred ninety and five years, and be-
gat sons and daughters :

31 And all the days of Lamech were
seven hundred seventy and seven years;
and he died.

32 H And Noah was five hundred years
old : and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Ja-
pheth.

CHAP. VL

AND it came to pass, when men began
to multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born unto them,

2 That the sons of God saw the daugh-
ters of men that they ivcre fair; and they
took them wives of all wliich they chose.

3 And the Lord said, M3' Spirit shall
not always strive with man, for that he also
is flesh : yet his days shall be an hundred
and twenty years

4 " "

There were giants in the earth in tliose
days ; and also alter that, when the sons of
God came in unto the daughters of men,
and they bare children to them, the same
became mighty men, which tvere of old,
men of renown.

5 H And God saw that the wickedness
of man was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually.

6 And it repented the Lord that he had
made man on the earth, and it grieved him
at his heart.

7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man
whom I have created from the face of the
earth ; both man and beast, and the creep-
ing thing, and the fowls of the air : for it
repenteth me that I have made them.

8 U But Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord.

9 These arc the generations of Noah:
Noah was a just man, cmd perfect in his
generations, and Noah walked with God.

Directions for the ark.

CHAP. VII, VIII.

The flood.

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

11 The earth also was corrupt before
God ; and the earth was filled with violence.

12 And God looked upon the earth, and
behold, it was corrupt : for all flesh had cor-
rupted his way upon the earth.

13 And God said unto Noah, The end of
all flesh is come before me ; for the earth
is filled with violence through them : and
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14 H Make thee an ark of gopher-wood :
rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt
pitch it within and without with pitcli.

15 And this is the fashion which thou
shalt make it of: The length of the ark
shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth
of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty
cubits.

16 A window shalt thou make to the ark,
and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above ;
and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the
side thereof: loith lower, second, and third
stories shalt thou make it.

17 And behold, I, even I do bring a
flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from
under heaven : and every thing that is in
the earth shall die.

18 But with thee will I establish my co-
venant : and thou shalt come into the ark,
thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy
sons' wives with thee.

19 And of every living thing of all flesh,
two of every sort shalt thou bring into the
ark, to keep them alive with thee : they
shall be male and female.

20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle
after their kind, of every creeping thing of
the earth after his kind, two of every sort
shall come unto thee, to keep the7n alive.

21 And take thou unto thee of all food
that IS eaten, and thou shalt gather it to
thee ; and it shall be for food for thee, and
for them.

22 Thus did Noah ; according to all that
God commanded him, so did he.

CHAP. VII.

AND the Lord said unto Noah, Come
thou and all thy house into the ark :
for thee have I seen righteous before me
in this generation.

2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take
to thee by sevens, the male and his fe-
male : and of beasts that are not clean by
two, the male and his female.

3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the
male and the female ; to keep seed alive
upon the face of all the earth.

4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it
to rain upon the earth forty days and for-
ty nights : and every living substance that I
have made will I destroy from off" the face
of the earth.

5 And Noah did according unto all that
the Lord commanded him.

6 And Noah tvas six hundred years old

when the flood of waters was upon the
earth.

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

8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are
not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing
that creepeth upon the earth,

9 There went in two and two unto Noah
into the ark, the male and the female, as
God had commanded Noah.

10 H And it came to pass, after seven
days, that the waters of the flood were upon
the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of No-
ah's life, in the second month, the seven-
teenth day of the month, the same day
were all the fountains of the great deep
broken up, and the windows of heaven were
opened.

12 And the rain was upon the earth forty
da3"s and forty nights.

13 In the self-same day entered Noah,
and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons
of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three
wives of his sons with them, into the ark :

14 They, and every beast after his kind,
and all the cattle after their kind, and every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
after his kind, and every fowl after his kind,
every bird of every sort.

15 And they went in unto Noah into the
ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is
the breath of life.

16 And they that went in, went in male
and female of all flesh, as God had com-
manded him : and the Lord shut him in.

17 If And the flood was forty days upon
the earth : and the waters increased, and
bare up the ark, and it was lifted up -above
the earth.

18 And the waters prevailed, and were
increased greatly upon the earth : and the
ark went upon the face of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly
upon the earth ; and all the high hills that
loere under the whole heaven were covered.

20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters
prevail : and the mountains were covered.

21 H And all flesh died that moved upon
the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of
beast, and of every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth, and every man :

22 All in whose nostrils urns the breath
of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

23 And every living substance was de-
stroyed which was upon the face of the
ground, both man, and cattle, and the creep-
mg things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and
they were destroyed from the earth ; and
Noah only remained alive, and they that
7vere with him in the ark.

24 H And the waters prevailed upon the
earth an hundred and fifty days.

CHAP. VIIL

AND God remembered Noali, and every
living thing, and all the cattle that

The waters abate.

GENESIS.

God bksseth Noah.

was with liim in the ark : and God made
a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters

2 The fountains also of the deep, and
the windows of heaven were stopped, and
the rain from heaven was restrained ;

3 And the waters returned from oft the
earth continually : and after the end of the
hundred and fifty days the waters were

abated. , . , ^u

4 H And the ark rested m the seventh
month, on the seventeenth day of the month,
upon the mountains of Ararat.

5 And the waters decreased contmually,
until the tenth month : in the tenth 7nonth,
on tlie first day of the month, were the tops
of the mountains seen.

6 H And it came to pass at the end oi
forty days, that Noah opened the wmdow
of the ark which he had made :

7 And he sent forth a raven, which went
forth to and fro, until the waters were dried
up from off" the earth.

8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to
see if the waters were abated from otf the
face of the ground ; ,. , i

9 But the dove found no rest for the sole
of her foot, and she returned unto him into
the ark; tor the waters were on the face
of the whole earth. Then he put forth his
hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto
him into the ark.

10 And he stayed yet other seven days,
and again he sent forth the dove out of the

11 And the dove came in to him in the
evening, and lo, in her mouth teas an olive-
leaf phickt off: So Noah knew that the
waters were abated from off the earth.

12 And he stayed yet other seven days,
and sent forth the dove ; which returned
not again unto him any more.

13 H And it came to pass in the six
hundredth and first year, in the first month,
the first day of the month, the waters were
dried up from off the earth : and Noah re-
moved the covering of the ark, and looked,
and behold, the face of the ground was dry.

14 And in the second month, on the
seven and twentieth day of the month, was
the earth dried.

. 15 '\\ And God spake unto Noah, saying,

16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy
wife, and thy suns, and thy sons' wives with
thee. .

17 Bring forth with thee every living
thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of
fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth ; that
they may breed abundantly in the earth,
and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

18 And Noah went forth, and his sons,
and his wife, and his sons' wives with him :

19 Every beast, every creeping thing,
and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth
upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth

^ out of the ark.

20 H And Noah builded an altar unto
the Lord, and took of every clean beast,
and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-
offerings on the altar.

21 And the Lord sraelled a sweet savour ;
and the Lord said in his heart, I will not
again curse the ground any more for man's
sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is
evil from his youth : neither will I again
smite any more every thing living, as I have
done. .

22 While the earth remameth, seed-time
and harvest, and cold and heat, and sum-
mer and winter, and day and night, shall
not cease.

CHAP. IX.

AND God blessed Noah and his sons,
and said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth.

2 And the fear of you, and the dread of
you, shall be upon every beast of the earth,
and upon every fowl of the air, upon all
that moveth vpon the earth, and upon all
the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are
they delivered.

3 Every moving thing that hveth shall
be meat for you ; even as the green herb
have I given you all things : ^ , . ,

4 But flesh with the life thereof, ichtch
is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

5 And surely your blood of your lives
will I require : at the hand of every beast
will I require it, and at the hand of man ;
at the hand of every man's brother will I re-
quire the life of man.

6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man
shall his blood be shed : for in the image of
God made he man.

7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply,
bring forth abundantly in the earth, and
multiply therein.

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

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

10 And with every living creature that is
with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of
every beast of the earth with you, from all
that go out of the ark, to every beast of the
earth. . ,

11 And I will establish my covenant with
you ; neither shall all flesh be cut off any
inore by the waters of a flood; neither shall
there any more be a flood to destroy the

earth. „ . . , i c

12 And God said. This ^s the token of
the covenant which I make between me
and you and every living creature that zs
with you, for perpetual generations.

13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it
shall be for a token of a covenant between
me and the earth.

14 And it shall come to pass, when i
bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow
shall be seen in the cloud :

15 And I will remember my covenant,
which is between me and you and every

The hoiv in the cloud.
living creature of all flesh : and the waters
shall no more become a flood to destroy all
flesh.

16 And the bow shall be in the cloud ;
and I will look upon it, that I may remem-
ber the everlasting covenant between God
and every living creature of all flesh that is
upon the earth.

17 And God said unto Noah, This is the
token of the covenant which I have esta-
blished between me and all flesh that is upon
the earth.

18 H And the sons of Noah that went
forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham,
and Japheth : and Ham is the father of
Canaan.

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

20 II And Noah began to be an husband-
man, and he planted a vineyard :

21 And he drank of the wine, and was
drunken, and he was uncovered within his
tent.

22 And Ham the father of Canaan saw
the nakedness of his father, and told his
two brethren without.

23 And Shem and Japheth took a gar-
ment, and laid it upon both their shoulders,
and went backward, and covered the naked-
ness of their father : and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their father's
nakedness.

24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and
knew what his younger son had done unto
him.

25 And he said, Cursed he Canaan; a
servant of servants shall he be unto his bre-
thren.

26 And he said. Blessed he the Lord God
of Shem ; and Canaan shall be his ser-
vant.

27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he
shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; and Ca-
naan shall be his servant.

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

29 And all the days of Noah were nine
hundred and fifty years : and he died.

CHAP. X.
"OW these arc the generations of the
sons of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Ja-
pheth : and unto them were sons l3orn after
the flood.

2 H The sons of Japheth ; Gomer, and
Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal,
and Meshech, and Tiras.

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

4 And the sons of Javan ; Elishah, and
Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles
divided in their lands ; every one after his
tongue, after their families, in their nations.

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

7 And the sons of Cush ; Seba, and Ha-
vilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabte-

CHAP. X. The generations of Noah.

cha ; and the sons of Raamah, Shebah, and

Dedan.

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

9 He was a mighty hunter before the
Lord : wherefore it is said. Even as Nimrod
the mighty hunter before the Lord.

10 And the beg^inning of his kingdom
was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and
Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

11 Out of that land went forth Ashur,
and builded Nineveh, and the city Reho-
both, and Calah,

12 And Resen between Nineveh and
Calah : the same is a great city.

13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Ana-
mira, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out
of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

15 H And Canaan begat Sidon his first-
born and Heth,

16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite,
and the Girgasite,

17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and
the Sinite,

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

19 And the border of the Canaanites was
from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto
Gaza ; as thou goest unto Sodom and Go-
morrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto
Lasha.

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

21 II Unto Shem also, the father of all the
children of Eber, the brother of Japheth
the elder, even to him were children born.

22 The children of Shem; Elam, and
Ashur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

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

24 And Arphaxad begat Salah ; and Sa-
lah begat Eber.

25 And unto Eber Avere born two sons :
the name of one ums Peleg, for in his days
was the earth divided; and his brother's
name vms Joktan.

26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and She-
leph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

28 And Obal, and Abimael, and She-
ba,

29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab :
all these were the sons of Joktan.

30 And their dwelling was from Mesha,
as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the
east.

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

32 These arc the families of the sons of
Noah after their generations, in tlieir na-
tions : and by these were the nations divided
in the earth after tlie flood.

The Imildirg of Babel.
CHAP. XL

AND the A\hole earth was of one lan-
guage, and of one speech.

2 And it came to pass as they journey-
ed from the cast, that they found a plam m
the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there.

3 % And tliey said one to another, Go to,
let us make brick, and burn them thorough-
ly. And tiiey had brick for stone, and shme
had tliev lor mortar.

4 And they said. Go to, let us build us a
city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto
heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we
be scattered abroad upon the face of the
whole earth.

5 And the Lord came down to see the
city and the tower, which the children of
men buildcd.

6 And the Loiin said, Behold, the peo-
ple is one, and they have all one language ;
and this they begin to do : and now nothing
will be restrained from tliem, which they
have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there con-
found their language, that they may not
understand one another's speech.

8 So the Lord scattered them abroad
from thence upon the face of all the earth :
and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called Ba-
bel, because the Lord did there confound
the language of all the earth: and from
thence did the Lord scatter them abroad
upon the face of all the earth.

10 H These r//Ythe generations of Shem :
Shem teas an hundred years old, and begat
Arphaxad two years after the flood :

11 And Shem lived after he begat Ar-
phaxad five hundred years, and begat sons
and daughters.

12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty
years, and begat Salah.

13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Sa-
lah four hundred and three years, and begat
sons and daughters.

14 And Salah lived thirty years, and be-
gat Eber :

15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber
four hundred and three years, and begat
sons and (laughters.

16 And Fiber lived four and thirty j'ears,
and begat Peleg :

17 And Jliicr lived after he begat Peleg
four hmidred and thirty years, and begat
.sons and daughters.

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and
begat Reu :

19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu
two hundred and nine years, and begat sons
and daugliters.

20 And Reu lived two and tliirty years,
and begat Serug.

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

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and
begat Nahor :

GENESIS. The cad of Abram.

23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor
two hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters.

24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty
years, and begat Terah

25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah
an hundred and nineteen years, and begat
sons and daughters.

26 And Terah lived seventy years, and
begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 H Now these are the generations of
Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and
Haran : and Haran begat Lot.

28 And Haran died before his father
Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of
the Chaldees.

29 And Abram and Nahor took them
wives : the name of Abram's wife ivas Sarai ;
and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the
daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah,
and the father of Iscah.

30 But Sarai was barren ; she had no child.

31 If And Terah took Abram his son, and
Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sa-
rai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's
wife ; and they went forth with them from
Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of
Canaan ; and they came unto Haran, and
dwelt there.

32 And the days of Terah were two hun-
dred and five years : and Terah died in Ha-
ran.

CHAP. xn.

Now the Lord had said unto Abram,
Get thee out of thy country, and from
thy kindred, and from thy father's house,
unto a land that I will shew thee :

2 And I will make of thee a great nation,
and I will bless thee, and make thy name
great ; and thou shalt be a blessing :

3 And I will bless them that bless thee,
and curse him that curseth thee : and in
thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

4 H So Abram departed, as the Lord had
spoken unto him, and Lot went with him :
and Abram ivas seventj^ and five years old
when he departed out of Haran.

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

6 H And Abram passed through the land
unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of
Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in
the land.

7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram,
and said. Unto thy seed will I give this land :
and tliere builded he an altar unto the Lord,
who appeared unto him.

8 And he removed from thence unto a
mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitch-
ed his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and
Hai on the east: and there he builded an
altar unto the Lord, and called upon the
name of the Lord.

Ahram goeth into Egypt. CHAP. XIII, XfV. Ahram and Lot separate.

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

10 U And there was a famine in the land :
and Abram went down into Egypt to so-
journ there ; for tlie famine was grievous in
the land.

11 And it came to pass, when he was
come near to enter into Egypt, that he said
unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know
that thou art a fair woman to look upon :

12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when
the Egyptians shall see thee, that tliey shall
say. This is his wife : and they will kill me,
but they will save thee alive.

13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister :
that it may be well with me for thy sake ;
and my soul shall live because of thee.

14 H And it came to pass, that when
Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians
beheld the woman that she was very fair.

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

16 And he entreated Abram well for her
sake : and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-
asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants,
and she-asses, and camels.

17 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and
his house with great plagues because of
Sarai Abram's wife.

IS And Pharaoh called Abram, and said.
What is this that thou hast done unto me ?
why didst thou not tell me that she toas thy
wife?

19 Why saidstthou. She is my sister ? so
I might have taken her to me to wife : now

' therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go
thy way.

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

CHAP. XIII.

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

2 And Abram was verj- rich in cattle, in
silver, and in gold.

3 And he went on his journeys from the
south even to Beth-el, unto the place where
his tent had been at the beginning, between
Beth-el and Hai;

4 Unto the place of the altar, which he
had made there at the first : and there
Abram called on the name of the Lord.

5 And Lot also, which went with Abram,
had flocks, and herds, and tents.

6 And the land was not able to bear them,
that they might dwell together: for their
substance was great, so that they could not
dwell together.

7 *ti And there was a strife between the
herdmcn of Abram's cattle and the herd-
men of Lot's cattle : and the Canaanite and
the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there
be no strife, I pray thee, between me and

thee, and between my herdmen and thy
herdmen ; for we be brethren.

9 Is not the whole land before thee ? Se-
parate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if
thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go
to *he right : or if thou depart to the right
hand, then I will go to the left.

10 U And Lot lifted up his eyes, and be-
held all the plain of Jordan, that it was well
watered ever)'^ where, before the Lord de-
stroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the
garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt,
as thou comest unto Zoar.

11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of
Jordan ; and Lot journeyed east : and they
separated themselves the one from the other.

12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan,
and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain,
and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

13 But the men of Sodom tcere wicked
and sinners before the Lord, exceedingly.

14 H And the Lord said unto Abram,
after that Lot was separated from him. Lift
up now thine eyes, and look from the place
where thou art, northward, and southward,
and eastward, and westward :

15 For all the land which thou seest, to
thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

16 And I will make thy seed as the dust
of the earth : so that if a man can number
the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed
also be numbered.

17 Arise, walk through the land in the
length of it and in the breadth of it ; for I
will give it unto thee.

18 H Then Abram removed his tent, and
came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre,
which is in Hebron, and built there an altar
unto the Lord.

CHAP. XIV.

AND it came to pass in the days of Am-
raphel king of Shinar, Arioch king
of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam,
and Tidal king of nations ;

2 That these made war with Bera king
of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomor-
rah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber
king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela,
whicli is Zoar.

3 All these were joined together in the
valeof Siddim, which is the salt sea.

4 Twelve years they served Chedorlao-
mer and in the thirteenth jcar thej' rebelled,

5 And in the fourteenth year came Che-
dorlaomer, and the kings that were with him,
and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Kar-
naim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the
Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

6 And the Horites in their mount Seir,
unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

7 And they returned, and came to En-
mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the
country of the Amalekites, and also the
Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.

8 And there went out the king of Sodom
and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of
Admah, ancl the king of Zeboiim, and tha

The battle of the kings. GENESIS

king of Bela, (tlie same is Zoar ;) and thej^
joined battle witli them in the vale of Sid-
dim;

9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam,
and with Tidal king of nations, and Amra-
nhel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of
Ellasar ; li)ur kings with five.

10 And the vale of Siddim urns full of
slime-pits ; and the kings of Sodom and Go-
morrah ilcd, and fell there : and they that
remained fled to the mountain.

11 And they took all the goods of Sodom
and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and
went their A\ay.

12 ^ And they took Lot, Abram's bro-
ther's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his
goods, and departed.

13 And there came one that had es-
caped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he
dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite,
brother of Eslicol, and brother of Aner:
and these n^crc confederate with Abram.

14 H And when Abram heard that his bro-
ther was taken captive, he armed his train-
ed servants, born in his own house, three
hundred and eighteen, and pursued thein
unto Dan.

15 And he divided himself against them,
he and his servants by night, and smote
them, and pursued them unto Hobah,
which is on tlie left hand of Damascus.

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

17 II And the king of Sodom went out
to meet him after his return from the slaugh-
ter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that
iperc with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which
is the kinj^'s dale.

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

19 And he blessed him, and said. Blessed
be Abram of tlie most high God, possessor
of heaven and earth :

20 And blessed be the most liigh God,
which liath delivered thine enemies into
thy hand. And he gave Jiim tithes of all.

21 'lAiul the king of Sodom said unto
Abram, Give me the persons, and take the
goods to thyself.

22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom,
I have lifted up mine hand unto the Lord,
the most high God, the possessor of heaven
and earth,

23 That I will not take from a thread
even to a shoe-latchet, and that 1 will not
take any thin"; that is thine, lest thou
shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

24 Save only that which the voung men
have eaten, and the portion of the men
which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and
Mamre; let them take their portion.

CHAP. XV.

\ FTER these things the word of the

■^^^ Lord came unto Abram in a vision,

Abram is justified by faith.
saying, Fear not, Abram : I «?« thy shield,
and thy exceeding great reward.

2 And Abram said, Lord God, what
wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless,
and the steward of my house is this Elie-
zer of Damascus 1

3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou
hast given no seed : and lo, one born in my
house is mine heir.

4 If And behold, the word of the Lord
came unto him, saying, This shall not be
thine heir ; but he that shall come forth out
of thine ow^n bowels shall be thine heir.

5 And he brought him forth abroad, and
said. Look now toward heaven, and tell the
stars, if thou be able to number them : and
he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

6 U And he believed in the Lord ; and
he counted it to him for righteousness.

7 H And he said unto him, I g?m the Lord
that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees,
to give thee this land to inherit it.

S And he said, Lord God, whereby
shall I know that I shall inherit it ?

9 And he said unto him, Take me an
heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of
three years old, and a ram of three years
old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.

10 And he took unto him all these, and
divided them in the midst, and laid each
piece one against another : but the birds
divided he not.

1 1 And when the fowls came down upon
the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

12 U And when the sun was going down,
a deep sleep fell upon Abram : and lo, an
horror of great darkness fell upon him.

13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a
surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in
a land that is not theirs, and shall serve
them ; and they shall afflict them four hun-
dred years ;

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

16 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in
peace ; thou shalt be buried in a good old
age.

16 But in the fourth generation they shall
come hither again : for the iniquity of the
Amorites is not yet full.

17 And it came to pass, that when the
sun w^ent down, and it was dark, behold a
smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that
passed between those pieces.

18 In the same day the Lord made a
covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy
seed have I given this land, from the river
of Egypt unto the great river, the river Eu-
phrates :

19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and
the Kadmonites,

20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites,
and the Rephaims,

21 And tlie Amorites, and the Canaan-
ites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebu-
sites.

Hagar flees from Sarai.
CHAP. XVI.

NOW Sarai Abram's wife bare him no
children : and she had an handmaid,
an Egyptian, whose name loas Hagar.

2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold,
now, the Loud hath restrained me from
bearing : I pray thee go in unto my maid ;
it may be that I may obtain children by her.
And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her
maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt
ten years in tlie land of Canaan, and gave
her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

4 IF And he went in unto Hagar, and
she conceived : and when she saw that she
had conceived, her mistress was despised in
her eyes.

5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong
he upon thee : I have given my maid into
thy bosom ; and when she saw that she had
conceived, I was despised in her eyes : the
Lord judge between me and thee.

6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold,
thy maid is in thy hand ; do to her as it
pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hard-
ly with her, she fled from her face.

7 "ff And the angel of the Lord found
her by a fountain of water in the wilder-
ness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid,
whence camest thou? and whither wilt
thou go ? And she said, I flee from the face
of my mistress Sarai.

9 And the angel of the Lord said unto
her. Return to thy mistress, and submit thy-
self under her hands.

10 And the angel of the Lord said unto
her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly,
that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

11 And the angel of the Lord said unto
her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt
bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael ;
because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.

12 And he will be a wild man ; his hand
iciill be against every man, and every man's
hand against him ; and he shall dwell in
the presence of all his bretliren.

13 And she called the name of the Lord
that spake unto her. Thou God seest me :
for she said. Have I also here looked after
him that seeth me 1

14 Wherefore the well was called Beer-
lahai-roi ; behold, it is between Kadesh
and Bered.

15 "^I And Hagar bare Abram a son :
and Abram called his son's name, which
Hagar bare, Ishmael.

16 And Abram was fourscore and six
years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to
Abram.

CHAP. XVII.
ND when Abram was ninety years old
and nine, the Lord appeared to
Abram, and said ,unto him, I «?« the Al-
mighty God ; walk before me, and be thou
pc-fect,

CHAP. XVI, XVII. Circumcision instituted.

me and thee, and will multiply thee ex-
ceedingly.

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

4 As for me, behold my covenant zs with
thee, and thou shalt be a father of many
nations.

5 II Neither shall thy name any more be
called Abram, but thy name shall be Abra-
ham ; for a father of many nations have I
made thee.

6 And I will make thee exceeding fruit-
ful, and I will make nations of thee ; and
kings shall come out of thee.

7 And I will establish my covenant be-
tween me and thee, and thy seed after
thee, in their generations, for an everlasting
covenant ; to be a God unto thee and to thy
seed after thee.

8 And I will ^ive unto thee, and to thy
seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a
stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an ever-
lasting possession ; and I will be their God.

9 II And God said unto Abraham, Thou
shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and
thy seed after thee, in their generations.

10 This is my covenant, which ye shall
keep between me and you and thy seed
after thee ; Every man-child among you
shall be circumcised.

11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of
your foreskin ; and it shall be a token of
the covenant betwixt me and you.

12 And he that is eight days old shall be
circumcised among you, every man-child
in your generations, he that is born in the
house, or bought with money of any stran-
ger, which is not of thy seed.

13 He that is born in thy house, and he
that is bought with thy money, must needs
be circumcised : and my covenant shall be
in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

14 And the uncircumcised man-child,
whose flesh of his foreskin is not circum-
cised, that soul shall be cut off from his
peoj)le ; he hath broken my covenant.

15 H And God said unto Abraham, As
for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her
name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

16 And I will bless her, and give thee
a son also of her : yea, I will bless her, and
she shall be a mother of nations ; kings of
people shall be of her.

17 Then Abraham fell upon his face,
and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall
a child be born unto him that is an hundred
years old ? and shall Sarah, that is ninety
years old, bear ?

18 And Abraham said unto God, O that
Ishmael might live before thee !

19 And (Gtod said, Sarah thy wife shall
bear thee a son indeed ; and thou shalt call
his name Isaac : and I will establish my
covenant with him for an everlasting cove-
nant, and with his seed after him.

20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard

2 And I will make my dovenant between chee

Behold, I have blessed him, and will
13

Abraham cntertaineth angels.
m-ike him fruitful, and will multiply him
exccedindy : twelve princes shall he beget,
and I will make him a great nation.

21 But my covenant will I establish with
Isaac, whoni Sarah shall bear unto thee at
this set time in the next year.

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

23 ^ And Abraham took Ishmael his
son, and all that were born in his house, and
all that were bought with his money, every
male among the men of Abraham's house ;
and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin,
in the self-same day, as God had said unto
him.

24 And Abraham was ninety years old
and nine, when he was circumcised in the
flesh of liis foreskin.

25 And Ishmael his son tvas thirteen
years old, when he was circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin.

26 In tlie self-same day was Abraham
circumcised and Ishmael his son.

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

CHAP. XVIII.

AND the Lord appeared unto him in
the plains of Mamre : and he sat in
the tent door in the heat of tl e day ;

2 And he lifted up his eyes and looked,
and lo, three men stood by him : and when
he saw tliciii, he ran to meet them from the
tent door, and bowed himself toward the
ground,

3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found
favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray
thee, from thy servant :

4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetch-
ed, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves
under the tree :

5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and
comfort ye your hearts ; after that ye shall
pass on : for therefore are ye come to your
servant. And they said, \So do, as thou
hast said.

6 And Abraham hastened into the tent
unto Sarali, and said, Make ready quickly
three measures of fine meal, knead it, and
make cakes upon the hearth.

7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and
fetched a calf tender and good, and gave
it unto a young man ; and he hasted to
dress it.

8 And he took butter, and milk, and the
calf which Ik; had dressed, and set it before
them ; and he stood by tlicm under the tree,
and they did eat.

H And they said unto him, Where is
Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in
the tent.

10 And he said, I will certainly return
unto tiiee according to the time of life : and
lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And
Sarah heard it in the tent-door, which was
behind him.

11 Now Abraham and Sarah ictrc old

GENESIS, Destruction of Sodom revealed.

and well stricken in age ; and it ceased to
be with Sarah after the manner of women.

12 Therefore Sarah laughed within her-
self, saying. After I am waxed old shall I
have pleasure, my lord being old also?

13 And the Lord said unto Abraham,
Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying. Shall
I of a surety bear a child, which am old ?

14 Is any thing too hard lor the Lord 1
At the time appointed I will return unto
thee, according to the time of life, and
Sarah shall have a son.

15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laugh-
ed not ; for she was afraid. And he said,
Nay ; but thou didst laugh.

16 And the men rose up from thence,
and looked toward Sodom : and Abraham
went with them to bring them on the way.

17 ^ And the Lord said. Shall I hide
from Abraham that thing which I do ;

18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely be-
come a great and mightj^ nation, and all
the nations of the earth shall be blessed in
him ?

19 For I know him, that he will com-
mand his children and his household after
him, and they shall keep the way of the
Lord, to do justice and judgment; that
the Lord may bring upon Abraham that
which he hath spoken of him.

20 And the Lord said, Because the cry
of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and be-
cause their sin is very grievous;

21 I will go down now, and see whether
they have done altogether according to the
cry of it, which is come unto me ; and if
not, I will know.

22 And the men turned their faces from
thence, and went toward Sodom : but
Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

23 H And Abraham drew near, and said,
Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with
the wicked ?

24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous
within the city : wilt thou also destroy and
not spare the place for the fifty righteous
that arr therein ?

25 That be far from thee to do after this
manner, to slay the righteous with the wick-
ed : and that the righteous should be as the
wicked, that be far from thee : Shall not the
Judge of all the earth do right ?

26 And the Lord said, If I find in So-
dom fifty righteous within the city, then I
will spare all the place for their sakes.

27 And Abraham answered and said.
Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak
unto the Lord, which am but dust and
ashes :

28 Peradventure there shall lack five of
the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all
the city for lack of five? And he said, if 1
find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

29 And he spake unto him yet again,
and said, Peradventure there shall be forty
found there. And he said, I will not do it
for forty's sake.

AhraJiam intercedes for it. CHAP

30 And he said unto him, Oh, let not the
Lord be angry, and I will speak: Perad-
venture there shall thirty be found there.
And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty
there.

31 And he said, Behold now, I have ta-
ken upon me to speak unto the Lord. Per-
adventure there shall twenty be found there.
And he .mid, I will not destroy it for twen-
ty's sake.

32 And he said. Oh let not the Lord be
angry, and I will speak yet but this once :
Peradventure ten shall be found there. And
he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

33 And the Lord went his way, as soon
as he had left communing with Abraham :
and Abraham returned unto his place.

CHAP. XIX

ND there came two angels to Sodom
at even : and Lot sat m the gate of
Sodom ; and Lot seeing them, rose up to
meet tliem ; and he bowed hunself with his
face toward the ground ;

2 And he said, Behold now, my lords,
turn in, I pray you, into your servant's
house, and tarry all night, and wash your
feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on
your ways. And they said. Nay ; but we
will abide in the street all night.

3 And he pressed upon them greatly;
and they turned in unto him, and entered
into his house ; and he made them a feast,
and did bake unleavened bread, and they
did eat.

4 H But before they lay down, the men
of the city, even the men of Sodom, com-
passed the house round, both old and young,
all the people from every quarter.

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

6 And Lot went out at the doorunto them,
and shut the door after him,

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

8 Behold now, I have two daughters
which have not known man ; let me, t pray i
you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to
them as is good in your eyes : only unto
these men do nothing ; for therefore came
they under the shadow of my roof

9 And they said. Stand back. And they
said again. This one fellow came in to so-
journ, and he will needs be a judge : Now
will we deal worse with thee than with them.
And they pressed sore upon the man, even
Lot, and came near to break the door.

10 But the men put forth their hand, and
pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut
to the door.

11 And they smote the men that were at
the door of the house with blindness, both
small and great : so that they wearied them-
selves to find the door.

12 U And the men said unto Lot, Hast
thou here any besides ? son-in-law, and thy

XIX. Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed.
sons and thy daughters, and whatsoever
thou hast in the city, bring them out of this
place :

13 For we will destroy this place, be-
cause the cry of them is waxen great before
the face of the Lord ; and the Lord hath
sent us to destroy it.

14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his
sons-in-law, which married his daughters,
and said. Up, get ye out of this place ; for
the Lord will destroy this city : but he
seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-
in-law.

15 And when the morning arose, then
the angels hastened Lot, saying. Arise,
take thy wife, and thy two daughters which
are here ; lest thou be consumed in the ini-
quity of the city.

16 And while he lingered, the men laid
hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of
his wife, and upon the hand of his two
daughters ; the Lord being merciful unto
him : and they brought him forth, and set
him without the city.

17 And it came to pass, when they had
brought them forth abroad, that he said.
Escape for thy life : look not behind thee,
neither stay thou in all the plain : escape
to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so^
my Lord !

19 Behold now, thy servant hath found
grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified
thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto
me in saving my life : and I cannot escape
to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and
I die:

20 Behold now, this city is near to flee
unto, and it is a little one : Oh ! let me es-
cape thither, {is it not a httle one ?) and my
soul shall live.

21 And he said unto him. See, I have
accepted thee concerning this thing also,
that I will not overthrow this city, for the
which thou hast spoken.

22 Haste thee, escape thither ; for I can-
not do any thing till thou be come thither :
therefore the name of the city was called
Zoar.

23 The sun was risen upon the earth
when Lot entered into Zoar.

24 H Then the Lord rained upon Sodom
and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from
the Lord out of heaven ;

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

26 *\ But his wife looked back from be-
hind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 IF And Abraham gat up early in the
morning, to the place where he stood before
the Lord :

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

Abraham denies his wife.

29 And it came to pass, when God de-
stroyed the cities of the plain, that God re-
membered Abraham, and sent Lot out of
the midst of the overthrovy, when he over-
threw the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

30 ^ And Lot went up out of Zoar, and
dwelt in the mountain, and his two daugh-
ters with him ; for he feared to dwell in
Zoar : and he dwelt in a cave, he, and his
two daughters.

31 *l And the first-born said unto the
younger, Our father is old, and there is not
a man in the earth to come in unto us after
the manner of all the earth :

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

33 And they made their father dririk
wine that night : and the first-born went in
and lay with her father ; and he perceived
not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

34 And it came to pass on the morrow
that the first-born said unto the younger.
Behold, I lay yesternight with my father :
let us make him drink wine this night also ;
and go thou in, and lie with him, that we
may preserve seed of our father.

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

36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot
with child by their father.

37 And tlie first-born bare a son, and call-
ed his name Moab : the same is the fatlier
of the Moabites unto this day.

38 And the younger, she also bare a son,
jnd called his name Ben-ammi: the same is
the father of the children of Amraon unto
this day.

CHAP. XX.

AND Abraham journeyed from thence
toward the south country, and dwell-
ed between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourn-
ed in Gerar.

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

3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream
by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art
hut a dead man, for the woman which thou
hast taken : for she is a man's wife.

4 But Abimelech had not come near her :
and he said. Loud, wilt thou slay also a
righteous nation 1

.5 Said ho not unlo me, She is my sister 1
and she, even she herself said, He is my
brother : in the integrity of my heart, and
innocency of my hands have I done this.

6 And God said unto him in a dream
Yea, I know that tiiou didst this in the in-
tegrity of thy heart ; for I also withheld
the(> from sinning against me: therefore
sufficed I thee not to touch her.

7 Now tlierolbre restore the man his wife,
for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for
thee, and thou shalt live : and if thou restore

GENESIS. Isaac horn.

her not, know thou that thou shalt surely
die, thou and all that are thine.

8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the
morning, and called all his servants, and
told all these things in their ears : and the
men were sore afraid.

9 H Then Abimelech called Abraham, and
said unto him, What hast thou done unto
us? and what have I offended thee, that
thou hast brought on me and on my king-
dom a great sin ? thou hast done deeds unto
me that ought not to be done.

10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham,
What sawest thou, that thou hast done tliis
thing ?

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

12 And yet indeed she is my sister ; she
is the daughter of my father, but not the
daughter of my mother : and she became
my wife.

13 And it came to pass, when God caused
me to wander from my father's house, that
I said unto her, This is thy kindness which
thou shalt shew unto me ; At every place
whither we shall come, say of me, He is my
brother.

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

15 And Abimelech said. Behold, my land
is before thee : dwell where it pleaseth thee.

16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I
have given th)" brother a thousand pieces of
silver : behold, he is to thee a covering of
the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and
with all other : thus she was reproved.

17 H So Abraham prayed unto God : and
God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and
his maid-servants ; and they bare children.

18 For the Lord had fast closed up all
the wombs of the house of Abimelech, be-
cause of Sarah Abraham's wife.

CHAP. XXI.
ND the Lord visited Sarah as he had
said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as
he had spoken.

2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abra-
ham a son in his old age, at the set time of
which God had spoken to him.

3 And Abraham called the name of his
son that was born unto him, whom Sarah
bare to him, Isaac.

4 And Abraham circumcised his son
Isaac, being eight days old, as God had
commanded him.

5 And Abraham was an hundred years
old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

6 H And Sarah said, God hath made me
to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with
me.

7 And she said, Who would have said
unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given
children suck ? for I have born him a son in
his old age.

Hagar banished. CHAP.

8 And the child grew, and was weaned:
and Abraham made a great feast the same
day that Isaac was weaned.

9 % And Sarali saw the son of Hagar the
Egyptian, which she had born unto Abra-
ham, mocking.

10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham,
Cast out this bond-woman, and her son : for
the son of this bond-woman shall not be
heir with my son, even with Isaac.

11 And the thing was very grievous in
Abraham's sight, because of his son.

12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it
not be grievous in thy sight, because of the
lad, and because of thy bond-woman ; in all
that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto
her voice : for in Isaac shall thy seed be
called.

13 And also of the son of the bond-wo-
man will I make a nation, because he is thy
seed.

14 And Abraham rose up early in the
morning, and took bread, and a bottle of
water, and gave it unto Hagar (putting it
on her shoulder) and the child, and sent her
away : and she departed, and wandered in
the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

15 If And the water was spent in the bot-
tle, and she cast the child under one of the
shrubs.

16 And she went, and sat her down over
against kirn, a good way off, as it were a
bow-shot : for she said. Let me not see the
death of the child. And she sat over against
him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

17 And God heard the voice of the lad :
and tlie angel of God called to Hagar out of
heaven, and said unto her. What aileth thee,
Hagar \ fear not ; for God hath heard the
voice of the lad where he is.

IS Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in
thine hand : for 1 will make him a great na-
tion.

19 And God opened her eyes, and she
saw a well of water : and she went, and
filled the bottle witli water, and gave the lad
drink.

20 And God was with the lad ; and he
grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and be-
came an archer.

21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pa-
ran : andhis mother took him a wife out of
the land of Egypt.

22 H And it came to pass at that time that
Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain
of his host spake unto Abraham, saying,
God is with thee in all that thou doest :

23 Now therefore swear unto me here by
God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me,
nor with my son, nor with my son's son :
but according to the kindness that I have
done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and
to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

24 And Abraham said, I will swear.

25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech
because of a well of water, which Abime-
lech's servants had violently taken away.

XXII. Abraham tempted to offer Isaac.

26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who
hath done this thing : neither didst thou tell
me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.

27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen,
and gave them unto Abimelech : and both
of them made a covenant.

28 And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs
of the flock by themselves.

29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham,
What mean these seven ewe-lambs, which
thou hast set by themselves 1

30 And he said, For these seven ewe-
lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they
may be a witness unto me that I have dig-
ged this well.

31 Wherefore he called that place Beer-
sheba; because there they sware both of
them.

32 Thus they made a covenant at Beer-
sheba : then Abimelech rose up, and Phi-
chol the chief captain of his host, and they
returned into the land of the Philistines.

33 H And Abraham planted a grove in
Beer-sheba, and called there on the name
of the Lord, the everlasting God.

34 And Abraham sojourned in the Phi-
listines' land many days.

CHAP. XXII.

AND it came to pass after these things,
that God did tempt Abraham, and said
unto him, Abraham : And he said, Behold,
here I am.

2 And he said. Take now thy son, thine
only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get
thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him
there for a burnt-offering upon one of the
mountains which I will tell thee of.

3 11 And Abraham rose up early in the
morning, and saddled his ass, and took two
of his young men with him, and Isaac his
son, and clave the wood for the burnt-offer-
ing, and rose up, and went unto the place of
which God had told him.

4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted
up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

5 And Abraham said unto his young men,
Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the
lad will go yonder and worship, and come
again to you.

6 And Abraham took the wood of the
burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his
son ; and he took the fire in his hand and a
knite : and they went both of them toge-
ther.

7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his fa-
ther, and said. My father : and he said. Here
am I, my son. And he said. Behold the
fire and the wood : but where is the Iamb
lor a burnt-offering ?

8 And Abraham said, My son, God will
provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering •
so they went both of them together.

9 And they came to the place which God
had told him of; And Abraham built an al-
tar there, and laid the wood in order ; and
bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the
altar upon the wood.

Hie death of Sarah.

10 And Abraham stretched forth his
hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

11 I And the angel of the Lord called
unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham,
Abraham. And he said. Here am I.

12 x\nd lie .said, Laj- not thine hand upon
the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him :
for now' I know that thou fearest God, seeing
thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only
son Irom me.

13 vVnd Abraham lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught
in a thicket by his horns : And Abraham
went and took the ram, and offered him up
for a burnt-oflering in the stead of his son.

14 And Abraham called the name of that
place Jehovah-jireh : as it is said to this
day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be
seen.

15 IT And the angel of the Lord called
unto Abraham out of heaven the second
time,

16 And said, By myself have I sworn,
saith the Lord, for because thou hast done
this thing, and hast not withheld thy son,
thine only son :

17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and
in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as
the stars of tlie heaven, and as the sand
which is upon the sea-shore ; and thy seed
shall possess the gate of his enemies ;

18 And in thy seed shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed : because thou hast
obeyed my voice.

19 So Abraham returned unto his young
men, and they rose up, and went together
to Beer-sheba ; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-
sheba.

20 H And it came to pass after these
things, that it was told Abraham, saying,
Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children
unto thy brother Nahor ;

21 IIuz his first-born, and Buz his bro-
ther, and Keinucl the father of Aram,

22 And Che.sed, and Hazo, and Pildash,
and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these
eight Milcah did bear to Nahor Abraham's
brother.

24 And liis concubine, whose name was
Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham,
and Thaliash, and Maachah.

CILVP. XXIII.

AND Sarah \vas aii hundred and seven
and twenty years old : these were the
years of the life of Sarah.

2 And Sarah died in Kir jath-arba ; the
.same is Hebron in the land of Canaan:
And Al)raham came to mourn for Sarah,
and tf) weep Ibr her.

3 1i And Abraham stood up from before
his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth,
saying,

4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with
you : give me a possession of a burving-
place with you, that I may bury my 'dead
out of my i-iti;ht.

GENESIS. The purchase of Machpelah.

5 And the children of Heth answered
Abraham, saying unto him,

6 Hear us, my lord ; thou art a mighty
prince among us : in the choice of our se-
pulchres bury thy dead : none of us shall
withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that
thou mayest bury thy dead.

7 And Abraham stood up and bowed
himself to the people of the land, eve?i to
the children of Heth.

8 And he communed with them, saying.
If it be 5'our mind that I should bury my
dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat
for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

9 That he may give me the cave of
Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the
end of his field ; for as much money as it is
worth he shall give it me, for a possession
of a burying-place among you.

10 And Ephron dwelt among the chil-
dren of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite
answered Abraham in the audience of the
children of Heth, eveti of all that went in at
the gates of his city, saying,

11 Nay, my lord, hear me : the field give
I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give
it thee ; in the presence of the sons of my
people give I it thee : bury thj^ dead.

12 And Abraham bowed down himself
before the people of the land.

13 And he spake unto Ephron in the au-
dience of the people of the land, saying,
But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear
me : I will give thee money for the field :
take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.

14 And Ephron answered Abraham, say-
ing unto him,

15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land
is worth four hundred shekels of silver;
what is that betwixt me and thee ? bury
therefore thy dead.

16 And Abraham hearkened unto Eph-
ron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the
silver which he had named in the audience
of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels
of silver, current money with the merchant.

17 And the field of Ephron, which tvas
in Machpelah, which icas before Mamre,
the field and the cave which was therein,
and all the trees that were in the field, that
nwre in all the borders round about, were
made sure

18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the
presence of the children of Heth, before
all that went in at the gate of his city.

19 H And after this, Abraham buried Sa-
rah his wife in the cave of the field of Mach-
pelah, before Mamre : the same is Hebron
in the land of Canaan.

20 And the field, and the cave that is
therein were made sure unto Abraham for
a possession of a burying-place, by the sons
of Heth.

CHAP. XXIV.
ND Abraham was old one? well stricken
in age: and the Lord had blessed
Abraham m all things.
18

The servant meets RebekaJi : CHAP.

2 And Abraham said unto his eldest ser-
vant of his house, that ruled over all that he
had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my
thigh :

3 And I will make thee swear by the
Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of
the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife
unto my son of the daughters of the Cana-
anites among whom I dwell :

4 But thou shalt go unto my country,
and to my kindred, and take a wife unto
my son Isaac.

5 And the servant said unto him, Perad-
venture the woman will not be willing to
follow me unto this land: must I needs
bring thy son again unto the land from
whence thou camest ?

6 And Abraham said unto him, Be^vare
thou, that thou bring not my son thither
again.

7 The Lord God of heaven, which
took me from my father's house, and from
the land of my kindred, and which spake
unto me, and that sware unto me, saying,
Unto thy seed will I give this land : he shall
send his angel before thee, and thou shalt
take a wife unto my son from thence.

8 And if the woman will not be willing
to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from
this my oath ; only bring not my son thither
again.

9 And the servant put his hand under
the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware
to him concerning that matter.

10 "H And the servant took ten camels,
of the camels of his master, and departed ;
(for all the goods of his master toerc in his
hand ;) and he arose, and went to Mesopo-
tamia, unto the citj^ of Nahor.

11 And he made his camels to kneel
down without the city by a well of water, at
the time of the evening, evc7i the time that
\vomen go out to draw water :

12 II And he said, O Lord God of my
master Abraham, I pray thee, send me
good speed this day, and shew kindness unto
my master Abraham.

13 Behold, I stand Jiere by the well of wa-
ter ; and the daughters of the men of the
city come out to draw water :

14 And let it come to pass, that the dam-
sel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitch-
er, I pray thee, that 1 may drink ; and she
shall say, Drink, and 1 will give thy camels
drink also : kt the same be she that thou hast
appointed for thy servant Isaac ; and there-
by shall I know that thou hast shewed kind-
ness unto my master.

15 II And it came to pass before he had
done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came
out, who was born to Bethuel son of Mil-
cah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother,
with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

16 And the damsel was ver}^ fair to look
upon, a virgin, neither had any man known
her: and she went down to the well, and
filled her pitcher, and came up.

XXIV. Tells his errand.

17 And the servant ran to meet her, and
said. Let me, I pray thee, drink a little
water of thy pitcher.

IS And she said. Drink, my lord. And
she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon
her hand, and gave him drink.

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

20 And she hasted, and emptied her
pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto
the well to draw water, and drew for all his
camels.

21 And the man, wondering at her, held
his peace, to wit whether the Lord had made
his journey prosperous, or not.

22 *il And it came to pass as the camels
had done drinking, that the man took a
golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and
two bracelets lor her hands of ten shekels
weight of gold,

23 And said, Whose daughter art thou ?
tell me, I pray thee : is there room in thy
father's house for us to lodge in 1

24 And she said unto him, I atn the
daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah,
which she bare unto Nahor.

25 She said moreover unto him. We have
both straw and provender enough, and room
to lodge in.

26 And the man bowed down his head,
and worshipped the Lord.

27 And he said. Blessed be the Lord God
of my master Abraham, who hath not left
destitute my master of his mercy and his
truth : I being in the way, the Lord led me
to the house of my master's brethren.

28 And the damsel ran, and told them of
her mother's house these things.

29 H And Rebekah had a brother, and
his name teas Laban : and Laban ran out
unto the man, unto the well.

30 And it came to pass when he saw the
ear-ring and bracelets upon his sister's
hands, and when he heard the words of Re-
bekah his sister, saying. Thus spake the man
unto me ; that he came unto the man, and
behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

31 And he said. Come in, thou blessed
of the Lord, wherefore standest thou with-
out ? for I have prepared the house, and
room for the camels.

32 And the man came into the house :
and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw
and provender for the camels, and water to
wash his feet, and the men's feet that tccre
with him.

33 And there was set meat before him to
eat : but he said, I will not cat until I have
told mine errand. And he said. Speak on.

34 H And he said, I am Abraham's servant.

35 And the Lord hath blessed my mas-
ter greatly, and he is become great : and he
hath given him flocks, and herds, and sil-
ver, and gold, and men-servants, and maid-
servants, and camels, and asses.

36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a

Rebehah solicited for Isaac.
son to mv master ^vhen she Avas old : and
unto him hath he given all that he hath.

37 And mv master made me swear, say^
ins?, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of
the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose
land I dwell : /. i ,

3S But thou shalt go unto my father s
house, and to my kindred, and take a wife
unto mv son.

39 And I said unto my master, Perad
venture the woman will not follow me.

4€ And he said unto me, the Lord, be-
fore whom I walk, will send his angel with
thee, and prosper thy way ; and thou shalt
take a wife for my son of my kindred, and
of mv father's house.

41 "Then shalt thou be clear from this my
oath, when thou comestto my kindred ; and
if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear
from my oath.

42 And I came this day unto the well,
and said, O Lord God of my master Abra-
ham, if now thou do prosper my way which
I go :

43 Behold, I stand by the well of water ;
and it shall come to pass, that when the vir-
gin Cometh forth to draw icater, and I say
to her. Give me, I pray thee, a little water
of thy pitcher to drink ;

44 And she say to me, Both drink thou,
and 1 will also draw for thy camels : let the
same be the woman whom the Lord hath
appointed out for my master's son.

45 And before I had done speaking in
mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth
with her pitcher on her shoulder ; and she
went down unto the well, and drew ivater :
and I said unto her. Let me drink, I pray thee.

46 And she made haste, and let down
her nitchcr from her shoulder, and said,
Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also :
so I drank, and she made the camels drink
also.

47 And I asked her, and said, Whose
daughter art thou? And she said, The
daughter of Betliuol, Nahor's son, whom
Milcah bare unto him : and I put the ear-
ring upon her face, and the bracelets upon
her hands.

48 And I bowed down my head, and
worshipped the Lord, and blessed the
Lord God of my master Abraham, which
had led me in "the right way to take my
master's brother's daughter unto his son.

49 And now if ye will deal kindly and
truly with my master, tell me : and if not,
tell me ; that I mav turn to the right hand,
or to the left.

50 H Then Laban and Bethuel answered,
and said, The thing proceedeth from the
Lord : we cannot speak unto thee bad or
good.

51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take
her and go, and let her be thy master's son's
wife, as the Lord hath spoken.

52 And it came to pass, that when Abra-
ham s servant heard their words, he wor-

GENESIS. Isaac marries Rebekah.

shipped the Lord, bowing himself to the
earth.

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

54 And they did eat and drink, he and
the men that were with him, and tarried all
night ; and they rose up in the morning,
and he said, Send me away unto my mas-
ter.

55 And her brother and her mother said,
Let the damsel abide with us a few days,
at the least ten ; after that she shall go.

56 And he said unto them. Hinder me
not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my
way : send me away, that I may go to my
master.

57 And they said. We will call the dam-
sel, and inquire at her mouth.

58 And they called Rebekah, and said
unto her. Wilt thou go with this man ? And
she said, I will go.

59 And they sent away Rebekah their
sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's ser-
vant, and his men.

60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said
unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the
mother of thousands of millions, and let thy
seed possess the gate of those which hate
them.

61 And Rebekah arose, and her dam-
sels, and they rode upon the camels, and
followed the man : and the servant took Re-
bekah, and went his way.

62 il And Isaac came from the way of the
well Lahai-roi ; for he dwelt in the south
country.

63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the
field at the even-tide : and he lifted up his
eyes, and saw, and behold, the camels ivere
coming.

64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and
when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the
camel.

65 For she had said unto the servant.
What man is this that walketh in the field
to meet us? And the servant /jftrf said. It
is my master : therefore she took a vail and
covered herself.

6Q> And the servant told Isaac all things
that he had done.

67 And Isaac brought her into his mo-
ther Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and
she became his wife ; and he loved her :
and Isaac was comforted after his mother's
death.

CHAP. XXV.

THEN again Abraham took a wife, and
her name teas Keturah.

2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jok-
shan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak,
and Shuah.

3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan.
And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and
Letushim, and Leummim.

Abraham's death and burial. CHAP. XXVI

4 And the sons of Midian ; Ephah, and
Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and El-
daah. All these were the children of Ke-
turah.

5 H And Abraham gave all that he had
ujito Isaac.

6 But unto the sons of the concubines
which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts,
and sent them away from Isaac his son
(while he yet lived) eastward, unto the east
country.

7 ^ And these are the days of the years of
Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred
threescore and fifteen years.

8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and
died in a good old age, an old man, and full
of years; and was gathered to his people.

9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried
him in the cave of Maclipelah, in the field
of Ephron the Son of Zohar the Hittite,
which is before Mamre ;

10 The field which Abraham purchased
of the sons of Heth : there was Abraham
buried, and Sarah his wife.

11 II And it came to pass after the death
of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac :
and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.

12 II Now these are the generations of
Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the
Eg3^ptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto
Abraham.

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

14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Mas-
sa,

15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish,
and Kedemah :

16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and
these are their names, by their towns, and
by their castles ; twelve princes according
to their nations.

17 And these are the years of the life of
Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven
years : and he gave up the ghost and died,
and was gathered unto his people.

18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto
Shur, that is before Eg3^pt, as thou goest
towards Assyria : and he died in the pre-
sence of all his brethren.

19 "il And these are the generations of
Isaac, Abraham's son : Abraham begat
Isaac :

20 And Isaac was fort}' 3'ears old when
he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of
Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sis-
ter to Laban the Syrian.

21 "il And Isaac entreated the Lord for
his wife, because she ums barren : and the
Lord was entreated of him, and Rebekah
his wife conceived.

22 And the children struggled together
within her : and she said, If it be so, why
am I thus ? And she went to inquire of the
Lord.

The birth of Esau and Jacob.

23 And the Lord said unto her, Two na-
tions are in thy womb, and two manner of
people shall be separated from thy bo-,vels :
and the one people shall be stronger than
the other people ; and the elder shall serve
the younger.

24 H And when her days to be delivered
were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her
womb.

25 And the first came out red, all over
like an hairy garment : and they called his
name Esau.

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

27 H And the boys grew : and Esau was a
cunning hunter, a man of the field; and
Jacob uias a plain man dwelling in tents.

28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did
eat of his venison : but Rebekah loved Ja-
cob.

29 H And Jacob sod pottage : and Esau
came fi-om the field, and he ivas faint.

30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I
pray thee, with that same red pottage ; for
I am faint : therefore was his name called
Edom.

31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy
birthright.

32 And Esau said. Behold, I am at the
point to die : and what profit shall this birth-
right do to me ?

33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day ;
and he sware unto him : and he sold his
birthright unto Jacob.

34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and
pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and
drink, and rose up, and went his way : thus
Esau despised his birthright.

CHAP. XXVI.

AND there was a famine in the land,
beside the first famine that was in
the days of Abraham. And Isaac went
unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto
Gerar.

2 H And the Lord appeared unto him, and
said, Go not down into Egypt : dwell in the
land which I shall tell thee of

3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with
thee, and will bless thee : for unto thee, and
unto thy seed I will give all these countries,
and I will perform the oath which I swear
unto Abraham thy father;

4 And I will make thy seed to multiply
as the stars of heaven, and will give unto
thy seed all these countries: and in thy
seed shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed :

5 Because that Abraham obeyed my
voice, and kept my charge, my command-
ments, my statutes, and my laws.

6 H And Isaac dwelt in Gerar :

7 And the men of the place asked him
of his wife ; and he said. She is my sister :
for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest,
said he, the men of the place should kill

The Philistines envy Isaac.
me for Rebekah ; because she was fair to
Jock upon. , , J 1

8 And it came to pass when he had been
there a lonsf time, that Abimelech king of
the Pliilistines looked out at a window, and
saw, and beliold, Isaac teas sporting with
Rebekali iiis wife.

9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said,
Behold, of a surety she is thy v;ife : and how
saidi^t thou. She is my sister? and Isaac
said unto him, Because 1 said, Lest I die for
her.

10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou
hast done unto us '? one of the people might
lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou
shoaldcst have brought guiltiness upon us.

11 And Abimelech charged all nis peo-
ple, saying. He that toucheth this man or his
wife shall surely be put to death.

12 ^ Then Isaac .sowed in that land, and
received in the same year an hundred-fold :
and the Lord blessed him :

13 And the man waxed great, and went
forward, and grew until he became very
great :

14 For he had possession of flocks, and
possession of herds, and great store of ser-
vants : And the Philistines envied him.

15 For all the wells which his father's ser-
vants had digged in the days of Abraham
his father, the Phihstines had stopped them,
and filled them with earth.

16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go
from us : for thou art much mightier than we.

17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitch-
ed his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt
there.

18 U And Isaac digo;ed again the wells of
water which they had digged in the days of
Abraham his father ; for the Philistines had
stopped tliem after the death of Abraham :
and he called their names after the names by
which his father had called them.

19 And Isaac's servants digged in the
valley, and found there a well of springing
water.

20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive
'with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is

ours : and he called the name of the well
Esek ; because tliey strove with him.

21 And they digged another well, and
strove lor that also : and he called the name
of it Sitnah.

22 And he removed from thence, and dig-
ged another well ; and lor that they strove
not : and he called the name of it Rehoboth ;
and he said, For now the Loho hath made
room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the
land.

23 II And he .vent up from thence to Beer-
sheba.

24 And the Lord appeared unto him the
.same night, and said, 1 w« the God of Abra-
ham thy father : fear not, for I mii with thee,
and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed
tor my servant Abraham's sake.

25 And he builded an altar there, and

GENESIS. He covenants tcith Abimelech.
called upon the name of the Lord, and
pitched his tent there : and there Isaac's
servants digged a well.

26 H Then Abimelech went to him from
Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and
Phichol the chief captain of his army.

27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore
come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have
sent me away from you 1

28 And they said. We saw certainly that
the Lord was with thee : and we said. Let
there be now an oath betwixt us, even be-
twixt us and thee, and let us make a cove-
nant with thee :

29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we
have not touched thee, and as we have done
unto thee nothing but good, and have sent
thee away in peace : thou art now the bless-
ed of the Lord.

30 And he made them a feast, and they
did eat and drink.

31 And they rose up betimes in the
morning, and sware one to another : and
Isaac sent them away, and they departed
from him in peace.

32 And it came to pass the same day,
that Isaac's servants came and told him con-
cerning the well which they had digged,
and said unto him, We have found water.

33 And he called it Shebah : therefore
the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this
day.

34 II And Esau was forty years old when
he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri
the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of
Elon the Hittite :

35 Which were a grief of mind unto
Isaac and to Rebekah.

CHAP. XXVII.

AND it came to pass, that when Isaac
was old, and his eyes were dim, so
that he could not see, he called Esau his
eldest son, and said unto him, My son : and
he said unto him, Behold, here can I.

2 And he said. Behold now, I am old, I
know not the day of my death :

3 Now therefore take, 1 pray thee, thy
weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go
out to the field, and take me some venison ;

4 And make me savoury meat, such as 1
love, and bring it to me, that I may eat ;
that my soul may bless tiiee before I die.

5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake
to Esau his son : and Esau went to the field
to hunt_/b?- venison, and to bring it.

6 H And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her
son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father
speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,

7 Bring me venison, and make me sa-
voury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee
before the Lord, before my death.

S Now therefore, my son, obey my voice,
according to that which I command thee.

9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from
thence two good kids of the goats ; and 1
will make them savoury meat for thy father,
such as he loveth :

Isaac blesses Jacob. CHAP.

10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father,
that he may eat, and that he may bless thee
before his death.

11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mo-
ther, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy
man, and I am a smooth man :

12 My father perad venture will feel me,
and I sliall seem to him as a deceiver ; and
I sliall bring a curse upon me, and not a
blessing.

13 And his mother said unto him. Upon
me be thy curse, my son ; only obey my
voice, and go fetch me them.

14 And he went, and fetched, and brought
tliem to his mother : and his mother made
savoury meat, such as his father loved.

15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of
her eldest son Esau, which icere with her in
the house, and put them upon Jacob her
younger son :

16 And she put the skins of tlie kids of
the goats upon his hands, and upon the
smooth of his neck :

17 And she gave the savoury meat, and
the bread which she had prepared, into the
hand of her son Jacob.

18 H And he came unto his father, and
said, My father. And he said, Here am I ;
who art thou, my son 1

19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am
Esau thy first-born ; I have done according
as thou badest me : arise, I pray thee, sit and
eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless
me.

20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is
it that thou hast found it so quickly, my
son ? And he said. Because the Lord thy
God brought it to me.

21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, come near,
I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son,
whether thou be my very son Esau, or not.

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

23 And he discerned him not, because
his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's
hands : so he blessed him.

24 And he said, Art thou my very son
Esau ? And he said, I am.

25 And he said. Bring it near to me, and
I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul
may bless thee. And he brought it near to
him, and he did eat : and he brought him
wine, and he drank.

26 And his father Isaac said unto him.
Come near now, and kiss me, my son.

27 And he came near, and kissed him :
and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and
blessed him, and said. See the smell of my
son is as the smell of a field which the Lord
hath blessed :

28 Therefore God give thee of the dew
of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and
plenty of corn and wine :

29 Let people serve thee, and nations
bow down to thee ; be lord over thy bre-

XXVII. Esau obtains a blessing.

thren, and let thy mother's sons bow down io
thee : cursed be every one that curseth thee,
and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

30 IT And it came to pass, as soon as
Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob,
and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the
presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his
brother came in from his hunting.

31 And he also had made savoury meat,
and brought it unto his father; and said
unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat
of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless
me.

32 And Isaac his father said unto him.
Who art thou 1 And he said, I am thy son,
thy first-born Esau.

33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly,
and said. Who 1 where is he that hath taken
venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten
of all before thou camest, and have blessed
him ? yea, and he shall be blessed .

34 11 And when Esau heard the words of
his father, he cried with a great and exceed-
ing bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless
me, even me also, O my father.

35 And he said. Thy brother came with
subtilty, and hath taken away thy bless-
ing.

36 And he said, Is not he rightly named
Jacob ? for he hath supplanted me these
two times : he took away my birth-right ;
and behold, now he hath taken away my
blessing. And he said. Hast thou not re-
served a blessing for me ?

37 And Isaac answered and said unto
Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord,
and all his brethren have I given to him for
servants ; and with corn and wine have I
sustained him : and what shall I do now unto
thee, my son ?

38 And Esau said unto his father. Hast
thou but one blessing, my father 1 bless me,
even me also, O my father. And Esau lift-
ed up his voice, and wept.

39 And Isaac his father answered, and
said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall
be the fatnfess of the earth, and of the dew
of heaven from above ;

40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and
shalt serve thy brother : and it shall come
to pass when thou shalt have the dominion,
that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy
neck.

41 H And Esau hated Jacob, because of
the blessing wherewith his father blessed
him : and Esau said in his heart, the days
of mourning for my father are at hand, then
will I slay my brother Jacob.

42 H And these words of Esau her elder
son were told to Rebekah: and she sent
and called Jacob her younger son, and said
unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as
touching thee, doth comfort himself, pur-
posing to kill thee.

43 Now therefore, my son, obey my
voice : and arise, flee thou to Laban my
brother to Haran ;

Jacoh is sent to Padan-aram.

GENESIS.

His vision and vow.

44 And tarry with him a few days, until
thy brother's furv turn away ;

45 Until tin- brother's anger turn away
from thee, and he forget that which thou
hast done to him : then I will send, and
fetch tiiee from thence. Why should I be
deprived also of you both in one day ?

46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am
weary of my life, because of the daughters
of Heth : if Jacob take a wife of the daugh-
ters of Heth, such as these widch arc of the
daughters of the land, what good shall my
life do me ?

CHAP. XXVIII.

AND Isaac called Jacob, and blessed
him, and charged him, and said unto
liim, Thou shalt not take a wife of the
daughters of Canaan.

2 Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house
of Bethuel thy mother's father ; and take
thee a wife from thence of the daughters of
Laban thy mother's brother.

3 And God Almighty bless thee, and
make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that
thou mayest be a multitude of people ;

4 And give thee the blessing of Abra-
ham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee ;
that thou maj'est inherit the land wherein
thou art a stranger, which God gave unto
Abraham.

5 And Isaac sent away Jacob : and he
went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of
Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebe-
kali, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

6 H When Esau saw that Isaac had bless-
ed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-
aram, to take iiim a wife from thence ; and
that as he blessed him, he gave him a
charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife
of the daughters of Canaan ;

7 And that .lacob obeyed his father, and
his motlier, and was gone to Padan-aram ;

8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of
Canaan pleased not Isaac his father ;

9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and
took unto the wives which he had, Maha-
iath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's
son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.

10 ^ And Jacob went out from Beer-
sheba, and went towards Haran.

11 vind ho lighted upon a certain place,
and tarried there all night, Ijecause the sun
was set : and lie took of the stones of that
place, and put them for hk pillows, and lay
down in that place to sleep.

12 And he dreamed, and behold, a lad-
der set up on the earth, and the top of it
reached to heaven: and behold, tlie angels
of God ascending and descending on it.

13 And behold, the Loud stood above it,
anfl said, 1 ant the Lord God of Abraham
thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land
whereon tliou best, to thee will I give it, and
to thy seed.

14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of
the earth ; anid thou shalt spread abroad to
the west, and to the east, and to the north,

and to the south : and in thee and in thy
seed shall all the families of the earth be
blessed.

15 And behold, I am with thee, and will
keep thee in all places whither thou goest,
and will bring thee again into this land : lor
I will not leave thee, until I have done that
which I have spoken to thee of

16 H And Jacob awaked out of his
sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in
this place ; and I knew it not.

17 And he was afraid, and said. How
dreadful is this place ! this is none other but
the house of God, and this is the gate of
of heaven.

18 And Jacob rose up early in the morn-
ing, and took the stone that he had put /or
his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and
poured oil upon the top of it.

19 And he called the name of that place
Beth-el : but the name of that city teas call-
ed Luz at the first.

20 IT And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If
God will be with me, and will keep me in
this way that I go, and will give me bread
to eat, and raiment to put on,

21 So that I come again to my father's
house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my
God :

22 And this stone, which I have set for
a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all
that thou shalt give me, I will surely give
the tenth unto thee.

CHAP. XXIX.

THEN Jacob went on his journey, and
came into the land of the people of
the east.

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

3 And thither were all the flocks gather-
ed : and they rolled the stone from the well's
mouth and watered the sheep, and put the
stone again upon the well's mouth in his
place.

4 And Jacob said unto them, My bre-
thren, whence be ye ? And they said, Of
Haran arc we.

5 And he said unto them, Know j'e La-
ban the son of Nahor ? And they said, We
know hi?n.

6 And he said unto them. Is he well?
And they said, He is well : and behold,
Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.

7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day,
neither is it time that the cattle should be
gathered together : water ye the sheep, and
go and feed thc7n.

8 And they said,We cannot, until all the
flocks be gathered together, and till they
roll the stone from the well's mouth ; then
we water the sheep.

9 H And while he yet spake with them,
Rachel came with her father's sheep: for
she kept them.

Jacob is entertained by Laban. CHAP.

10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw
Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's
brother, and the sheep of Laban his mo-
ther's brother; that Jacob went near, and
rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and
watered the flock of Laban his mother's
brother.

11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted
up his voice, and wept.

12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was
her father's brother, and that he was Rebe-
kah's son ; and she ran and told her father.

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

14 And Laban said to him. Surely thou
art my bone and my flesh : and he abode
with him the space of a month.

15 H And Laban said unto Jacob, Because
thou art my brother, shouldest thou there-
fore serve me for nought ? tell me, what
shall thy wages be ?

16 And Laban had two daughters : the
name of the elder tons Leah, and the name
of the younger was Rachel.

17 Leah was tender-eyed, but Rachel
was beautiful and well-favoured.

18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said,
I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy
younger daughter.

19 And Laban said, It is better that I
give her to thee, than that I should give her
to another man : abide with me.

20 And Jacob served seven years for Ra-
chel ; and they seemed unto him but a few
daj's, for the love he had to her.

21 *il And Jacob said unto Laban, Give
me my wife, (for my days are fulfilled) that
I may go in unto her.

22 And Laban gathered together all the
men of the place, and made a feast.

23 And it came to pass in the evening,
that he took Leah his daughter, and brougiit
her to him ; and he went in unto her.

24 And Laban gave unto his daughter
Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.

25 And it came to pass, that in the morn-
ing, beliold, it was Leah : and he said to
Laban, What is this thou hast done unto
me ? did not I serve with thee for Rachel ?
wherefore then Iiast thou beguiled me ?

26 And Laban said, It must not be so
done in our country, to give the younger
before the first-born.

27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee
this also, for the service which thou shalt
serve with me yet seven other years.

28 ll And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her
week : and he gave him Rachel his daugh-
ter to wife also.

29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daugh-
ter Biihah his handmaid, to be her maid.

30 And he went in also unto Rachel,
and he loved also Rachel more than Leah,

XXX. He serves for Leah and Rachel.
and served with him yet seven other years.

31 H And when the Lord saw that Leah
teas hated, he opened her womb : but Ra-
chel ivas barren.

32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son,
and she called his name Reuben : for she
said. Surely the Lord hath looked upon m}'-
affhction ; now therefore my husband will
love me.

33 And she conceived again, and bare a
son; and said, Because the Lord hath
heard that I was hated, he hath therefore
given me this son also : and she called his
name Simeon.

34 And she conceived again, and bare a
son ; and said. Now this time will my hus-
band be joined unto me, because I have
born him three sons : therefore was his
name called Levi.

35 And she conceived again, and bare a
son : and she said, Now will I praise the
Lord : therefore she called his name Ju-
dah, and left bearin.^;.

CHAP. XXX.

AND when Rachel saw that she bare
Jacob no children, Rachel envied her
sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me chil-
dren, or else I die.

2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against
Rachel ; and he said. Am I in God's stead,
who hath withheld from thee the fruit of
the womb ?

3 And she said. Behold my maid Biihah,
go in unto her ; and she shall bear upon my
knees, that I may also have children by
her.

4 And she gave him Biihah her hand-
maid to wife ; and Jacob went in unto her.

5 U And Biihah conceived, and bare Jacob
a son.

6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me,
and hath also heard my voice, and hath
given me a son : therefore called she his
name Dan.

7 And Biihah Rachel's maid conceived
again, and bare Jacob a second son.

8 And Rachel said. With great wrestlings
have I wrestled with my sister, and I have
prevailed : and she called his nairte Naph-
tali.

9 H When Leah saw that she had left bear-
ing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her
Jacob to wife.

10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob
a son.

11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and
she called his name Gad.

12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob
a second son.

13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the
daughters will call me blessed : and she
called his name Asher.

14 Tf And Reuben went in the days of
wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the
field, and brought them unto his mother
Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give
me, 1 pray thee, of thy son's mandrAes.

Bachd bears Joseph. GENESIS.

15 And she said unto her, 7s

JacoVs covenant with Lahan.

zY a small
matter that thou hast taken my husband ?
and wouldest thou take away my son's man-
drakes also I And Rachel said, Therefore
lie shall lie witli thee to-night for thy son's
mandrakes. .. u •

16 And Jacob came out of the field m
the evening, and Leah went out to meet
him, and said. Thou must come in unto me ;
for siirelv 1 have hired thee with my son's
mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

17 U And (jod hearkened unto Leah, and
she conceived, and bare Jacob the filth son.

IS And Leah said, God hath given me
inv hire, because I have given my maiden
tomy husband : and she called his name
Issachar.

19 And Leah conceived again, and bare
Jacob the sixth son.

20 And Leah said, God hath endowed
me with a good dowry ; now will my hus-
band dwell with me, because I have born
liiiM six sons: and she called his name Ze-
buhui.

21 And afterwards she bare a daughter,
and called her name Dinah.

22 11 And God remembered Rachel, and
God hearkened to her, and opened her
womb.

23 And she conceived, and bare a son ;
and said, God hath taken away my re-
proach :

24 And she called his name Joseph ; and
said. The Lord shall add to me another son.

2.5 *\ And it came to pass, when Rachel
had Iwrn Joseph, that Jacob said unto La-
ban, Send me away, that I may go unto
mine own i)lacc, and to my countr}'.

26 Give me my wives and my children,
for wliom I have served thee, and let me go :
for tliou knowest my service which I have
done thee.

27 And Laban said vmto him, I pray
thee, if 1 have found favour in thine eyes,
tamj : for I have learned by experience
tiiat the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.

28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages,
and T will give it.

29 And lie said unto him. Thou knowest
how 1 have served thee, and how thy cattle
was with me.

30 For it was little which tliou hadst be-
f()r(' I rai/ic, and it is iio/r increased unto a
multitude-, and the Lord hath blessed thee
since mv coming : and now when shall I
jirovide for mine own house also ?

31 And he said. What shall I give thee?
And Jacob saifl. Thou shalt not give me
any filing; if thou wih do this thing for
mo, I will again feed anrJ keep thy Hock :

32 1 will pass through all thy flock to-
day, removing from thence all the speckled
and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle
among the sheep, and the spotted and
speckled among the goats: and of such
shall 1)0 my hire.

33 So shall my righteousness .-^nswer for

me in time to come, when it shall come for
my hire before thy face : every one that is
not speckled and spotted among the goats,
and brown among the sheep, that shall be
counted stolen with me.

34 And Laban said. Behold, I would it
might be according to thy word.

35 And he removed that day the he-goats
that were ring-straked and spotted, and all
the she-goats that were speckled and spot-
ted, caid every one that had some white in
it, and all the brown among the sheep, and
gave them, into the hand of his sons.

36 And he set three days' journey be-
twixt himself and Jacob : and Jacob fed the
rest of Laban's flocks.

37 H And Jacob took him rods of green
poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut-tree ;
and pilled white strakes in them, and made
the white appear which was in the rods.

38 And he set the rods which he had
pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the
watering-troughs when the flocks came to
drink ; that they should conceive when they
came to drink.

39 And the flocks conceived before the
rods, and brought forth cattle ring-straked,
speckled, and spotted.

40 And Jacob did separate the lambs,
and set the faces of the flocks toward the
ring-straked, and all the brown in the flock
of Laban : and he put his own flocks by
themselves, and put them not unto Laban's
cattle.

41 And it came to pass whensoever the
stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid
the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the
gutters, that they might conceive among
the rods.

42 But when the cattle were feeble, he
put them not in : so the feebler were La-
ban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

43 And the man increased exceedingly,
and had much cattle, and maid-servants,
and men-servants, and camels, and asses.

CHAP. XXXL
ND he heard the words of Laban's

sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away
all that was our lather's ; and of that which
icas our father's hath he gotten all this glory.

2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of
Laban, and behold, it toas not toward him
as before.

3 H And the Lord said unto Jacob, Re-
turn unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy
kindred ; and I will be with thee.

4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and
Leah to the field unto his flock,

5 And said unto them, I see your father's
countenance, that it is not toward me as
before : but the God of my father hath been
with me.

6 And ye know that with all my power I
have served your father.

7 And your father hath deceived me, and
changed my wages ten times: but God suf-
fered him not to hurt me.

Jacob departs from Lahan. CHAP.

8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be
thy wages; then all the cattle bare speck-
led : and if he said thus, The ring-straked
shall be thy hire : then bare all the cattle
ring-straked.

9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle
of your father, and given them to me.

10 And it came to pass at the time that
the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine
eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the
rams which leaped upon the cattle were
ring-straked, speckled, and grizzled.

11 And the angel of God spake unto me
in a dream, saying, Jacob : And I said, Here
am I.

12 And he said. Lift up now thine eyes
and see, all the rams which leap upon the
cattle are ring-straked, speckled, and griz-
zled : for I have seen all that Laban doeth
unto thee.

13 I am the God of Beth-el, where thou
anointedst the pillar, atid where thou vow-
edst a vow unto me : now arise, get thee out
from this land, and return unto the land of
thy kindred.

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

15 Are we not counted of him strangers?
for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured
also our money.

16 For all the riches which God hath
taken from our father, that is ours, and our
children's : now then whatsoever God hath
said unto thee, do.

17 H Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons
and his wives upon camels;

18 And he carried awa}^ all his cattle,
and all his goods which he had gotten, the
cattle of his getting, which he had gotten,
in Padan-aram ; for to go to Isaac his father
in the land of Canaan.

19 And Laban went to shear his sheep:
and Rachel had stolen the images that icere
her father's.

20 And Jacob stole away unawares to
Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not
that he fled.

21 So he fled with all that he had; and
he rose up, and passed over the river, and
set his face toward the mount G ilead.

22 II And it was told Laban on the third
day that Jacob was fled.

23 And he took his brethren with him,
and pursued after him seven days' journey :
and they overtook him in the mount Gile-
ad.

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

25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now
Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount:
and Laban with his brethren pitched in the
mount of Gilead.

26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast
thou done, that thou hast stolen a\\'ay un-

XXXI. JacoVs complaint of Lahan.
awares to me, and carried away my daugh-
ters, as captives taken with the sword ?

27 Wherefore didst thou flee away se-
cretly, and steal away from me, and didst
not tell me, that I might have sent thee
away with mirth, and with songs, with ta-
bret, and with harp ?

28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my
sons, and my daughters'? thou hast now
done foolishly in so doing.

29 It is in the power of my hand to do
you hurt : but the God of your father spake
unto me yesternight, saying, Take tiiou
heed that thou speak not to Jacob either
good or bad.

30 And now, though thou wouldest needs
be gone, because thou sore longedst after
thy father's house ; yet wherefore hast thou
stolen my gods?

31 f[ And Jacob answered and said to La-
ban, Because I was afraid : for I said, Per-
adventure thou ^vouldest take by force thy
daughters from me.

32 With whomsoever thou findest thy
gods, let him not live : before our brethren
discern thou vt'hat is thine with me, and take
it to thee : for Jacob knew not that Rachel
had stolen them.

33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and
into Leah's tent, and into the two maid-ser-
vants' tents ; but he found them not. Then
went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into
Rachel's tent.

34 Now Rachel had taken the images,
and put them in the camel's furniture, and
sat upon them. And Laban searched all
the tent, but found them not.

35 And she said to her father. Let it not
displease my lord that I cannot rise up be-
fore thee : for the custom of women is upon
me. And he searched, but found not the
images.

36 ^ And Jacob was wroth, and chode
with Laban : and Jacol) answered and said
to Laban, What is my trespass ? what is
my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after
me ?

37 Whereas thou hast searched all my
stuff, what hast thou found of all thy house-
hold-stuff? set it here before my brethren,
and thy brethren, that they may judge be-
twixt us both.

38 This twenty years have I been with
thee ; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not
cast their young, and the rams of thy flock
have I not eaten.

39 That which was torn of beasts, 1
brought not unto thee ; I bare the loss of it ;
of my hand didst thou require it, lohcther
stolen by day, or stolen by night.

40 This i was ; in the day the drought
consumed me, and the frost by night ; and
my sleep departed from mine eyes.

41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy
house : I served thee fourteen years for thy
two daughters, and six years for thy cattle :
and thou hast changed mv w ages ten times.

'27

Ja'coVa vision :

42 Except the God of my father, the God
of \braham, and the fear of Isaac had been
with me, surelv thou hadst sent me away
now emptv. God hath seen mme affliction,
and the labour of my hands, and rebuked
thee vcsternight.

43" •: And Laban answered, and said unto
Jacob, These daughters are my daughters,
and these children are my children, and
Mf^■f cattle r/7Tniv cattle, and all that thou
seest is mine ; and what can I do this day
unto these my daughters, or unto their chil-
dren which thev have borne ?

44 Now therefore come thou, let us make
a covenant, I and thou ; and let it be for a
witness between me and thee.

45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up
for a pillar.

46 And Jacob said unto his brethren,-
Gather stones, and they took stones and
made an heap : and they did eat there upon
the heap.

47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha :
but Jacob called it Galeed :

48 And Laban said. This heap is a wit-
ness between me and thee this day. There-
fore was the name of it called Galeed :

49 And Mizpah ; for he said. The Lord
watch between me and thee, when we are
absent one from another.

50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or
if thou shalt take other wives beside my
daughters ; no man is with us ; See, God
is witness betwixt me and thee.

51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this
heap, and behold this pillar, which I have
cast betwixt me and thee ;

52 This heap be witness, and this pillar
be witness, that I \\ill not pass over this heap
to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over
this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.

53 Th(> God of Abraham, and the God
of Nahor, the God of their father, judge
betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear
of his father Isaac.

54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the
mount, and called his brethren to eat bread:
and they did eat bread, and tarried all night
in the mount.

55 And early in the morning Laban rose
up, and kissed his sons and his daughters,
and blessed tliein : and Laban departed,

■ and returned unto his place.
CHAP. XXXII.

AND Jacob went on his way, and the
angels of God met him.

2 And when Jacob saw them, he said.
This is God's host : and he called the name
of that place Mahanaim.

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

4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus
shall ye speak unto my lord Esau ; Thy
servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned
v.ith Laban, and stayed there until now

5 And I have oxen, and asses, Hocks, ai

GENESIS. His message to Esau.

men-servants, and women-servants : and I
have sent to tell my lord, that I may find
grace in thy sight.

6 H And the messengers returned to Ja-
cob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau,
and also he cometh to meet thee, and four
hundred men with him.

7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and
distressed : and he divided the people that
?vas with him, and the flocks, and herds, and
the camels into two bands ;

8 And said. If Esau come to the one
company, and smite it, then the other com-
pany which is left shall escape.

9 H And Jacob said, O God of my father
Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the
Lord which saidst unto me. Return unto
thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will
deal well with thee :

10 I am not worthy of the least of all the
mercies, and of all the truth, which thou
hast shewed unto thy servant: for with my
staff I passed over this Jordan, and now 1
am become two bands.

11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand
of my brother, from the hand of Esau : for
I fear him, lest he will come and smite me,
and the mother with the children.

12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee
good, and make thy seed as the sand of the
sea, which cannot be numbered for inulti-
tude.

13 IT And he lodged there that same
night; and took of that which came to his
hand a present for Esau his brother ;

14 Two hundred she-goats, and twenty
he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty
rams,

15 Thirty milch camels with their colts,
forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses
and ten foals.

16 And he delivered tJiem into the hand
of his servants, every drove by themselves;
and said unto his servants, Pass over before
me, and put a space betwixt drove and
drove.

17 And he commanded the foremost,
saying, When Esau my brother meeteth
thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art
thou 1 and whither goest thou 1 and whose
«?T these before thee ?

18 Then thou shalt say, The^j be thy
servant Jacob's : it is a present sent unto
my lord Esau : and behold also he is be-
hind us.

19 And so commanded he the second,
and the third, and all that followed the
droves, saying. On this manner shall ye
speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

20 And say ye moreover. Behold, thy
servant Jacob is behind us. For he said,
I will appease him with the present that
goeth before me, and afterward I will see
his face ; peradventure he will accept of me.

21 So went the present over before him ;
and himself lodged that night in the com-
pany.

, and

The kindness of Jacob and CHAP. XXXIll, XXXIV. Esau at their tneeting.

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

23 And he took them, and sent them
over the brook, and sent over that he had.

24 H And Jacob was left alone ; and
there wrestled a man with him, until the
breaking of the day.

25 And when he saw that he prevailed
not against him, he touched the hollow of
his thigh : and the hollow of Jacob's thigh
was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

26 And he said, Let me go, for the day
breaketh : And he said, I will not let thee
go, except thou bless me.

27 And he said unto him, What is thy
name '! And he said, Jacob.

28 And he said, Thy name shall be call-
ed no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a
prince hast thou power with God, and with
men, and hast prevailed.

29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell
me, I pray thee, thy name : And he said,
Wherefore /s it that thou dost ask after my
name ? And he blessed him there.

30 And Jacob called the name of the
place Peniel : for I have seen God face to
iace, and my life is preserved.

31 H And as he passed over Penuel the
sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his
thigh.

32 Therefore the children of Israel eat
not of the sinew which shrank, which is
upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this
day ; because he touched the hollow of Ja-
cob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.

CHAP. XXXIII.
ND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and look-
ed, and behold, Esau came, and with
him four hundred men. And he divided
the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel,
and unto the two handmaids.

2 And he put the handmaids and their
children foremost, and Leah and her chil-
dren after, and Rachel and Joseph hinder-
most.

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

4 And Esau ran to meet him, and em-
braced him, and fell on his neck, and kiss-
ed him : and they wept.

5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the
women and the children, and said, Who are
those with thee 1 And he said. The children
which God hath graciously given thy ser-
vant.

6 Then the handmaidens came near,
they and their children, and they bowed
themselves.

7 And Leah also with her children came
near, and bowed themselves ; and after
came Joseph near and Rachel, and they
bowed themselves.

8 And he said. What meanest thou by all
this drove which I met ] And he said, These

are to find grace in the sight of my
lord.

9 And Esau said, I have enough, my
brother ; keep that thou hast unto thyself.

10 And Jacob said. Nay, I pray thee, if
now I have found grace in thy sight, then
receive my present at my hand : for there-
fore I have seen thy face, as though I had
seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased
with me.

11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is
brought to thee ; because God haih dealt
graciously with me, and because I have
enough : and he urged him, and he took it.

12 And he said. Let us take our journey,
and let us go, and I will go before thee.

13 And he said unto him. My lord knovv-
eth that the children are tender, and the
flocks and herds with young are with me,
and if men should over-drive them one day,
all the flock will die.

14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over
before his servant : and I will lead on softly,
according as the cattle that goeth before
me, and the children be able to endure ; un-
til I come unto my lord unto Seir.

15 And Esau said, Let me now leave
with thee so7nc of the folk that are with me :
And he said, Whatneedeth it? Let me find
grace in the sight of my lord.

16 So Esau returned that day on his way
unto Seir.

17 H And Jacob journeyed to Succoth,
and built him an house, and made booths
for his cattle: therefore the name of the
place is called Succoth.

18 II And Jacob came to Shalem, a city
of Shechem, which is in the land of Ca-
naan, when he came from Padan-aram ;
and pitched his tent before the city.

19 And he bought a parcel of a field,
where he had spread his tent, at the hand
of the children of Hamor, Shechem's fa-
ther, for an hundred pieces of money.

20 And he erected there an altar, and
called it El-elohe-Israel.

CHAP. XXXIV.

AND Dinah the daughter of Leah, which
she bare unto Jacob, went out to see
the daughters of the land.

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

3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the
daughter of Jacob, and he loved the dam-
sel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

4 fl And Shechem spake unto his father
Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled
Dinah his daughter (now his sons were with
his cattle in the field :) and Jacob held his
peace until they were come.

6 And Hamor the father of Shechem
went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the
field wlien they heard it : and the men were

Hanior and Shechan circumcised.
grieved, and thev were very wroth, because
he liad wrouglit iblly in Israel, in lying with
Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to
be done.

S And Hamor communed with them, say-
ing, The soul of my son Shechem longeth
for your daughter : 1 pray you give her him
to ivife.

9 And make ye marriages with us : and
give your daughters unto us, and take our
daughters unto jou.

10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the
land shaU be before you ; dwell and trade
ve therein, and get you possessions therein.

11 And Shechem said unto her father,
and unto her brethren, Let me find grace
in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto
me, I will give.

12 Ask me never so much dowry and
gift, and I will give according as ye shall
say unto me : but give me the damsel to wife.

13 ^ And the sons of Jacob answered
Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully,
and said, (because he had defiled Dinah
their sister ;

14 And they said unto them) We cannot
do this thing, to give our sister to one that
is uncircmiicised : for that 7vere a reproach
unto us :

15 But in this will we consent unto you :
if ye will be as we be, that every male of
Aou be circumcised;

16 Then will we give our daughters unto
you, and we will take your daughters to us,
and we will dwell with you, and we will be-
come one people.

17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to
be circumcised ; then will we take our
daughter, and we will be gone.

18 And their words pleased Hamor, and
Shechem Hamor's son.

19 And the young man deferred not to
do the thing, because he had delight in Ja-
cob's daughter: and he was more honour-
able than all tlie house of his father.

20 ^ And Hainor and Shechem his son
came unto the gate of their city, and com-
muned with the men of their city, saying,

21 These men are peaceable with us,
therefore let them dwell in the land, and
trade therein : for the land, behold if is large
enough for them : let us take their daugh-
ters to us for wives ; and let us give them
our daughters.

22 Only herein will the men consent unto
us for to <lwcll with us, to be one people, if
every male among us be circumcised, as
they arc circumcised.

23 S/iall not their cattle and their sub-
stance, and every beast of theirs be ours 1
only let us consent unto them, and they will
dwell with \is.

24 And tinto Hamor and unto Shechem
his son hearkened all that went out of the
gate of his city : and every male was cir-
cumcised, all that went out of the gate of
his citv.

GENESIS. The Slicchcmites spoiled.

25 H And it came to pass on thd third
day, when they were sore, that two of the
sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's
brethren, took each man his sword, and
came upon the city boldly, and slew all the
males.

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

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

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

29 And all their wealth and all their lit-
tle ones, and their wives took they captive,
and spoiled even all that was in the house.

30 II And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi,
Ye have troubled me to make me to stink
among the inhabitants of the land, among
the Canaanites, and the Perizzites : and i
being iew in number, they shall gather them-
selves together against me, and slay me, and
I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

31 And they said. Should he deal with
our sister as with an harlot ?

CHAP. XXXV.

AND God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up
to Beth-el, and dwell there : and make
there an altar unto God, that appeared unto
thee when thou fleddest from the i'ace of
Esau thy brother.

2 Then Jacob said unto his household,
and to all that 7cerc with him, Put away the
strange gods that arc among you, and be
clean and change your garments :

3 And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el ;
and I will there make an altar unto God,
who answered me in the day of my distress,
and Avas with me in the way which I went.

4 And they gave unto Jacob all the
strange gods which were in their hand, and
all their ear-rings which were in their ears ;
and Jacob hid them under the oak which
was by Shechem.

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

6 U So Jacob came to Luz, which is in
the land of Canaan (that is Beth-el) he and
all the people that icere with him.

7 And he built there an altar, and called
the place El-beth-el; because there God
appeared unto him, when he tied from the
face of his brother.

8 If But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died,
and she was buried beneath Beth-el, under
an oak : and the name of it was called Allon-
bachuth.

9 H And God appeared unto Jacob again
when he came out of Padan-aram ; and
blessed him.

10 And God said unto him. Thy name is
Jacob : thy name shall not be called any

The death of Isaac.

more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name
and he called his name Israel.

11 And God said unto him, I am God
Almighty : be fruitful and multiply ; a na-
tion and a company of nations shall be of
thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

12 And the land which I gave Abraham
and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy
seed after thee will I give the land.

13 And God went up from him, in the
place where he talked with him.

14 If And Jacob set up a pillar in the

{)lace where he talked with him, even a pil-
ar of stone : and he poured a drink-offering
thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

15 And Jacob called the name of the
place where God spake with him, Beth-el.

16 If And they journeyed from Beth-el ;
and there was but a little way to come to
Ephrath : and Rachel travailed, and she had
hard labour.

17 And it came to pass when she was in
hard labour, that the midwife said unto her,
Fear not ; thou shalt have this son also.

18 And it came to pass as her soul was in
departing (for she died) that she called his
name Ben-oni: but his father called him
Benjamin.

19 And Rachel died, and was buried in
the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her
grave : that is the pillar of Rachel's grave
unto this day.

21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his
tent beyond the tower of Edar.

22 If And it came to pass, when Israel
dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and
lay with Bilhah his father's concubine : and
Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob
were twelve :

23 The sons of Leah ; Reuben, Jacob's
first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Ju-
dah, and Issachar, and Zebulun :

24 The sons of Rachel ; Joseph, and
Benjamin:

25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's
handmaid ; Dan, and Naphtali :

26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's hand-
maid ; Gad, and Asher. These are the
sons of Jacob, which were born to him in
Padan-aram.

27 If And Jacob came unto Isaac his fa-
ther unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah
(which is Hebron) where Abraham and
Isaac sojourned.

28 If And the days of' Isaac were an hun-
dred and fourscore years.

29 And Isaac gave up the ghost and died,
and was gathered unto his people, being old
and full of days ; and his sons Esau and
Jacob buried him.

CHAP. XXXVI.

NOW these are the generations of Esau,
who is Edom.
2 Esau took his wives of the daughters
of Canaan ; Adah the daughter of Elon the
Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of

CHAP. XXXVl. The generations of Esau.

Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hi-
vite;

3 And Bashemath, Ishmael's daughter,
sister of Nebajoth.

4 And Adah bare to Esau, Eliphaz ; and
Bashemath bare Reuel ;

5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaa-
larn, and Korah : These are the sons of
Esau, which were born unto him in the
land of Canaan.

6 If And Esau took his wives, and his
sons, and his daughters, and all the persons
of his house, and his cattle, and all his
beasts, and all his substance which he had
got in the land of Canaan ; and went into
the country from the face of his brother
Jacob.

7 For their riches were more than that
they might dwell together : and the land
wherein they were strangers could not bear
them, because of their cattle.

8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau
is Edom.

9 If And these are the generations of
Esau the father of the Edomites, in mount
Seir:

10 These are the names of Esau's sons ;
Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau,
Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of
Esau.

11 And the sons of Eliphaz were, Te-
man, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz
Esau's son; and she bare to Ehphaz Ama-
lek: these 2wrc the sonsof Adah Esau's wife.

13 And these are the sons of Reuel;
Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Miz-
zah: these were the sons of Bashemath
Esau's wife.

14 And these were the sons of Aholiba-
mah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter
of Zibeon Esau's wife : and she bare ta
Esau, Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

15 If These loere dukes of the sons of
Esau : the sons of Eliphaz the first-born son
of Esau ; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke
Zepho, duke Kenaz,

16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke
Amalek : these are the dukes that came of
Eliphaz, in the land of Edom : these icere
the sons of Adah.

17 And these are the sons of Reuel
Esau's son ; duke Nahath, duke Zerah,
duke Shammah, duke Mizzah : these are
the dukes that came of Reuel, in the land
of Edom : these are the sons of Bashemath
Esau's wife.

18 And these arc the sons of Aholiba-
mah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaa-
lam, duke Korah : these were the dukes that
came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah
Esau's wife.

19 These are the sons of Esau (who is
Edom) and these are their dukes.

20 If These are the sons of Seir the Ho-
rite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and
Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah.

ThedukrsofEdm. GENESIS

oi And Dishon. and Ezer, and Dishan:
these are the dukes of the Horites, the chil-
dren of Seir in the land of Edom.

22 And the children of Lotan were, Ho-
ri, and Henian: and Lotan's sister was

Timna. ^^, , , ^i

23 And the children of Shobal icere these ,
Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho,
and Onam.

24 '\nd these are the children of Zibeon ,
both Ajah, and Anah : this was that Anah
that found the mules in the wilderness, as
he fed the a.-ses of Ziboon his father.

25 And the cliiklreii of Anah tecrc these :
Dishon, and iiliolibamah the daughter of

Anah. r-r-w u

'>Q And these are the children ol Dishon ;
Heindan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and
Cheran.

27 The children of Ezer are these ; liil-
han, and Zaavan, and Achan.

28 The cJiildren of Dishan are these;
Uz, and Aran.

29 These arc the dukes that came of the
Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke
Zibeon, duke Anah,

30 Duke Dishon. duke Ezer, duke Di-
shan : these arc the dukes tliat ca?ne of Hori,
among their dukes in the land of Seir.

31 1i And these are the kings that reign-
ed in the land of Edom, before there reigned
any king over the children of Israel.

32 And Bela the son of Eeor reigned in
Edom : and the name of his city ivas Din-
habah.

33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of
Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

34 And .Tobab died, and Husham of the
land of Temani reigned in his stead.

35 And Husham died, and Hadad the
son of Bedad (who smote Midian in the
field of Moab) reigned in his stead : and the
name of his city ?/'fl.s- Avith.

36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of
Masrckah reigned in his stead.

37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Reho-
both by the river reigned in his stead.

38 And Saul died, and Baal-hanan the
son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

39 And IJaal-hanan the son of Achbor

JosepJi's dreams.

CHAP, xxxvn.

AND Jacob dwelt in the land wherein
his father was a stranger, in the land
of Canaan. . ^ t u

2 These are the generations ot Jacob.
Joseph being seventeen years old, was feed-
ing the flock with his brethren, and the lad
mis with the sons of Bilhah, and with the
sons of Zilpah, his father's wives : and Jo-
seph brought unto his father their evil re-

3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all
his children, because he tvas the son of his
old age : and he made him a coat of many
colours. .

4 And when his brethren saw that their
father loved him more than all his brethren,
they hated liim, and could not speak peace
ably unto him.

5 II And Joseph dreamed. a dream, and
he told it his brethren : and they hated him
yet the more.

6 And he said unto them, Hear, 1 pray
you, this dream which I have dreamed :

7 For behold, we zcere binding sheaves m
the field, and lo, my sheaf arose, and also
stood upright; and behold, your sheaves
stood round about, and made obeisance to
my sheaf.

8 And his brethren said unto him, bhalt
thou indeed reign over us ? or shalt thou in-
deed have dominion over us? and they
hated him yet the more for his dreams and
for his words.

9 H And he dreamed yet another dream,
and told it his brethren, and said. Behold, I
have dreamed a dream more : and behold,
the sun and the moon and the eleven stars
made obeisance to me.

10 And he told it to his father, and to his
brethren : and his father rebuked him, and
said unto him. What is this dream that thou
hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and
thy brethren indeed come to bow down our-
selves to thee to the earth ?

11 And his brethren envied him; but his
father observed the saying.

12 H And his brethren went to feed their
father's flock in Shechem.

13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not

died, and lladar reigned in his stead : and thy brethren feed the flock in fehechem f

.1 (' I ' • . ^ T-» 11- 'r ? /~1 1 T ..,;il r.^»-./-l +1-IC1Q nn+r» tnfm

the name of liis city was Pau ; and his wife's
name was Mchctabel, the daughter of Ha-
tred, the daugliter of Mezahab.

40 11 And these are the names of the
dukes tliaf came oi" Esau, according to
their families, after their places, by their
names ; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke
Jctheth,

41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke
Pinon,

42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mib
zar,

43 Duke Magdicl, duke Irani : these be ...w ^
the dukes of E(lom, according to their ha.-\flocks.
bitations, in the land of their possessions : '
he is Esau the father of the Edomites.

Come, and I will send thee unto them.
And he said to him, Here am I.

14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee,
see whether it be well with thy brethren,
and well with the flocks; and bring me
word again. So he sent him out of the vale
of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

15 And a certain man found him, and
behold, he was wandering in the field : and
the man asked him, saying, What seekest
thou 1

16 And he said, I seek my brethren : tell
me I pray thee, where they feed their

17 And the man said. They are departed
hence : for I lieard them say, Let us go to
32

Joseph sold to the Ishmaelites. CHAP.
Dothan. And Joseph went after his bre-
thren, and found them in Dothan.

IS U And when they saw him afar off,
even before he came near unto them, they
conspired against him to slay him.

19 And tliey said one to another, Behold
this dreamer cometh.

20 Come now therefore, and let us slay
him, and cast him into some pit; and we
will say, Some evil beast hath devoured
him ; and we shall see what will become of
his dreams.

21 And Reuben heard it, and he deliver-
ed him out of their hands ; and said, Let us
not kill him.

22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed
no blood, but cast him into this pit that is
in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon
him ; that he might rid him out of their
hands, to deliver him to his father again.

23 H And it came to pass when Joseph
was come unto his brethren, that they stript
Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many co-
lours that loas on him.

24 And they took him, and cast him into
a pit : and the pit toas empty, there was no
water in it.

25 And they sat down to eat bread : and
they lifted up their eyes and looked, and be-
hold, a company of Ishmaelites came from
Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery,
and balm, and myrrh, going to carry if
down to Egypt.

26 And Judah said unto his brethren,
What profit is it if we slay our brother, and
conceal his blood ?

27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ish-
maelites, and let not our hand be upon him ;
for he is our brother, and our flesh : and his
brethren were content.

2S Then there passed by Midianites,
merchant-men ; and they drew and lifted
up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph
to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver :
and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

29 ^ And Reuben returned ointo the pit;
and behold, Joseph loas not in the pit : and
he rent his clothes.

30 And he returned unto his brethren,
and said. The child is not : and I, whither
shall I go ?

31 H And they took Joseph's coat, and
killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the
coat in the blood :

32 And they sent the coat of many co-
lours, and they brought it to their father ;
and said, This have we found : know now
whether it be thy son's coat or no.

33 And he knew it, and said, It is my
son's coat ; an evil beast hath devoured him .
Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.

34 And Jacob re^it his clothes, and put
sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for
his son many days.

35 And ail his sons and all his daughters
rose up to comfort him ; but he refused to
be comforted ; and he said, For I will go |

XXXVIII. TJie trespass of Onan.

down into the grave unto my son mourning.
Thus his father wept for him.

36 H And the Midianites sold him into
Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Phara-
oh's, and captain of the guard.
CHAP. XXXVIII.

AND it came to pass at that time, that
Judah went down from his brethren,
and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose
name ivas Hirah.

2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a
certain Canaanite, whose name ivas Shuah ;
and he took her, and went in unto her.

3 And she conceived, and bare a son;
and he called his name Er.

4 And she conceived again, and bare a
son ; and she called his name Onan.

5 And she yet again conceived and bare
a son ; and called his name Shelah ; and he
was at Chezib, when she bare him.

6 "il And Judah took a wife for Er his
first-born, whose name was Tamar.

7 And Er, Judah 's first-born, was wick-
ed in the sight of the Lord ; and the Lord
slew him.

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

9 And Onan knew that the seed should
not be his : and it came to pass, when he
went in unto his brother's wife, that he
spilled it on the ground, lest that he should
give seed to his brother.

10 And the thing which he did displeas-
ed the Lord : Avherefore he slew him also.

11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daugh-
ter-in-law. Remain a widow at thy father's
house, till Shelah my son be grown ; (for
he said. Lest peradventure he die also as
his brethren did.) And Tamar went and
dwelt in her father's house.

12 H And in process of time, the daugh-
ter of Shuah Judah's wife died : and Judah
was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-
shearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hi-
rah the Adullamite.

13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Be-
hold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Tim-
nath, to shear his sheep.

14 And she put her widow's garments
off from her, and covered her with a vail,
and wrapped herself, and sat in an open
place, which is by the way to Timnatli : for
she saw that Shelah was grown, and she
was not given unto him to wife.

15 When Judah saw her, he thought her
to be an harlot ; because she had covered
her face.

\G And he turned unto her by the way,
and said. Go to, i rray thee, let me come in
unto thee ; (for he knew not that she was
his daughter-in-law:) and she said. What
wilt thou give me. that thou mayest come in
nlD iT.e ?

17 And he said, I will send thee a kid
from the flock : and she said, Wilt thou give
me a pledge, till thou send it 1
33

Joseph advanced by Potiplm: GENESIS. He is cast in prison.

IS And he said, What pledge shall 1 1 and he served him : and he made him over-

give thee ? and she said, Thy signet and
thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thme
liand : and he gave it her, and came in unto
her, and she conceived by him.

19 And she arose and went away and
laid by her vail from her, and put on the
garments of her widowhood.

20 And .Tudah sent the kid by the hand
of his friend the Adullamite, to receive lus
pledge from the woman's hand: but he
lound her not.

21 Then he asked the men of that place,
saving, Where is the harlot that was openly
by the way-side ? And they said. There
was no harlot in this place.

22 And lie returned to Judah, and said,
I cannot find her ; and also the men of the
place said, that there was no harlot m this
place.

23 And Judah said. Let her take it to
her, lest we be shamed : behold, I sent this
kid, and thou hast not found her.

24 And it came to pass, about three
months after, that it was told Judah, saying,
Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the
harlot ; and also, behold, she is with child
by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her
forth, and let her be burnt.

2-5 When she was brought forth, she sent
to her father-in-law, saying, By the man
whose these arc, am I \vith child : and she
said, Discern, I pray thee, whose arc these,
the signet, and bracelets, and staff.

26 And Judah acknowledged them, and
said, She hath been more righteous than I ;
because that I gave her not to Shelah my
son : and he knew her again no more.

27 II And it came to pass in the time of
her travail, that behold, twins locrc in her
womb.

28 And it came to pass when she travail-
ed, that the one put out his hand ; and the
midwife took and bound upon his hand a
scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.

29 And it came to pass as he drew back
his hand, that behold, his brother came out ;
and she .said, How hast thou broken forth?
this breach be upon thee : therefore his name
was called Pharez.

30 And afterward came out his brother
that had the scarlet thread upon his hand ;
and his name was called Zarah.

CHAP. XXXIX.

AND Jose})h was brought down to
Egyj)t: and Potiphar, an officer of
Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyp-
tian, bought him of the hands of the Ish-
maelites, which liad brought him down
thither.

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

3 And his master saw that the Loiid?/ws
with him, and that the Loun made all that
lie did to prosper in his hand.

4 And Joseph found grace in his sight,

seer over his house, and all that he had he
put into his hand.

5 And it came to pass from the time that
he had made him overseer in his house, and
over all that he had, that the Lord blessed
the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake :
and the blessing of the Lord was upon all
that he had in the house, and in the held.

6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's
hand ; and he knew not ought he had, save
the bread which he did eat : and Joseph was
a goodly person, and well-favoured.

7 If And it came to pass after these things,
that his master's wile cast her eyes upon
Joseph : and she said, Lie with me.

8 But he refused, and said unto his mas-
ter's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not
what is with me in the house, and he hath
committed all that he hath to my hand ;

9 There is none greater in this house than
I ; neither hath he kept back any thing
from me, but thee, because thou art his
wife : how then can I do this great wicked-
ness, and sin against God '?

10 And it came to pass, as she spake to
Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not
unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

11 And it came to pass about this time,
that Joseph went into the house to do his
business ; and there was none of the men of
the house there within.

12 And she caught him by his garment,
saying. Lie with me : and he left his gar-
ment in her hand, and fled, and got him
out.

13 And it came to pass, when she saw
that he had left his garment in her hand,
and was fled forth,

14 That she called unto the men of her
house, and spake unto them, saying, See,
he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to
mock us : he came in unto me to lie with
me, and I cried with a loud voice :

1-5 And it came to pass, when he heard
that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he
left his garment with me, and fled, and got
him out.

16 And she laid up his garment by her,
until his lord came home.

17 And she spake unto him according to
these words, saying, The Hebrew servant
which thou hast brought unto us, came in
unto me to mock me :

18 And it came to pass as I lifted up my
voice and cried, that he left his garment
with me, and fled out.

19 And it came to pass, when his master
heard the words of his wife, which she
spake unto him, saying, After this manner
did thy servant to me ; that his wrath was
kindled.

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

21 H But the Lord was with Joseph, and

The hutler and baker imprisoned. CHAP. XL, XLI. Pharaoh's two dreams.

shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in
the sight of the keeper of the prison.

•22 And the keeper of the prison com-
mitted to Joseph's hand all the prisoners
that tvcre in the prison; and whatsoever
they did there, ho was the doer of it.

23 The keeper of the prison looked not
to any thin,^ that teas under his hand ; be-
cause the Lord was with him: and that
which he did, the Lord made it to prosper,
CHAP. XL

AND it came to pass after these things,
that the butler of the king of Egypt
and his baker had offended their lord the
king of Egypt.

2 And fharaoh was wroth against two of
his officers, against the chief of the butlers,
and against the chief of the bakers.

3 And he put them in ward in the house
of the captain of the guard, into the prison,
the place where Joseph was bound.

4 And the captain of the guard charged
Joseph with them, and he served them;
and the}' continued a season in ward.

5 H And they dreamed a dream both of
them, each man his dream in one night,
each man according to the interpretation of
his dream ; the butler and the baker of the
knig of Egypt, which 2Pe7-e bound in the
prison.

6 And Joseph came in unto them in the
morning, and looked upon them, and be-
hold, they were sad.

7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that
were with him in the ward of his lord's
house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadlv
to-day ?

8 And they said unto him. We have
dreamed a dream, and there is no interpre-
ter of it. And Joseph said unto them. Do
not interpretations belong to God 1 Tell me
tlie}ii, 1 pray you.

9 And the"^chief butler told his dream to
Joseph, and said unto him, In my dream,
behold, a vine ims before me ;

10 And in the vine uvrc three branches :
and it ivas as though it budded, cmd her
blossoms shot forth ; and the clusters there-
of brought forth ripe grapes :

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

12 And Joseph said unto him, This is
the interpretation of it : The three branches
are three days :

13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh
lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy
place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's
cup into his hand, after the former manner
when thou wast his butler.

14 But think on me when it shall be well
with tiiee, and shew kindness, I pray thee,
imto me, and make mention of me unto
Pharaoli, and bring me out of this house :

15 For indeed I was stolen away out of
the land of the Hebrews: and here also

have I done nothing that they should put
me into the dungeon.

16 When the chief baker saw that the
mterpretation was good, he said unto Jo-
seph, I also was in my dream, and behold,/
had three white baskets on my head.

17 And in the uppermost basket there
was of all manner of bake-meats for Pha-
raoh : and the birds did eat them out of the
basket upon my head.

18 And Joseph answered and said. This
IS the mterpretation thereof: The three
baskets are three days :

19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh
ift up thy head from off thee, and shall

hang thee on a tree ; and the birds shall
eat thy flesh from off thee.

20 11 And it came to pass the third day,
which was Pharaoh's birth-day, that he
made a feast unto all his servants : and lie
lifted up the head of the chief butler and
of the chief baker among his servants.

21 And he restored the chief butler unto
his butlership again ; and he gave the cup
into Pharaoh's hand :

22 But he hanged the chief baker : as
Josepli had interpreted to them.

23 U Yet did not the chief butler re-
member Joseph, but forgat him.

CHAP. XLL
ND it came to pass at the end of two
full years, that Pharaoh dreamed:
and behold, he stood by the river.

2 And behold, there came up out of the
river seven well-favoured kine and fat-flesh-
ed ; and they fed in a meadow.

3 And behold, seven other kine came
up after them out of the river, ill-favoured
and lean-fleshed ; and stood by the other
kine upon the brink of the river.

4 And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed
kine did eat up the seven well-favoured
and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.

5 And he slept and dreamed the second
time : and behold, seven ears of corn came
up upon one stalk, rank and good.

6 And behold, seven thin ears and blast-
ed with the east wind sprang up after them.

7 And the seven thin ears devoured the
seven rank and fall ears. And Pharaoh
awoke, and behold, it urns a dream.

8 And it came to pass in the morning,
that his spirit was troubled ; and he sent
and called for all the magicians of Egypt,
and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh
told them his dreams ; but there was none
that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

9 li Then spake the chief butler unto
Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults
this day :

10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants,
and put me in ward in the captain of the
guard's house, both me, and the chief
baker :

11 And we dreamed a dream in one
night, I and he : we dreamed each man ac-
cording to the interpretation of his dream.

Joseph interprets the dreams :

12 And there was there with us a youn^
man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain ot
tlie guard ; and we told him, and he inter-
preted to us our dreams ; to each man ac-
cording to his dream he did interpret.

13 And it came to pass, as he interpret-
ed to us, so it was : me he restored unto
mine office, and him lie hanged.

14 ^ Then Pharaoh sent and called Jo-
seph, and they brought him hastily out of
the dungeon: "and he shaved himself, and
changed his raiment, and came in unto
Pharaoh.

15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I
have dreamed a dream, and there is none
that can interpret it : and I have heard say
of thee, that thou canst understand a dream
to interpret it.

16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, say-
ing, // is not in me : God shall give Pha-
raoh an ansiver of peace.

17 And Pharaoli said unto Joseph, In
my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank
of the river :

IS And behold, there came up out of the
river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favour-
ed ; and they fed in a meadow :

19 And behold, seven other kine came
up after them, poor, and very ill-favoured,
and lean-fleshed, such as I never sav/ in all
the land of Egypt for badness :

20 And the lean and the ill-favoured kine
did eat up the first seven fat kine :

21 And when they had eaten them up,
it could not be known that they had eaten
them ; but they imre still ill-favoured, as at
the beginning. So I awoke.

22 And I saw in my dream, and behold,
seven ears came up in one stalk, full and
good:

23 And behold, seven ears, withered,
thin, «/«/ blasted with the east wind, sprang
up after them :

24 And the thin ears devoured the seven
good ears : and I told this unto the magi-
cians ; but there ivas none that could declare
it unto me.

25 H And Joscj)!! said unto Pharaoh,
The dream of Pharaoh is one : God hath
shewed Pharaoh what he /*• about to do.

26 The seven good kine are seven
years ; and the seven good ears are seven
years : the dream is one.

27 And the seven tiiin and ill-favoured
kine that came up after them are seven
years: and the seven empty ears blasted
with the east wind shall be seven years of
famine.

28 This is the thing which I have spoken
unto Pharaoh : What God is about to do
he siiewoth unto Pharaoh.

29 Behold, there come seven years of great
plenty throughout all the land of Egypt :

30 And tliere shall arise after them seven
years of famine ; and all the plenty shall
be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the
lamuie shall consume the land :

GENESIS. He counsels Pharaoh.

31 And the plenty shall not be known in
the land by reason of that famine following :
for it shall he very grievous.

32 And for that the dream was doubled
unto Pharaoh twice ; it is because the thing
is established by God, and God will shortly
bring it to pass.

33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a
man discreet and wise, and set him over the
land of E^ypt.

34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him ap-
point officers over the land, and take up the
fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven
plenteous years.

35 And let them gather all the food of
those good years that come, and lay up corn
under the hand of Pharaoh ; and let them
keep food in the cities.

36 And that food shall be for store to the
land against the seven years of famine,
which shall be in the land of Egypt ; that the
land perish not through the famine.

37 And the thing was good in the eyes of
Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

38 II And Pharaoh said unto his servants,
Can we find such a one as this is, a man in
whom the spirit of God is ?

39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, For-
asmuch as God hath shewed thee all this,
there is none so discreet and wise as thou
art ;

40 Thou shalt be over my house, and
according unto thy word shall all my peo-
ple be ruled : only in the throne will 1 be
greater than thou.

41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See,
I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

42 And Pharaoh took off" his ring from
his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand,
and arrayed Inm in vestures of fine linen,
and put a gold chain about his neck ;

43 And he made him to ride in the se-
cond chariot v^hich he had : and they cried
before him, Bow the knee : and he made
him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am
Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man
lift up his hand or foot in all the land of
Egypt.

45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name
Zaphnath-paaneah : and he gave him to
wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah
priest of On : and Joseph went out over all
the land of EgypJ.

46 H And iJoseph ivas thirty years old
when he stood before Pharaoh king of
Egypt: and Joseph went out from the
presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout
all the land of Egypt.

47 And in the seven plenteous years the
earth brought forth by handfuls.

48 And he gathered up all the food of
the seven years which were in the land of
Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities :
the food of the field which 2oas round about
every city, laid he up in the same.

49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand
36

Joseph imprisons CHAP.

of the sea, very much, until he left num-
bering ; for it ivas without number.

50 H And unto Joseph were born two
sons before the years of famine came: which
Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest
of On bare unto him.

51 And Joseph called the name of the
first-born Manasseh ; For God, said he, liath
made me forget all my toil, and all my fa-
ther's house.

52 And the name of the second cr.!led
he Ephraim : for God hath caused me to bs
fruitful in the land of my affliction.

53 H And the seven years of plentecusnss"
that was in the land of Egypt, v/ere ended.

54 And the seven years of d-earth beg'^.n
to come, according as Joseph hc.d said :
and the dearth was in all lands ; but in all
the land of Egypt there v/as bread.

55 And when all the land of Egypt was
famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for
bread : and Pharaoh said unto all the
Egyptiaiis, Go unto Joseph ; what he saith
to you, do.

56 And the famine was over all the face
of the earth : and Joseph opened all the
store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians ;
and the famine waxed sore in the cand of
Egypt.

57 And all countries came mto Egypt to
Joseph for to buy corn ; because that the
famine was so sore in all lands.

CHAP. XLH.

NOW when Jacob saw that there was
corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his
sons. Why do ye look one upon another ?

2 And he said, Behold I have heard that
there is corn in Egypt : get you down
thither, and buy for us from thence ; that
we may live, and not die.

3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down
to buy corn in Egypt.

4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob
sent not with his brethren : for he said, Lest
peradventure mischief befall him.

5 And the sons of Israel came to buy
corn among those that came : for the famine
was in the land of Canaan.

6 ^ And Joseph teas the governor over,
the land, and he.?Y imts that sold to all the
people of the land : and Joseph's brethren
came, and bowed down themselves before
him with their faces to the earth.

7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he
knew them, but made himself strange unto
them, and spake rouglily unto them ; and
he said unto them. Whence come ye? And
they said. From the land of Canaan to buy
food.

8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but
they knew not him.

9 And Joseph remembered the dreams
which he dreamed of them, and said unto
them. Ye are spies ; to see the nakedness
of the land ye are come.

10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord,
but to buy food are thy servants come.

XLH. Ms brethren.

11 We are all one nfian's sons; we are
true men ; thy servants are no spies.

12 And he said unto them, Nay, but ta
see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

13 And they said. Thy servants are
twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the
knd of Canaan : and behold, the youngest
is this day with our father, and one is not.

14 And Joseph said unto them, That is
it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are
spies :_

15 Hereby ye shall be proved : By the
'ife of Pharvoh ye shall not go forth hence,
except your youngest brother come hither.

16 Send one of you, and let him fetch
7"<7ar brother, and ye shall be kept in prison,
that your v/ords may be proved, whether
thei'e be any truth in you : or else by the life
of Pharaoh surely ye arc spies.

17 And he put them all together into ward
three days.

18 And Joseph said unto them the third
day. This do, and live ; for I fear God :

13 If ye be true men, let one of your bre-
thren be bound in the house of your prison :
go ye, carry corn for the famine of your
houses :

20 But bring your youngest brother unto
me ; so shall your words be verified, and ye
shall not die. And they did so.

21 IT And they said one to another, We
are verily guilty concerning our brother, in
that we saw the anguish of his soul, when
he besought us, and we would not hear;
therefore is this distress come upon us.

22 And Reuben answered them, saying,
Spake I not unto you, saying. Do not sin
against the child; and ye would not hear?
therefore behold also his blood is required.

23 And they knew not that Joseph un-
derstood the7n ; for he spake unto them by
an interpreter.

24 And he turned himself about from
them, and wept ; and returned to them again,
and communed with them, and took from
them Simeon, and bound him before their
eyes.

25 IT Then Joseph commanded to fill their
sacks with corn, and to restore every man's
money into his sack, and to give them pro-
vision for the way : and thus did he unto
them.

26 And they laded their asses with the
corn, and departed thence.

27 And as one of them opened his sack
to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied
his money : for behold, it icas in his sack's
mouth.

28 And he said unto his brethren, My
money is restored ; and lo, it is even in my
sack : and their heart failed them, and thej^
were afraid, saying one to another. What is
this that God hath done unto us ?

29 ^ And they came unto Jacob their fa-
ther unto the land of Canaan, and told him
all that befell unto them, saying,

30 The man ivho is the lord of the land,

Jacob refusts to send Benjamin. GENESIS.

Jacob lets Benjamin go.

spake roughly to us, and took us for spies
ot the country.

31 And we said unto him, We arc true
3ncn ; we are no spies :

32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our
father : one is not, and the youngest is this
day with our father in the land of Canaan.

33 And the man, the lord of the country,
said unto us, Herel)y shall I know that ye
arc true men : leave one of your brethren
Jicrc with me, and take food for the famine
of your households, and be gone :

34 And bring your youngest brother unto
me : then shall Tknow that ye are no spies,
but tJiat ye are true men: so will I deliver
you your' brother, and ye shall traffic in the
land.

35 H And it came to pass as they emptied
their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle
of money was in his sack ; and when both
they and their father saw the bundles of mo-
ney, the}' were afraid.

36 And Jacob their father said unto them,
Me ha\e ye bereaved of my children : Jo-
seph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will
take Benjamin cuoay : all these things are
against me.

37 And Reuben spake unto his father,
saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring liim not
to thee : deliver him into my hand, and I will
bring him to thee again.

38 And he said, My son shall not go down
Avith you ; for his brother is dead, and he is
left alone : if mischief befall him by the way
in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down
my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

CHAP. XLIir.

AND the famine was sore in the land.
2 And it came to pass, when they
had eaten up the corn which they had
brought out of Egypt, their father said unto
them, Go again, buy us a little food.

3 Ajid Judah sj)ake unto him, saying.
The man did solemnly protest unto us," say-
ing. Ye shall not see my face, except }'our
brother br with you.

• 4 If thou wilt send our brother with us,
we will go down and buy thee food :

5 But if thou wilt not send Mm we will
not go down : for the man said unto us. Ye
shall not see my face, except your brother
he with you.

6 And Israel said. Wherefore dealt ve so
ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye
had yet a brother?

7 And they said. The man asked us straitly
of our state, and of our kindred, sayinij, Is
your father yet alive? have ye another h\o-
ther? and wc told him according to the
tfjnor of these words : Could we certainly
know that he would say, Bring your brother
clown ?

8 And Judah said unto Israel his father,
Send the l;id with mo, and we will arise and
go; that wc may live, and not die, both we,
and thou, and also our little ones.

9 I will be surety for him ; of my hand

shalt thou require him : if I bring him not
unto thee, and set him before thee, then let
me bear the blame for ever.

10 For except we had lingered, surely
now we had returned this second time.

1 1 And their father Israel said unto them,
If it ??iitst be so now, do this ; take of the
best fruits in the land in your vessels, and
carry down the man a present, a little balm,
and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts,
and almonds:

12 And take double money in your hand ;
and the money that was brought again in
the mouth of j'our sacks, carry it again in
your hand; peradventure it ivas an over-
sight :

13 Take also your brother, and. arise, go
again unto the man :

14 And God Almighty give you mercy
before the man, that he may send away
your other brother, and Benjamin : If I be
bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

15 51 And the men took that present, and
they took double money in their hand, and
Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to
Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with
them, he said to the ruler of his house,
Bring these men home, and slay, and make
ready : for these men shall dine with me at
noon.

17 And the man did as Joseph bade : and
the man brought the men into Joseph's
house.

18 And the men were afraid, because
they were brought into Joseph's house ; and
they said, Because of the money that was
returned in our sacks at the first time are
we brought in ; that he may seek occcfsion
against us, and fall upon us, and take us for
bondmen, and our asses.

19 If And they came near to tlie steward
of Joseph's house, and they communed
with him at the door of the house,

20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down
at the first time to buy food :

21 And it came to pass, when we came to
the inn, that we opened our sacks, and be-
hold, every man's money mis in the mouth
of his sack, our money in full weiglit: and
we have brought it again in our hand.

22 And other money have we brought
down in our hands to buy food : we cannot
tell Avho put our money in our sacks.

23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear
not : your God, and the God of your father,
hath given you treasure in your sacks: I
had your money. And he brought Simeon
out unto them.

24 And the man brought tlie men into
Joseph's house, and gave them water, and
they washed their feet ; and he gave their
asses provender.

25 And they made ready the present
against Joseph came at noon : for they heard
that they should eat bread there.

26 U And when Joseph came home, they

Jacob entertains Ms hrethren : CHAP.
brought him the present which was in their
hand into the house, and bowed themselves
to him to the earth.

27 And he asked them of tlieii' welfare,
and said, Is your father well, the old man of
whom ye spake ? is he yet alive ?

28 And they answered, Thy servant our
father is in good health, he is yet alive : and
they bowed down their heads, and made
obeisance.

29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his
brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said,
Is this your younger brother, of whom ye
spake unto me ? And he said, God be gra-
cious unto thee, my son.

30 And Joseph made haste ; for his bow-
els did yearn upon his brother: and he
sought lohere to weep ; and he entered into
Ms chamber, and wept there.

31 And he washed his face, and went out,
and refrained himself, and said, Set on
bread.

32 And they set on for him by himself,
and for them by themselves, and for the
Egyptians which did eat with him, by them-
selves : because the Egyptians might not
eat bread with the Hebrews ; for that is an
abomination unto the Egyptians.

33 And they sat before him, the first-born
according to his birth-right, and the young-
est according to his youth : and the men
marvelled one at another.

34 And he took and sent messes unto
them from before him : but Benjamin's
mess was five times so much as any of theirs.
And they drank, and were merry with him.

CHAP. XLIV.

A^D he commanded the steward of his
house, saying. Fill the men's sacks
with food, as much as they can carry, and
put every man's money in his sack's mouth.

2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the
sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn-
money : and he did according to the word
that Joseph had spoken.

3 As soon as the morning was light, the
men were sent away, they, and their asses.

4 And when they were gone out of the
city, and not yet far oflf, Joseph said unto
his steward. Up, follow after the men ; and
when thou dost overtake them, say unto
them. Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for
good?

5 Is not this it in which my lord drink-
eth, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye
have done evil in so doing.

6 H And he overtook them, and he spake
unto them these same words.

7 And they said unto him. Wherefore
saith my lord these words ? God forbid that
thy servants should do according to this
thing :

8 Behold the money which we found in
our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto
thee out of the land of Canaan : how then
should we steal out of thy lord's house sil-
ver or gold 1

XLIV. He accuses them of theft.

9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be
found, both let him die, and we also will be
my lord's bond-men.

10 And he said. Now also let it he ac-
cording unto your words : he with whom it
is found shall be my servant ; and ye shall
be blameless.

11 Then they speedily took down every
man his sack to the ground, and opened
every man his sack.

12 And he searched, and began at the
eldest, and left at the youngest : and the cup
was found in Benjamin's sack.

13 Then they rent their clothes, and
laded every man his ass, and returned to
the city.

14 H And Judah and his brethren came
to Joseph's house, (for he loas yet there :)
and they fell before him on the ground.

15 And Joseph said unto them. What
deed is this that ye have done ? wot ye not
that such a man as I can certainly divine 1

16 And Judah said. What shall we say
unto my lord ? what shall we speak 1 or
how shall we clear ourselves? God hath
found out the iniquity of thy servants : be-
hold we arc my lord's servants, both we, and
he also with whom the cup is found.

17 And he said, God forbid that I should
do so : hut the man in whose hand the cup
is found, he shall be my servant ; and as
for you, get you up in peace unto your fa-
ther.

18 IT Then Judah came near unto him,
and said, O my lord, let thy servant, I pray
thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and
let not thine anger burn against thy ser-
vant : for thou art even as Pharaoh.

19 My lord asked his servants, saying,
Have ye a father, or a brother ?

20 And we said unto my lord. We have
a father, an old man, and a child of his old
age, a little one : and his brother is dead,
and he alone is left of his mother, and his
father loveth him.

21 And thou saidst unto thy servants,
Bring him down unto me, that I may set
mine eyes upon him.

22 And we said unto my lord. The lad
cannot leave his father : for if he should
leave his father, Ms father would die.

23 And thou saidst unto thy servants,
Except your youngest brother come down
with you, ye shall see my face no more.

24 And it came to pass, when we came
up unto thy servant my father, we told him
the words of my lord.

25 And our father said. Go again, and
hxxj us a little food.

26 And we said, We cannot go down : if
our youngest brother be with us, then will
we go down ; for we may not see the man's
face, except our youngest brother he with
us.

27 And thy servant my father said unto
us, Ye know that my wife bare me two
sons:

Joseph makes himself known.
28 And the one went out from f e ^«!^^
I said Surely he is torn in pieces, and 1

^XSiK'Ske this also from mo, and
mischief befaU him, ye shall bring aowu
mv eray hairs with sorrow to the gi-ve.^

30 Now therefore v.::er. I come to u^
servant my father, a^^d thej.aa be no. v/ita
us ; (seeing thai his lUc iv bouna up u- the
lad's life;) , , ,, %

31 It shall con' 3 1: pass, wa-^- ilt,&<^^-•
that the lad is not loitk us, tna..ie wia Q^e-
and thv servants shaJl bn^-o < ^^"'■?/'^^^^. ^^^
hairs of thy servant our fathe.: wi.n sor.oN/
to the grave. ™ ^ ,

32 For thv se"vant becair.e sj; s^J i<3. ti^
lad unto my father, sayii,' ;, li ■■ ^/"^^,:;\'^
not unto thee, than I sha, bear .f^^ t)xci.ue
to my fathei- xv ever.

33 Now vlieiefore, 1 pray thee, let tuj/
servant abide instead of the lac. s. ^-}^^-
to my lord ; and let the laa go up with hn:
brethren. ,. ^,

34 For hov/ shall I go ub to my UMcv.
and the lad dJ not with me 1 lest perr.ayen-
ture I see the evil that shall come on my

father. ^ ,^T,x

CHAP. XLV.

THEN Jose-jh could not refrain himseh
before all them that stood by luai ;
and he cried, Cause every man to go oat
from me : and there stood no man with h_m,
while Joseph made himself known unto aiE
brethren.

2 And he wept aloud ; and the Egyp-
tians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, 1
am Joseph ; doth my father yet live ? And
his brethren coald not answer him; to:
they were troubled at his presence.

4 And Joseph said unto his brethren,
Come near to me, I pray you : and they
came near. And he said, I am Joseph
your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor
angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hi-
ther • for God did send me before you to
preserve life.

6 For these two years hath the famine
been in the land : and yet there are five
years, in the which there shall neither be
earing nor harvest.

7 And God sent me before you, to pre-
serve you a posterity in the earth, and to
save vour lives by a great deliverance.

8 So now it vms not you that sent me
hither. l)ut God : and he hath made me a
fuher to Pliaraoh, and lord of all iiis house,
and a ruler throughout ail tiie land of

^sypt. , ,. , ,

9 Haste ye, and go up to ir.y latner, auc
say unto him, Thus saith tliy son Joseph,
God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come
down unto me, tarry not :

10 And thou shalt dwell in tnc land of
Goslien, and thou shah be near unto me,
thou, and thy children, and thy children's

GENESIS. Joseph sends for Ms father.

children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and
all that thou hast :

11 xlnd there will 1 nourish thee, (tor yet
there cre five yea'/s of famine;) lest thou,
and thy household, and all that thou hast
ccme to poverty.

12 And behold, your eyes see, and the
e-3s of my brother Benjamin, that zt is my
ffioith thai speaketh unto you.

13 / rd ye shall tell my father of all my
p -io'--- in Egj-pt, and of all that ye have seen :
andys shall haste, and bring down my fa-
tho; hiiier. .

U H And he fell upon his brother Benja-
mir/s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept

upG-,i hifJ ueck. , ,, i • u ^

16 Koreovev, he kissed all his brethren,
ni wept upon them: and after that his
kvethro:' tallied with him. .

16 ^ And the fame thereof was heard in
Fha- aoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren
a:-e come : and it pleased Pharaoh well, and
his servants.

17 Aad Pharaoh said unto Joseph, bay un-
to thy brethre-j. This do ye ; lade your beasts,
and go, get yoc into the land ot Canaan ;

/8 And take your father, and your house-
hole s and come unto me: and I will give
yo-a the good of the land of Egypt, and ye
shal; eat the fat of the land.

1£ Now tiiou art commanded, this do ye ;
take you wagons out of the land of Egypt
for youu little ones, and for your wives, and
bring your father, and come. ^ ^ ,

20 Also regard hot your stuff: lor the
good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

21 "IT And the children of Israel did so :
and Joseph gave them wagons, according to
the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave
them provision for the way.

22 To all of them he gave each man
changes of raiment: but to Benjamin he
gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five
changes of raiment.

23 And tc his father he sent after this
manner; ten asses laden with the good
things of Egypt, and ten she-as^jes laden
with corn and bread and meat for Ids father
bv the way.

"^24 So he sent his brethren away, and
they departed : and he said unto them. See
that ye fall not out by the way.

25 "il And they went up out of Egypt,
and came into the land of Canaan unto Ja-
cob their father,

2G And told him, saying, Joseph is yet
alive, and he ?s governor over all the land of
Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he
Del'-eve.) them not.

^: And they told him all the Avords of
Joseph, v/hichhe had said unto them : and
whe:i "lie saw the wagons which Joseph had
sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their
Hither revived :

28 And Israel said, 7««s enough: Joseph
my son is yet alive : I will go and see him
before I die.

. 40

Jacob goes into Egypt. CHAP. XLVI, XLVIl. Joseph goes to meet Jacob.

CHAP. XLVI.

AND Israel took his journey with all
that he had, and came to Beer-sheba,
and offered sacrifices unto the God of his
father Isaac.

2 And God spake unto Israel in the vi-
sions of the niglit, and said, Jacob, Jacob :
and he said. Here am I.

3 And he said, I am God, the God of
thy father : fear not to go down into Egypt ;
for I will there make of thee a great na-
tion :

4 I will go down with thee into Egypt ;
and I will also surely bring thee up again :
and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine
eyes.

5 H And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba :
and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their
father, and their little ones, and their wives,
in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to
carry him.

6 And they took their cattle, and their
goods which they had gotten in the land of
Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and
all his seed with him ;

7 His sons, and liis sons' sons with him,
his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and
all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

8 H And these arc the names of the chil-
dren of Israel, which came into Egypt, Ja-
cob and his sons : Reuben, Jacob's first-
born.

9 And the sons of Reuben ; Hanoch,
and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

10 And the sons of Simeon ; Jemuel,
and Jamin, and Ohad, and, Jachin, and
Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish
woman.

1 1 And the sons of Levi ; Gershon, Ko-
hath, and Merari.

12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and
Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Za-
rah : but Er and Onan died in the land of
Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were
Hezron, and Hamul.

13 And the sons of Issachar ; Tola, and
Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

14 And the sons of Zebulun ; Sered, and
Elon, and Jahleel.

15 These be the sons of Leah, which she
bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his
daughter Dinah : all the souls of his .sons
and his daughters iccrc thirty and three.

16 And the sons of Gad ; Ziptiion, and
Haggai, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi,
and Areli.

17 And the sons of Asher ; Jimnah, and
Ishuali, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah
their si.ster. And the sons of Beriah ; He-
ber, and Malchiel.

IS These are the sons of Zilpah, whom
Laban gave to Leah his daughter : and
these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen
souls.

19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife;
Joseph, and Benjamin.

20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt

6 ■

were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which
Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest
of On bare unto him.

21 And the sons of Benjamin xvere
Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and
Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and
Huppim, and Ard.

22 These are the sons of Rachel, which
were born to Jacob ; all the souls were four-
teen.

23 And the sons of Dan ; Hushim.

24 And the sons' of Naphtah ; Jahzeel,
and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which
Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter,
and she bare these unto Jacob : all the souls
iccrc seven.

26 All the souls that came with Jacob
into Egypt, which cam'3 out of his loins,
beside Jacob's son's wives, all the souls
loere threescore and six ;

27 And the sons of Joseph which were
Ijorn him in Egypt, were two souls : all the
souls of the house of Jacob, which came
into Egypt, ivere threescore and ten.

28 H And he sent Judah before him
unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Go-
shen ; and they came into the land of Go-
shen.

29 And Joseph made ready his chariot,
and went up to meet Israel his father to
Goshen; and presented himself unto him:
and he fell on his neck, and wept on his
neck a good while.

30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let
me die, since I have seen thy face, because
thou art yet alive.

31 H And Joseph said unto his brethren,
and unto his father's house, I will go up,
and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, P«iy
brethren, and my father's house, which
locre in the land of Canaan, are come unto
me :

32 And the men are shepherds for their
trade hath been to feed cattle ; and they
have brought their flocks, and their herds,
and all that tiiey have.

33 And it shall come to pass, Vvhen Pha-
raoli sliall call you, and shall say, What is
your occupation ?

34 Tliat ye shall say, Thy servants' trade
hath been about cattle from our j'outh even
until now, both we, ami also our fathers :
that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen ;
for every shepherd is an abomination unto
the Egyptians.

CHAP. XLVIL

THEN Joseph came and told Pharaoh,
and said. My father and my brethren,
and their flocks, and their herds, and all
that they have, are come out of the land
of Canaan ; and behold, they are in the
land of Goshen.

2 And he took some of his brethren, even
five men, and presented them unto Pha-
raoh.

3 And Pharaoh said unfo his brethren,

Joseph's dealing in the famine.
What /.■; vour occupation 1 And they said
unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds,
botli we, (uul al-so our fathers.

4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For
to sojourn in tlie land are we come: for
thy servants have no pasture for their flocks,
for the Ikmine is sore in the land of Ca-
naan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy
servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, say-
ing, Thy father and thy brethren are come

unto thee

The land of Egypt is before thee; in
the best of the land make tliy father and
brethren to dwell ; in the land of Goshen
let them dwell ; and if thou knowest any
men of activity among them, then make
tiiem rulers over my cattle.

7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his fa-
ther, and set hun before Pharaoh : and Ja-
cob blessed Pharaoli.

S And Pliaraoh said unto Jacob, How
old art thou ?

9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The
days of the years of my pilgrimage are
an hundred and tliirty years : few and evil
have tiie days of the years of my life been,
and have not attained unto the days of tlie
years of tlie life of my fathers in the days
of their pilgrimage.

10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went
out from before Pharaoh.

11 'i And Joseph placed his father and
his bretliren, and gave them a possession
in the land of Egypt, in the best of the
land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh
had conunanded.

12 And Joseph nom'ished his father, and
his brethren, and all his father's houseliold,
w ith bread according to their families.

13 "f And there was no bread in all the
land ; for the famine was very sore, so that
the land of Egypt, and all. the land of Ca-
naan, fainted Ly reason of the famine.

14 And Joseph gatliered up all the mo-
ney that was found in tlie land of Egypt,
and in the land of Canaan, for the corn
which they bought: and Joseph brought
the money into f haraoh's house.

15 And w!)cn money liiiled in the land
of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all
the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said,
Give us bread : for why should we die in
thy presence \ Ibr the money taileth.

16 And Joseph said. Give your cattle;
and I will give you for your cattle, if mo-
ney fail.

17 And they brought their cattle unto
Josepli : and Joseph gave them bread in
exchange for liorscs, and for the flocks, and
for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses ;
and lie fed them with l)rea(], for all their
cattle, for that year.

IH When tliat year was ended, they came
unto him the second year, and said unto
liim, We will not hide it from my lord, how
that our money is s]jent ; my lord also hath

GENESIS. He visits his sick father.

our herds of cattle : there is not ought left
in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and
our lands :

19 Wherefore shall we die before thine
eyes, both we and our land ? buy us and
our land for bread, and we and our land
will be servants unto Pharaoh : and give us
seed, that we may live, and not die, that
the land be not desolate.

20 And Joseph bought all the land of
Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold
every man his field, because the famine
prevailed over them : so the land became
Pharaoh's.

21 And as for the people, he removed

them to cities from one end of the borders
of Egypt even to the other end thereof

22 Only the land of the priests bought
he not ; for the priests had a portion assign-
ed than of Pharaoh, and did eat their por-
tion which Pharaoh gave them ; wherefore
they sold not their lands.

23 II Then Joseph said unto the people,
Behold, I have bought you this day and
your land for Pharaoh : lo, here is seed for
you, and ye shall sow the land.

24 And it shall come to pass in the in-
crease, that ye shall give the fifth par? unto
Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own,
for seed of the field, and for your food, and
for them of your households, and for food
for your little ones.

25 And they said, Thou hast saved our
lives : let us find grace in the sight of my
lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

26 And Joseph made it a law over the
land of Egj'pt unto this day, thed Pharaoh
should have the fifth part ; except the land
of the priests only, which became not Pha-
raoh's.

27 ^ And Israel dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in the country of Goshen ; and thej^
had possessions therein, and grew, and mul-
tiplied exceeding]}'.

28 H And Jacob lived in the land of
Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age
of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven
years.

29 And the time drew nigh that Israel
must die: and lie called his son Joseph, and
said unto him, If now I have found grace
in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand un-
der m^y thigh, and deal kindly and truly
with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in
Egypt :

30 But I will lie with my fathers, and
thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury
me in their burying-place. And he said,
I will do as thou hast said.

31 And he said, Swear unto me: and he
swarc unto him. And Israel bowed him-
self upon the bed's head.

CHAP. XLVIIl.
ND it came to pass after these things,
that one told Joseph, Behold, thy fa-
ther is sick : and he took with him his two
sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
42

Jacob blesses Josepli's sons :

2 And one told Jacob, and said, Be-
hold, th)' son Joseph cometh unto thee:
and Israel strengthened himself, and sat
upon the bed.

3 "^ And Jacob said unto Joseph, God
Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the
land of Canaan, and blessed me,

4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make
thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will
make of thee a multitude of people ; and
will give this land to thy seed alter thee, for
an everlasting possession.

5 And now, thy two sons, Ephraim and
Manasseh, which were born unto thee in
the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee
into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben and
Simeon, they shall be mine.

6 And thy issue, which thou begettest
after them, shall be thine, and shall be call-
ed after the name of their brethren in their
inheritance.

7 And as for me, when I came from Pa-
dan, Rachel died by me in the land of Ca-
naan, in the way, when yet there was but a
little waj' to come unto Ephrath : and 1 bu-
ried her there in the way of Ephrath, the
same is Bethlehem.

8 H And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and
said. Who are these ?

9 And Joseph said unto his father, They
are my sons, whom God hath given me in
this place. And he said, Bring them, I
pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.

10 (Now the eyes of Israel were dim for
age, .so that he could not see:) And he
brought them near unto him ; and he kiss-
ed them, and embraced them.

11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had
not thought to see thy face : and lo, God
hath shewed me also thy seed.

12 And Joseph brought them out from
between his knees, and he bowed himself
with his face to the earth.

13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim
in his right hand toward Israel's left hand,
and Manasseh in his left hand toward Is-
rael's right hand, and brought them near
unto him.

14 And Israel stretched out his right
hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head,
who was the younger, and his left hand
upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands
wittingly ; for Manasseh icas the first-born.

1.3 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God,
before whom my fathers Abraham and
Isaac did walk, the God which fed me a'J
my life long unto this day,

16 The Angel which redeemed me from
all e\il, bless the lads ; and let my name be
named on them, and the name of my fa-
thers Abraham and Isaac ; and let them grow
into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

17 And when Joseph saw that his fa-
ther laid his fight hand upon the head of
Ephraim, it displeased him : and he held
up his father's hand, to remove it from
Ephraim's head unto ManasselFJ head.

CHAP. XlilX. He blesses his own sons.

IS And Joseph said unto his father. Not
so, my father : tor this is the first-born ; put
thy right hand upon his head.

19 And his father refused, and said, I
know it, my son, I know it : he also shall
become a people, and he also shall be great ;
but truly his younger brother shall be great-
er than he, and his seed shall become a mul-
titude of nations.

20 And he blessed them that day, saying.
In thee shall Lsrael bless, saying, God make
thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh : and he
set Ephraim before Manasseh.

21 "iT And Israel said unto Joseph, Be-
hold, I die ; but God shall be with you, and
bring you again unto the land of your fa-
thers.

22 Moreover I have given to thee one
portion above thy brethren, which I took
out of the hand of the Amorite with my
sword and with mv bow.

CHAP. XLIX.
ND Jacob called unto his sons, and
said. Gather yourselves together, that I

may tell you thai which shall befall you in

the last days.

2 Gather yourselves together, and hear,
ye sons of Jacob ; and hearken unto Israel
your father.

3 1^ Reuben, thoii art my first-born, my
might, and the beginning of my strength,
the excellency of dignity, and the excel-
lency of power :

4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not ex-
cel ; because thou wentest up to thy father's
bed ; then defiledst thou it ; he went up to
my couch.

5 H Simeon and Levi are brethren ; m-
struments of cruelty are in their habita-
tions.

6 O my soul, come not thou into their
secret ; unto their assembly, mine honour,
be not thou united : for in their anger they
slew a man, and in their self-will they dig-
ged down a wall.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce ;
and their wrath, for it was cruel : I will di-
vide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Is-
rael.

8 11 Judah, thou art he whom thy bre-
thren shall praise ; thy hand shall be in the
neck of thine enemies ; thy father's chil-
dren shall bow down before thee.

9 Judah is a lion's whelp ; from the prey,
my son, thou art gone up : he stooped down,
he couched as a lion, and as an old lion :
who shall rouse him up ?

10 The sceptre shall not depart from Ju-
dah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
until Shiloh come ; and unto him shall the
gathering of the people be.

11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his
ass's colt unto the choice vine ; he washed
his garments in wine, and his clothes in the
blood of grapes :

12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and
I his teeth white with milk.

The death of Jaroh.

13 1 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven
of the sea ; and he shall be for an haven
of ships; and his border shall be unto
Zidon.

14 If Issachar is a strong ass, couching
down between two burdens:

15 And lie saw that rest was good, and
the land tliat it was pleasant ; and bowed
his shoulder to bear, and became a servant
unto tribute.

IG *i Dan shall judge his people, as one
of the tribes of Jsrael.

17 Dan shall bo a serpentby the way, an
adder in the path, that biteth the horse-
heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

is I have waited for thy salvation, O
Loiu) !

19 1i Gad, a troop shall overcome him;
but he shall overcome at the last.

20 IT Out of Asher his bread shall be
fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

21 *i Na{)htali is a hind let loose : he giv-
eth goodly uords.

22 ^f Joseph is a fruitful bough, ei^en a
fruitful bougii by a well, whose branches
run over the wall ;

23 The archers have sorely grieved him,
and shot at him, and hated him :

21 But his bow abode in strength, and
the amis of his hands v^ere made strong by
the hands of the mighty God of Jacob :
(from thence is the shepherd, the stone of
Israel :)

25 Errn by the God of thy father, who
shall help thoe ; and by the Almighty, who
shall bless thee with blessings of heaven
above, blessings of the deep that lieth un-
der, blessings of the breasts, and of the
womb :

26 The blessings of thy father have pre-
vailed above the blessings of thy progeni-
tors unto the utmost bound of the everlast-
ing hills ; they shall be on the head of Jo-
seph, and on the crown of the head of him
that was separate from liis brethren.

27 ^ Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf; in
the morning he shall devour the prey, and
at night he shall divide the spoil.

28 All these are the twelve tribes of
Israel ; and this is if that their father spake
unto them, and blessed them : every one
according to his blessing he blessed them.

29 'I And he charged them, and said unto
them, I am to be gat henxl unto my people :
bury me with my fathers in the cave that is
in the field of Ephron tiin llittite,

30 In the cave that is in the field of
IMarhpelah, which is betbre Mamrc, in the
land of Canaan, which Abraham bought
with the field of Ephron the llittite, for a
j)Osse.ssioii of a biirying-place.

31 (Thr-re they buried Abraham and Sa-
ral) his wife ; there thev buried Isaac and
Kebckah his wife; and there I buried Leah.)

32 The purcliase of the field and of the
cave that is therein, was from the children
ot Ileth.

GENESIS. nic mourning for Jacob.

33 And when Jacob had made an end of
commanding his sons, he gathered up his
feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost,
and was gathered unto his people.
CHAP. L.

AND Joseph fell upon his father's face,
and wept upon him, and kissed him.

2 And Joseph commanded his servants
the physicians to embalm his father : and
the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 And forty days were fulfilled for him ;
for so are fulfilled the days of those which
are embalmed ; and the JEgyptians mourn-
ed for him threescore and ten days.

4 If And when the days of his mourning
were past, Joseph spake unto the house of
Pharaoh, saying. If now I have found grace
in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears
of Pharaoh, saying,

5 My father made me swear, saj-ing, Lo,
I die : in my grave which I have digged
for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt
thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up,
I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will
come again.

6 And Pharaoh said. Go up, and bury
thy father, according as he made thee swear.

7 If And Joseph went up to bury his fa-
ther : and with him went up all the servants
of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all
the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 And all the house of Joseph, and his
brethren, and his father's house : only their
little ones, and their flocks, and their herds,
they left in the land of Goshen.

9 And there went up with him both cha-
riots and horsemen ; and it was a very great
company.

10 And they came to the threshing-floor
of Atad, which is beyond Jordan ; and
there they mourned with a great and very
sore lamentation : and he made a mourning
for his father seven daj^s.

11 And when the inhabitantsof the land,
the Canaan ites, saw the n>ourning in the
floor of Atad, they said. This is a grievous
mourning to the Egyptians : wherefore the
name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which
is bejond Jordan.

12 And his sons did unto him according
as he commanded them :

13 For his sons carried him into the land
of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of
the field of Machpelah, which Abraham
bought with the field for a possession of a
burying-place of Ephron the Hittite, before
Aiamre.

14 ^ And Joseph returned into Egypt,
he and his brethren, and all tliat went up
with liim to bury his father, after he had
buried his father.

15 ^ And when Joseph's brethren saw
that their father was dead, they said, Joseph
will peradventure hate us, and will certainly
requite us all the evil which we did unto
him.

16 And'^hey sent a messenger unto Jo-

The death of Joseph. CHAP

seph, saying, Thy father did command be-
fore he died, saying,

17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive,
I pray thee now, the trespass of thy bre-
thren, and their sin ; for they did unto thee
evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the
trespass of the servants of the God of thy
father. And Joseph wept when they spake
unto him.

18 And his brethren also went and fell
down before his face ; and they said. Be-
hold, we be thy servants.

19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not ;
for am I in the place of God 1

20 But as for you, ye thought evil against
me; hut God meant it unto good, to bring
to pass, as it is this day, to save much peo-
ple alive.

21 Now therefore fear ye not: 1 will
nourish you, and your little ones. And he

. II. Moses born — is laid in the flags.
comforted them, and spake kindly unto them,

22 H And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he,
and his father's house : and Joseph lived an
hundred and ten years.

23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children
of the third generation : the children also of
Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought
up upon Joseph's knees.

24 H And Joseph said unto his brethren,
[ die ; and God will surely visit you, and
bring you out of this land, unto the land
which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob.

25 And Joseph took an oath of the chil-
dren of Israel, saying, God will surely visit
you, and ye shall carry up my bones from
hence.

26 H So Joseph died, being an hundred
and ten years old : and they embalmed him,
and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

IT The Second Book of 3IOSES, called EXODUS.

CHAP. I.

NOW these at-e the names of the children
of Israel, which came into Egypt ; eve-
ry man and his household came with Jacob.

2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

5 And all the souls that came out of the
loins of Jacob, were seventy souls : for Jo-
seph was in Egypt already.

6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren,
and all that generation.

7 And the children of Israel were fruit-
ful, and increased abundantly, and multi-
plied, and waxed exceeding mighty ; and
the land was filled with them.

8 H Now there arose up a new king over
Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

9 And he said unto his people, Behold,
the people of the children of Israel are
more and mightier than we.

10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them,
lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that,
when there falleth out any war, they join
also unto our enemies, and fight against us,
and so get them up out of the land.

11 Therefore they did set over them task-
masters, to afflict tiiem with their burdens.
And they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities,
Pithom, and Raamses.

12 But the more they afflicted them, the
more they multiplied and grew. And they
were grieved because of the children of
Israel.

13 And the Egyptians made the chil-
dren of Israel to serve with rigour.

14 And they made their lives bitter with
hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and
in all manner of service in the field : all
their service wherein they made them serve
teas with rigour.

15 If And the king of Egypt spake to

the Hebrew midwives (of which the name
of one was Shiphrah, and the name of the
other Puah ;)

16 And he said. When ye do the office
of midwife to the Hebrew women, and see
them upon the stools ; if it be a son, then
ye shall kill him ; but if it be a daughter,
then she shall live.

17 But the midwives feared God, and
did not as the king of Egypt comrnanded
them, but saved the men-children alive.

18 And the king of Egypt called for the
midwives, and said unto them, Why have
ye done this thing, and have saved the
men-children alive ?

19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh,
Because the Hebrew women are not as the
Egyptian women ; for they are lively, and
are delivered ere the midwives come in
unto them.

20 Therefore God dealt well with the
midwives : and the people multiplied, and
waxed very mighty.

21 And" it came to pass, because the
midwives feared God, that he made them
houses.

22 H And Pharaoh charged all his peo-
ple, saying. Every son that is born ye shall
cast into the river, and every daughter ye
shall save alive.

CHAP. II.

AND there went a man of the house of
Levi, and took to loife a daughter of
Levi.

2 And the woman conceived and bare a
son : and when she saw him that he was a
goodlv child, she hid him three months.

3 And when she could no longer hide
him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes,
and daubed it with slime and with pitch,
and put the child therein ; and she laid it
in the flags by the river's brink.

Moses flees from Egypt. EXODUS.

4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit i the man
M'hat would be done to liim.

5 H And the daugliter of Pharaoh came
down to wash hersctf at the river ; and her
maidens walked along by the river's side :
and when she saw the ark among the flags
she sent her maid to fetch it.

6 And when she had opened it, she saw
the child : and, behold, the babe wept. And
she had compassion on liim, and said, This
is one of the Hebrews' children.

7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's
daughter, Shall I go, and call to thee a
nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may
nurse the child for thee ?

8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her,
Go. And the maid went and called the
child's mother.

9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her,
Take this child away and nurse it for me,
and I will give t/iec thy wages. And the
woman took the child and nursed it.

10 And the child grew, and she brought
him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he be-
came her son. And she called his name
Moses : and she said. Because I drew him
out of the water.

11 ^ And it came to pass in those days,
when Moses was grown, that he went out
unto his brethren, and looked on their bur-
dens : and he spied an Egyptian smiting
an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

12 And he looked this way and that
way, and when he saw that there teas no
man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in
the sand.

13 And when he went out the second
day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove
together : and he said to him that did the
wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow ?

14 And he said, Who made thee a prince
and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill
me, as thou killedst the Egyptian 1 And
Moses feared, and said. Surely this thing is
known.

15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing,
he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled
from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the
land of Midian : and he sat down by a well.

16 If Now the priestof Midian had seven
daughters : and tiiey came and drew water,
and filled the troughs to water their fa-
tlier's flock.

17 And the shepherds came and drove
them away: l)ut Moses stood up and help-
ed them, and watered their flock.

18 And wlien they came to Reuel their
father, he said. How is it that ye are come
so sfK)n to-day ?

19 And they said, An Egyptian deliver-
ed us out of the hand of the shepherds, and
also drew wafer enough ibr us, and watered
the flock.

20 And he said unto his daughters. And
where is he ? why is it that ye have left the
man? call him, that he may cat bread.

21 And Moses was cojitent to dwell with

He is sent to deliver Israel.
and he gave Moses Zipporah his
daughter.

22 And she bare him a son, and he called
his name Gershom ; for he said, I have
been a stranger in a strange land.

23 *!f And it came to pass, in process of
time, that the king of Egypt died : and the
children of Israel sighed by reason of the
bondage, and they cried ; and their cry
came up unto God, by reason of the bon-
dage.

24 And God heard their groaning, and
God remembered his covenant with Abra-
ham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

25 And God looked upon the children
of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

CHAP. III.

OW Moses kept the flock of Jethro

his father-in-law, the priest of Midian :

and he led the flock to the back side of the

desert, and came to the mountain of God,

even to Horeb.

2 And the angel of the Lord appeared
unto him in a flame of fire out of tlie midst
of a bush ; and he looked, and, behold the
bush burned with fire, and the bush luas
not consumed.

3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside,
and see this great sight, why the bush is
not burned.

4 And when the Lord saw that he turn-
ed aside to see, God called unto him out of
the midst of the bush, and said, Moses,
Moses ! And he said, Here am I.

5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither :
put off thy shoes from oft' thy feet ; for the
place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

6 Moreover, he said, I a?n the God of thy
father, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses
hid his face ; for he was afraid to look upon
God.

7 H And the Lord said, I have surely
seen the affliction of my people which circ
in Egypt, and have heard their cry by rea-
soji ot' their taskmasters : ibr I know their

sorrows :

8 And I am come down to deliver them
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to
bring them up out oi' that land, unto a good
land, and a large, unto a land flovving with
milk and honey ; unto tiie place of the Ca-
naanites, and the Hittites, and the Amc-
rites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites,
and the Jebusites.

9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the
children of Israel is come unto me : and
I have also seen the oppression wherewith
the Egyptians oppress them.

10 Come now tb.erefore, and I v.'ill send
thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring
forth my people, the children of Israel, out
of Egypt.

11 H And Moses said unto God, Who am
I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that
I should bring forth the children of Israel
out of Egypt ?

God's message to Israel CHAP.

12 And he said, Certainly I will be with
thee ; and this shall be a token unto thee,
that I have sent thee : When thou hast
brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye
shall serve God upon this mountain.

13 And Moses said unto God, Behold,
7o]icn I come unto the children of Israel,
and shall say unto them, The God of your
fathers hath sent me unto you ; and they
shall say to me. What is his name ? What
shall I say unto them 1

14 And God said unto Moses, I AM
THAT I AM : And he said, Thus shalt
thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM
hath sent me unto you.

15 H And God said moreover unto Moses,
Thus shalt thou say unto the children of
Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you :
this 15 my name for ever, and this is my
memorial unto all generations.

16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel
together, and say unto them, The Lord
God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me,
saying, I have surely visited you, and seen
that which is done to you in Egypt :

17 And I have said, I will bring you up
out of the affliction of Egypt, unto the land
of the Canaanites, and tlie Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hi-
vites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing
with milk and honey.

18 And they shall hearken to thy voice ;
and thou shalt come, thou and the elders
of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye
shall say unto him, The Lord God of the
Hebrews hath met with us ; and now let
us go (we beseech thee) three days' jour-
ney into the wilderness, that we may sacri-
fice to the Lord our God.

19 H And I am sure that the king of
E^ypt will not let you go, no, not by a
mighty hand.

20 And I will stretch out my hand, and
smile Egypt with all my wonders which
I will do in the midst thereof: and after
that he will let you go.

21 And I will give this people favour in
the sight of the Egyptians : and it shall
come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall
not go empty :

22 But every woman shall borrow of her
neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in
her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of
gold, and raiment : and ye shall put them
upon your sons, and upon your daughters :
and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.

CHAP. IV.

AND Moses answered and said, But,
behold, they will not believe me, nor
hearken unto my voicf: : for they will say,
The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.

2 And the Lord said unto him, What is
that in thine hand ? And he said, A rod.

3 And he said, Cast it on the ground.

IV. Moses' rod turned into a serpent.
And he cast it on the ground, and it became
a serpent : and Moses fled from before it.

4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Put
forth thine hand, and take it by the tail.
And he put forth his hand, and caught it,
and it became a rod in his hand :

5 That thej' may believe that the Lord
God of their fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath
appeared unto thee.

6 H And the Lord said furthermore unto
him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom.
And he put his hand into his bosom : and
when he took it out, behold, his hand was
leprous as snow.

7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy
bosom again. And he put his hand into his
bosom again, and plucked it out of his bo-
som, and behold, it was turned again as his
other flesh.

8 And it shall come to pass, if they will
not believe thee, neither hearken to the
voice of the first sign, that they will believe
the voice of the latter sign.

9 And it shall come to pass, if they will
not believe also these two signs, neither
hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take
of the water of the river, and pour it upon
the dry land: and the water which thou
takest out of the river shall become blood
upon the dry land.

10 If And Moses said unto the Lord, O
my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither here-
tofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy
servant : but I am slow of speech, and of a
slow tongue.

11 And the Lord said unto him. Who
hath made man's mouth ? or who maketh
the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the
blind ] have not I the Lord ?

12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy
mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

13 And he said, O my Lord, send, 1
pray thee, by the hand of him ichom thou
wilt send.

14 And the anger of the Lord was kin-
dled against Moses, and he said. Is not
Aaron the Levite thy brother ? I knov/ that
he can speak well. And also behold, he
Cometh forth to meet thee : and when he
seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and
put words in his mouth : and I will be with
thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will
teach you what ye shall do.

16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto
the people : and he shall be, even he shall
be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou
shalt be to him instead of God.

17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine
hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.

18 H And Moses went and returned to
Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him,
Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto
my brethren which are in Egypt, and see
whether they be yet alive. And Jethro
said to Moses, Go in peace.

Pharaoh chides

19 And the Lord said unto Moses in
Midian, Go, return into Egypt : for all the
men are dead which sought thy life.

20 And Moses took his wife, and his
sons, and set them upon an ass, and he re-
turned to tlie land of Egypt. And Moses
took the rod of God in his hand.

21 If And the Lord said unto Moses,
When thou goest to return into Egypt, see
that thou do all those wonders before Pha-
raoh which I have put in thine hand : but
1 will harden his heart, that he shall not let
the people go.

22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh,
Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son,
even my first-born.

23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go,
that he may serve me : and if thou refuse
to let him go, behold I will slay thy son,
even thy first-born.

24 H And it came to pass by the way in
the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought
to kill him.

25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone,
and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast
it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody hus-
band art thou to me.

26 So he let him go : then she said, A
bloody husband thou art, because of the
circumcision.

27 H And the Lord said to Aaron, Go
into the wilderness to meet Moses. And
he went, and met him in the mount of God,
and kissed him.

28 And Moses told Aaron all the words
of the Lord who had sent him, and all the
signs which he had commanded him.

29 If And Moses and Aaron went, and
gathered together all the elders of the chil-
dren of Israel.

30 And Aaron spake all the words which
the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did
the signs in the sight of the people.

81 And the people believed: and when
they heard that the Lord had visited the
children of Israel, and that he had looked
upon their affliction, then they bowed their
heads and worshipped.

CflAP. V.

AND afterward Moses and Aaron wont
in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the
Lord God of Israel, Let my jieople go,
tliat they may hold a feast unto me in the
wilderness.

2 And Pharaoh said. Who is the Lord,
that I should obey his voice to let Israel go?
I know not the Lord, neither will I let Is-
rael go.

3 And they said. The God of the He-
brews hath met with us : let us go, we pray
tlico, three days' journey into the desert, and
sacrifice unto the Lord our God ; lest he fall
upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

4 And the kingof Egypt fjkid unto them.
Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let
the people from their works ? get you unto
your burdens.

EXODUS. Moses and Aaron.

5 And Pharaoh said. Behold, the people
of the land now are many, and ye make
them rest from their burdens.

6 H And Pharaoh commanded the same
day the taskmasters of the people, and
their officers, saying,

7 Ye shall no more give the people straw
to make brick, as heretofore: let them go
and gather straw for themselves.

8 And the tale of the bricks which they
did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon
them ; ye shall not diminish ot/ght thereof:
for they be idle ; therefore they cry, saying,
Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

9 Let there more work be laid upon the
men, that they may labour therein : and
let them not regard vain words.

10 H And the taskmasters of the people
went out, and their officers, and they spake
to the people, saying. Thus saith Pharaoh,
I will not give you straw.

11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can
find it : yet not ought of your work shall
be diminished.

12 So the people were scattered abroad
throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather
stubble instead of straw.

13 And the taskmasters hasted them,
saying. Fulfil your works, your daily tasks,
as when there was straw.

14 And the officers of the children of Is-
rael, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set
over them, were beaten, and demanded,
Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task
in making brick, both yesterday and to-day,
as heretofore ?

15 H Then the officers of the children of
Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, say-
ing, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy
servants ?

16 There is no straw given unto thy
servants, and they say to us. Make brick :
and behold, thy servants a?-e beaten ; but
the fault is in thine own people.

17 But he said. Ye are idle, ye are idle :
therefore ye say. Let us go, a7id do sacri-
fice to the Lord.

18 Go therefore now, and work : for
there shall no straw be given you, yet shall
ye deliver the tale of bricks.

19 And the officers of the children of
Israel did see that they were in evil case,
after it was said. Ye shall not minish ought
from your bricks of your daily task.

20 il And they met Moses and Aaron,
who stood in the way, as they came forth
from Pharaoh :

21 And they said unto them, The Lord
look upon j'ou, and judge; because ye
have made our savour to be abhorred in
the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of
his servants, to put a sword in their hand
to slay us.

22 U And Moses returned unto the Lord,
and said. Lord, wherefore hast thou 50 evil-
entreated this people 1 why is it that thou
hast sent me 1

God renews his promise, CHAP.

23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak
in tliy name, he hath done evil to this peo-
ple : neither hast thou delivered thy people
at all.

CHAP. VI.

THEN the Lord said unto Moses, Now
shalt thou see what I will do to Pha-
raoh : for with a strong hand shall he let
them go, and with a strong hand shall he
drive them out of his land.

2 And God spake unto Moses, and said
unto him, I am the Lord :

3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto
Isaac, and unto Jacob by the name of God
Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH
Avas I not known to them.

4 And I have also established my cove-
nant with them, to give them the land of
Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage,
wherein they were strangers.

5 And I have also heard the groaning of
the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians
keep in bondage : and I have remembered
my covenant.

6 Wherefore say unto the children of
Israel, I am the Lord, and I will brin^ you
out from under the burdens of the Egyp-
tians, and I will rid you out of their bon-
dage, and I will redeem you with a stretch-
ed-out arm, and with great judgments :

7 And I will take you to me for a people,
and I will be to you a God : and ye shall
know that I am the Lord your God, which
bringeth you out from under the burdens of
the Egyptians.

8 And I will bring you in unto the land,
concerning the which I did swear to give it
to Abraham, to laaac, and to Jacob ; and I
will give it you for an heritage : I am the
Lord.

9 And Moses spake so unto the children
of Israel : but they hearkened not unto
Moses, for anguish of spirit, and for cruel
bondage.

10 il And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

1 1 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of
Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go
out of his land.

12 And Moses spake before the Lord,
saying, Beliold, the children of Israel have
not hearkened unto me; how then shall
Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised
lips ?

13 And the Lord spake unto Moses, and
unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto
the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh
king of Egypt, to bring the children of Is-
rael out of the land of Egypt.

14 H These be the heads of their fathers'
houses : The sons of Reuben the first-born
of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and
Carmi : these he the tamilies of Reuben.

15 ^ And the .sons of Simeon ; Jemuel,
and Jainin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zo-
har, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish
woman : these are the families of Simeon.

VI, VII. and encourages Moses.

16 H And these are the names of the sons
of Levi, according to their generations;
Gershon, and Koliath, and Merari. And
the years of the life of Levi ivere an hun-
dred thirty and seven years.

17 The sons of Gershon ; Libni, and
Shimi, according to their families.

18 And the sons of Kohath ; Amram,
and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel : and
the years of the life of Kohath loere an hun-
dred thirty and three years.

19 And the sons of Merari ; Mahali and
Mushi : these are the families of Levi, ac-
cording to their generations.

20 And Amram took him Jochebed his
father's sister to wife ; and she bare him
Aaron and Moses. And the years of the
life of Amram ivere an hundred and thirty
and seven years.

21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and
Nepheg, and Zichri.

22 And the sons of Uzziel ; Mishael, and
Elzaphan, and Zithri.

23 And Aaron took him Elisheba daugh-
ter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon to
wife ; and she bare him Nadab and Abihu,
Eleazar and Ithamar.

24 And the sons of Korah ; Assir, and
Elkanah, and Abiasaph : these are the fa-
milies of the Korhites.

25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him
one of the daughters of Putiel to wife ; and
she bare him Phinehas : these are the heads
of the fathers of the Levites, according to
their families.

26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to
whom the Lord said, Bring out the children
of Israel from the land of Egypt according
to their armies.

27 These are tliey which spake to Pha-
raoh kin^ of Egypt, to bring out the chil-
dren of Israel from Egypt : these arc that
Moses and Aaron.

28 II And it came to pass on the day ivhen
the Lord spake unto Moses in the land of
Egypt,

29 That the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, I am the Lord : speak thou unto
Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto
thee.

30 And Moses said before the Lord, Be-
hold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how
shall Pharaoh hearken unto me 1

CHAP. VII.
ND the Lord said unto Moses, See, 1
have made thee a god to Pharaoh :
and Aaron thy brother shall be thy pro-
phet.

2 Thou shalt speak all that I command
thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak
unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of
Israel out of his land.

3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and
multiply my signs and my wonders in the
land of Egypt.

4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto
you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt,

Aaron's rod becomes a serpent.
and bring forth mine armies, and my peo-
ple the children of Israel, out of the land
of Egypt, by great judgments.

5 And the Egyptians shall know that I
am the Lord, wiien 1 stretch forth mine
hand upon Egypt, and bring out the chil-
dren ol Israel from among them.

6 And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord
commanded them, so did they.

7 And Moses was fourscore years old,
and Aaron fourscore and three years old,
when they spake unto Pharaoh.

8 •[ Aild the Lord spake unto Moses,
and unto Aaron, saying,

9 When Pliaraoh shall speak unto you,
saying. Shew a miracle for you : then thou
shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and
cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become
a serpent.

10 And oMoses and Aaron went in unto
Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had
commanded : And Aaron cast down his rod
before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and
it became a serpent.

11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise
men, and the sorcerers : now the magicians
of Egypt, the}^ also did in like manner with
their enchantments.

12 For they cast down every man his rod,
and they became serpents : but Aaron's
rod swallowed up their rods.

13 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart that
he hearkened not unto them ; as the Lord
had said.

14 1i And the Lord said unto Moses,
Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to
let the people go.

15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morniRg ;
lo, he goeth out unto the water, and thou
shalt stand by the river's brink against he
come : and the rod v/hich was turned to a
serpent slialt thou take in thine hand.

16 And thou shalt say unto him, The
Lord God of the Hebrews hath sent me
unto thee, saying. Let my people go, that
they may serve mc in the wilderness : and
behold, hitherto thou wouldcst not hear.

17 Thus saith the Lord, In this thou shalt
know that I am the Lord : behold, I will
smite with the rod that /*■ in mine hand upon
the waters which are in the river, and they
shall be turned to blood.

18 And the fish that is in the river shall
die, and the river shall stink : and tiie Egyp-
tians shall loathe to drink of the water of
the river.

19 1i And the Lord spake unto Moses,
Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch
out tlime hand up(m the waters of Egypt,
upon their streams, upon their rivers, and
upon their ])onds, and upon all their pools
of water, that they may become blood : and
that there may be blood tliroughout all the
land of ICgyjjt, l)oth in vessels of wood, and
in vessels of sfone.

20 And Moses and Aaror did so, as the
Lord commanded ; and he itted up the rod

EXODUS. The plague of frogs ;

and smote the waters that were in the river,
in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of
his servants ; and all the waters that were
in the river were turned into blood.

21 And the fish that wets in the river died ;
and the river stank, and the Egyptians
could not drink of the water of the river ;
and there was blood througliout all the land
of Egypt.

22 And the magicians of Egypt did so
with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's
heart was hardened, neither did he hearken
unto them ; as the Lord had said.

23 And Pharaoh turned and went into
his house, neither did he set his heart to this
also.

24 And all the Egyptians digged round
about the river for water to drink ; for they
could not drink of the water of the river.

2.5 And .seven days were fulfilled after
that the Lord had smitten the river.
CHAP. VIII.

AND the Lord spake unto Moses, Go
unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus
saith the Lord, Let my people go that they
may serve me.

2 And if thou refuse to let them go,
behold, I will smite all thy borders with
frogs :

3 And the river shall bring forth frogs
abundantly, which shall go up and come
into thine house, and into thy bed-chamber,
and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy
servants, and upon thy people, and into
thine ovens, and into thy kneading troughs :

4 And the frogs shall come up both on
thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy
servants.

5 "fl And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say
unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with
thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and
over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up
upon the land of Egypt.

6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over
the waters of Egj^pt ; and the frogs came
up, and covered the land of Egypt.

7 And the magicians did so with their
enchantments, and brought up frogs upon
the land of Egypt.

8 U Then Pharaoh called for Moses and
Aaron, and said, Entreat the Lord that he
may take away the frogs from me, and from
my people : and I will let the people go,
that they may do sacrifice unto the Lord.

9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory
over me : when shall I entreat for thee and
for thy servants, and for thy people, to de-
stroy the frogs from thee, and thy houses,
that they may remain in the river only 1

10 And he said. To-morrow. And he
said, Be it according to thy word : that thou
mayest know that there is none like unto
the Lord our God.

11 And the frogs shall depart from thee,
and from thy houses, and from thy servants,
and from thy people ; they shall remain in
the river only.

of lice, and swarms of flies. CHAP

12 And Moses and Aaron went out from
Pharaoh : and Moses cried unto the Lord,
because of the frogs which he had brought
against Pharaoh.

13 And the Lord did according to the
word of Moses : and the frogs died out of
the houses, out of the villages, and out of
the fields.

14 And they gathered them together
upon heaps : and the land stank.

15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was
respite, he hardened his heart, and hearken-
ed not unto tiiem ; as the Lord had said.

16 H And the Lord said unto Moses, Say
unto Aaron, stretch out thy rod, and smite
the dust of the land, that it may become
lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

17 And they did so ; for Aaron stretched
out his hand with his rod, and smote the
dust of the earth, and it became lice in man
and in beast : all the dust of the land be-
came lice throughout all the land of Egypt. |

18 And the magicians did so with their
enchantments to bring forth lice, but the}^
could not : so there were lice upon man,
and upon beast.

19 Then the magicians said unto Pha-
raoh, This is the finger of God : and Pha-
raoh's heart was hardened, and he hearken-
ed not unto them ; as the Lord had said. "

20 IT And the Lord said unto Moses,
Rise up early in the morning, and stand
before Pharaoh ; (lo, he cometh forth to the
water) and say unto him. Thus saith the
Lord, Let my people go, that they may
serve me :

21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people
go, behold, I will send swarms of flics upon
thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy
people, and into thy houses : and the
houses of the Egyptians shall be full of
swarms of flies, and also the ground Vv'here-
on they are.

22 And I will sever in that day the land
of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that
no swarms of flics shall be there ; to the
ond thou mayest know that I am the Lord
in the midst of the earth.

23 And I will put a division between my
people and thy people : to-morrow shall
this sign be.

2-i And the Lord did so : and there
came a grievous swarm of flics into the
house of Pharaoh, and into his servants'
houses, and into all the land of Egypt : the
land was corruoted by reason of the swarm
of flics.

25 11 And Pharaoh called for Moses, and
for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to
your God in the land.

26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to
do ; for we shall sacrifice the abomination
of the Egyptians to the Lord our God : Lo,
shall we sacrifice the abomination of the
Egyptians before their eyes, and will they
not stone us ?

27 We will go tlu-ee days' journey into

, IX. The murrain of beasts.

the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord
our God, as he shall command us.

28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go.
that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God
in the wilderness ; only ye shall not go very
far away : entreat for me.

29 And Moses said. Behold, I go out
from thee, and I will entreat the Lord that
the swarms of flies may depart from Pha-
raoh, from his servants, and from his peo-
ple, to-morrow : but let not Pharaoh deal
deceitfully any more, in not letting the peo-
ple go to sacrifice to the Lord.

30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh,
and entreated the Lord :

31 And the Lord did according to the
word of Moses; and he removed the
swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his
servants, and from his people ; there re-
mained not one.

32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at
this time also, neither would lie let the peo-
ple go.

CHAP. IX.

THEN the Lord said unto Moses, Go in
unto Pharaoh, and tell him. Thus saith
the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my peo-
ple go, that they may serve me.

2 For if thou refuse to let t/icm go, and
wilt hold them still,

3 Behold, the hand of the Lord is Wpon
thy cattle which /,s in the field, upon the
horses, upon the asses, upon the camels,
upon the oxen, and upon the sheep : there
shall be a very grievous murrain.

4 And the Lord shall sever between the
cattle of Israel, and the cattle of Egypt :
and there shall nothing die of all that is the
children's of Israel.

5 And the Lord appointed a set time,
saying. To-morrow the Lord shall do this
thing in the land.

6 And the Lord did that thing on the
morrow, and all tlie cattle of Eyypt died :
but of the cattle of the children of Israel
died not one.

7 And Pharaoh sent, and behold, there
was not one of the cattle of the Israelites
dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was har-
dened, and he did not let the people go.

8 *!l And the Lord said unto Moses and
unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes
of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it to-
ward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.

9 And it shall become small dust in all
the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil break-
ing forth ivith blaius upon man, and upon
beasts, throughout all the land of Egypt.

10 And they took ashes of the furnace,
and stood before Pharaoh ; and Moses
sprinkled it up toward heaven : and it be-
came a boil breaking forth tvith blainsupon
man, and upon beast.

11 And the magicians could not stand
before Moses, because of the boils : for the
boil was upon the magicians, and upon all
the Egyptians.

The plague of boils and blains;

EXODUS.

of fire and hail.

12 And the Lord hardened the heart of
Pliaraoh, and he hearkened not unto them ;
as the Lord had spoken unto Moses.

13 H And the Lord said unto Moses,
Rise up early in the morning, and stand be-
fore Pharaoh, and saj' unto him, Thus saith
the Lord God of the"^Hebrews, Let my peo-
ple go, that thev may serve me.

14 For i will at this time send all my
plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy
servants, and upon thy people : that thou
mayest know that there is none like me in
all the earth.

1.5 For now I will stretch out my hand,
that I may smite thee and thy people wuth
pestilence ; and thou shalt be cut off from
the earth.

16 And in very deed for this cause have I
raised thee up, for to shew m thee my
power ; and that my name may be declar-
ed throughout all the earth.

17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against
my people, that thou wilt not let them go ?

18 Behold, to-morrow about this time 1
will cause it to rain a very grievous hail,
such as hath not been in Egypt since the
Ibundation tliereof even untilnow.

19 Send therefore now, and gather thy
cattle, and all that thou hast in the field :
for^iipon every man and beast which shall
be Tound in the field, and shall not be
brought home, the hail shall come down
upon them, and they shall die.

20 He that feared the word of the Lord
among the servants of Pharaoh made his
servants and his cattle flee into the houses :

21 And he that regarded not the word of
the Lord left his servants and his cattle in
the field.

22 H And the Lord said unto Moses,
Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven,
that there may be hail in all the land of
Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and
upon every herb of the field, throughout
the land of Egypt.

23 And Moses stretched forth his rod to-
ward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder
and hail, and the fire ran along upon the
ground : and the Loud rained hail upon the
land of Egypt.

24 So there was hail, and fire mingled
with the hail, very grievous, such as there
was none like it in all the land of Egypt
since it became a nation.

2.5 And the hail smote throughout all the
land of Egypt all that iras in the field, both
man and beast, and the hail smote every
herb of the field and brake every tree of
the field.

26 Only in the land of Goshen, where
the children of Israel were, was there no
hail.

27 H And Pharaoh sent and called for
Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I
have sinned this time : the Lord is righ-
teous, and I and my people arc wicked.

28 Entreat the Lord (for it is enough)

that there be no more mighty thunderings
and hail ; and I will let you go, and ye shall
stay no longer.

29 And Moses said unto him. As soon as
1 am gone out of the city, I will spread
abroad my hands unto the Lord ; and the
thunder shall cease, neither shall there be
any more hail ; that thou mayest know how
that the earth is the Lord's.

30 But as for thee and thy servants, I
know that ye will not yet fear the Lord God.

31 And the flax and the barle}^ was smit-
ten ; for the barley 2vas in the ear, and the
flax 2Das boiled.

32 But the wheat and the rye were not
smitten : for they ivcre not grown up.

33 And Moses went out of the city fi-om
Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto
the Lord : and the thunders and hail ceas-
ed, and the rain was not poured upon the
earth.

34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain
and the hail and the thunders were ceased,
he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart,
he and his servants.

35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hard-
ened, neither would he let the children of
Israel go ; as the Lord had spoken by Mo-
ses.

' CHAP. X.

AND the Lord said unto Moses, Go in
unto Pharaoh : for I have hardened his
heart, and the heart of his servants ; that I
might shew these my signs before liim :

2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears
of thy son, and of thy son's son, what
things I have wrought in Egypt, and my
signs which I have done among them ; that
ye may know how that I am the Lord.

3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto
Pharaoh, and said unto him. Thus saith
the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long
wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before
ine 1 Let my people go, that they may serve
me.

4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people
go, behold, to-morrow will I bring the lo-
custs into thy coast :

5 And they shall cover the face of the
earth, that one cannot be able to see the
earth : and they shall eat the residue of
that which is escaped, which remaineth unto
you from the hail, and shall eat every tree
which groweth for you out of the field :

6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the
houses of all thy servants, and the houses
of all the Egyptians ; which neither thy fa-
thers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen,
since the day that they were upon the earth
unto this day. And he turned himself, and
went out from Pharaoh.

7 II And Pharaoh's servants said unto
him. How long shall this man be a snare
unto us 1 Let the men go, that they may
serve the Lord their God : Knowest thou
not yet that Egypt is destroyed 1

8 And Moses and Aaron were brought

The plague of locusts.

CHAP. XL

and of darkness.

again unto Pharaoh : and he said unto them,
Go, serve the Lord your God: but who are
they that shall go ?

9 And Moses said, We will go with our
young and with our old, with our sons and
with our daughters, with our flocks and
with our herds will we go : for we 7Hust hold
a feast unto the Lord.

10 And he said unto them, Let the Lord
be so with you, as I will let you go, and

all the children of Israel had light in their
dwellings.

24 H And Pharaoh called unto Moses,
and said. Go ye, serve the Lord : only
let your flocks and your herds be stayed :
let your little ones also go with you.

25 And Moses said, Thou must give us
also sacrifices, and burnt-oflTerings, that we
may sacrifice unto the Lord our God.

26 Our cattle also shall go with us ; there

your little ones: look to it ; for evil is be- shall not an hoof be left behind ; for thereof

fore you

11 Not so: go now ye that are men
and serve the Lord ; for that ye did desire
And they were driven out from Pharaoh's
presence.

12 H And the Lord said unto Moses,
Stretch out thine hand over the land of
Egypt for the locusts, that they may come
up upon the land of E";ypt, and eat every
herb of the land, even all that the hail hath
left.

13 And Moses stretched forth his rod
over the land of Egypt, and the Lord
brought an east wind upon the land all that
day, and all that night : and when it was
morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

14 And the locusts went up over all the
land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts
of Egypt : very grievous wa-e they ; be-
fore them there were no such locusts as
they, neither after them shall be such.

15 For they covered the face of the
whole earth, so that the land was darkened ;
and they did eat every herb of the land,
and all the fruit of the trees which the hail
had left : and there remained not any green
thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the
field, through all the land of Egypt.

16 H Then Pharaoh called for Moses
and Aaron in haste ; and he said, I have
sinned against the Lord your God, and
against you.

17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee,
my sin only this once, and entreat the
Lord your God that he may take awaj'
from me this death only.

18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and
entreated tlie Lord.

19 And the Lord turned a mighty strong
west wind which took away the locusts, and
cast them into the Red sea : there remain-
ed not one locust in all the coasts of
Egypt.

20 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's
heart, so that he would not let the children
of Israel go.

21 H And the Lord said unto Moses,
Stretch out thine hand toward heaven,
that there may be darkness over the land
of Egypt, even darkness lohirh may be felt.

22 And Moses stretched forth his hand
toward heaven : and there was a thick
darkness in all the land of Egypt three
days :

23 They saw not one another, neither
rose any from his place for three days : but

must we take to serve the Lord our God
and we know not with what we must serve
the Lord, until we come thither.

27 H But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's
heart, and he would not let them go.

28 And Pharaoh said unto him. Get thee
from me, take heed to thyself, see my face
no more : for in that day thou seest my
face, thou shalt die.

29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken
well, I will see thy face again no more.

CHAP. XL
ND the Lord said unto Moses, Yet
will I bring one plague more upon
Pharaoh, and upon Egypt ; afterward he
will let you go hence : when he shall let
you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence
altogether.

2 Speak now in the ears of the people,
and let every man borrow of his neighbour,
and every woman of her neighbour, jewels
of silver, and jewels of gold.

3 And the Lord gave the people favour
in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover,
the man Moses was very j^reat in the land
of Egypt, in the sight ot Pharaoh's ser-
vants, and in the sight of the people.

4 II And Moses said, Thus saith the
Lord, About midnight will I go out into
the midst of Egypt :

5 And all the first-born in the land of
Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pha-
raoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto
the first-born of the maid-servant that is be-
hind the mill ; and all the first-born of
beasts.

6 And there shall be a great cry through-
out all the land of Egypt, such as there
was none like it, nor shall be like it any
more.

7 But against any of the children of Is-
rael shall not a dog move his tongue, against
man or beast : that ye may know how that
the Lord doth put a difference between the
Egyptians and Israel.

8 And all these thy servants shall come
down unto me, and bow down themselves
unto me, saying. Get thee out, and all the
people that follow thee; and after that I
will go out. And he went out from Phara-
oh in a great anger.

9 U And the Lord said unto Moses, Pha-
raoh shall not hearken unto you ; that my
wonders may be multiplied in the land of
Egypt.

lo And Moses and Aaron did all these
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ThB Passover instituted.
wonders before Pharaoh; and the Lord
hardened Pharaoli's heart, so that he would
not let the children of Israel go out of his

iand.

CHAP. XII.

AND the Lord spake unto Moses and
Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

2 This month s/iali be unto you the be-
ginning of months: it shall be the first
month of the year to you.

3 Ti Speak ye unto" all the congregation
of Israel, saying. In the tenth cloy of this
month they shall take to them every man a
lamb according to the house of their fathers,
a lamb for an house :

4 And if the household be too little for
the lamb, let him and his neighbour next
unto his house take it according to the
number of the souls : every man according
to his eating shall make your count for the
Jamb,

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a
male of the first year : ye shall take it out
from the sheep or from the goats :

6 And ye shall keep it up until the four-
teenth day of the same month : and the
whole assem])ly of the congregation of Is-
rael shall kill it in the evening.

7 And they shall take of the blood, and
strike it on the two side-posts, and on the
upper door-post of the houses, wherein they
shall eat it.

8 And they shall eat the flesh in that
night, roast with fire, and unleavened
bread ; and with bitter kerbs they shall eat it.

9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all
with water, but roast with fire; his head
with his legs, and with the purtenance
thereof

10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain
until the morning : and that which remain-
eth of it until the morning ye shall burn
Avith fire.

11 *f And thus shall ye eat it ; with your
loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and
your staff in your hand : and ye shall eat
it in haste ; it is the Lord's passover.

1*2 For I will pass through the land of
Egypt this night, and will smite all the
iirst-lxjrn in the land of Egypt, both man
a^id beast: and against all the gods of
Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the
Lord.

13 And the blood shall be to you for a
token upon the houses where ye arc : and
when I see the blood, I will pass over you,
and the plague shall not be upon yoii to
destroy rjoi/, when I smite the land of
Egypt.

14 And tliis day sliall be unto you for a
memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to
the Lord throughout your generations : ye
shall keep it a "feast "by an ordinance for
ever.

1.5 H Seven days shall ye eat unleavened
bread ; even the "first day ye shall put away
leaven out of your houses : for whosoever

EXODUS. Unleavened bread.

eateth leavened bread, from the first day
until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut
oflTfrom Israel.

16 And in the first day tJicre shall be an
holy convocation, and in the seventh day
there shall be an holy convocation to you :
no manner of work shall be done in them,
save that which every man must eat, that
onl y may be done of you.

17 And ye shall observe the feast of un-
leavened bread ; for in this self-same day
have I brought your armies out of the land
of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this
day in your generations by an ordinance
for ever.

18 In the first 7nonth, on the fourteenth
day of the month at even, ye shall eat un-
leavened bread, until the one and twentieth
day of the month at even.

19 Seven days shall there be no leaven
found in jour houses : for whosoever eateth
that which is leavened, even that soul shall
be cut off from the congregation of Israel,
whether he be a stranger, or born in the
land.

20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened : in all
your habitations shall ye eat unleavened
bread.

21 M Then Moses called for all the elders
of Israel, and said unto them. Draw out,
and take you a lamb, according to your
families, and kill the passover.

22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop,
and dip it in the blood that is in the basin,
and strike the lintel and the two side-posts
with the blood that is in the basin : and
none of you shall go out at the door of his
house until the morning.

23 For the Lord will pass through to
smite the Egyptians ; and when he seeth
the blood upon the lintel, and on the two
side-posts, the Lord will pass over the
door, and will not suffer the destroyer to
come in unto your houses to smite you,

24 And ye shall observe this thing for
an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for
ever.

25 And it shall come to pass, when ye
be come to the land which the Lord will
give you, according as he hath promised,
that ye shall keep this service.

26 And it shall come to pass, when your
children shall say unto you. What mean
ye by this service ?

27 That ye shall say. It is the sacrifice of
the Lord's passover, who passed over the
houses of the children of Israel in Egypt,
when he smote the Egyptians, and deliver-
ed our houses. And the people bowed the
head and worshipped.

28 And the children of Israel went away,
and did as the Lord had commanded Mo-
ses and Aaron, so did they.

29 H And it came to pass, that at mid-
night the Lord smote all the first-born in
the land of Egypt, from the first-born of
Pharaoh that sat on his throne, unto the

The first-horn of Egypt slain, CHAP. XIII. and the Israelites dnven out.

first-born of the captive that was in the dun-
geon ; and all the nrst-born of cattle.

30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he,
and all his servants, and all the Egyptians ;
and there was a great cry in Egypt: for
there was not a house where there was not
one dead.

31 1l And he called for Moses and Aaron
by niglit, and said, Rise up, and get you
forth from among my people, both ye and
the children of Israel : and go, serve the
Lord, as ye have said.

32 Alro take your flocks and your herds,
as ye have said, and be gone : and bless me
also.

33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon
the people, that they might send them out
of the land in haste ; for they said. We be
all dead ?ucn.

34 And the people took their dough be-
fore it was leavened, their kneading troughs
being bound up in their clothes upon their
shoulders.

35 And the children of Israel did ac-
cording to the word of Moses: and they
borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver,
and jewels of gold, and raiment.

36 And the Lord gave the people favour
in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they
lent unto them such things as they required :
and they spoiled the Egyptians.

37 H And the children of Israel journey-
ed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hun-
dred thousand on foot that tvere men, be-
sides children.

38 And a mixed multitude went up also
with them ; and flocks, and herds, even very
much cattle.

39 And they baked unleavened cakes of
the dou";h which they brought forth out of
Egypt, for it was not leavened : because they
were thrust out of Egypt, and could not
tarry, neither had they prepared for them-
selves any victual.

40 H iVow the sojourning of the children
of Israel who dwelt in Egypt, was four hun-
dred and tliirty years.

41 And it came to pass, at the end of the
four hundred and thirty years, even the self-
same day it came to pass, that all the hosts
of tlie Lord went out from the land of
Egypt.

42 It is a night to be much observed unto
the Lord, for bringing them out from the
land of Egypt : this is that night of the
Lord to be observed of all the children of
Israel in their generations.

43 H And the Lord said unto Moses and
Aaron, This is the ordinance of the pass-
over : there shall no stranger eat thereof:

44 But every man's servant that is bought
for money, when thou hast circumcised him,
then shall he eat thereof.

4.5 A foreigner, and an hired servant shall
not eat thereof.

46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou
shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad

out of the house : neither shall ye break a
bone thereof

47 All the congregation of Israel shall
keep it.

48 And when a stranger shall sojourn
with thee, and will keep the passover to the
Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and
then let him come near and keep it ; and he
shall be as one that is born in the land : for
no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof

49 One law shall be to him that is home-
born, and unto the stranger that sojourneth
among you.

50 Thus did all the children of Israel ;
as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron,.
so did they.

51 And it came to pass the self-same day,,
that the Lord did brin^ the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt by their ar-
mies.

CHAP. XIIL

AND the Lord spake unto Moses, say-
ing,

2 Sanctify unto me all the first-born, what-
soever openeth the womb among the chil-
dren of Israel, both of man and of beast :
it is mine.

3 H And Moses said unto the people,.
Remember this day, in which ye came out
from Egypt, out of the house of bondage ;
for by strength of hand the Lord brought
you out from this place: there shall no
leavened bread be eaten.

4 This day came ye out in the month
Abib.

5 And it shall be when the Lord shall
bring thee into the land of the Canaanites,
and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware
unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing
with milk and honey ; that thou shalt keep
this service in this month.

6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened
bread, and in the seventh day sAa// 6c a feast
to the Lord.

7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven
days ; and there shall no leavened bread be
seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven
seen with thee in all thy quarters.

8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that
day, saying, This is done because of that
which the Lord did unto me when I came
forth out of Egypt.

9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee
upon thine hand, and for a memorial be-
tween thine eyes; that the Lord's law
may be in thy mouth : for with a strong
hand hath the Lord brought thee out of
Egypt.

10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordi-
nance in his season from year to year.

11 H And it shall be when the Lord shall
bring thee into the land of the Canaanites,
as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and
shall give it thee,

12 That thou shalt set apart unto the
Lord all that openeth the matrix ; and every

ne firstborn sanctified to God. EXODUS. Pharaoh pursues the IsraelUes.
f.r2n,Zi con^cth of a beast wh.ch thou,raoh and,ofh. servants was^tu^^^^^^^^
hast, the males shall be the Lord's.

13 And every firstling of an ass thou
Shalt redeem with a lamb ; and if thou wilt
not redeem it, then thou shalt break his
neck : and all the first-born of man among
thv children shalt thou redeem.

'14 And it shall be when thy son asketh
thee in time to come, saying, Wliat is this .
that thou shalt sav unto him, By strength
of hand the Lord brought us out trom
Egypt, from the house ot bondage :

15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh
would liardly let us go, that the Lord slevv
all the first-born in the land ot Egypt, both
the first-born of man, and the hrst-born ot
beasts: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all
that openeth the matrix, being males ; but
all the first-born of my children I redeem.

IG And it shall be for a token upon thine
hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes :
for by strength of hand the Lord brought
us forth out of Egypt.

17 H And it came to pass, when Tharaoh
had let the people go, that God led them
not through the way of the land ot the Phi-
listines, although that was near, for God
said. Lest peradventure the people repent
when they see war, and they return to
Egypt :

18 But God led the people about, through
the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea;
and the children of Israel went up harness-
ed out of the land of Egypt.

19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph
with him : for he had straitly sworn the chil-
dren of Israel, saying, God will surely visit
you ; and ye shall carry up my bones away
hence with you.

20 H And they took their journey from
Succoth, and encamped in Etliam, in the
edge of the wilderness.

•21 And the Lord went before them by
day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the
way ; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give
them liglit : to go by day and night.

22 He took not away the pillar of the
cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night,
from before the people.

CHAP. XIV.

AND the Lord spake unto Moses, say-
ing,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that
they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth,
between Migdol and the sea, over against
Baal-zephon : before it shall ye encamp by
the sea.

3 For Pharaoh will say of the children
of Israel, 'IMicy arc, entangled in the land,
the wilderness hath shut them in.

4 And 1 will harden Pharaoh's heart, that
he sliall follow after them ; and I will be
honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his
host ; that the Egyi)tians may know that I
am the Loud. And they did so.

6 II And it was told tlie king of Egypt
that the people fled : and the heart of Pha-

the people, and they said. Why have we
done this, that we have let Israel go from
serving us ? , • j

6 And he made ready his chariot, and
took his people with him :

7 And he took six hundred chosen chari-
ots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and cap-
tains over every one of them.

8 And the Lord hardened the heart of
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued
after the children of Israel : and the chil-
dren of Israel went out with an high

9 But the Egyptians pursued after them
(all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh,
and his horsemen, and his army) and over-
took them encamping by the sea, beside
Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

10 H And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the
children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and
behold, the Egyptians marched after them ;
and they were sore afraid : and the children
of Israel cried out unto the Lord.

11 And they said unto Moses, Because
there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou
taken us away to die in the wilderness?
Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to
carry us forth out of Egypt ?

12 Is not this the word that we did tell
thee in Egypt, saying. Let us alone, that
we may serve the Egyptians 1 For it had
been better for us to serve the Egyptians,
than that we should die in the wilderness.

13 H And Moses said unto the people,
Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salva-
tion of the Lord, which he will shew to
you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye
have seen to-day, ye shall see them again
no more for ever.

14 The Lord shall fight for you, and ye
shall hold your peace.

15 H And the Lord said unto Moses,
Wherefore criest thou unto mel Speak
unto the children of Israel, that they go
forward :

16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch
out thine hand over the sea, and divide it :
and the children of Israel shall go on dry
ground through the midst of the sea.

17 And I, behold, I will harden the
hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall fol-
low them : and I will get me honour upon
Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his
chariots, and upon his horsemen.

18 And the Egyptians shall know that I
am the Lord, when I have gotten me ho-
nour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and
upon his horsemen.

19 H And the angel of God which went be-
fore the camp of Israel, removed, and went
behind them ; and the pillar of the cloud
went from before their lace, and stood be-
hind them :

20 And it came between the camp of the
Egyptians and the camp of Israel ; and it i
was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave

The Egyptians drowned.
light by night to these : so that the one came
not near the other all the night.

21 If And Moses stretched out his hand
over the sea ; and the Loud caused the sea
to go back hy a strong east wind all that
niglit, and made the sea dry land, and the
waters were divided.

22 And the children of Israel went into
the midst of the sea upon the dry ground :
and the waters loere a wall unto them on
their right liand and on their left.

23 II And the Egyptians pursued, and
Avent in after them, to the midst of the sea,
even all Pharaoh's hor.ses, his chariots, and
his horsemen.

24 And it came to pass, that in the morn-
ing-watch the Lord looked unto the host of
the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and
of the cloud, and troubled the host of the
Egyptians,

25 And took off their chariot-wheels,
that they drave them heavily : so that the
Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of
Israel ; for the Lord fighteth for them
against the Egyptians.

26 "^ And the Lord said unto Moses,
Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the
waters may come again upon the Egyp-
tians, upon their chariots, and upon their
horsemen.

27 And Moses stretched forth his hand
over the sea, and the sea returned to his
strength wiien the morning appeared; and
the Egyptians lied against it ; and the Lord
overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the
sea.

28 And the waters returned, and covered
the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the
host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after
tliem ; there remained not so much as one
of them.

29 But the children of Israel walked
upon dry land in the midst of the sea ; and
the waters were a wall unto them on their
right hand, and on their left.

30 Thus the Lord saved Israel that day
out of the hand of the Egyptians : and Is-
rael saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-
shore.

31 And Israel saw that great work
whicli the Lord did upon the Egyptians :
and the people feared the Lord, and be-
lieved the Lord, and his servant Moses.

CHAP. XV.

THEN sang Moses and the children of
Israel this song unto the Lord, and
spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord,
for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse
and his rider hath he thro\vn into the

2 The Lord is my strength and song,
and he is become my salvation : he is my
God, and I will prepare him an habitation ;
my father's God, and I will exalt him.

3 The Lord is a man of war : the Lord
is his name.

4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he

CHAP. XV. The song of Moses.

cast into the sea : his chosen captains also
are drowned in the Red sea.

5 The depths have covered them : they
sank into the bottom as a stone.

6 Thy right hand, O Lord, is become
glorious in power : thy right hand, O Lord,
hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

7 And in the greatness of thine excellen-
cy thou hast overthrown them that rose up
against thee : thou sentest forth thy wrath,
ivhich consumed them as stubble.

8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the
waters were gathered together, the floods
stood upright as an heap, ojid the depths
were congealed in the heart of the sea.

9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will
overtake, I will divide the spoil : my lust
shall be satisfied upon tliem ; I will draw
mv sword, my hand shall destroy them.

"lO Thou didst blow with thy wind, the
sea covered them : they sank as lead in the
mighty waters.

11 Who is like unto thee, O Lord,
among the gods 1 who is like thee, glorious
in holiness, fearful in praises, doing won-
ders?

12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand,
the earth swallowed them.

13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the
people which thou hast redeemed : thou
hast guided them in thy strength unto thy
holy habitation.

14 The people shall hear, and be afraid :
sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of
Palestina.

1.5 Then the dukes of Edom shall be
amazed ; the mighty men of Moab, trem-
bling shall take hold" upon them ; all the in-
habitants of Canaan shall melt away.

16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them ;
by the greatness of thine arm they shall be
as still as a stone ; till thy people pass over,
O Lord, till the people pass over, ivhich
thou hast purchased.

17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant
them in the mountain of thine inheritance,
in the place, O Lord, ivhich thou hast made
for thee to dwell in ; in the sanctuary, O
Lord, ivhich thy hands have established.

18 The Lord shall reign for ever and
ever.

19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in
with his chariots and with his horsemen
into the sea, and the Lord brought again
the waters of the sea upon them : but the
children of Israel went on dry land in the
midst of the sea.

20 H And Miriam the prophetess, the
sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ;
and all the women went out after her, with
timbrels, and with dances.

21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye
to the Loud, for he hath triumphed glorious-
ly : the horse and his rider hath he thrown
into the sea.

22 H So Moses brought Israel from the
Red sea, and thev went" out into the wilder-

' 57

Tlic Israelites murmur for bread. EXODUS.

Quails and manna sent.

ness of Shur ; and tliey went three days in
the wilderness, and Ibund no water.

23 ^ And when they came to Marah,
they could not drink of the waters of Ma-
rah ; for they urre bitter : therefore the name
of it was called Marah.

24 And the people murmured against
Moses, saying. What shall we drink ?

25 And he cried unto the Lord ; and the
Lord shewed him a tree, which when he
liad cast into the waters, the waters were
made sweet : there he made for them a
statute and an ordinance, and there he
proved them,

26 And said. If thou wilt diligently
^hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God,

and wilt do that which is right in his sight,
and wilt give ear to his commandments, and
keep all his statutes ; I will put none of
these diseases upon thee, which I have
brought upon the Eg3'ptians: for I «m the
Lord that healeth thee.

27 II And they came to Elim, where
were twelve wells of water, and threescore
and ten palm-trees : and they encamped
there by the waters.

CHAP. XVL

AND they took their journey from Elim,
and all the congregation of the chil-
dren of Israel came unto the wilderness of
Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on
the fifteenth day of the second month after
their departing out of the land of Egypt.

2 And the whole congregation of the
children of Israel murmured against Moses
and Aaron in the wilderness :

3 And the children of Israel said unto
them, Would to God we had died by the
hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt,
when we sat by the flesh-pots, atid when we
did eat bread to the full : for ye have
brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill
this whole assembly with hunger.

4 ^ Then said the Lord unto Moses,
Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for
you ; and the people shall go out and gath-
er a certain rate every day, that I may prove
them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

5 And it shall come to pass, that on the
sixth day they shall prepare that which
they bring in ; and it shall be twice as mucli
as they gather daily.

6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the
children of Israel, At even, then ye shall
know tliat the Lord hath brought j-ou out
from the land of Egypt:

7 And in the morning, then ye shall see
the glory of the Lord ; Yor that" he lieareth
your murmurings against the Lord : And
what are we, that ye nmrmur against us ?

8 And Moses said. This shall he when
the Lord shall give you in the evening
flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to
the full ; for that the Lord heareth your
mnrnuirings which ye murmur against him :
And what arc we ? your murmurings arc
not agamst us, but against the Lord.

9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say
unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, Come near before the Lord : for he
hath heard your murmurings.

10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake
unto the whole congregation of the children
of Israel, that they looked toward the wil-
derness, and behold, the glory of the Lord
appeared in the cloud.

11 U And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

12 I have heard the murmurings of the
children of Israel ; speak unto them, say-
ing, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the
morning ye shall be filled with bread : and
ye shall know that I a?)i the Lord your
God.

13 1[ And it came to pass, that at even the
quails came up, and covered the camp :
and in the morning the dew lay round
about the host.

14 And when the dew that lay was gone
up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness
there lay a small round thing, as small as the
hoar frost on the ground :

16 And when the children of Israel saw
it, they said one to another. It is manna :
for they wist not what it was. And Moses
said unto them. This is the bread which
the Lord hath given you to eat.

16 H This is the thing which the Lord
hath commanded. Gather of it every man
according to his eating : an omer for every
man according to the number of your per-
sons, take ye every man for them which are
in his tents.

17 And the children of Israel did so, and
gathered, some more, some less.

18 And when they did mete it with an
omer, he that gathered much liad nothing
over, and he that gathered little had no
lack : they gathered every man according
to his eating.

19 And iVIoses said. Let no man leave of
it till the morning.

20 Notwithstanding, they hearkened not
unto Moses; but some of them leftof it un-
til the morning, and it bred worms, and
stank : and Moses was wroth with them.

21 And they gathered it every morning,
every man according to liis eating: and
when the sun waxed hot it melted.

22 "il And it came to pass, that on the
sixth day they gathered twice as much
bread, two omers for one ?7icm : and all the
rulers of the congregation came and told
Moses.

23 And he said unto them. This is that
which the Lord hath said, To-morrow is
the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord :
bake that which ye will bake to-day, and
seethe that ye will seethe ; and that which
remaineth over, lay up for you to be kept
until tlie morning.

24 And they laid it up till the morning,
as Moses bade : and it did not stink, nei-
ther was there any worm therein.

The people murmur for water. CHAP. XVII, XVIII. Water out of the rock.

25 And Moses said, Eat that to-day ;
for to-day is a sabbath unto the Lord ; to-
day ye shall not find it in the. field.

26 Six days ye shall gather it ; but on
the seventh day, lohick is the sabbath, in
it there shall be none.

27 H And it came to pass, that there
went out some of the people on the seventh
day for to gather, and they found none.

28 And the Lord said unto Moses, How
long refuse ye to keep my commandments
and my laws ?

29 See, for that the Lord hath given
you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you
on the sixth day the bread of two days :
abide ye every man in his place, let no
man go out of his place on the seventh day.

30 So the people rested on the seventh
day.

31 And the house of Israel called the
name thereof Manna : and it icas like cori-
ander-seed, white ; and the taste of it was
like wafers made with honey.

32 H And Moses said, This is the thing
whicli the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer
of it to be kept tor your generations ; that
they may see the bread wherewith I have
fed you in the wilderness, when I brought
you forth from the land of Egypt.

33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a
pot, and put an omer full of manna therein,
and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept
for your generations.

34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so
Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to
be kept.

35 And the children of Israel did eat
manna forty years, until they came to a
land inhabited ; they did eat manna, until
they came unto the borders of the land of
Canaan.

36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an
ephah.

CHAP. XVIL
ND all the congregation of the children
of Israel journeyed from the wilder-
ness of Sin, after their journeys, according
to the commandment of the Lord, and
pitch.ed in Repliidim : and there loas no
water for the people to drink.

2 Wherefore the people did chide with
Moses, and said, Give us water that we
may drink. And Moses said unto them.
Why chide you with me ? wherefore do ye
tempt the Lord ?

3 And the people thirsted there for wa-
ter ; and the people murmured against
Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that
thou hast brought us up out of Egypt to kill
us and our children and our cattle with
thirst ?

4 And Moses cried unto the Lord, say-
ing, What shall I do unto this people ?
they be almost ready to stone me.

5 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on
before the people, and take with thee of
the elders of Israel . and thy rod, where-

with thou smotest
hand, and go.

6 Behold I will
upon tlie rock in

the river, take in thine

stand before thee there
Horeb ; and thou shalt
smite the rock, and there shall come water
out of it, that the people may drink. And
Moses did so in the sight of the elders of
Israel.

7 And he called the name of the place
Massah, and Meribah, because of the chid-
mg of the children of Israel, and because
they tempted the Lord, saying. Is the Lord
among us, or not ?

8 H Then came Amalek, and fought with
Israel in Rephidim.

9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose »
us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek :
to-morrow I will stand on the top of the
hill with the rod of God in mine hand.

10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to
him, and fought with Amalek : and Moses,
Aaron, and Hur, went up to the top of the
hill.

11 And it came to pass, when Moses
held up his hand, that Israel prevailed :
and when he let down his hand, Amalek
prevailed.

12 But Moses' hands rovre heavy ; and
they took a stone, and put it. under him,
and he sat thereon : and Aaron and Hur
stayed up his hands, the one on the one
side, and the other on the other side ; and
his hands were steady until the going dow^n
of the sun.

13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and
his people with the edge of the sword.

14 ^ And the Lord said unto Moses,
Write this for a memorial in a book, and
rehearse it in the ears of Joshua : for I will
utterly put out the remembrance of Ama-
lek from under heaven.

15 And Moses built an altar, and called
the name of it JEHOVAH-nissi :

16 For he said, Because the Lord hath
sworn that the Lord will have war with
Amalek from generation to generation.

CHAP. XVIll.
HEN Jethro the priest of Midian,
Moses' father-in-law, heard of all
that God had done for Moses, and for Is-
rael his people, and that the Lord had
brought Israel out of Egypt :

2 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law,
took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had
sent her back,

3 And her two sons ; of which the name
of the one was Gershom ; (for he said, I
have been an alien in a strange land :)

4 And the name of the other was Elie-
(for the God of my father, said he,

was mine help, and delivered me from the
sword of Pharaoh:)

5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law^, came
with his sons and his wife unto Moses into
the wilderness, where he encamped at the
mount of God :

6 And he said unto Moses, I thv father-

31oses entertains Jetliro.

EXODUS. God's message to the Israelites.

in-law Jetliro am come unto thee, and thy
wife, and her two sons with her.

7 II And Moses went out to meet his
iather-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed
him : and tliey asked each other of their
welfare : and they came into the tent.

8 And Moses "told his father-in-law all
that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh, and
to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all
the travali that had come upon them by the
way. and hoio the Lord delivered them.

9 '*A And Jethro rejoiced for all the good-
ness which the Lord had done to Israel,
whom he had delivered out of the hand of
the Egyptians.

10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the Lord,
who hath delivered you out of the hand of
the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pha-
raoh, who hath delivered the people from
under the hand of the Egyptians.

11 Now I know that the Lord is greater
than all gods : for in the thing wherein they
dealt proudh", he was above them.

12 And Jethro, Moses' fatlier-in-law,
took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God :
and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel
to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law be-
fore God.

13 *i[ And it came to pass on the mor-
row, that Moses sat to judge the people :
and the people stood by Moses from the
morning unto the evening.

14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw
all that he did to the people, he said. What
is this thing that thou doest to the people ?
Wiiy sittest thou thyself alone, and all the
people stand by thee from morning unto
even ?

15 And Moses said unto his father-in-
law. Because the people come unto me to
inquire of God :

16 When they have a matter, they come
unto me, and I judge between one and
another, and I do make them know the sta-
tutes of God, and his laws.

17 And Moses' father-in-law said unto
him. The thing that thou doest is not good.

IS Thou wilt surely wear away, both
thou, and this people that is with thee : for
this thing is too heavy for thee ; thou art
not able to perform it thyself alone

19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will
give thee counsel, and God shall be with
thee : Be thou fijr the people to God-ward,
that thou may(!st l)ring the causes unto God :

20 And thou slialt teach them ordinances
and laws, and siialt shev/ them the way
wherein they nmst walk, and the work that
they must do.

21 Moreover, thou shalt provide out of
all the people, able men, such as fear God,
men ot truth, hating covetousness ; and
place such over them to be rulers of thou-
sands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens

matter they shall bring unto thee, but every
small matter they shall judge : so shall it
be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the
burden with thee.

23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God
command thee .so, then thou shalt be able
to endure, and all this people shall also go
to their place in peace.

24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of
his father-in-law, and did all that he had
said.

25 And Moses chose able men out of all
Israel, and made them heads over the peo-
ple, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds,
rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

26 And they judged the people at all
seasons : the hai"d causes they brought unto
Moses, but every small matter they judged
themselves.

27 H And Moses let his father-in-law de-
part : and he went his way into his own
land.

CHAP. XIX.

IN the third month, when the children of
Israel were gone forth out of the land
of Egypt, the same day came they into the
wilderness of Sinai.

2 For they were departed from Rephi-
dim, and were come to the desert of Smai,
and had pitched in the wilderness ; and
there Israel camped before the mount.

3 II And Moses went up unto God, and the
Lord called unto him out of the mountain,
saying. Thus shalt thou say to the house of
Jacob, and tell the children of Israel ;

4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyp-
tians, and how 1 bare you on eagles' wings,
and brought you unto myself.

5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice
indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye
shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above
all people : for all the earth is mine :

6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of
priests, and an holy nation. These arc the
words which thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel.

7 H And Moses came and called for the
elders of the people, and laid before their
faces all these words which the Lord com-
manded him.

8 And all the people answered together,
and said, All that the Lord hath spoken
we will do. And Moses returned the words
of the people unto the Lord.

9 And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I
come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the
people may hear when I speak with thee,
and believe tliee for ever. And Moses told
the words of the people unto the Lord.

10 H And the Lord said unto Moses, Go
unto the people, and sanctify them to-day
and to-morrow, and let them wash their
clothes,

11 And be ready against the third day:
' for the third day the Lord will come down

22 And let them judge the people at all! in the sight of all the people upon mount
seasons: and it shall be, ^Aa< every great i Sinai.

Presence of God upon the mount. CHAP. XX.

The ten co7nmandmcnts.

12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the
people round about, saymg, Take heed to
yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount,
or touch the border of it : whosoever touch-
eth the mount shall be surely put to death :

13 There shall not an hand touch it, but
he shall surelj^ be stoned or shot through :
whether it be beast or man, it shall not live :
when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall
come up to the mount.

14 ^ And Moses went down from the
mount unto the people, and sanctified the
people ; and they washed their clothes.

15 And he said unto the people, Be ready
against the third day : come not at you7-
wives.

16 ^ And it came to pass on the third
day in the morning, that there were thun-
ders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon
the mount, and the voice of the trumpet
exceeding loud ; so that all the people that
icas in the camp trembled.

17 And Moses brought forth the people
out of the camp to meet with God ; and
they stood at the nether part of the mount.

18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a
smoke, because the Lord descended upon
it in fire : and the smoke thereof ascended
as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole
mount quaked greatly.

19 And when the voice of the trumpet
sounded long, and waxed louder and louder,
Moses spake, and God answered him by a
voice.

20 And the Lord came down upon
mount Sinai, on the top of the mount : and
the Lord called Moses up to the top of the
mount ; and Moses went up.

21 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go
down, charge the people, lest they break
through unto the Lord to gaze, and many
of them perish.

22 And let the priests also which come
near to tiie Lord, sanctify themselves, lest
the Lord break forth upon them.

23 And Moses said unto the Lord, The
people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for
thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about
the mount, and sanctify it.

24 And the Lord said unto him, Away,
get thee down, and thou shalt come up,
thou, and Aaron with thee : but let not the
priests and the people break through, to
come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth
upon them.

25 So Moses went down unto the people,
and spake unto them.

CHAP. XX.
ND God spake all these ^vords, sa3''ing,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have
brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage.

3 H Thou shalt have no other gods before
me.

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any
graven image, or any likeness of any thing
that is in heaven above, or that is in the

earth beneath, or that is in the water under
the earth:

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself ta
them, nor serve them : for I the Lord thy
God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity
of the fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation of them that
hate me ;

6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of
them that love me, and keep my command-
ments.

7 Thou shalt not take the name of tlie
Lord thy God in vain : for the Lord will
not hold him guiltless that taketh his name
in vain.

8 Remember the sabbath-day to keep it
holy.

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all
thy work :

10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of
the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do
any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daugh-
ter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant,
nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates :

11 For in six days the Lord made hea-
ven and earth, the sea and all that in them
is, and rested the seventh day : wherefore
the Lord blessed the sabbath-day, and hal-
lowed it.

12 U Honour thy father and thy mother;
that thy days may be long upon the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

13 Thou shalt not kill.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

15 Thou shalt not steal.

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbour.

17 Thou shaft not covet thy neighbour's
house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's
wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-
servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing
that is thy neighbour's.

18 IT And all the people saw the thunder-
ings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the
trumpet, and the mountain smoking : and
when the people saw it, they removed, and
stood afar of.

19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou
with us, r.nd we will hear : but let not God
speak with us, lest we die.

20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear
not : for God is come to prove you, and that
his fear may be before your faces, that ye
sin not.

21 And the people stood afar off, and
Moses drew near unto the thick darkness
where God was.

22 U And the Lord said unto Moses,
Thus thou shalt say unto the children of
Israel ; Ye have seen that I have talked with
you from heaven.

23 Ye shall not make with me gods of
silver, neither shall j^e make unto you gods
of gold.

24 II An altar of earth thou shalt make
unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy

Sundry laws
burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy
sheep, and thine oxen : ni all places where
I record my name I will come unto thee,
and I will bless thee.

25 And if thou wilt make me an altar
of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn
stone ; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it,
thou hast polluted it.

26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto
mine altar, that thy nakedness be not dis-
covered thereon.

CHAP. XXI.

NOW these are the judgments which
thou shalt set before them.

2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six
years he shall serve : and in the seventh he
shall go out free for nothing.

3 If he came in by himself, he shall go
out by himself: if he were married, then
his wile shall go out with him.

4 If his master have given him a wife,
and she have born him sons or daughters;
the wife and her cliildren shall be her mas-
ter's, and he shall go out by himself.

5 And if the servant shall plainly say,
I love my master, my wife, and my chil-
dren ; I will not go out free :

6 Then his master shall bring him unto
the judges: he shall also bring him to the
door, or unto the door-post : and his mas-
ter shall bore his ear through with an awl ;
and he shall serve him for ever.

7 H And if a man sell his daughter to be
a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the
men-servants do.

8 If she please not her master, who hath
betrothed her to himself, then .shall he let
her be redeemed : to sell her unto a strange
nation he shall have no power, seeing he
hath dealt deceitfully with her.

9 And if he have betrothed her unto his
son, he shall deal with her after the manner
of dauglatis.

10 If he take him another uife ; her food,
her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall
he not diminish.

11 And if he do not these three unto her,
then sliall siie go out free without money.

12 !I He tliat smiteth a man, so that' he
die, shall be surely put to de-'l'i.

13 And if a rnan lie not m wait, but
God deliver him. into his hand ; then I will
appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

14 But if a man come presumptuously
upon liis neighbour, to slay him with guile ;
thou shait take him from mine altar, that he
may die.

15 If And he that smiteth his father, or
his mother, shall l)e surely put to death.

If) ^ And he that stealeth a man, and sell-
eth him, or if he be found in his hand, he
.shall surely be put to deatli.

17 H And he that curseth his fiither or his
mother, shall surely be put to death

18 H And if men strive together, and one
smite another with a stone, or with hh fist
and he die not, but keepeth his bed :

EXODUS. and ordinances.

19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon
his staff', then shall he that smote him be
quit : only he shall pay for the loss of his
time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly
healed.

20 If And if a man smite his servant, or
his maid, with a rod, and he die under his
hand ; he shall be surely punished.

21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a
day or two, he shall not be punished : for
he is his money.

22 If If men strive, and hurt a woman
with child, so that her fruit depart y"ro)« her,
and yet no mischief follow : he shall be
surely punished, according as the woman's
husband will lay upon him ; and he shall
pay as the judges determine.

23 And if any mischief follow, then thou
shalt give life for life,

24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for
hand, foot for foot,

25 Burning for burning, wound for
wound, stripe for stripe.

26 If And if a man smite the eye of his
servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish ;
he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

27 And if he smite out his man-servant's
tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth ; he shall
let him go free for his tooth's sake.

28 If If an ox gore a man or a woman,
that they die : then the ox shall be surely
stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten ; but
the owner of the ox shcdl he quit.

29 But if the ox were wont to push with
his horn in time past, and it hath been tes-
tified to his owner, and he hath not kept
him in, but that he hath killed a man or a
woman ; the ox shall be stoned, and his
owner also shall be put to death.

30 If there be laid on him a sum of mo-
ney, then he shall give for the ransom of
his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

31 Whether he have ^ored a son, or have
gored a daughter, according to this judg-
ment shall it be done unto him.

32 If the ox shall push a man-servant, or
maid-servant ; he shall give unto their mas-
ter thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall
be stoned.

33 11 And if a man shall open a pit, or if
a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and
an ox or an ass fall therein ;

34 The owner of the pit shall make it
good, and give money unto the owner of
them ; and the dead beast shall be his.

35 *l And if one man's ox hurt another's
that he die, then thej- shall sell the live ox,
and divide the money of it, and the dead ox
also they shall divide.

36 Or if it be known that the ox hath
used to push in time j)ast, and his owner
hath not kept him in ; he shall surely pay
ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own.

CHAP. XXII.

IF a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and
kill it, or sell it; he shall restore fi\e
oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
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Sundry laws

2 If a thief be found breaking, „^, „,.„
be smitten that he die, there shall no blood
be shed for him.

3 If the sun be risen upon him there shall
be blood shed for him : for he should make
full restitution ; if he have nothing, then he
shall be sold for his theft.

4 If tlie theft be certainly found in his
hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or
sheep ; he shall restore double.

5 If If a man shall cause a field or vine-
yard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast,
and shall feed in another man's field : of the
best of his own field, and of the best of his
own vineyard shall he make restitution.

6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns,
so that the stacks of corn, or the standing
corn, or the field be consumed therewith ;
he that kindled the fire shall surely make
restitution.

7 11 If a man shall deliver unto his neigh-
bour money or stuff to keep, and it be sto-
len out of the man's house ; if the thief be
found, let him pay double.

8 If the thief be not found, then the mas-
ter of the house shall be brought unto the
judges, to see whether he have put his hand
unto his neighbour's goods.

9 For all manner of trespass, whether it
be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or
for any manner of lost thing which another
challengeth to be his : the cause of both
parties shall come before the judges ; and
whom the judges shall condemn, he shall
pay double unto his neighbour.

10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour
an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast
to keep ; and it die, or be hurt, or driven
away, no man seeing it:

11 Then shall an oath of the Lord be
between them both, that he hath not put his
hand unto his neighbour's goods ; and the
owner of it shall accept thereof, and he
shall not make it good.

12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall
make restitution unto the owner thereof.

13 If it be torn in pieces ; then let him
bring it for witness, and he shall not make
good that which was torn

14 H And if a man borrow ought of his
neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner
thereof being not with it, he shall surely
make it good.

15 But if the owner thereof be with it,
he shall not make it good : if it be an hired
thing, it came for his" hire.

16 H And if a man entice a maid that is
not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall
surely endow her to be his wife.

17 If her father utterly refuse to give her
unto him, he shall pay money according to
the dowry of virgins.

18 II Thou shalt not suffer a witch to
live.

19 "ff Whosoever lieth with a beast shall
surely be put to death

CHAP. XXIII. and ordinances.

up, and save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly

20 IT He that sacrificeth unto any god, [Egypt.

destroyed.

21 IT Thou shalt neither vex a stranger,
nor oppress him : for ye were strangers iii
the land of Egypt.

22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fa-
therless child.

23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and
they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear
their cry ;

24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I
will kill you with the sword; and your
wives shall be widows, and your children
fatherless.

25 H If thou lend money to any of my
people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not
be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou
lay upon him usury.

26 H If thou at all take thy neighbour's
raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto
him by that the sun goeth down :

27 For that is his covering only, it is his
raiment for his skin : wherein shall he sleep ?
and it shall come to pass, when he crieth
unto me, that I will hear ; for I am gracious.

28 H Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor
curse the ruler of thy people.

29 H Thou shalt not delay to offer the
first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors :
the first-born of thy sons shalt thou give
unto me.

30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine
oxen, and with thy sheep : seven days it
shall be with his dam; on the eighth day
thou shalt give it me.

31 H And ye shall be holy men unto me :
neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of
beasts in the field ; ye shall cast it to the
dogs.

CHAP. XXIIL

THOU shalt not raise a false report : put
not thine hand with the wicked to be
an unrighteous witness.

2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to
do evil ; neither shalt thou speak in a cause
to decline after many to wrest judgment :

3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor
man in his cause.

4 1[ If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his
ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it
back to him again.

5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth
thee lying under his burden, and wouldest
forbear to help hun, thou shalt surely help
with him.

6 H Thou shalt not wrest the judgment
of thy poor in his cause.

7 Keep thee far from a false matter ; and
the innocent and righteous slay thou not :
for I will not justify the wicked.

8 H And thou shalt take no gift ; for the
gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the
words of the righteous.

9 H Also thou shalt not oppress a stran-
ger : for ye know the heart of a stranger,
seeing ye were strangers in the land of

An Angel is promised. EXODUS.

10 If And six years thou shalt sow thy
land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it
rest and lie still ; that the poor of thy peo
pie may eat : and what they leave the beasts
of the field shall eat. In like manner thou
shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy
olivevard.

12" If Six days thou shalt do thy work,
and on the seventh day thou shalt rest : that
thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son
of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be
refreshed.

13 If And in all tJiings that I have said
unto you be circumspect : and make no
mention of the names of other gods, nei-
ther let it be heard out of thy mouth.

14 If Three times thou shalt keep a
feast unto me in the year.

15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unlea-
vened bread : (thou shalt eat unleavened
bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in
the time appointed of the month Abib ; for
in it thou cam est out from Egypt : and none
shall appear before me empty :)

16 And the feast of harvest, the first-
fruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown
in thy field"; and the feast of ingathering,
which is in the end of the year, when thou
hast gathered in thy labours out of the
field.

17 Three times in the year all tTiy males
shall appear before the Lord God.

18 ^ Thou shalt not offer the blood of
my sacrifice with leavened bread : neither
shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the
morning.

19 The first of the first-fruits of thy land
thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord
thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid iu
his mother's milk.

20 If Behold, I send an Angel before thee,
to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee
into the place which I have prepared.

21 Beware of him, and obey his voice,
provoke him not ; for he will not pardon
your transgressions : for my name /.< in him.

22 But if tliou shalt indeed obey his
voice, and do all that I speak ; then I will
be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an
adversary unto thine adversaries.

23 For mine Angel shall go before thee,
and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and
the Ilittites, and the Perizzites, and the Ca-
naanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites ;
and I will cut them off.

24 Tliou shalt not bow down to their
gods, nor serve them, nor do after their
works : but thou shalt utterly overthrow
them, and quite break down tlieir images.

2.5 And ye shall serve the Lord your
God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy
Avater ; and I will take sickness away from
the midst of tliee.

26 'i'liere shall nothing cast their young,
nor be barren, in thy land : the number of
thy days I will fulfil.

The glory of God appears.

27 I will send my fear before thee, and
will destroy all the people to whom thou
§halt come, and I will make all thine ene-
mies turn their backs unto thee.

28 And I will send hornets before thee,
which shall drive out the Hivite, the Ca-
naanite, and the Hittite from before thee.

29 I will not drive them out from before
thee in one year ; lest the land become de-
solate, and the beast of the field multiply
against thee.

30 By little and little I will drive them
out from before thee, until thou be increased,
and inherit the land.

31 And I will set thy bounds from the
Red sea even unto the sea of the Philis-
tines, and from the desert unto the river :
for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land
into your hand ; and thou shalt drive them
out before thee.

32 Thou shalt make no covenant with
them nor with their gods.

33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest
they make thee sin against me : for if thou
serve their gods, it will surely be a snare
unto thee.

CHAP. XXIV.

AND he said unto Moses, Come up un-
to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Na-
dab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders
of Israel ; and worship ye afar off.

2 And Moses alone shall come near the
Lord : but they shall not come nigh ; nei-
ther shall the people go up v.'ith him.

3 If And Moses came and told the peo-
ple all the words of the Lord, and all the
judgments : and all the people answered
with one voice, and said. All the words
which the Lord hath said will we do.

4 II And Moses wrote all the v/ords of
the Lord, and rose up early in the morn-
ing, and builded an altar under the hill,
and twelve pillars according to the twelve
tribes of Israel.

5 And he sent young men of the chil-
dren of Israel, which offered burnt-offer-
ings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen
unto the Lord.

6 And Moses took half of the blood, and
put it in basins ; and half of the blood he
sprinkled on the altar.

7 And he took the book of the covenant,
and read in the audience of the people :
and they said. All that the Lord hath said
will we do, and be obedient.

8 And Moses took the blood, and sprink-
led it on the people, and said, Behold the
blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath
made with you concerning all these words.

9 *if Then went uj) Moses, and Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the el-
ders of Israel :

10 And they saw the God of Israel : and
there jrr/s under his feet as it were a paved
work of a sapphire stone, and as it were
the body of heaven in his clearness.

1 1 And upon the nobles of the children
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The offering for the tabernacle. CHAP. XXV.

The golden candlestick.

of Israel he laid not his hand : also they
saw God and did eat and drink.

12 U And the Lord said unto Moses,
Come up to me into the mount, and be
there : and I will give thee tables of stone,
and a law, and commandments which I
have written ; that thou mayest teach them.

13 And Moses rose up, and his minister
Joslma : and Moses went up into the mount
of God.

14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry
ye here for us, until we come again imto
you : and behold, Aaron and Hur are with
you : if any man have any matters to do, let
him come unto them.

15 ^ And Moses went up into the mount,
and a cloud covered the mount.

16 And the glory of the Lord abode
upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered
it six days : and the seventh day he called
unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

17 And the sight of the glory of the
Lord loas like devouring fire on the top of
the mount in the eyes of the children of
Israel.

18 And Moses went into the midst of
the cloud, and gat him up into the mount :
and Moses was in the mount forty days
and forty nights.

CHAP. XXV.

AND the Lord spake unto Moses, say-
ing,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that
they bring me an offering : of every man
that giveth it willingly with his heart ye
shall take my offering.

3 And this is the offering which ye shall
take of them ; gold, and silver, and brass,

4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine linen, and goats' hair,

5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers'
skins, and shittim-wood,

6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing
oil, and for sweet mcense,

7 Onyx-stones, and stones to be set in
the ephod, and in the breast-plate.

8 And let them make me a sanctuary ;
that J may dwell among them.

9 According to all that I shew thee, after
the pattern of t!ie tabernacle, and the pat-
tern of all the instruments thereof, even so
shall ye make it.

10 1[ And they shall make an ark of
shittim-v.'ood : two cubits and a half shall
he tiiG length thereof, and a cubit and a half
the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half
the heiglit tliereof.

11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure
gold, within and without shalt thou overlay
it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold
round about.

12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold
for it, and put them in the four corners
thereof; and two rings sltall be in the one
side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.

13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim-
wood, and overlay them with gold.

14 And thou shalt put the staves into the
rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark
may be borne with them.

15 The staves shall be in the rings of
the ark : they shall not be taken from it.

16 And thou shalt put into the ark the
testimony which I shall give thee.

17 H And thou shalt make a merc3^-^eat
of pure gold : two cubits and a half shall
be the length thereof, and a cubit and a
half the breadth thereof

18 And thou shalt make two cherubims
of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make
them, in the two ends of the mercy-seat.

19 And make one cherub on the one
end, and the other cherub on the other end :
even of the mercy-seat shall ye make the
cherubims on the two ends thereof

20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth
their wings on high, covering the mercy-
seat with their wings, and their faces shall
look one to another ; toward the mercj'^-
seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.

21 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat
above upon the ark ; and in the ark thou
shalt put the testimony that I shall give
thee.

22 And there I v.ill meet with thee, and
I will commune with thee from above the
mercy-seat, from between the two cheru-
bims which are upon the ark of the testi-
mony, of all things which I will give thee
in commandment unto the children of Is-
rael.

23 H Thou shalt also make a table of
shittim-wood : two cubits shall be the length
thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof,
and a cubit and a half the height thereof

24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure
gold, and make thereto a crown of gold
round about.

25 And thou shalt make unto it a border
of an hand-breadth round about, and thou
shalt make a golden crown to the border
thereof round about.

26 And thou shalt make for it four rings
of gold, and put the rings in the four cor-
ners that are on the four feet thereof

27 Over against the border shall the
rings be for places of the staves to bear the
table.

28 And thou shalt make the staves of
shittim-wood, and overlay them with gold,
that the table may be borne with them.

29 And thou shalt make the dishes there-
of, and spoons thereof", and covers thereof,
and bowls thereof, to cover withal : of pure
gold shalt thou make them.

30 And thou shalt set upon the table
shew-bread before me alway.

31 ^ And thou shalt make a candlestick
of pure gold: of beaten work shall the
candlestick be made: his shaft, and his
l)ranches, his bowls, his knops, and his
flowers, shall be of the same.

32 And six branches sliall come out of the
sides of it ; three branches of the candle-

The curtains of the tabernacle. EXODUS. The hoards of the tabernacle.
stickoutoftheoncside, and three branches j and shalt double the sixth curtain in the

of tlie candlestick out of the other side

33 Three bowls made like unto almonds,
with a knop and a flower in one branch ;
and three bowls made like almonds in the
other branch, icith a knop and a flower : so
in the six branches that come out of the
candlestick

34 And in the candlestick shall be four
bowls made like unto almonds, with their
knops and their flowers.

35 And there shall be a knop under two
branches of the same, and a knop under
two branches of the same, and a knop un-
der two branches of the same, according
to the six branches that proceed out of the
candlestick.

36 Their knops and their branches shall
be of the same : all of it shall be one beaten
work of pure gold.

37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps
thereof: and they shall light the lamps
thereof, that they may give light over
against it.

38 And the tongs thereof, and the snufT-
dishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he
make it, with all these vessels.

40 And look that thou make them after
their pattern, which was shewed thee in
the mount.

CHAP. XXVI.

MOREOVER, thou shalt make the ta-
bernacle ivith ten curtains of fine
twined linen, and blue, and purple, and
scarlet : with cherubims of cunning work
shalt thou make them.

2 The length of one curtain shall be eight
and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one
curtain four cubits : and every one of the
curtains shall have one measure.

3 The five curtains shall be coupled to-
gether one to another ; and other hve cur-
tains shall be coupled one to another.

4 And thou shalt make loops of blue
upon the edge of the one curtain from the
selvedge in the coupling; and hkewise
slialt thou make in the uttermost edge of
another curtain, in the coupling of the
second.

5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one
curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make
in the edge of the curtain that is in the
coupling <j1" the second ; that the loops may
take hold one of another.

6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of
gold, and couple the curtains together with
the taches : and it shall be one tabernacle.

7 •[ And thou shalt make curtains of
goats' hair to be a covering upon the ta-
bernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.

8 The length of one curtain shall be thir-
ty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain
four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall
be all of one measure.

9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by
themselves, and six curtains by themselves,

fore-front of the tabernacle.

10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on
the edge of the one curtain that is outmost
in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge
of the curtain which coupleth the second.

11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of
brass, and put the taches into the loops, and
couple the tent together, that it may be one.

12 And the remnant that remaineth of
the curtains of the tent, the half curtain
that remaineth, shall hang over the back-
side of the tabernacle.

13 And a cubit on the one side, and a
cubit on the other side of that which re-
maineth in the length of the curtains of the
tent, it shall hang over the sides of the ta-
bernacle on this side and on that side, to
cover it.

14 H And thou shalt make a covering for
the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a co-
vering above of badgers' skins.

15 H And thou shalt make boards for the
tabernacle of shittim-wood standing up.

16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a
board, and a cubit and a half shall be the
breadth of one board.

17 Two tenons shall there be in one board,
set in order one against another : thus shalt
thou make for all the boards of the taber-
nacle.

18 And thou shalt make the boards for
the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south
side southward.

19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of
silver under the twenty boards : two sockets
under one board for his two tenons, and two
sockets under another board for his two
tenons.

20 And for the second side of the taber-
nacle on the north side ^/ieres/ta/Z/jc twenty
boards.

21 And their forty sockets of silver ; two
sockets under one board, and two sockets
under another board.

22 And for the sides of the tabernacle
westward thou shalt make six boards.

23 And two boards shalt thou make for
the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

24 And they shall be coupled together
beneath, and they shall be coupled toge-
ther above the head of it unto one ring :
thus shall it be for them both ; thej^ shall be
for the two corners.

25 And they shall be eight boards, and
their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two
sockets under one board, and two sockets
under another board.

26 And thou shalt make bars q/" shittim-
wood ; five for the boards of the one side
of the tabernacle,

27 And five bars for the boards of the
other side of the tabernacle, and five bars
for the boards of the side of the tabernacle,
for the two sides westward.

28 And the middle bar in the midst of
the boards shall reach from end to end.

The altar of burnt-offering. CHAP. XXVll, XXVIII. The court of the tabernacle.

29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with
gold, and make their rings of gold /by-
places for the bars : and thou shalt overlay
the bars with gold.

30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle
according to the fashion thereof which was
shewed thee in the mount.

31 U And thou shalt make a vail of blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen of cunning work : with cherubims
shall it be made.

32 And thou shalt hang it upon foin-
pillars of shittim-wood overlaid with gold :
their hooks shall be of gold upon the four
sockets of silver.

33 And thou shalt hang up the vail un-
der the taches, that thou maj-est bring in
thither within the vail the ark of the testi-
mony : and the vail shall divide unto you
between the holy place and the most holy.

34 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat
upon the ark of the testimony in the most
holy place

35 And thou shalt set the table without
the vail, and the candlestick over against
the table on the side of the tabernacle to-
ward the south : and thou shalt put the ta-
ble on the north side.

36 H And thou shalt make an hanging
for the door of the tent, of blue, and pur-
ple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,
wrought with needle-work.

37 And thou siialt make for the hanging
five pillars of shkthn-wood, and overlay
them with gold, and their hooks shall be
of gold : and thou shalt cast five sockets
of brass for them.

CHAP. XXVII.

AND thou shalt make an altar of shit-
tim-wood, five cubits long, and five cu-
bits broad ; the altar shall be four-square :
and the height thereof s/ioZ/ 6c three cubits.

2 And thou shalt make the horns of it
upon the four corners thereof: his horns
shall be of the same : and thou shalt over-
lay it with brass.

3 And thou shalt make his pans to re-
ceive his ashes, and his shovels, and his
basins, and his flesh-hooks, and his fire-
pans : all the vessels thereof thou shalt make
of brass.

4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of
'net-work of brass; and upon the net shalt
thou make four brazen rmgs in the four
corners thereof

5 And thou shalt put it under the com-
pass of the altar beneath, that the net may
be even to the midst of the altar.

6 And thou shalt make staves for the
altar, staves of shittim-wood, and overlay
them with brass.

7 And the staves shall be put into the
rings, a'nd the staves shall be upon the two
sides of the altar, to bear it.

8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make
it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so
shall they make //.

9 H And thou shalt make the court of
the tabernacle : for the south side south-
ward there shall be hangings for the court
of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits
long for one side:

10 And the twenty pillars thereof and
their twent}' sockets sliall be of brass : the
hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall
be of silver.

11 And likewise for the north side in
length there shall be hangings of an hun-
dred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and
their twenty sockets of brass : the hooks
of the pillars and their fillets rf silver.

12 And/«r the breadth of the court on
the west side shall be hangings of fifty cu-
bits : their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

13 And the breadth of the court on the
east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

14 The hangings of one side of the gate
shall be fifteen cubits : their pillars three,
and their sockets three.

15 And on the other side shall be hang-
mgs, fifteen cubits : their pillars three, and
their sockets three.

16 And for the gate of the court shed! be
an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,
wrought with needle-work : and their pil-
lars s/icdl be four, and their sockets four.

17 All the pillars round about the court
shall be filleted with silver: their hooks
shcdl be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

18 H The length of the court shall be an
hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every
where, and the height five cubits of fine
twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in
all the service thereof, and all the pins
thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall
be of brass.

20 H And thou shalt command the chil-
dren of Israel, that they bring the pure oil-
olive beaten fiir the light, to cause the lamp
to burn always.

21 In the "tabernacle of the congregation
without the vail, which is before the testi-
mony, Aaron and his sons shall order it
from evening to morning before the Lord ;
It shall be a statute for ever unto their ge-
nerations on the behalf of the children of
Israel.

CHAP. XXVIII.
ND take thou unto thee Aaron thy
brother, and his sons with him, from
among the cliildren of Israel, that he may
minister unto me in the priest's office, even
Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar and
Ithamar, Aaron's sons.

2 H And thou shalt make holy garments
for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for
beauty.

3 And thou shalt speak unio all that are
wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the
spirit of wisdom, that they may make
Aaron's garmentsto consecrate him, that he
may minister unto me in the priest's office.

The breast-plate, and other

4 And these are the garments which
they shall make: a breast-plate, and an
ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a
mitre, and a girdle : and they shall make
holy garments tor Aaron thy brother, and
hissons, that he may minister unto me in
the priest's office.

5 And they shall take gold, and blue,
and })urple, and scarlet, and tine linen.

6 !i And they shall make the ephod of
gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and
tine twined linen, wich cunning work.

7 It shall have the two shoulder-pieces
thereof joined at the two edges thereof;
and so it shall be joined together.

8 And the curious girdle of the ephod,
which is upon it, shall be of the same, ac-
cording to the work thereof; even of gold,
of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and line
twined linen.

9 And thou shalt take two onyx-stones,
and grave on them the names of the cliil-
dren of Israel :

10 Six of their names on one stone, and
tlie other six names of the rest on the other
stone, according to their birth.

11 With the work of an engraver in
stone, lihc the engravings of a signet, shalt
thou engrave the two stones with the names
of the children of Israel : thou shalt make
them to be set in ouches of gold.

12 And thou shalt put the two stones
upon the shoulders of tiie ephod for stones
of memorial unto the children of Israel .
and Aaron shall bear their names before
the Lord upon his two shoulders for a me-
morial.

13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold;

14 And two chains of pure gold at the
ends; o/ wreatheu work shalt thou make
them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the
ouches.

15 H And thou shalt make the breast-
plate of judgment with cunning v.'ork; af-
ter the work of the ephod thou'shalt make
it; o/gold, of blue, and o/' purple, and of
scarlet, and of fme twined linen slialt thou
make it.

16 Four-square it shall be, &c/»g- doubled ;
a span shall he the length thereof, and a
span shall he the breadth thereof.

17 And thou shalt set in it settings of
stones, even four rows of stones; the' first
row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a car-
buncle : this shall he the first rov.'.

18 And the second row shall he an eme-
rald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

19 And the third row a ligure, an agate,
and an amethyst.

20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an
onyx, and a jas])cr : they shall be set in
gold in their inclosings.

21 And the stones shall be with the names
of the children of Israel, twelve, according
to their names, like the engravings of a sig-
net ; every one with his name shall they be
accordmg to the twelve tribes.

EXODUS. holy garments described.

22 And thou shalt make upon the breast-
plate chains at the ends of wreathen work
of pure gold.

23 And thou shalt make upon the breast-
plate two rings of gold, and shalt put the
two rings on the two ends of the breast-
plate.

24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen
chains of gold in the two rings tohick are
on the ends of the breast-plate.

25 And the other two ends of the two
wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two
ouches, and put them on the shoulder-pieces
of the ephod before it.

26 And thou shalt make two rings of
gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two
ends of the breast-plate in the border there-
of, which is in the side of the ephod inward.

27 And two o^Acr rings of gold thou shalt
make, and shalt put them on the two sides
of the ephod underneath, toward the fore-
part thereof, over against the other cou-
pling thereof, above the curious girdle of the
ephod.

28 And they shall bind the breast-plate
by the rings thereof unto the rings of the
ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be
above the curious girdle of the ephod, and
that the breast-plate be not loosed from the
ephod.

29 And Aaron shall bear the names of
the children of Israel in the breast-plate of
judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in
unto the holy plaer, for a memorial before
the Lord continually.

30 II And thou shalt put in the breast-
plate of judgment the Urim and the Thum-
mim ; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart,
when he goeth in before the Lord : and
Aaron shall bear the judgment of the chil-
dren of Israel upon his heart before the Lord
continually.

31 11 And thou shalt make the robe of
the ephod all cf blue.

32 And there shall be an hole in the top
of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a
binding of woven work round about the
hole of it, as it were the hole of an haber-
geon, that it be not rent.

33 And beneath, upon the hem of it thou
shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of
purple, and r;/' scarlet, round about the hem
thereof; and bells of gold between them
round about :

34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a
golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the
hem of the robe round about.

35 And it shall be upon Aaron, to mi-
nister : and his sound shall be heard when
he goeth in unto the holy place before the
Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die
not.

36 1! And thou shalt make a plate of pure
gold, and grave upon it like the engrav-
ings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE
LORD.

37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace,
68

The sacrifice and ceremonies CHAP,
that it may be upon the mitre; upon the
fore-front of the mitre it shall be.

3S And it shall be upon Aaron's fore-
head, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of
the iioly things, which the children of Is-
rael shall hallow in all their holy gifts ; and
it shall be always upon his forehead, that
they may be accepted before the Lord

39 ^ And thou shalt embroider the coat
of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre
of tine linen, and thou shalt make the gir-
dle of needle-work.

40 *il And for Aaron's sons thou shalt
make coats, and thou shalt make for them
girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for
them, tor glory and tor beauty.

41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron
thy brother, and his sons with him : and
shalt anoint them, and consecrate them,
and sanctify them, that they may minister
unto me in the priest's office.

42 And thou shalt make them linen
breeches to cover their nakedness : from the
loins even unto the thighs tliey shall reach:

43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and
upon his sons, when they come in unto the
tabernacle of the congregation, or when
they come near unto the altar to minister in
the holy place ; tiiat they bear not iniquity
and die. It shall be a statute for ever unto
him, and his seed after him.

CHAP. XXIX.
ND this is the thing that thou shalt do
unto them to hallow them, to minister
unto me in the priest's office : Take one
young bullock, and two rams without ble-
mish,

2 And unleavened bread, and cakes un-
leavened tempered with oil, and wafers un-
leavened anointed with oil : of wlieaten
Hour shalt thou make them.

3 And thou shalt put them into one bas-
ket, and bring them in the basket, with the
bullock and tlie two rams.

4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt
bring unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and shalt wash them with
water.

5 And thou shalt take the garments, and
put upon Aaron the coat, and tlie robe of
the ephod, and the ephod, and tlie breast-
plate, and gird him with the curious girdle
of the ephod :

G And thou shalt put the mitre upon his
head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.

7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil,
and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.

S And thou shalt bring his sons, and put
coats upon them.

9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles
(Aaron and his sons) and put the bonnets
on them ; and the priest's office shall be
theire for a perpetual statute : and thou
shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be
brought before the tabernacle of the con-
gregation ; and Aaron and his sons shall

XXIX. of consecrating tlie priests.

put their hands upon the head of the bul-
lock.

11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before
the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.

12 And thou shalt take of the blood of
the bullock, and put it upon the horns of
the altar wi*h thy finger, and pour all the
blood beside the bottom of the altar.

13 And thou shalt take all the fat that
covereth the inwards, and the caul that is
above the liver, and the two kidneys, and
the fat that is upon them, and burn them
upon the altar.

14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his
skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire
without the camp : it is a sin-offering.

15 Thou shalt also take one ram; and
Aaron and his sons shall put their hands
upon the head of the ram.

16 7V.nd thou shalt slay the ram, and
thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it
round about upon the altar.

17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces,
and wash the inwards of him, and his legs,
and put them unto his pieces, and unto his
head.

18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram
upon the altar : it is a burnt-offering unto
the Lord : it is a sweet savour, an offering
made by fire unto the Lord.

19 And thou shalt take the other ram ;
and Aaron and his sons shall put their
iiands upon the head of the ram.

20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take
of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the
right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the
right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb
of their right hand, and upon the great toe
of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood
upon tlie altar round about.

21 And thou shalt take of the blood that
is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil,
and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his
garments, and upon his sons, and upon the
garments of his sons with him : and he
shall be hallowed, and his garments, and
his sons, aud his sons' garments with him.

22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the
flit and the rump, and the fat that covereth
the inwards, and the caul above the liver,
and the two kidneys, and the fat that is
upon them, and the right shoulder : for it
is a ram of consecration :

23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake
of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the
basket of the unleavened bread, that is be-
fore the Lord.

24 And thou shalt put all in the hands
of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons ;
and slialt wave them fur a wave-offering
before the Lord.

25 And thou shalt receive them of their
hands, and burn thrm^ upon the altar for a
burnt-oflering, for a sweet savour before
the Lord : it is an offering made by fire
unto the Lord.

The continual burnt-offering. EXODUS. The ransom of souls.

26 And thou slialt take the breast of the | savour, an offering made by fire unto the

Lord.

42 This shall be a continual burnt-offering
throughout your generations at the door ot"
tiie tabernacle of" the congregation before
the Lord : where 1 will meet you to speak
there unto thee.

43 H And there I will meet with the chil-
dren of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be
sanctified by my glory.

44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of
the congregation, and the altar : I will sanc-
tify also both Aaron and his sons, to minis-
ter to me in the priest's office.

45 And I will dwell among the children
of Israel, and will be their God.

46 And they shall know that I can the
Lord their God, that brought them fortli out
of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell
among them : I am the Lord their God.

CHAP. XXX.
ND thou shalt make an altar to burn
incense upon : of shittim-wood shalt
thou make it.

2 A cubit shall he the length thereof, and
cubit the breadth thereof; four-square

shall it be ; and two cubits shall he the
height thereof: the horns thereof shall he
of the same.

3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure
gold, the top thereof, and the sides there-
of round about, and the horns thereof; and
thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold
round about.

4 And two golden rings shalt thou make
to it under the crown of it, by the two cor-
ners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt
thou make it ; and they shall be for places
for the staves to bear it withal.

5 And thou shalt make the staves o/ shit-
tim-wood, and overlay them with gold.

6 And thou shalt put it before the vail
that is by the ark of the testimony, before
the mercy-seat that is over the testimony
where I will meet with thee.

7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet
incense every morning : when he dresseth
the lamps, he sliall burn incense upon it.

8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at
even, he shall burn incense upon it ; a per-
petual incense before the Lord, throughout
your generations.

9 Ye shall offer no strange incense there-
on, nor burnt-sacrifice, nor meat-offering ;
neither shall ye pour drink-offering thereon.

10 And Aaron sliall make an atonement
upon the horns of it once in a .year, with
the blood of the sin-offering of atonements :
once in the year shall he make atonement
upon it throughout your generations : it is
most holy unto the Lord.

11 IT And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

12 When thou takest the sum of the chil-
dren of Israel after their number, then shall
they give every man a ransom for his soul

thereof, for a sweet I unto the Lord, when thou numberest them •

ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it
for a wave-offering before the Lord : and
it shall be tliv part.

27 And tiiou shalt sanctify the breast of
the wave-offering, and the shoulder of the
heave-offering, which is waved, and which
is heaved up of the ram of ths consecra-
tion, crrn of that which is for Aaron, and
of that which is for his sons :

28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'
by a statute for ever, from the children of
Israel : for it is an heave-offering : and it
shall be an lieave-offering from the chil-
dren of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace-
offerings, even their heave-offering unto the
Lord.

29 And the holy garments of Aaron
shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed
therein, and to be consecrated in them.

30 And that son, that is priest in his
stead, shall put them on seven days, when
he Cometh into the tabernacle of the con-
gregation to minister in the holy place.

31 And thou shalt take the ram of the
consecration, and seethe his flesh in the
holy place.

32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the
flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in
the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of
the congregatioa.

33 And they shall eat those things where-
with the atonement was made, to conse-
crate and to sanctify them : but a stranger
shall not eat thereof because they are holy.

34 And if ought of the flesh of the con-
secrations, or of the bread, remain unto the
morning, then thou shalt burn the remain-
der with fire : it shall not be eaten, because
it is holy.

35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron,
and to his sons, according to all things
which I have commanded thee : seven days
shalt tliou consecrate them.

36 And tliou shalt offer every day a bul-
lock for a sin-ofiering for atonement ; and
thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast
made an atonement for it, and thou shalt
anoint it, to sanctif}^ it.

37 Seven days thou shalt make an atone-
ment for the altar, and sanctify it ; and it
shall be an altar most holy : whatsoever
toucheth the altar shall be holy.

38 II Now this is that which thou shalt
offer upon the altar ; two lambs of the first
year day by day continually.

39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the
morning ; and the other lamb thou shalt of-
fer at even :

40 And with the one lamb a tenth-deal
of flour mingled with the fourth part of an
bin of beaten oil : and the fourth part of an
hin of wine for a drink-offering.

41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at
even, and shalt do thereto according to the
meat-offering of the morning, and accord-
ing to the drink-offerin

The holy anointing oil CHAP. XXXI. The composition of the perfume.

that there be no plague among them when
thou numberest them.

13 This they shall give, every one that
passeth among them that are numbered,
half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanc-
tuary : (a shekel is twenty geralis:) an
half skekel shall be the offering of the
Lord.

14 Every one that passeth among them
that are numbered, from twenty years old
and above, shall give an offering unto the
Lord.

15 The rich shall not give more, and the
poor shall not give less than half a shekel,
when fhey give an offering unto the Lord
to make an atonement for your souls.

16 And thou shalt take the atonement-

money ot the children of Israel, and shalt be a like weight:

sons, and consecrate them, that they mar
minister unto me in the priest's office.

31 And thou shalt speak unto the chil-
dren of Israel, saying, This shall be an
holy anointing oil unto me throughout your
generations.

32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be pour-
ed, neither shall ye make any other like it,
after the composition of it : it is holy, and
it shall be holy unto you.

33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it,
or whosoever putteth atiy of it upon a stran-
~er, shall even be cut off from his people.

34 H And the Lord said unto Moses,
Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and
onycha, and galbanum ; these sweet spices
with pure frankincense : of each shall there

appoint It for the service of the tabernacle
ot the congregation ; that it may be a me-
morial unto the children of Israel before
the Lord, to make an atonement for your

souls.

17 If And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass,
and his foot also of brass, to wash loithal':
and thou shalt put it between the taberna-
cle of the congregation and the altar, and
thou shalt put water therein.

19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash
their hands and their feet thereat :

20 When they go into the tabernacle of
the congregation, they shall wash with wa-
ter, that they die not : or when they come
near to the altar to minister, to burn offering
made by fire unto the Lord :

21 So they shall wash their hands and
their feet, that they die not : and it shall be
a statute for ever to them, even to him and
to his seed throughout their generations.

22 H IMoreover the Lord spake unto
Moses, saying,

23 Take thou also unto thee principal
spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels,
and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even
two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet
calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,

24 And of cassia five hundred shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of
oil-olive an hin :

25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy
ointment, an ointment compound after the
art of the apothecary : it shall be an holy
anointing oil.

26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle
of the congregation therewith, and the ark
of the testimony,

27 And the table and all his vessels, and
the candlestick and his vessels, and the
altar of incense,

28 And the altar of burnt-offering with
all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.

29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that
they may be most holy : whatsoever touch-
eth them shall be holy.

30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his

35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a
confection after the art of the apothecary,
tempered together, pure and holy :

36 And thou shalt beat so?ne of it very
small, and put of it before the testimony in
the tabernacle of the congregation, where
I will meet with thee : it shall be unto you
most holy.

37 And as for the perfume which thou
shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves
according to the composition thereof: it
shall be unto thee holy for the Lord.

38 Whosoever shall make like unto that,
to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from
his people.

CHAP. XXXL
\ ND the Lord spake unto Moses, say
-L^ ing,

2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel
the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe
of Judah :

3 And I have filled him with the spirit of
God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and
in knowledge, and in all manner of work-
manship,

4 To devise cunning works, to work in
gold, and in silver, and in brass,

5 And in cutting of stones to set them,
and in carving of timber, to work in all
manner of workmanship.

6 And I, behold, I have given with him
Ahohab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe
of Dan ; and in the hearts of all that are
wise-hearted I have put wisdom ; that they
may make all that I have commanded thee :

7 The tabernacle of the congregation,
and the ark of the testimony, and the mer-
cy-seat that is thereupon, and all the furni-
ture of the tabernacle,

8 And the table and his furniture, and
the pure candlestick with all his furniture,
and the altar of incence,

9 And the altar of burnt-offering with all
his furniture, and the laver and his foot,

10 And the clothes of service, and the
holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the
garments of his sons, to minister in the
priest's office,

1 1 And the anointing oil, and sweet in-
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Aaron makes a molten calf.
cense for the holy place : according to all
that I have commanded thee shall they do.

12 If And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

13 Speak thou also unto the children of
Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall
keep : for it is a sign between me and you
throughout your generations ; that ye may
know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify
3'ou.

14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore :
for it is holy unto you. Every one that de-
fileth it shall surely be put to death : for
whosoever doeth any work therein, tliat
soul shall be cut off from among his people.

15 Six days may work be done, but in
the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to
the Lord : whosoever doeth any work in
tJie sabbath-day he shall surely be put to
death.

16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall
keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath
throughout their generations, for a perpe-
tual covenant.

17 // is a sign between me and the chil-
dren of Israel for ever : for in six days the
Lord made heaven and earth, and on the
seventh day he rested and was refreshed.

18 If And he gave unto Moses, wheij he
had made an end of communing with him
upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony,
tables of stone, written M'ith the finger of
God.

CHAP. XXXIL
ND when the people saw that Moses
delayed to come down out of the
mount, the people gathered them.selves to-
gether unto Aaron, and said unto him. Up,
make us gods which shall go before us : for
as for this Moses, the man that brought us
up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not
what is become of him.

2 And Aaron said unto them. Break off
the golden ear-rings which are in the ears
of your wives, of your sons, and of your
daughters, and bring them unto me.

3 And all the people brake off the gold-
en car-rings winch were in their ears, and
brought tlicm unto Aaron.

4 And he received tlicm at their hand,
and fasliioned it with a graving tool, after
he h:id made it a molten calf: and they
said, These be. thy gods, O Israel, wliic'h
brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

5 And when Aaron saw it, he biiilt an
altar before it; and Aaron made procla-
mation, and said, To-morrow /^ a feast to
tlie Lord.

6 And they rose up early on the morrow,
and offered burnt-offerings, and brought
peace-offerings : and the people sat down
to cat and to drink, and rose up to play.

7 11 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go,
get thee down : for thy people, which thou
broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have
corrupted themselves:

8 They have turned aside quickly out

EXODUS. Moses destroys the calf.

of the way which I commanded them : they
have made them a molten calf, and have
worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereun-
to, and said. These he thy gods, O Israel,
which have brought thee up out of the land
of Egypt.

9 And the Lord said unto Moses, I have
seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-
necked people :

10 Now therefore let me alone, that my
wrath may ^vax hot against them, and that
I may consume them : and I will make of
thee a great nation.

11 H And Moses besought the Lord' his
God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath
wax hot against thy people, which thou
hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt,
with great power, and with a miah.ty hand ?

12 Wherefore should the Egyptians
speak and say, For mischief did he bring
them out, to slay them in the mountains,
and to consume them from the face of the
earth I Turn from thy fierce wrath, and re-
pent of this evil against thy people.

13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Is-
rael, thy servants, to whom thou swarest
by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I
will multiply your seed as the stars of hea-
ven, and all this land that I have spoken of
will I give unto your seed, and they shall
inherit it for ever.

14 And the Lord repented of the evil
which he thought to do unto his people.

15 11 And Moses turned, and went down
from the mount, and the two tables of the
testimony were in his hand : the tables were
written on both their sides ; on the one
side and on the other leerc they written.

16 And the tables tcere the work of God,
and the writing icas the writing of God,
graven upon the tables.

17 And when Joshua heard the noise of
the people as the}' shouted, he said unto
Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

18 And he said. It is not the voice of
tliem thed shout for mastery, neither is it
tlie voice of them that cry for being over-
come : but the noise of tlicm that sing do I
hear.

19 H And it came to pass as soon as he
came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the
calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger
waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his
hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

20 If And he took the calf which they
had made, and burnt it in the fire, and
ground it to powder, and strewed it upon
the water, and made the children of Israel
drink of it.

21 U And Moses said unto Aaron, What
did this people unto thee, that thou hast
brouglit so great a sin upon them ?

22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger
of my lord wax hot : thou knowest the
people, that they are set on mischief

2.3 For they said unto me, Make us gods
which shall go before us : for as for this
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Moses prays for the people. CHAP. XXXIIl. Moses desires to see GorTs glory.

Moses, the man that brought us up out of
the land of Egypt, we wot not what is be-
come of him.

24 And I said unto them. Whosoever
hath any gold, let them break it off. So
they gave it me : then I cast it into the fire,
and there came out this calf

25 1l And when Moses saw that the peo-
ple rcere naked (for Aaron had made them
naked unto their shame, among their ene-
mies:)

26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the
camp, and said, Who is on the Lord's side 1
let him come unto me. And all the sons of
Levi gathered themselves together unto
him.

27 And he said unto them. Thus saith
the Lord God of Israel, Put every man
his sword by his side, and go in and out
from gate to gate throughout the camp, and
slay ever^^ man his brotiier, and every man
his companion, and every man his neigh-
bour.

23 And the children of Levi did accord-
ing to the word of Moses : and there fell of
the people that day about three thousand
men.

29 For Moses had said. Consecrate your-
selves to-day to the Lord, even every man
upon his son, and upon his brother ; that
he may bestow upon you a blessing this
day.

30 H And it came to pass on the mor-
row, that Moses said unto the people, Ye
have sinned a great sin : and now 1 will go
up unto the Lord ; peradventure I shall
make an atonement for your sin.

31 And Moses returned unto the Lord,
and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great
sin, and have made them gods of gold.

32 Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their
sin : and if not, blot me, 1 pray thee, out
of thy book which thou hast written.

33 U And the Lord said unto Moses,
Whosoever hath sinned against me, him

I blot out of my book.

thee ; for thou art a stiff-necked people :
lest I consume thee in the way.

4 II And when the people heard these
evil tidings, they mourned : and no man did
put on him his ornaments.

5 For the Lord had said unto Moses,
Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a
stiff-necked people : I will come up into the
midst of thee in a moment, and consume
thee : therefore now put off thy ornaments
from thee, that I may know what to do unto
thee.

6 And the children of Israel stripped
themselves of their ornaments by the mount
Horeb.

7 IT And Moses took the tabernacle, and
pitched it without the camp afar off from
the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of
the congregation. And it came to pass,
that every one which sought the Lord,
went out unto the tabernacle of the congre-
gation, which icas without the camp.

8 And it came to pass when Moses went
out unto the tabernacle, thtit all the people
rose up, and stood every man at his tent-
door, and looked after J.Ioses, until he was
gone into the tabernacle.

9 ^ And it came to pass, as Moses en-
tered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar de-
scended, and stood rt^ the door of the taber-
nacle, and the LORD talked with Moses.

10 And all the people saw the cloudy
pillar stand at the tabernacle-door : and all
the people rose up and worshipped, every
man in his tent-door.

11 And the Lord spake unto Moses face
to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.
And he turned again into the camp ; but
his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young
man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

12 ^ And Moses said unto the Lord,
See, tliou sayest unto me. Bring up this
people : and thou hast not let me know
whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou
hast said, I know thee by name, and thou
hast also found grace in my sight.

13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have
found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy

Behold, mine Angel shall go before j way, that 1 may know thee, that I may find

grace in thy sight : and consider that this
nation is thy people.

14 And lie said, My presence shall go
with thee, and I will give thee rest.

15 And he said unto him. If thy presence
go not with mc, carry us not up hence.

16 For wherein shall it be known here
that I and thy people have found grace in
thy sight ? Is it not in that thou goest with
us? So shall we be separated, I and thy
people, from all the people that are upon
the face of the earth.

17 And the Lord said unto Moses, I
will do this thing also that thou hast spo-
ken : for thou hast found grace in my sight,
and 1 know thee by name.

18 H And he said, I beseech thee, shew
me thy glory.

34 Therefore now go, lead the people
unto thj: place of which I have spoken unto
the

thee : nevertheless, in tlie day when I visit,
I will visit their sin upon them.

35 And the Lord plagued tlie people,
because they made the calf which Aaron
made.

CHAP. XXXIIl.
ND the Lord said unto Moses, De-
part and go up hence, thou and the
people which thou hast brought up out of
the land of Egypt, unto the land which I
sv/are unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to .Ta-
cob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it :

2 And I will send an angel before thee ;
and I will drive out the Canaanite, the
Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite,
the liivite, and the Jebusite :

3 Unto a land flowing with milk and
honey : for 1 will not go ud in the midst of

The Lord proclaims his name.

19 And he said, I will make all my
goodness pass before thee, and I will pro-
claim the name of the Lord before thee ;
and will be gracious to whom I will be
gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I
will shew mercy.

20 And he said, Thou canst not see my
face : for there shall no man see me, and
live.

21 And the Lord said, Behold, their, is a
place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a
rock :

22 And it shall come to pass, while my
glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a
cleft of the rock ; and will cover thee with
my hand while I pass by :

23 And I will take away mine hand, and
thou shalt see my back parts : but my face
shall not be seen.

CHAP. XXXIV.

AND the Lord said unto Moses, Hew
thee two tables of stone like unto the
first : and I will write upon these tables the
words that were in the first tables which
thou brakest.

2 And be ready in the morning, and
come up in the morning unto mount Sinai,
and present thyself there to me in the top
of the mount.

3 And no man shall come up with thee,
neither let any man be seen throughout all
the mount : neither let the flocks nor herds
feed before that mount.

4 U And he hewed two tables of stone, like
unto the first; and Moses rose up early in
the morning, and went up unto mount Si-
nai, as the Lord had commanded him, and
took in his hand the two tables of stone.

5 And the Lord descended in the
cloud, and stood with him there, and pro-
claimed the name of the Lord.

6 And the Lord passed by before him,
and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God,
merciful and gracious, long-suflfering, and
abundant in goodness and truth,

7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving
iniquity and transgression and sin, and that
will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the children,
and upon the children's children, unto the
third and to the fourth generation.

8 *li And Moses made haste, and bowed
his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

9 And he said. If now I have found grace
in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, Ipray
thee, go among us (Jbr it is a stiff-necked
people) and j)ardon our iniquity and our sin,
and take us i()r thine iuheritaiice.

10 % And lie said. Behold I make a co-
venant : beii)re all thy people I will do mar-
vels, such as iiave not l)een done in all the
earth, nor in any nation : and all the people
among wiiich thou art shall see the work of
the Lord : for it is a terrible thing that I
will do with thee.

11 Observe thou that which I command
thee this day : Behold, I drive out before

EXODUS. ' God covenants tvith Israel.

thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and
the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hi-
vite, and the Jebusite.

12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make
a covenant with the inhabitants of the land
whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in
the midst of thee :

13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break
their images, and cut down their groves :

14 For thou shalt worship no other god :
for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a
jealous God :

15 Lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land, and they go a
whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice
unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou
eat of his sacrifice ;

16 And thou takeof their daughters unto
thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring
after their gods, and make thy sons go a
whoring after their gods.

17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

18 If The feast of unleavened bread shalt
thou keep. Seven days shalt thou eat un-
leavened bread, as I commanded thee in
the time of the month Abib: for in the
month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

19 All that openeth the matrix is mme:
and every firstling among thy cattle, ichether
ox or sheep, that is male.

20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt
redeem with a lamb : and if thou redeem
him not, then shalt thou break his neck.
All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt re-
deem. And none shall appear before me
empty.

21 IT Six days thou shalt work, but on
the seventh day thou shalt rest : in earing-
time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

22 H And thou shalt observe the feast of
weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest,
and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

23 ^1 Thrice in the year shall all your
men-children appear before the Lord God,
the God of Israel.

24 For I will cast out the nations before
thee, and enlarge thy borders : neither shall
any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go
lip to appear before the Lord thy God thrice
in the year.

25 i Thou shalt not offer the blood of my
sacrifice with leaven, neither shall the sa-
crifice of the feast of the passover be left
unto the morning.

26 The first of the first-fruits of thy land
thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord
thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in
his mother's milk.

27 II And the Lord said unto Moses,
Write thou these words : for after the tenor
of these words I have made a covenant with
thee, and with Israel.

28 And he was there with the Lord
forty days and forty nights ; he did neither
eat bread nor drink water : and he wrote
upon the tables the words of the covenant,
the ten commandments.

Free gifts for the tabernacle. CHAP. XXXV. TJie people's readiness to offer.

29 *\ And it came to pass wlien Moses
came down from mount Sinai (with the two
tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he
came down from the mount) that Moses wist
not that the skin of his face shone, while he
talked with him.

30 And when Aaron and all the children
of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his
face shone, and they were afraid to come
nigh him.

31 And Moses called unto them; and
Aaron and all the rulers of the congrega-
tion returned unto him : and Moses talked
with them.

32 And afterward all the children of Is-
rael came ni^h : and he gave them in com-
mandment ail that the Lord had spoken
with him in mount Sinai.

33 And till Moses had done speaking
with them, he put a vail on his face.

34 But when Moses went in before the
Lord to speak with him, he took the vail
off, until he came out. And he came out
and spake unto the children of Israel that

■ which he was commanded.

35 And the children of Israel saw the
face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face
shone: and Moses put the vail upon his
face again, until he went in to speak with
him.

CHAP. XXXV.
4 ND Moses gathered all the congrega-
-i^ tion of the children of Israel together,
and said unto them. These are the words
wliich the Lord hath commanded, that ye
should do them.

2 U Six days shall work be done, but on
the seventh day there shall be to you an holy
day, a sabbath of rest to the Loud : whoso-
ever doeth work therein shall be put to
death.

3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your
habitations upon the sabbath day.

4 *ii And Moses spake unto all the con-
gregation of the children of Israel, saying.
This is the thing wliich the Lord com-
manded, saying,

5 Take ye from among you an offering
unto the Lord : whosoever is of a willing
heart, let him bring it, an offering of the
Lord ; gold, and silver, and brass,

6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine linen, and goats' hair,

7 And rams' skins dyed red, and bad-
gers' skins, and shittim-wood,

8 And oil for the light, and spices for
anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,

9 And onyx-stones, and stones to be set
for the ephod, and for the breast-plate.

10 And every wise-hearted among you
shall come, and make all that the Lord hath
commanded ;

11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his co-
vering, his taches, and his boards, his bars,
his pillars, and his sockets,

12 The ark, and the staves thereof, ivith
the mercy-seat, and the vail of the covering,

13 The table, and his staves, and all his
vessels, and the shew-bread,

14 The candlestick also for the light, and
his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil
for the light,

15 And the incense-altar, and his staves,
and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense,
and the hanging for the door at the entering
in of the tabernacle,

16 The altar of burnt-offering, with his
brazen grate, his staves, and all his vessels,
the laver and his foot,

17 The hangings of the court, his pillars,
and their sockets, and the hanging for the
door of the court,

18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the
pins of the court, and their cords,

19 The clothes of service, to do service
in the holy place, the holy garments for
Aaron the priest, and the garments of his
sons, to minister in the priest's office.

20 I And all the congregation of the chil-
dren of Israel departed from the presence
of Moses.

21 And they came, every one whose
heart stirred him up, and every one whom
his spirit made willing, and they brought
the Lord's offering to the work of the ta-
berriacle of the congregation, and for all his
service, and for the holy garments.

22 And they came, both men and wo-
men, as many as were willing-hearted, and
brought bracelets, and ear-rings, and rings,
and tablets, all jewels of gold : and every
man that offered, offered an offering of
gold unto the Lord.

23 And every man, with whom was found
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen,
and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and
badgers' skins, brought them.

24 Every one that did offer an offering
of silver and brass brought the Lord's o^
ferin^: and every man with whom was
found shittim-wood for any work of the ser-
vice, brought it.

25 And all the women that were wise-
hearted did spin with their hands, and
brought that which they had spun, both of
blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of
fine linen.

26 And all the women whose hearts
stirred them up in wisdom spun goats'
hair.

27 And the rulers brought onyx-stones,
and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for
the breast-plate ;

28 And spice, and oil for the light, and
for the anointing oil, and for the sweet in-
cense.

29 The children of Israel brought a will-
ing offering unto the Lord, every man and
woman, whose heart made them willing to
bring for all manner of work, which the
Lord had commanded to be made by the
hand of Moses.

30 U And Moses said unto the children
of Israel, See, the Lord liath called by

Offerings are received.

EXODUS. Curtains, S^c. of the tabernacle.

name Bezaleel, the son of Un, the son ot
Hur, of the tribe of Judah ;

31 And he hath filled hnn with the spirit
of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in
knowledge, and in all manner ot workman-

32 And to devise curious works, to work
in -mid, and in silver, and in brass,

33 And in the cutting ot stones to set
them, and in carving of wood, to make any
manner of cunning work.

3-1 And he hath put in his heart that lie
may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son
of Ahisamach, of the tribe ot Dan.

35 Them hath he filled with wisdom ot
heart, to work all manner of work, ot the
en-raver, and of the cunning workman,
and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in pur-
ple in scarlet, and in fine linen, and ot the
weaver, even of them that do any work, and
of those that devise cunning work.
CHAP. XXXVI.

THEN wrought Bezaleel and Ahohab,
and everv wise-hearted man, in whom
the Lord put\visdom and understanding to
kno^v how to work all manner of work for
the service of the sanctuary, according to
all that the Lord had commanded.

2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aho-
liab and every wise-hearted man, m vvhose
heart the Lord had put wisdom, even every
one whose heart stirred him up to come un-
to the work to do it :

3 And they received of Moses all the ot-
fering which the children of Israel had
brought for the work of the service ot the
sanctuary, to make it unthal. And they
brought yet unto him free-otfenngs every
morning.

4 11 And all the wise men, that wrought
all the work of the sanctuary, came every
man from his work which they made ;

5 And thev spake unto Moses, saying, |
The people bring much more than enough
for the service of the work, which the Lord
commanded to make.

6 And Moses gave commandment, and
they caused it to be proclaimed throughout
the camp, saying, Let neither man nnr wo-
man make any more work for the offering
of tlie sanctuary. So the people were re-
strained from bringing.

7 For the stuti' they had was sufficient
for all the work to make it, and too much.

8 H And every wise-hearted^ man among
them that wrought the work of the taberna-
cle made ten curtains ry/fine twined linen,
and blue, and })urple, and scarlet : withche-
rubims of cunning work made he them.

9 'J'iic length of one curtain was tvventy
and eight cubits, and the breadth of one
curtain four cubits : the curtains were all of
one size.

10 And he coupled the five curtains one
unto another : and the other five curtains he
coupled one unto another.

1 1 And he made loops of blue on the

ed^e of one curtain from the selvedge in the
coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost
side of another curtain, in the coupling ot
the second. .

12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain,
and fifty loops made he in the edge ot tne
curtain which tvas in the coupling ot the
second: the loops held one curtain to

another. , ^ 1 1 a

13 And he made fifty taches ot gold, and
coupled the curtains one unto another with
the taches. So it became one tabernacle.^

14 "^ And he made curtains (?/ goats' /mir
tor the tent over the tabernacle : eleven cur-
tains he made them.

15 The length of one curtain toas thirty
cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of
one curtain: the eleven curtains were ot
one size. .
I 16 And he coupled five curtains by them-
selves, and six curtains by themselves.

17 And he made fifty loops upon the ut-
termost edge of the curtain in the coupling,
and fifty loops made he upon the edge of
the curtain which coupleth the second.

IS And he made fifty taches of brass to
couple the tent together, that it might be
one. .

19 H And he made a covering lor the tent
c/rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of
badgers' skins above that.

20 H And he made boards for the taber-
nacle of shittim-wood, standing up.

21 The length of a board icas ten cubits,
and the breadth of a board one cubit and a
half

22 One board had two tenons, equally
distant one from another : thus did he make
for all the boards of the tabernacle,

23 And he made boards for the taberna-
cle ; twenty boards for the south side south-
ward :

24 And forty sockets of silver he made
under the twenty boards ; two sockets un-
der one board for his two tenons, and two
sockets under another board for las two
tenons.

25 And for the other side of the taberna-
cle which is toward the north corner, he
made twenty boards,

26 A nd their forty sockets of silver ; two
sockets under one board, and two sockets
under another board.

27 And for the sides of the tabernacle
westward he made six boards.

28 And two boards made he for the cor-
ners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

29 And they were coupled beneath, and
coupled together at the head thereof, to one
ring : thus he did to both of them in both
the corners.

30 And there were eight boards ; and
their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver,
under every board two sockets.

31 If And he made bars of shittim-wood ;
five lor the boards of the one side of the
tabernacle,

The ark, mercy-seat, table, CHAP. XXX VI I. candlestick, and incense-altar.

32 And five bars for the boards of the
other side of t!ie tabernacle, and five bars
for the boards of the tabernacle for the
sides westward

33 And lie made the middle bar to shoot
through the boards from the one end to the
other.

34 And he overlaid the boards with gold,
and made their rings of gold to he places
for the bars, and overlaid the bars with
gold.

35 If And he made a vail of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen :
ivitli cherubims made he it of cunning work.

36 And he made thereunto four pillars r;/'
shitiim-wood, and overlaid them with gold :
their hooks were of gold ; and he cast for
them four sockets of silver.

37 II And he made an hanging for the
tabernacle-door of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needle-
work ;

38 And the five pillars of it, with their
hooks : and he overlaid their chapiters and
their fillets with gold : but their five sockets
icere of brass.

CHAP, xxxvn.

ND Bezaleel made the ark of shittim-
wood : two cubits and a half wai; the
length of it, and a cubit and a half the
breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the
height of it :

2 And he overlaid it with pure gold with-
in and without, and made a crown of gold
to it round about.

3 And he cast for it four rings of gold,
to be set by the four corners of it : even two
rings upon the one side of it, and two rings
upon the other side of it.

4 And he made staves of shittim-wood,
and overlaid them with gold.

5 And he put the staves into the rings
by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

6 ^ And lie made the merc)^-seat q/"pure
gold : two cubits and a half ivas the'length
thereof, and one cubit and a half the
breadth thereof.

7 And he made two cherubims of gold,
beaten out of one piece made he them, on
the two ends of the mercy-seat ;

8 One cherub on the end on this side,
and another cherub on the ot/ic)- end on that
side : out of the mercy-seat made he the
cherubims on the two ends thereof

9 And the cherubims spread out their
wings on high, and covered with their wings
over the mercy-seat, with their faces one to
another ; even to the mercj'-seat-ward were
the faces of the cherubims.

10 11 And he made the table o/" shittim-
wood : two cubits iras the length thereof,
and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit
and a half the height thereof:

11 And he overlaid it with pure gold,
and made thereunto a crown of gold round
about.

12 Also he made thereunto a border of

an hand-breadth round about ; and made a
crown of gold for the border thereof round
about.

13 And he cast for it four rings of gold,
and put the rings upon the four corners
that were in the four feet thereof.

14 Over against the border were the
rings, the places for the staves, to bear the
table.

15 And he made the staves of shittim-
wood, and overlaid tliem with gold, to bear
the table.

16 And he made the vessels which were
upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons,
and his bowls, and his covers to cover with-
al, of pure "old.

17 11 And he made the candlestick of
pure gold ; of beaten work made he the
candlestick ; his shaft, and his branch, his
bowls, his knops, and his fiowers were of
the same :

18 And six branches going out of the
sides thereof: three branchesof the candle-
stick out of the one side thereof: and three
branches of the candlestick out of the other
side thereof:

19 Three bowls made after the fashion
of almonds in one branch a knop, and a
flower ; and three bowls made like almonds
in another b;^nch a knop, and a flower : so
throughout the six branches going out of
the candlestick.

20 And in the candlestick were four bowls
made like almonds, his knops and his flow-
ers :

21 And a knop under two branches of
the same, and a knop under two branches
of the same, and a knop under two branches
of the same, according to the six branches
going out of it.

22 Their knops and their branches were
of the same : all of it teas one beaten work
of pure gold.

23 And he made his seven lamps, and
his snuffers, and his snuflf-dishes, of pure
cold.

24 Of a talent of pure gold made he it,
and all the vessels thereof.

25 H And he made the incense-altar of
shittim-wood : the length of it teas a cubit,
and the breadth of it a cubit ; it tms four-
.square ; and two cubits was the height of
it ; the horns thereof were of the same.

26 And he overlaid it witii pure gold,
both the top of it, and the sides thereof
round about, and the horns of it : also he
made unto it a crown of gold round
about.

27 And he made two rings of gold for it
under the crown thereof' by the two cor-
ners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be
places for the staves to bear it withal.

28 And he made the staves of shittim-
wood and overlaid them with gold.

29 IT And he made the holy anointing oil,
and the pure incense of sweet spices, ac-
cording to the work of the apothecary.

T]ie altar of burnt-offering.

CHAP. XXXVIII.

AND he made the altar of burnt-offer-
ing of shittim-wood : five cubits tvas
the length thereof, and five cubits the
breadth thereof; it was four-square ; and
three cubits the height thereof.

2 And he made the horns thereof on the
four corners of it ; the horns thereof were
of the same : and he overlaid it with brass.

3 And he made all the vessels of the
altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the ba-
sins, and the flesh-hooks, and the fire-pans :
all the vessels thereof made he of brass.

4 And he made for the altar a brazen
grate of net-work under the compass there-
of beneath unto the midst of it.

5 And he cast four rings for the four
ends of the grate of brass, to be places for
the staves.

6 And he made the staves of shittim-
wood, and overlaid them with brass.

7 And he put the staves into the rings
on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal ;
he made the altar hollow with boards.

8 H And he made the laver of brass, and
the foot of it of brass, of the looking-glasses
of the women assembling, which assembled
at the door of the tabernacle of the con-
gregation.

9 H And he made the court : on thfe
south side southward the hangings of the
court were (*/ fine twined linen, an hundred
cubits :

10 Their pillars ivcrc twenty, and their
brazen sockets twenty ; the hooks of the
pillars, and their fillets, tcerc of silver.

11 And for the north side, t/ie Jumgings
were an hundred cubits, their pillars iccre
twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty :
the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets,
of silver.

12 And for the west side ivere hangings
of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their
sockets ten ; the hooks of the pillars, and
their fillets, of silver.

13 And for the east side eastward fifty
cubits.

14 The hangings of the one side of the
gate were fifteen cubits ; their pillars three,
and their sockets three.

15 And for the other side of the court-
gate, on this hand and that hand, itjcrc
hangings of fifteen cubits ; their pillars
three, and their sockets three.

16 All the hangings of the court round
about ircrc of fine twined linen.

17 And the sockets for tlie pillars u'cre
(f brass ; the hooks of the pillars, and
their iillets, of silver ; and the overlaying
of their chapiters of silver ; and all the
pillars of the court 7rere filleted with silver.

18 And the hanging for the gate of the
court v-as needle-work, of blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen : and
twenty cubits was the length, and the
height in the breadth ivas five cubits, an-
ewerable to the hangings of the court.

EXODUS. The sum of the offerings.

19 And their pillars iverc four, and their
sockets of brass tour ; their hooks of silver,
and the overlaying of their chapiters and
their fillets of silver.

20 And all the pins of the tabernacle,
and of the court round about, weir of brass.

21 II This is the sum of the tabernacle,
even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it
was counted, according to the command-
ment of Moses, for the service of the Le-
vites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron
the priest.

22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son
of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all
that the Loud commanded Moses.

23 And with him was Aholiab, son of
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an en-
graver, and a cunning \\orkman, and an
embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in
scarlet, and fine linen.

24 All the gold that was occupied for
the work in all the work of the holy place,
even the gold of the offering, was twenty and
nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

25 And the silver of them that were
numbered of the congregation was an hun-
dred talents, and a thousand seven hun-
dred and threescore and fifteen shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary :

26 A bekah for every man, that is, half
a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary,
for every one that went to be numbered,
from twenty years old and upward, for six
hundred thousand and three thousand and
five hundred and fifty ?nc7i.

27 And of the hundred talents of silver
were cast the sockets of the sanctuary,
and the sockets of the vail ; an hundred
sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for
a socket.

28 And of the thousand seven hundred
seventy and five shekels he made hooks for
the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters,
and filleted them.

29 And the brass of the offering icas
seventy talents, and two thousand and four
hundred shekels.

30 And therewith he made the sockets
to the door of the tabernacle of the con-
gregation, and the brazen altar, and the
brazen grate for it, and all the vessels of
the altar,

31 And the sockets of the court round
about, and the sockets of the court gate,
and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all
the pins of the court round about.

CHAP. XXXIX.

AND of the blue, and ])urple, and scar-
let, they made clothes of service, to
do service in the holy place, and made the
holy garments for Aaron ; as the Lord
commanded Moses.

2 "if And he made the ephod of gold,
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen.

3 And they did beat the gold into thin

Th, breast-plate. CHAP. XXXIX. 77.. holy garments.

plates, and cut it into wires, to work it inja lace of blue, that it might be above the

he blue, and in the purple, and in the scar- curious girdle of the ephod, and that the

let, and in the fine linen, with cunning I hrpp^t-ril^ito ,^;„i.f „„. 1". ^J^^T.^ T^

work.

4 They made shoulder-pieces for it, to
couple it together : by the two edges was
it coupled together.

5 Ani the curious girdle of his ephod,
that teas upon it, was of the same, accord-
ing to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen ;
as the Lord commanded Moses.

6 And they wrought onyx stones in-
closed in ouches of gold, graven as signets
are graven, with the names of the children
of Israel.

7 And he put them on the shoulders of
the ephod, that they should be stones for a
memorial to the children of Israel ; as the
Lord commanded Moses.

8 1[ And he made the breast-plate 0/
cunning work, like the work of the ephod ;

u j ^ ••"&,"■ "ui, uc lutjoeu irom tne

ephod ; as the Lord commanded Moses

22 U And he made the robe of the ephod
of woven work, all of blue.

23 And there was an hole in the midst
of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon
imth a band round abotit the hole that it
should not rend. '

24 And they made upon the hems of
I the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple

and scarlet, and twined linen. '

25 And they made bells of pure gold,
and put the bells between the pomegra-
nates upon the hem of the robe, round
about between the pomegranates ;

26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and
a pomegranate, round about the hem of
the robe to minister in ; as the Lord com-
manded Moses.

.27 H And they made coats of fine linen,

nf ^r.\A u\ -J -—■'"">■"' ""-cp.iuu, ^i " .HLuu mey maae coats of line Jinen

finffwinedhn'^i ^"'^ ' '"^ ''''^''' ^'^^/rr^-ork, for Aaron and for his sons,'

fine twined linen.

9 It was four-square; they made the
breast-plate double : a span ivas the length
thereof, and a span the breadth thereof
being doubled. '

10 And they set in it four rows of stones :
the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a
carbuncle : this 7oas the first row.

11 And the second row, an emerald a
sapphire, and a diamond.

12 And the third row, a ligure, an agate
and an amethyst. '

13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx
and a jasper : they were inclosed 'in ouches
ot gold m their inclosings.

14 And the stones were according to the
names of the children of Israel, twelve, ac-
cording to their names, like the engravings
ot a signet, every one with his name, ac-
cording to the twelve tribes.

15 And they made upon the breast-plate
chains at the ends, of wreathen work of
pure gold.

16 And they made two ouches of gold
and two gold rings, and put the two rings
m the two ends of the breast-plate.

17 And they put the two wreathen
chains of gold m the two rings on the ends
ot the breast-plate.

IS And -the two ends of the two weath-
en chains they fastened in the two ouches
and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the
ephod, before it.

19 And they made two rings of gold
and put them on the two ends of the breast-
plate, upon the border of it, which loas on
the side of the ephod inward.
. 20 And they made two other golden
rings, and put them on the two sides of
the ephod underneath, toward the forepart
ot It over against the other coupling there-

01 r \ <^""ous girdle of the ephod

hisiints unt?thi'^ ^'""^ the breast-plate by I au tne vessels of the service of the ta
Ills rings unto the rings of the ephod withlnacle, for the tent of the congregation

2b Ami a mitre o/fine linen, and goodly
bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches
oj fine twined linen,

29 And a girdle of fine twined linen,
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of nee-
dle-work ; as the Lord commanded Moses.

30 H And they made the plate of the
holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon
It a writing, like to the engravings of a
signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue,
to fasten it on high upon the mitre ; as the
Lord commanded Moses.

32 H Thus was all the work of the taber-
nacle of the tent of the congregation finish-
ed : and the children of Israel did accord-
ing to all that the Lord commanded Moses
so did they. '

33 And they brought the tabernacle
unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture
his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pil-
lars, and his sockets,

34 And the covering of rams' skins dyed
red and the covering of badgers' skins
and the vail of the covering, '

35 The ark of the testimony, and the
staves thereof, and the mercy-seat,

36 The table, and all the vessels thereof
and the shew-bread, '

37 The pure candlestick, loith the lamps
thereof, even with the lamps to be set in
order, and all the vessels thereof, and the
oil for light,

38 And the golden altar, and the anoint-
ing oil, and the sweet incense, and the
hanging for the tabernacle-door,

39 The brazen altar, and his grate of
brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the
laver and his foot,

40 The hangings of the court, his pil-
lars, and his sockets, and the hangin<>- for
the court-gate, his cords, and his pins,°and
all the vessels of the service of the taber-

The tabernacle reared.

41 The clothes of service to do service
in the holy v^ace, and the holy garments
for Aaron the priest and. h,s sons gar-
ments to minister in the priest s office.

42 According to all that the Lord com-
manded Moses, so the children of Israel
made all the work. n a ^

43 And Moses did look upon all the
work, and behold, they had done it as the
Lord had commanded, even so had they
done it : and Moses blessed them.

CHAP. XL.
4 ND the Lord spake unto Moses, say-

2 oAe first dayof the first month shalt
thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the
consresjation. , • ,i i r

3 And thou Shalt put therein he ark of
the testimony, and cover the ark with the

^^4 And thou Shalt bring in the table, and
set in order the things that are to be set in
order upon it; and thou shalt bring m the
candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.

5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold
for the incense before the ark ot the testi-
mony, and put the hanging of the door to
the tabernacle.

6 And thou shalt set the altar ol the
burnt-oifering before the door of the taber-
nacle of the tent of the congregation.

7 And tliou shalt set the laver between
the tent of the congregation and tlie altar,
and shalt put water therein.

8 And thou shalt set up the court round
about, and hang up the hanging at the
court-gate.

9 H And thou shalt take the anointing
oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that
is therein, and siiall hallow it, and all the
vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.

10 And thou slialt anoint the altar of the
burnt-offering, and all his vessels, and sanc-
tify the altar : and it shall be an altar most

holy. , , ,

11 And thou shalt anomt the laver and

his foot, and sanctify it.

12 *!l And thou shah bring Aaron and his
sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and wash them with water.

13 And thou slialt put upon Aaron the
holy garments, and anoint him, and sanc-
tify him ; that he may minister unto me in
the priest's office.

14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and
clotlie tliem with coats :

15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou
didst anoint tlieir fiither, that tl^ey may
minister unto me in the priest's office : for
their anointing shall surely be an everlasting
priesthood throughout tlicir generations.

16 H Thus did Moses ; according to all
that the Lord commanded him, so did he.

17 1i And it came to pass in the first
month, in the second year, on the first r/r/y of
the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.

18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle,

EXODUS. A cloud covers the tabernacle.

and fastened his sockets, and set up the
boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof,
and reared up his pillars.

19 And he spread abroad the tent over
the tabernacle, and put the covering of the
tent above upon it ; as the Lord command-
ed Moses.

90 H And he took and put the testimony
into the ark, and set the staves on the ark,
and put the mercy-seat above upon the ark :

21 And he brought the ark into the ta-
bernacle, and set up the vail of the cover-
ing, and covered the ark of the testimony ;
asThe Lord commanded Moses.

22 ^ And he put the table in the tent ot
the congregation, upon the side of the ta-
bernacle northward, without the vail.

23 And he set the bread in order upon
it before the Lord ; as the Lord had com-
manded Moses. ■ , • ..

24 11 And he put the candlestick in the
tent of the congregation, over against the
table, on the side of the tabernacle south-

'25 And he lighted the lamps before the
Lord as the Lord commanded Moses.

26 11 And he put the golden altar in the
tent of the congregation, before the vail :

27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon ;
as the Lord commanded Moses.

28 H And he set up the hanging at the
door of the tabernacle.

29 And he put the altar of burnt-otter-
ino- by the door of the tabernacle of the tent
of "the congregation, and offered upon it the
burnt-offering, and the meat-offering; as
the Lord commanded Moses.

30 H And he set the, laver between the
tent of the congregation and the altar, and
put water there, to wash withal.

31 And Moses, and Aaron, and his sons,
washed their hands and their feet thereat :

30 When they went into the tent ot the
congregation, and when they came near
unto the altar, they washed ; as the Lord
commanded Moses.

33 *A And he reared up the court round
about the tabernacle and the altar, and set
up the hanging of the court-gate : so Moses
finished the" work. , i . * ^r

34 II Then a cloud covered the tent ot
the con-regati.m, and the glory of the
Lord filled the tabernacle.

3.5 And Moses was not able to enter into
the tent of the congregation, because the
cloud abode thereon, and tlie glory of the
Lord filled the tabernacle.

36 And when the cloud was taken up
fr(.m over the tabernacle, the children ot
Israel went onward in all their journeys;

37 But if the cloud were not taken up,
then they journeyed not till the day that u
was taken up. , ^

38 For the cloud of the Lord was upon
the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it
by night, in the sight of all the house ot
Israel, throughout all their journeys.

ir The Third Book of MOSES, called LEVITICUS.

CHAP. I.

AND the Lord called unto Moses, and
spake unto him out ol" tiie tabernacle
of the congregation, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them. If any man of you bring an
ottering unto the Lord, ye shall bring your
offering of the cattle, even of the lierd, and
of the dock.

3 If If his offering be a burnt-sacrifice of
the herd, let him offer a male without ble-
mish : he shall offer it of his own volunta-
ry will at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation before the Lord.

4 And he shall put his hand upon the
head of the burnt-offering ; and it shall be
accepted for him to make atonement for
him.

5 And he shall kill the bullock before the
Lord : and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall
brhig the blood, and sprinkle the blood
round about upon the altar that is by the
door of tha tabernacle of the congregation.

6 And he shall flay the burnt-offering,
and cut it into his pieces,

7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall
put fire upon tiie altar, and lay the wood
ni order upon the fire.

8 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall
lay tlie parts, tlie head, and the fat, in or-
der upon the wood that is on the fire which
is upon the altar.

9 But his inwards and his legs shall he
wash in water : and the priest shall burn
all on the altar, to he a burnt-sacrifice, an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto
the Lord.

10 *(I And if his offering be of the flocks,
namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a
burnt-sacrifice ; he shall bring it a male
without blemish.

11 And he shall kill it on the side of the
altar northward before the Lord : and the
priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood
round about upon the altar :

12 And he shall cut it into his pieces,
with his head and his fat : and the priest
shall lay them in order on the wood that is
on the fire which is upon the altar :

13 But he shall wash the inwards and
the legs with water : and the priest shall
bring it all, and burn it upon the altar : it
is a burnt-sacrifice, an offering made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

14 '^ And if the burnt-sacrifice for his of-
fering to the Lord be of fowls, then he
shall bring his offering of turtle-doves, or
of young pigeons.

io And the priest shall bring it unto the
altar, and wring off his head, and burn if
on the altar : and the blood thereof shall
be wrung out at the side of the altar :

16 And he shall pluck away his crop
with his feathers, and cast it beside the al-
ii

tar on the east part, by the place of the
ashes :

17 And he shall cleave it with the wings
thereof, but shall not divide it asunder :
and the priest shall burn it upon the altar,
upon the wood that is upon the fire : it is
a burnt-sacrifice, an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
CHAP. II.
ND when any will offer a meat-offer-
ing unto the Lord, his offering shall
be o/fine flour ; and he shall pour oil upon
it, and put ti-ankincense thereon :

2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons
the priests : and he shall take thereout his
handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil
thereof, with all the frankincense thereof,
and the priest shall burn the memorial of
it upon the altar, to be an offering made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord :

3 And the renmant of the meat-offering
shall be Aaron's and his sons' : it is a thing
most holy of the offerings of the Lord made
by fire.

4 II And if thou bring an oblation of a
meat-offering baken in the oven, it shall he
unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled
with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed
with oil.

5 H And if thy oblation be a meat-offer-
ing baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour
unleavened, mingled with oil.

6 Thou shalt part it in jjieces, and pour
oil thereon : it is a meat-oftering.

7 H And if thy oblation be a meat-offer-
ing baken in the frying-pan, it shall be
made of fine flour with oil.

8 And thou shalt bring the meat-offering
that is made of these things unto the Lord :
and when it is presented unto the priest,
he shall bring it unto the altar.

9 And the priest shall take from the
meat-offering a memorial thereof, and shall
burn it upon the altar: it is an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the
Lord.

10 And that which is left of the meat-
offering shall be Aaron's and his sons' : it is
a thing most holy, of the offerings of the
Lord made by fire.

11 No meat-offering which ye shall
bring unto tlie Lord shall be made with
leaven : for ye shall burn no leaven, nor
any honey, in any offering of the Lord
made by fire.

12 H As for the oblation of the first-
fruits, ye shall offer them unto the Lord,
but they shall not be burnt on the altar for
a sweet savour.

13 ^ And every oblation of thy meat-
offering shalt thou season with salt ; neither
shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of
thy God to be lacking from thy meat-offering:
with all thine offerings thou shah offer salt

Peace-offering of the herd. LEVITICUS.

14 H And if thou offer a meat-offering of
thy first-fruits unto the Lord, thou shalt of-
fer for tlie meat-offering of thy first-fruits,
green ears of corn dried by the fire, even
corn beaten out of full ears.

15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay
frankincense thereon : it is a meat-offering.

16 And the priest shall bum the memo-
rial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof,
and part of tlie oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof: it is an offering made
by fire unto the Lord.

CHAP. III.

AND if his oblation he a sacrifice of
peace-offering, if he offer it of the
herd, whether it be a male or female ; he shall
offer it without blemish before the Lord.

2 And he shall lay his hand upon the
head of his offering, and kill it at the door
of the tabernacle of tlie congregation : and
Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the
blood upon the aliar round about.

3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of
the peace-offering, an offering made by fire
unto the Lord ; the fat that covereth tiie in-
wards, and ail the fat that /.s upon the inwards,

4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that
is on them, which is by the flanks, and the
caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it
shall he take away.

5 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the
altar, upon the burnt-sacrifice, which ?5upon
the wood that is on the fire : it is an oftering
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the
Lord.

6 IT And if his offering for a sacrifice of
peace-offering unto the Lord be qfthe flock,
male or female, he shall offer it without
blemish.

7 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then
shall he offer it before the Lord.

8 And he shall lay his hand upon the
head of his offering, and kill it before the ta-
bernacle of the congregation : and Aaron's
sons shv.U sprinkle the blood thereof round
about upon the altar.

9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of
the peace-offering an offering made by fire
unto the Lord : the lat thereof, and the
Avhole rump, it sliall he take off hard by tlie
back-bone ; and the fat that covereth the in-
wards, and all the fat th.at is upon the in-
wards,

10 And the two kidneys, and the fat that
is upon th.em, which is by the flanks, and
the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it
shall he take away.

11 And the priest shall burn it upon the
altar : it is the food of the offering made by
fire unto the Lord.

12 II And if his offering he a goat, then
he shall offer it before the Lord.

13 And he shall lay h.is hand upon the
head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle
of the congregation : and the sons of Aaron
shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the
altar round about

Sin-offering oj ignorance.

14 And he shall offer thereof his offer-
ing, even an offering made by fire unto the
Lor.D ; the fat that covereth the inwards,
and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

15 And the two kidneys, and the fat that
is upon them, which is by the flanks, and
the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it
shall he take away.

16 And the priest shall burn them upon
the altar : it is the food of the offering made
by fire for a sweet savour : all the fat is the
Lord's.

17 It shcdl he a perpetual statute for your
generations throughout all your dwellings,
that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

CHAP. IV.
ND the Lord spake unto Moses, say-

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, say-
ing. If a soul shall sin through ignorance
agauist any of the commandments of the
Lord concerning things which ought not
to be done, and shall do against any of
them :

3 If the priest that is anointed do sin
according to the sin of the people ; then let
him bring for his sin which he nath sinned,
a youns^ oullock without blemish unto the
Lord for a sin-offering.

4 And lie shall bring the bullock unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congrega-
tion before the Lord ; and shall lay his
hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the
bullock before the Lord.

5 And the priest that is anointed shall
take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to
the tabernacle of the congregation :

6 And the priest shall dip his finger in
the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven
times before the Lord, before the vail of the
sanctuary.

7 And the priest shall put some of the
blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet
incense before the Lord, which is in the
tabernacle of the congregation ; and shall
pour all the blood of tJie bullock at the bot-
tom of the altar of the burnt-offering, which
is at the door of the tabernacle of the con-
gregation.

8 And he shall take off from it all the fat
of the bullock for the sin-offering ; the fat
that covereth the inwards, and all the fat
that is upon the inwards,

9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that
is upon them, which is by the flanks, and
the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,
it shall he take away,

10 As it was taken off from the bullock
of the sacrifice of peace-offerings- and the
priest shall burn them upon the ahar of the
burnt-offering.

11 And the skin of the bullock, and all
his flesh, with his head, and with his legs,
and his inwards, and his dung,

12 Even the whole bullock shall he carry
forth without the camp unto a clean place,
where the ashes are poured out, and burn

Sin-offering for the

CHAP. V. congregation, ruler, and people.

him on the wood with fire : where the ashes
are poured out shall he be burnt.

13 If Ajid if the whole congregation of
Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing
be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and
they have done somewhat against any of the
commandments of the Lord concerning
things which should not be done, and are
guilty ;

14 When the sin which they have sinned
against it is known, tlien the congregation
shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and
bring him before tiie tabernacle of the con-
gregation.

15 And the elders of the congregation
shall lay their hands upon the head of the
bullock before the Lord : and the bullock
shall be killed before the Lord.

16 And the priest that is anointed shall
bring of the bullock's blood to the taberna-
cle of the congregation :

17 And the priest shall dip his finger in
some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven
times before the Lord, even before the vail.

IS And he shall put some of the blood
upon the horns of the altar which is before
the Lord, that is in the tabernacle of the
congregation, and shall pour out all the
blood at the bottom of the altar of the
burnt-offering, which is at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.

19 And he shall take all his fat from him,
and burn it upon the altar.

20 And he shall do with the bullock as
he did with the bullock for a sin-otfering, so
shall he do with this : and the priest shall
make an atonement for them, and it shall
be forgiven them.

21 And he shall carry forth the bullock
without the camp, and burn him as he burn-
ed the first bullock : it is a sin-offering for
the congregation.

22 "^ When a ruler hath sinned, and done
somewhat through ignorance against any of
the commandments of the Lord his God
concerning things which should not be done,
and is guilt}' ;

23 Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned,
come to his knowledge ; he shall bring his
offering, a kid of the goats, a male without
blemish :

24 And he shall lay his hand upon the
head of the goat, and kill it in the place
where they kill the burnt-offering before the
Lord : it is a sin-offering.

25 And the priest shall take of the blood
of the sin-oftering with his finger, and put
it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-ofler-
ing, and shall pour out his blood at the bot-
tom of tlie altar of burnt-oflering.

26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the
altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace-of-
ferings : and the priest shall make an atone-
ment for him as concerning his sin, and it
shall be forgiven him.

27 ^ And if any one of the common peo-
ple sin through ignorance, while he doeth

somewhat against any of the command-
ments of the hoRB co7iccrning things which
ought not to be done, and be guilty ;

28 Or if his sin which he hath sinned
come to his knowledge : then he shall
bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a fe-
male without blemish, for his sin which he
hath sinned.

29 And he shall lay his hand upon the
head of the sin-offering, and slay the sin-
offering iu the place of the burnt-offer-
ing.

30 And the priest shall take of the blood
thereof with his finger, and put if upon the
horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and
shall pour out all the blood thereof at the
bottom of the altar.

31 And he shall take away all the fat
thereof, as the fat is taken away from off
the sacrifice of peace-offerings ; and the
priest shall burn it upon the altar for a
sweet savour unto the Lord ; and the priest
shall make an atonement for him, and it
shall be forgiven him.

32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin-of-
fering, he shall bring it a female without
blemish.

33 And he shall lay his hand upon the
head of the sin-offering, and slay it for a
sin-offering in the place where they kill the
burnt-offering.

34 And the priest shall take of the blood
of the sin-offermg with his finger, and put
it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-ofier-
ing, and shall pour out all the blood thereof
at the bottom of the altar :

35 And he shall take away all the fat
thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away
from the sacrifice of the peace-offerings ;
and the priest shall burn tiiem upon the al-
tar, according to the offerings made by fire
unto the Lord : and the priest sliall make
an atonement for his sin tliat he hath com-
mitted, and it shall be forgiven him.

CHAP. V.
ND if a soul sin, and hear the voice of
swearing, and is a witness, whether he
hath seen or known of it ; if lie do not ut-
ter it, then he shall bear his inicjuity.

2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing,
whether it be a carcass of an unclean
beast, or a carcass of unclean cattle, or the
carcass of unclean creeping things, and if
it be hidden from him ; he also shall be un-
clean, and guilty.

3 Or if he touch the uncleannessof man,
whatsoever uncleanness it he that a man
shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from
him ; when he knoweth of it, then he shall
be guilty.

4 Or' if a soul swear, pronouncing with
his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever
// be that a man shall pronounce with an
oath, and it be hid from him ; when he
knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one
of these.

5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty

Offerings for divers sins. LEVITICUS. The trespass-offering.

in one of these things, that he shall confess I blemish out of the flock, with thy estima-

that he hath sinned in that thing :

6 And he shall bring his trespass-offering
unto the Lord for his sin which he hath
sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a
kid of the goats, for a sin-oftering ; and the
priest shall make an atonement for him con-
cerning his sin.

7 If And if he be not able to bring a lamb,
then he shall bring for his trespass which
he hath committed, two turtle-doves, or two
young pigeons, unto the Lord ; one for a
sin-oftering, and the other for a burnt-ofter-
ing.

8 And he shall bring them unto the priest,
who shall offer that which is for the sin-of-
fering first, and wring off" his head from his
neck, but shall not divide it asunder :

9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of
the sin-offering upon the side of the altar ;
and the rest of tlie blood shall be wrung
out at the bottom of the altar : it is a sin-off'er-
ino".

10 And he shall offer the second for a
burnt-offering, according to the manner:
and the priest shall make an atonement for
him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it
shall be forgiven him.

11 H But if he be not able to bring two
turtle-doves, or two young pigeons: then
he that sinned shall bring for his offering
the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for
a sin-offering ; he shall put no oil upon it,
neither shall he put any frankincense there-
on : for it is a sin-offering.

12 Then shall he bring it to the priest,
and the priest shall take his handiul of it,
even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the
altar, according to the offerings made by
fire unto the Lord : it is a sin-offering.

13 And the priest shall make an atone-
ment tor him as touching his sin that he
hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be
forgiven him : and the remnant shall be the
priest's, as a meat-offering.

14 ^[ And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin
through ignorance, in the holy things of the
Lord ; then he shall bring for his trespass
unto the Lord a ram without blemish out
of the flocks, with thy estimation by she-
kels of silver, after the sliekel of the sanc-
tuary, for a trespass-offering:

16 And he shall make amends for the side the altar.

tion, for a trespass-offering unto the priest ;
and the priest shall make an atonement for
him concerning his ignorance wherein he
erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven
him.

19 It is a trespass-offering: he hath cer
tainly trespassed against the Lord.
CHAP. VI.

AND the Lord spake unto Moses, say
ing,

2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass
against the Lord, and lie unto his neigh-
bour in that which was delivered him tc
keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken
away by violence, or hath deceived his
neighbour ;

3 Or have found that which was lost, and
lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely;
in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning
therein :

4 Then it shall be, because he hath sin-
ned and is guilty, that he shall restore that
which he took violently away, or the thing
wliich he hath deceitfully gotten, or that
which was delivered him to keep, or the lost
thing which he found,

5 Or all that about which he hath sworn
falsely ; he shall even restore it in the prin-
cipal, and shall add the fifth part more
thereto, and give it unto him to whom it ap-
pertaineth, in the day of his trespass-of-
fering.

6 And he shall bring his trespass-offering
unto the Lord, a ram without blemish out
of the flock, with thj^ estimation, for a tres-
pass-offering, unto the priest :

7 And the priest shall make an atone-
ment for him before the Lord : and it shall
be forgiven him tor any thing of all that he
hath done in trespassing therein.

8 *ff And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying,
This is the law of the burnt-offering : It is
the burnt-offering, because of the burning
upon the altar all night unto the morning,
and the fire of the altar sliall be burning in
it.

10 And the priest shall put on his linen
garment, and his linen breeches shall he put
upon his flesh, and take up tlie ashes which
tl)e fire hatli consumed with the burnt-offer-
ing on the altar, and he shall put them be-

harm that he hath done in the holy thing,
and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give
it unto the priest : and the priest shall make
an atonement for him with the ram of the
trespass-otfering, and it shall be forgiven
liim.

17 H And if a soul sin, and commit any
of these things v/hich are forbidden to be
done by the commandments of the Lord :
though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and
shall bear his iniquity.

18 And he shall bring a ram without

11 And he shall put off his garments, and
put on other garments, and carry tbrtli the
aslies without the camp unto a clean place.

12 And the fire upon the altar shall be
burning in it ; it shall not be put out : and
the priest shall burn wood on it every morn-
ing, and lay the burnt-offering in order upon
it ; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the
peace-offerings.

13 The fire shall ever be burning upon
the altar ; it shall never go out.

14 H And this is the law of the meat-

Law of the sin-offering. CHAP

offering : the sons of Aaron shall offer it
before the Lord, before the altar.

15 And he shall take of it his handful,
of the flour of the meat-offering, and of the
oil thereof, and all the frankincense which
is upon the meat-offering, and shall burn it
upon the altar /«/• a sweet savour, even the
memorial of it, unto the Lord.

16 And tlie remainder thereof shall Aaron
and his sons eat: with unleavened bread
shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the
court of the tabernacle of the congregation
they shall eat it.

17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I
have given it unto them for their portion of
my offerings made by fire ; It is most holy,
as is the sin-offering, and as the trespass-
offering.

18 All the males among the children of
Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute
lor ever in your generations concerning the
offerings of the Lord made by fire : every
one that toucheth them shall be holy.

19 "il And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

20 This is the offering of Aaron and of
his sons, which they shall offer unto the
Lord in the day when he is anointed ; the
tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a
meat-offering perpetual, half of it in the
morning, and half thereof at night.

21 In a pan it shall be made with oil ;
androken it is baken, thou shalt bring it in :
and the baken pieces of the meat-offering
shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the
Lord.

22 And the priest of his sons that is
anointed in his stead shall offer it : It is a
statute for ever unto the Lord ; it shall be
whollv burnt.

23 For every meat-offering for the priest
shall be wholly burnt : it shall not be eaten.

24 H And the Lord spake unto Moses,
savin a;,

25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons,
saying, This is the law of the sin-oftering :
in the place where the burnt-offering is
killed shall the shi-offering be killed before
the Lord : it is most holy.

2G The priest that oflereth it for sin shall
eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in
the court of the tabernacle of the congre-
gation.

27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesli
thereof shall be holy : and when there is
sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any
garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it
was sprinkled in the holy place.

28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is
sodden shall be broken: and if it be sod-
den in a brazen pot, it shall be both scoured,
and rinsed in water.

29 All the males among the priests shall
eat thereof: it /.■> most holy.

30 And no sin-offering, whereof any of
the blood is brought into the tabernacle of
the congregation to reconcile withal in the

. VII. Law of the trespass-offering.

holy place, shall be eaten : it shall be burnt
in the fire.

CHAP. vn.

LIKEWISE this is the law of the tres-
pass-offering : it is most holy.

2 In the place where they kill the burnt-
offering shall they kill the trespass-offering :
and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle
round about upon the altar.

3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof,
the rump, and the fat that covereth the in-
wards,

4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is
on them, which is by the flanks, and the
caul that is above the liver, with the kid-
neys, it shall he take away :

5 And tlie priest shall burn them upon
the altar for an offering made by fire unto
the Lord : it is a tresp iss-offering.

6 Every male among the priests shall eat
thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place :
it is most holy.

7 As the sin-offering is, so is the trespass-
offering : there is one law for them : the
priest that maketh atonement therewith
shall have it.

8 And the priest that offereth any man s
burnt-offering, even the priest shall have to
himself the s^un of the burnt-offering which
he hath offered.

9 And all the meat-offering that is baken
in the oven, and all that is dressed in the
frying-pan, and in the pan, shall be the
priest's that offereth it.

10 And every meat-offering mingled with
oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have,
one as much as another.

11 !I And this is the law of the sacrifice
of peace-offerings, which he shall ofler unto
the Lord.

12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then
he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanks-
giving unleavened cakes mingled with oil,
and unleavened wafers anointed with oil,
and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour,
fried.

13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for
his offering, leavened bread, with the sacri-
fice of thanksgiving of his peace-offerings.

14 And of it he shall offer one out of the
whole oblation for an heave-offering unto
the Lord, and it shall be the priest's that
sprinkleth the blood of the peace-offerings.

15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his
peace-offerings for thanksgiving shall be
eaten the same day that it is offered ; he
shall not leave any of it until the morning.

16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be
a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be
eaten the same day tliat he offereth his .sa-
crifice : and on the morrow also the remain-
der of it shall be eaten :

17 But the remainder of the flesh of the
sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt
with fire.

18 And if any of the flesh of the sacri-
fice of his peace-offerings be eaten at all

Law of the peacc-qffcrings. LEVITICUS. Aaron and his sons consecrated.

on the third day, it shall not be accepted,
neither shall it be imputed unto him that
offereth it : it shall be an abomination, and
the soul that eateth of it shall bear his
iniquity.

19 And the flesh that toucheth any un-
clean thing shall not be eaten ; it shall be
burnt with fire : and as lor the flesh, all
that be clean shall eat thereof.

20 But the soul that eateth of the flesli
of the sacrifice of peace-ofierings that per-
tain unto the Lord, having his unclean-
ness upon him, even that soul shall be cut
oflTfrom his people.

21 Moreover, the soul that shall touch
any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of
man, or any unclean beast, or any abomi-
nable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh
of the sacrifice of peace-offerings which
pertain unto the Lord, even that soul shall
be cut off from his people.

22 U And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

23 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of
ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

24 And the fat of the beast that dieth
of itself, and the fat of that which is torn
with beasts, may be used in any other use :
but ye shall in no wise eat of it.

25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the
))east, of which men offer an oflTering made
by fire unto the Lord, even the soul that
eateth it shall be cut off" from his people.

26 Moreover, ye shall eat no manner of
blood, ickcther it be of fowl or of beast, in
any of your dwellings.

27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any
manner of blood, even that soul shall be
cut off from his people.

28 IT And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

29 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, He that oiTereth tlie sacrifice of his
peace-offerings unto the Lord, shall bring
his oblation unto the Lord of the sacrifice
of his peace-offerings.

30 His own hands shall bring the offer-
ings of the Lord made by fire, the fat with
the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast
may be waved for a wave-offering before
the Lord.

31 And the priest shall burn the fat up-
on the altar : but the breast shall be Aaron's
and his sons'.

32 And the riglit shoulder shall ye give
unto the priest ,/«/• an h.eave-off'ering of the
sacrifices of your peace-offerings.

33 He among the sons of Aaron that
offereth the blood of the peace-offerings,
and the fat, shall have the right shoulder
for his part.

34 For the wave-breast and the heave-
shoulder have I taken, of the children of
Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace-
offermgs, and have given them unto Aaron
the priest, and unto his sons, by a statute

for ever, from among the children of Israel.

35 M This is the portian of the anointing
of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons,
out of the offerings of the Lord made by
fire, in the day w/iC7i he presented them to
minister unto the Lord in the priest's
office ;

36 Which the Lord commanded to be
given them of the children of Israel, in the
day that he anointed them, by a statute for
ever througliout their generations.

37 This is the law of the burnt-offering,
of the meat-offering, and of the sin-offer-
ing, and of the trespass-offering, and of the
consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the
peace-offerings ;

38 Whicli the Lord commanded Moses
in mount Sinai, in the day tliat he com-
manded the children of Israel to offer their
oblations unto the Lord, in the wilderness
of Sinai.

CHAP. VIII.

AND the Lord spake unto Moses, say-
ing,

2 Take Aaron and his sons with him,
and the garments, and the anointing oil,
and a bullock for the sin-offering, and two
rams, and a basket of unleavened bread ;

3 And gather tliou all the congregation
together unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.

4 And Moses did as the Lord com-
manded him ; and the assembly was gather-
ed together unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation.

5 And Moses said unto the congregation.
This is the thing which the Lord com-
manded to be done.

6 And Moses brought Aaron and his
sons, and washed them with water.

7 And' he put upon him the coat, and
girded him Vvith the girdle, and clothed
him with the robe, and put the ephod upon
him, and he girded him with tl:e curious
girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him
therewith.

8 And he put the breast-plate upon him :
also he put in the breast-plate the Urim
and the Thummim.

9 And he put the mitre upon his head ;
also upon the mitre, cvai upon his fore-
front, did he put tlie golden plate, tlie holy
crown ; as the Lord commai^ded Moses.

10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and
anointed tlie tabernacle and all that was
therein, and sanctified them.

11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the
altar seven times, and anointed the altar and
all his vessels, botii the laver and his foot,
to sanctify them.

12 And he poured of the anointing oil
upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to
sanctify him.

13 And Moses brought Aharon's sons, and
put coats upon them, and girded them with
girdles, and put bonnets upon them ; as the
Lord commanded Moses.

The ram of consecration.

CHAP. IX. Aaron's sin and burnt-offering.

14 H And he brought the bullock for the
sin-offering : and Aaron and his sons laid
tiieir hands upon the head of the bullock
for the sin-offering.

15 And he slew it; and Moses took the
blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar
round about with his finger, and purified
the altar, and poured the blood at the bot-
tom of tiie altar, and sanctified it, to make
reconciliation upon it.

16 And he took all the fat that icas upon
the inwards, and the caul above the liver,
and the two kidneys, and their fat, and
Moses burned it upon the altar.

17 But the bullock, and his hide, his
flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire
without the camp ; as the Lord commanded
Moses.

18 If And he brought the ram for the
burnt-offering : and Aaron and his sons laid
their hands upon the head of the ram.

19 And he killed it ; and Moses sprin-
kled the blood upon the altar round about.

20 And he cut the ram into pieces ; and
Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and
the fat.

21 And he washed the inwards and the
legs in water ; and Moses burnt the whole
ram upon the altar : it loas a burnt-sacrifice
for a sweet savour, and an offering made by
fire unto the Lord ; as the Lord command-
ed Moses.

\22 H And he brought the other ram, the
ram of consecration : and Aaron and his
sons laid their hands upon the head of the
ram.

23 And he slew it ; and Moses took of
the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of
Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of
his right hand, and upon the great toe of
his right foot.

24 And he brought Aaron's sons, and
Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their
right ear, and upon the thumbs of their
right hands, and upon the great toes of their
right feet : and Moses sprinkled the blood
upon the altar round about.

25 And he took the fat, and the rump,
and all the fat that 7vas upon the inwards,
and the caul above the liver, and the two
kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoul-
der :

26 And out of the basket of unleavened
bread, that ivas before the Lord, he took
one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled
bread, and one wafer, and put tliem on the
fat, and upon the right shoulder :

27 And he put all upon Aaron's hands,
and upon his sons' hands, and waved them
for a wave-offering before the Lord.

28 And Moses took them from off their
hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the
burnt-offering : they were consecrations for
a sweet savour : it /*■ an offering made by
fire unto the Lord.

29 And Moses took the breast, and wav-
ed it for a wave-offering before the Lord :

for of the ram of consecration it was Mo-
ses' part ; as the Lord c(jmnianded Moses,

30 And Moses took of the anointing oil,
and of the blood which zvas upon the altar,
and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his
garments, and upon his sons, and upon his
sons' garments with him ; and sanctified
Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and
his sons' garments with him.

31 H And Moses said unto Aaron and
to his sons. Boil the flesh at the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation ; and
there eat it with the bread that is in the
basket of consecrations, as I commanded,
saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.

32 And that which remaineth of the flesh
and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.

33 And ye shall not go out of the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation in
seven days, until the days of your conse-
cration be at an end : for seven days shall
he consecrate you.

34 As he hath done this day, so the
Lord hath commanded to do, to make an
atonement for you.

35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation day
and night seven days, and keep the charge
of the Lord, that ye die not : for so I am
commanded.

36 So Aaron and his sons did all things
which the Lord commanded by the hand
of Moses.

CHAP. IX.
ND it came to pass on the eighth day,
that Moses called Aaron and his sons,
and the elders of Israel ;

2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a
young calf for a sin-offering, and a ram for
a burnt-oflering, without blemish, and offer
them before the Lord.

3 And unto the children of Israel thou
shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the
goats for a sin-offering ; and a calf and a
lamb, both of the first year, without blemish,
for a burnt-offering ;

4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace-of^
ferings, to sacrifice before the Lord ; and a
meat-offering mingled with oil : for to-day
the Lord will appear unto you.

5 And they brought that which Moses
commanded before the tabernacle of the
congregation : and all the congregation
drew near and stood before the Lord.

6 And Moses said, This is the thing
which the Lord commanded that ye should
do : and the glory of the Lord shall appear
unto you.

7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go imto
the altar, and offer thy sin-offering, and thy
burnt-offering, and make an atonement for
thyself, and for the people : and offer the
offering of the people, and make an atone-
ment for them ; as the Lord commanded.

8 "ff Aaron therefore went unto the altar,
and slew the calf of the sin-offering, which
was for himself.

Tlie offerings for the people. LEVITICUS.

Nadab and Ahihu burnt.

9 And the sons of Aaron brought the
blood unto him: and he dipped his tinger
in the blood, and put it upon the horns of
the altar, and poured out the blood at the
bottom of the altar :

10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the
caul above the liver of the sin-ofiiering, he
burnt upon the altar; as the Lokd com-
manded Moses.

11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt
with fire without the camp.

12 And he slew the burnt-offering; and
Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood,
which he sprinkled round about upon the
altar.

13 And they presented the burnt-offering
unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the
head : and he burnt tlicm upon the al-
tar.

14 And he did wash the inwards and the
legs, and burnt them upon the burnt-offer-
ing on the altar.

15 If And he brought the people's offer-
ing, and took the goat, which ivas tlie sin-
ofiering for the people, and slew it, and of-
fered it for sin, as the first.

16 And he brought the burnt-offering,
and offered it according to the manner.

17 And he brought the meat-offering,
and took an handful thereof, and burnt it
upon the altar, beside the burnt-sacrifice of
the morning.

18 He slew also the bullock and the ram
for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, which
was for the people : and Aaron's sons pre-
sented unto liim the blood, which he sprin-
kled upon the altar round about,

19 And the fat of the bullock, and of the
ram, the rump, and that which covereth
the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul
above the liver :

20 And they put the fat upon the breasts,
and he burnt the fat upon the altar :

21 And tlie breasts and the right shoul-
der Aaren waved for a wave-offering be-
fore the Lord ; as Moses commanded.

22 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward
the people, and blessed them; and came
down from offering of the sin-offering, and
the burnt-offering, and peace-offerings.

23 H And Moses and Aaron went into the
tabernacle of the congregation, and came
out, and blessed the people : and the glory
of the Lord appeared unto all the peo-
ple.

24 And there came a fire out from before
the Lord, and consumed upon the altar the
burnt-offering and the fat : trhich when all
the people saw, they shouted, and fell on
their faces.

CHAP. X.

AND Nadab and Abihu, the sons of
Aaron, took either of them his cen-
ser, and put fire therein, and put incense
thereon, and offered strange fire before
the Lord, which he commanded them
not.

2 And there went out fire from the Lord,
and devoured them, and they died before
the Lord.

3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is
it that the Lord spake, saying, 1 will be
sanctified in them that come nigh me, and
before all the people 1 will be glorified.
And Aaron held his peace.

4 And Moses called Mishael and Elza-
phan, tlie sons of Uzziel the uncle of
Aaron, and said unto them. Come near,
carry your brethren from before the sanc-
tuary out of tlie camp.

5 So they went near, and carried them
in their coats out of the camp ; as Moses
had said.

6 H And Moses said unto Aaron, and
unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons.
Uncover not your heads, neither rend your
clcthes ; lest ye die, and lest wrath come
upon all the people : but let your brethren,
the wbole house of Israel, bewail the burn-
ing which the Lord hath kindled.

7 And ye shall not go out from the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest
ye die : for the anointing oil of the Lord is
upon you. And they did according to the
word of Moses.

8 *il And the Lord spake unto Aaron,
saying,

9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink,
thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go
into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest
ye die : it shall be a statute for ever through-
out your generations :

10 And that ye may put difference be-
tween holy and unholy, and between un-
clean and clean ;

11 And that ye may teach the children
of Israel all the statutes which the Lord
hath spoken unto them by the hand of Mo-
ses.

12 If And Moses spake unto Aaron, and
unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons
that were left, I'ake the meat-ofiiering that
remaineth of the offerings of the Lord
made by fire, and eat it without leaven be-
side the altar : for it is most holy :

13 And ye shall eat it in the hoh' place,
because it /.s thy due, and thy sons' due, of
the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire :
for so I am commanded.

14 And the wave-breast and heave-shoul-
der shall ye eat in a clean place ; thou, and
thy sons, and thj' daughters with thee : for
they be thy due. and thy sons' due, ickich
are given out of the sacrifices of peace-of-
ferings of the children of Israel.

15 The heave-shoulder and the wave-
breast shall they bring, with the offerings
made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a
wave-offering before the Lord ; and it sliall
be thine, and thy sons with thee, by a sta-
tute for ever ; as the Lord hath command-
ed.

16 II And Moses diligently sought the
goat of the sin-offering, and behold, it was

Of meats clean and unclean. CHAP

burnt : and he was angry with Eleazar and
Ithamar, tlie sons of Aaron XDliich were left
alive, saying,

17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-
offering in the holy place, seeing it is most
holy, and God hath given it you to bear tlie
iniquity of the congregation, to make atone-
ment for them before the Lord ?

IS Behold, the blood of it was not brought
in within the holy place : ye should indeed
have eaten it in the holy place, as I com-
manded.

19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold,
this day have they offered their sin-offering,
and their burnt-offering before the Lord ;
and such things have befallen me : and if t
had eaten the sin-offering to-day, should it
have been accepted in the sight of the
Lord ?

20 And when Moses heard that, he was
content.

CHAP. XL
ND the Lord spake unto Moses and
to Aaron, saying unto them,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying. These are the beasts which ye shall
eat among all the beasts that ctre on the
earth.

3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is
cloven-looted, and cheweth the cud among
the beasts, that shall ye eat.

4 Nevertheless, these shall ye not eat, of
them that chew the cud, or of them that
divide the hoof: as the camel, because he
cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof;
he is unclean unto you.

5 And the coney, because he cheweth
the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is
unclean unto you.

6 And the hare, because he cheweth the
cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is un-
clean unto you.

7 And the swine, though he divide the
hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth
not tiie cud ; he is unclean to you.

8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their
carcass shall ye not touch ; they are un-
clean to you.

9 1i These shall ye eat, of all that are in
the waters : whatsoever hath fins and scales
in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers,
them shall ye eat.

10 And all that have not fins nor scales
in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that
move in the waters, and of any living thing
which /.'; in the waters, they shall be an
abomination unto you :

11 They shall be even an abomination
unto you :" ye shall not eat of their flesh,
but ye shall have their carcasses in abomi-
nation.

12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in
the waters, that shall be an abomination
unto you.

1.3 ^ And these are they which ye shall
have in abomination among the fowls ; they
shall not be eaten, they are an abomina-
12

XI. TTie unclean creeping things.

tion : the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the
ospray,

14 And the vulture, and the kite after
his kind ;

15 Every raven after his kind;

16 And the owl, and the night-hawk, and
the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

17 And the litde owl, and the cormorant,
and the great owl,

IS And the swan, and the pelican, and
the gier-eagle,

19 And the stork, and the heron after her
kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

20 All fowls that creep, going upon cdl
four, shall be an abomination unto you.

21 Yet these may ye eat, of every flying
creeping thing that goetli upon all tour,
which have legs above their feet, to leap
withal upon the earth ;

22 Even these of them ye may eat ; the
locust after his kino, and the bald locust
after his kind, and the beetle after his kind,
and the grasshopper after his kind.

23 But all Gti'icr flying creeping things,
which have four feet, shall be an abomina-
tion unto you.

24 And for these ye shall be unclean :
whosoever toucheth the carcass of them
shall be unclean until the even.

25 And whosoever beareth ought of the
carcass of them shall wasii his clothes, and
be unclean until the even.

26 The carcasses of every beast which
divideth the hoof and /.>; not cloven-tooted,
nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you :
every one that toucheth them shall be un-
clean.

27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws,
among all manner of beasts that go on all
four, those are unclean unto you : whoso
toucheth their carcass shall be unclean un-
til the even.

28 And he that beareth the carcass of
them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean
until the even : they are unclean unto you.

29 ^ These also shcdl be unclean unto
you among the creeping things that creep
upon the earth ; the weasel, and the mouse,
and the tortoise after his kind,

30 And the ferret, and the chameleon,
and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

31 These are unclean to you among all
that creep : whosoever dotifi touch tiiem,
when they be dead, shall be unclean until
the even.

32 And upon whatsoever any of them,
when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be
unclean ; whether it be any vessel of wood,
or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever ves-
sel it be, wherein any work is done, it must
be put into water, and it shall be unclean
until the even ; so it shall be cleansed.

33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto
any of them falleth, wliatsoever is in it shall
be unclean ; and ye shall break it.

34 Of all meat which may be eaten, that
on which such water cometh shall be un-

T7ic purification of ivomcn. LEVITICUS. Lau's for the leprosy.

clean : and all drink that may be drunk in i days: she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor

every such vessel, shall be unclean.

35 And every thing whereupon any part
of their carcass ialleth, shall be unclean ;
ivhcther it he oven, or ranges for pots, they
shall be broken down : for they are un-
clean, and shall be unclean unto you.

36 Nevertheless, a fountain or pit, where-
in there is plenty of water, shall be clean :
but that wliich toucheth their carcass shall
be unclean.

37 And if any part of their carcass fall
upon any sowing-seed which is to be sown,
it shall bfi clean.

38 But if any water be put upon the seed,
and any part of their carcass fall thereon,
it shall he unclean unto you.

39 And if any beast, of which ye may
eat, die ; he that "toucheth the carcass there-
of shall be unclean until the even.

40 And he that eateth of the carcass of
it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean
until the even; he also that beareth the
carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be
unclean until the even.

41 And every creeping thing that creep-
eth upon the earth shall be an abomination ;
it shall not be eaten.

42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and
whatsoever goetli upon all four, or whatso-
ever hath more feet among all creeping
things that creep upon the earth, them ye
shall not eat ; ibr they are an abomination.

43 Ye shall not make yourselves abomi-
nable with any creeping thing that creep-
■eth, neither shall ye make yourselves un-
clean with them, that ye should be defiled
thereby.

44 For I am the Lord your God : ye
shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye
shall be holy ; for I am holy : neither shall
ye defile yourselves with any manner of
creeping thing that creepethupon the earth.

45 For I (rm the Lord that bringeth you
up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God :
ye shall therefore be hoi)', for I am holy.

46 This is the law of the beasts, and of
the fowl, and of every living creature that
moveth in the waters, and of every crea-
ture that creepeth upon the earth ;

47 To make a difiisrence between the un
clean and the clean, and between the beast
that may be eaten and the beast that may
not be eaten.

CHAP. xn.

AND the Lord spake unto Moses, say-
ing,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, say-
ing. If a woman have conceived seed, and
born a man-chiid : then she shall be unclean
seven days ; according to the days of the
separation for her infirmity shall she be un-
clean.

3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his
foreskin shall be circumcised.

4 And she shall then continue in the
blood of her purifying three and thirty

come into the sanctuary, until the days of
her purifying be fulfilled.

5 But if she bear a maid-child, then she
shall be unclean two weeks, as in her sepa-
ration : and she shall continue in the blood
of her purifying threescore and six days.

6 If And when the days of her purifying
are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter,
she shall bring a lamb of the first year
for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon, or
a turtle-dove, for a sin-offering, unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
unto the priest :

7 Who shall offer it before the Lord and
make an atonement for her ; and she shall
be cleansed fi-om the issue of her blood.
This is the law for her that hath born a
male or a female.

8 And if slie be not able to bring a lamb,
then she shall bring tv/o turtles, or two
young pigeons ; the one for the burnt-offer-
ing, and the other for a sin-offering : and
the priest shall make an atonement for her,
and she shall be clean.

CHAP. XIII.
ND the Lord spake unto Moses and
Aaron, saying,

2 When a man shall have in the skin of
his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and
it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague
of leprosy ; then he shall be brought unto
Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons
the priests :

3 And the priest shall look on the plague
in the skin of the flesh : and uiheri the hair in
the plague is turned Vv'hite, and the plague
in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh,
it is a plague of leprosy : and the priest shall
look on him, and pronounce him unclean.

4 If the bright spot be white in the skin
of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than
the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned
white ; then the priest shall shut up him
that hath the plague seven days :

6 And the priest shall look on him the
seventh day : and behold, if the plague in
his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread
not in the skin ; then the priest shall shut
him up seven days more :

6 And the priest shall look on him again
the seventh day : and behold, if the plague
be somewhat dark, and the plague spread
not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce
him clean : it is but a scab : and he shall
wash his clothes, and be clean.

7 But if the scab spread much abroad in
the skin, after that he hath been seen of
the priest for his cleansing, he shall be
seen of the priest again:

8 And if the priest see that, behold, the
scab spreadeth m the skin, then the priest
shall pronounce him unclean : it is a leprosy.

9 ^ When the plague of leprosy is in a
man, then he shall be brought unto the
priest :

10 And the priest shall see Jiim : and

Laws and tokens for CHAP.

behold, if the rising he white in the skin,
and it have turned the hair white, and there
be quick raw flesh in the rising :

lilt is an old leprosy in the skin of his
flesli, and the priest sliall pronounce him
unclean, and shall not shut him up : for he
is unclean.

12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in
the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin
of him that hath the plague from his head
even to his foot, wheresoever the priest
looketh ;

13 Then the priest shall consider : and
behold, if the leprosy have covered all his
flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that
hath the plague : it is all turned white : he
is clean.

14 But when raw flesh appeareth in him,
he shall be unclean.

15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh,
and pronounce him to be unclean : for the
raw flesh is unclean : it is a leprosy.

16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be
changed into white, he shall come unto the
priest ;

17 And the priest shall see him : and be-
hold, //' the plague be turned into white ;
then the priest shall pronounce him clean
that hath the plague : he is clean.

18 H The flesh also, in which, even in the
skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,

19 And in the place of the boil there be
a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and
somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the
priest ;

20 And if, when the priest seeth it, be-
hold, it be in si^ht lov/er than the skin, and
the hair thereot be turned white ; the priest
shall pronounce him unclean : it is a plague
of leprosy broken out of the boil.

21 But if the priest look on it, and be-
hold, there be no white hairs therein, and
if it be not lower than the skin, but be some-
what dark ; then the priest shall shut him
up seven days :

22 And if it spread much abroad in the
skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
unclean : it is a plague,

23 But if the bright spot stay in his place,
and spread not, it is a burning boil ; and
the priest shall pronounce him clean.

24 H Or if there be atjy flesh, in the skin
whereof there is a hot burning, and the
quick flesh that burneth have a white bright
spot, somewhat reddish, or white ;

25 Then the priest shall look upon it :
and behold, if the hair in the brigiit spot
be turned white, and it be in sight deeper
than the skin : it is a leprosy broken out
of the burning : wherefore the priest shall
pronounce him unclean : it is the plague of
leprosy.

26 But if the priest look on it, and be-
hold, there be no white hair in the bright
spot, and it be no lower than the other skin,
but be somewhat dark ; then the priest shall
shut him uj) seven days :

XIII. discerning the leprosy-

27 And the priest shall look upon him
the seventh day : and if it be spread much
abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pro-
nounce him unclean : it is the plague of
leprosy.

28 And if the bright spot stay in his
place caul spread not in the skin, but it be
somewhat dark ; it i^- a rising of the burning,
and the priest shall pronounce him clean :
for it is an inflammation of the burning.

29 1l If a man or woman have a plague
upon the head or the beard ;

30 Then the priest shall see the plague :
and behold, if it be in sight deeper than the
skin, and there be in it a yellow thin hair ;
then the priest shall pronounce him un-
clean : it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon
the head or beard.

31 And if the priest look on the plague
of the scall, and behold, it be not in sight
deeper than the skin, and that there is no
black hair in it ; then the priest shall shut up
him that hath the plague of the seal) seven
days :

32 And in the seventh day the priest shall
look on the plague : and behold, if the
scall spread not, and there be in it no yel-
low hair, and the scall be not in sight deep-
er than the skin ;

33 He shall be shaven, but the scafl shall
he not shave ; and the priest sliall shut up
hi7n that hath the scall seven days more :

34 And in the seventh day the priest
shall look on the scall : and behold, if the
scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in
sight deeper than the skin ; then the priest
shall pronounce him clean : and he shall
wash his clothes, and be clean.

35 But if the scall spread much in the
skin after his cleansing ;

36 Then the priest shall look on him .
and behold, if the scall be spread in the
skin, the priest shaU not seek for yellow
hair ; he is unclean. '

37 But if the scall be in his sight at a
stay, and that there is black hair grown up
therein; the scall is healed, he is clean:
and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

38 II If a man also or a woman have in
the skin of their flesh bright spots, even
white bright spots ;

39 Then the priest shall look : and be-
hold, if the bright spots in the skin of their
flesh be darkish white ; it is a freckled spot
that groweth in the skin ; he is clean.

40 And the man whose hair is fallen off"
his head, he is bald ; yet is he clean.

41 And he that hath his hair fallen oflf
from the part of his head toward his face,
he is forehead-bald ; yet is he clean.

42 And if there be in the bald head, or
bald forehead, a white reddish sore ; it is a
leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his
bald forehead.

43 Then the priest shall look upon it:
and behold, if the rising of the sore be
white reddish in his bald head, or in his

Laics for the leprosy. LEVITICUS.

bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in
the skin of the flesh ;

44 He is a leprous man, he is unclean :
the priest shall pronounce him utterly un-
clean ; his plague is in his head.

45 And the leper in whom the plague is,
his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare,
and he shall put a covering upon his upper
lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

46 All the days wherein the plague shall
he in him he shall be defiled ; he is unclean :
he shall dwell alone, without the camp shall
his habitation be.

47 II The garment also that the plague of
leprosy is in, ivhetlier it be a woollen gar-
ment, or a linen garment;

4S Whether it he in the warp, or woof;
of linen, or of woollen ; whether in a skin,
or in any thing made of skin ;

49 And if the plague be greenish or red-
dish in the garment, or in the skin, either
in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing
of skin; liis a plague of leprosy, and shall
be shewed unto the priest :

50 And the priest shall look upon the
plague, and shut up it that hath the plague
seven daj-s :

51 And he shall look on the plague on
the seventh day : if the plague be spread
in the garment, either in the warp, or in the
woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is
made of skin; the plague is a fretting le-
prosy ; it is unclean.

52 He shall therefore burn that garment,
whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen,
or in any thing of skin, wherein the plague
is : for it is a fretting leprosy ; it shall be
burnt in the fire.

63 And if the priest shall look, and be-
hold, the plague be not spread in the gar-
ment, either in the warp or in the woof, or
in any thing of skin;

54 Then the priest shall command that
they wash the tiling wherein the plague is,
and he shall shut it up seven days more :

55 And the priest shall look on the plague
after that it is washed : and behold, ?/ the
plague have not changed his colour, and the
plague be not spread ; it is unclean ; thou
shalt burn it in the fire ; it is fret inward,
whether it be bare within or without.

56 And if the priest look, and behold,
the plague he somewhat dark after the wash-
ing of it ; then he shall rend it out of the
garment, or out of the skin, or out of the
warp, or out of the woof:

57 And if it appear still in the garment,
either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any
thing of skin ; it is a spreading plague :
thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is
with fire.

58 And the garment, either warp, or
woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it he,
which thou shalt wash, if the plague be de-
parted from them, then it shall be washed
the second time, and shall be clean.

59 This is the law of the plague of le-

Rites and sacrifices.
prosy in a garment of woollen or linen, ei-
ther in the warp or woof, or any thing of
skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pro-
nounce it unclean.

CHAP. XIV.

AND the Lord spake unto Moses, say-
ing,

2 U '1 his shall be the law of the leper in
the day of his cleansing : He shall be
brought unto the priest :

3 And the priest shall go forth out of the
camp : and the priest shall look, and behold,
if the plague of leprosy be healed in the
leper ;

4 Then shall the priest command to take
for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive,
and clean, and cedar- wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop.

5 And the priest shall command that one
of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel,
over running water.

6 As for the living bird, he shall take it,
and the cedar-wood, and the scarlet, and the
hyssop, and shall dip them, and the living
bird, m the blood of the bird that iceis killed
over the running water.

7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that
is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven
times, and sliall pronounce him clean, and
shall let the living bird loose into the open
field.

8 And he that is to be cleansed shall
wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair,
and wash himself in water, that he may be
clean : and after that he shall come into the
camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent
seven days.

9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that
he shall shave all his hair oflf his head, and
his beard, and his eye-brows, even all his
hair he shall shave off; and he shall wash
his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in
water, and he shall be clean.

10 And on the eighth day he shall take
two he-lambs without blemish, and one ewe-
lamb of the first year without blemish, and
three tenth-deals of fine flour for a meat-
offerins-. mingled with oil, and one los; of

11 And the priest that maketh ?ii?n clean,
shall present the man that is to be made
clean, and those things, before the Lokd, at
the door of the tabernacle of the congrega-
tion.

12 And the priest shall take one he-lamb,
and ofler him for a trespass-offering, and
the log of oil, and wave them for a wave-
offering before the Lokd.

13 And he shall slay the lamb in the
place where he shall kill the sin-offering
and the burnt-offering, in the holy place :
for as the sin-offering is the priest's, so is
the trespass-offering: it is most holy.

14 And the priest shall take so7iie of the
blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest
shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of
him that is to be cleansed, and upon the

Of leprosy in a Jwuse. CHAP

thumb of his right hand, and upon the great
toe of his right foot.

15 And the priest shall take some of the
log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his
own left hand :

16 And tiie priest shall dip his right fin-
ger in the oil that is in his left hand, and
shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven
times before the Loud.

17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his
hand, shall the priest put upon the tip of
the right ear of him that is to be cleansed,
and upon the thumb of his right hand, and
upon the great toe of his right foot, upon
the blood of the trespass-offering.

IS And the remnant of the oil that is in
the priest's hand he shall pour upon the
head of him that is to be cleansed: and the
priest shall make an atonement for him be-
fore the Lord.

19 And the priest shall offer the sin-of-
fering, and make an atonement for him that
is to be cleansed from his uncleanness ;
and afterward he shall kill the burnt-offer-
ing.

20 And the priest shall offer the burnt-
offerin:;c, and the meat-offering upon the
altar : and the priest shall make an atone-
ment for him, and he shall be clean.

21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so
much ; then he shall take one lamb for a
trespass-offering to be waved, to make an
atonement for him, and one tenth-deal of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offer-
ing, and a log of oil ;

22 And two turtle-doves, or two young
pigeons, such as he is able to get ; and the
one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a
burnt-offering.

23 And he shall bring them on the eighth
day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congre-
gation, before the Lord.

24 And the priest shall take the lamb
of the trespass-offering, and the log of oil,
and the pnest shall wave them for a wave-
offering before the Lord.

25 And he shall kill the lamb of the tres-
pass-offering, and the priest shall take some
of the blood of the trespass-offering, and
put it upon the tip of the right ear of
him that is to be cleansed, and upon the
thumb of his right hand, and upon the great
toe of his right foot.

26 And the priest shall pour of the oil
into the palm of his own left hand.

27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his
right finger some of the oil that is in his left
hand seven times before the Lord :

2S And the priest shall put of the oil that
is in his hand, upon the tip of the right ear
of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the
thumb of his riglit hand, and upon the great
toe of his right foot, upon the place of the
blood of the trespass-offering.

29 And the rest of the oil that is in the
priest's hand, he shall put upon the head

XIV. Of cleansing a leprous house.
of him that is to be cleansed, to make an
atonement for him before the Lord.

30 And he shall offer the one of the tur-
tle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as
he can get ;

31 Ercji such as he is able to get, the one
for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-
ofiering, with the meat-offering. And the
priest shall make an atonement for him that
is to be cleansed, before the Lord.

32 This is the law of him in whom is
the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not
able to get that which pertaineth to his
cleansing.

33 H And the Lord spake unto Moses
and unto Aaron, saj-ing,

34 When ye be come into the land of
Canaan, which I give to you for a posses-
sion, and I put the plague of leprosy in a
house of the land of your possession ;

35 And he that owneth the house shall
come and tell the priest, saying. It seemeth
to me there is as it were a plague in the
house :

36 Then the priest shall command that
they empty the house, before the priest go
into it to see the plague, that all that is in
the house be not made unclean ; and after-
ward the priest shall go in to see the house:

37 And he shall look on the plague, and
behold, if the plague he in the walls of the
house, with hollow strakes, greenish, or red-
dish, which in sight are lower than the
wall ;

38 Then the priest shall go out of the
house to the door of the house, and shut up
the house seven days :

39 And the priest shall come again the
seventh day, and shall look ; and behold,
>f the plague be spread in the walls of the
house ;

40 Then the priest shall command that
they take away the stones in which the
plague is, and they shall cast them into an
unclean place without the city :

41 And he shall cause the house to be
scraped within round about, and they shall
pour out the dust that they scrape off with-
out the city into an unclean place :

42 And they shall take other stones, and
put them in the place of those stones ; and
he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster
the house.

43 And if the plague come again, and
break out in the house, after that he hath
taken away the stones, and after he hath
scraped the house, and after it is plastered ;

44 Then the priest shall come and look ;
and behold, if the plague be spread in the
house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house :
it is unclean.

45 And he shall break down the house,
the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and
all the mortar of the house : and he shall
carry thetu forth out of the city into an un-
clean place.

46 Moreover, he that goeth into the

Of uncleanness by issues, LEVITICUS

house all the while that it is shut up, shall
be unclean until the even.

47 And he that lieth in the house shall
wash his clothes : and he that eateth in the
house shall wash his clothes.

48 H And if the priest shall come in,
and look upon it, and behold, the plague
hath not spread in the house, after the
house was plastered : then the priest shall
pronounce the house clean, because the
plague is healed.

49 And he shall take to cleanse the house
two birds, and cedar- wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop :

50 And he shall kill the one of the birds
in an earthen vessel, over running water :

51 And he shall take the cedar-wood,
and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the liv-
ing bird, and dip them in the blood of the
slain bird, and in the running water, and
sprinkle the house seven times :

52 And he shall cleanse the house with
the blood of the bird, and with the running
water, and with the living bird, and with the
cedar-wood, and with the hyssop, and with
the scarlet :

53 But he shall let go the living bird out
of the city into the open fields, and make
an atonement for the house : and it shall be
clean.

54 This is the law for all manner of
plague of leprosj", and scall,

55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and
of a house,

56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and
for a bright spot :

57 To teach when it is unclean, and
when it is clean : this is the law of leprosy.

CHAP. XV.

AND the Lord spake unto Moses and to
Aaron, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them, When any man hath a run-
ning issue out of his flesh, because of his
issue he is unclean.

3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his
issue : whether his flesh run with his issue,
or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is
his uncleanness.

4 Every bed whereon he lieth that hath
the issue, is unclean : and every thing
whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.

5 And whosoever toucheth his bed, shall
wash his clothes, and batlie himself in wa-
ter, and be unclean until the even.

6 And he that sitteth on any thing where-
on he sat that hath the issue, shall wash liis
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.

7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him
that hath the issue, shall wash his clothes,
and batlie himself in water, and be unclean
until tlie even.

8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon
him that is clean ; then he shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.

and of cleansing therefrom.

9 And what saddle soever he rideth upon
that hath the issue, shall be unclean.

10 And whosoever toucheth any thing
that was under liim shall be unclean until
the even : and he that beareth any of those
things, shall wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean until the
even.

11 And whomsoever he toucheth that
hath the issue, (and hath not rinsed his
hands in water,) he shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean
until the even.

12 And the vessel of earth that he touch-
eth which hath the issue, shall be broken :
and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in
water.

13 And when he that hath an issue is
cleansed of his issue ; then he shall num-
ber to himself seven days for his cleansing,
and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in
running water, and shall be clean.

14 And on the eightli day he shall take
to him two turtle-doves, or tvv'o 3'oung pi-
geons, and come before the Lord, unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
and give them unto the priest :

15 And the priest shall ofifer them, the
one for a sin-oft'ering, and the other for a
burnt-oflfering ; and the priest shall make
an atonement for him before the Lord for
his issue.

16 And if any man's seed of copulation
go out from him, then he shall wash all his
flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

17 And every garment, and every skin
whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be
washed with water, and be unclean until
the even.

18 The woman also with whom man
shall lie uith seed of copulation, they shall
both bathe themselves in water, and be un-
clean until the even.

19 H And if a woman have an issue, and
her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be
put apart seven days ; and whosoever touch-
eth her shall be unclean until the even.

20 And every thing that she lieth upon
in her separation shall be unclean : every
thing also that she sitteth upon shah be un-
clean.

21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the even.

22 And whosoever toucheth any thing
that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and
batlie himself in water, and be unclean un-
til the even.

23 And if it be on her bed, or on any
thing whereon she sitteth, when he touch-
eth it he shall be unclean until the even.

24 And if any man lie with her at all,
and her flowers be upon him, he shall be
unclean seven days : and all the bed where-
on he lieth shall be unclean.

25 And if a woman have an issue of her
blood many days out of the time of lier se-

The Ugh-priesfs sin-offering. CHAP-
paration, or if it run beyond the time of her
separation ; all the days of the issue of her
uncleanness shall be as the days of her se-
paration : she shall be unclean.

26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the
days of her issue shall be unto her as the
bed of her separation : and whatsoever she
sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the un-
cleanness of her separation.

27 And whosoever toucheth those things
shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean
until the even.

28 But if she be cleansed of her issue,
then she shall number to herself seven days,
and after that she shall be clean.

29 And on the eighth day she shall take
unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons,
and bring them unto the priest, to the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation.

30 And the priest shall offer the one for
a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-of-
fering ; and the priest shall make an atone-
ment for her before the Lord for the issue
of her uncleanness.

31 Thus shall ye separate the children
of Israel from their uncleanness : that they
die not in their uncleanness, when they de-
file my tabernacle that is among them.

32 This is the law of him that hath an
issue, and of him whose seed goeth from
him, and is defiled therewith ;

33 And of her that is sick of her flowers,
and of him that hath an issue, of the man
and of the woman, and of him that lieth
with her that is unclean.

CHAP. XVI.

AND the Lord spake unto Moses after
the death of the two sons of Aaron,
when they offered before the Lord, and died:

2 And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak
unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not
at all times into the holy place within the
vail, before the mercy-seat, which is upon
the ark ; that he die not : for I will appear
in the cloud upon the mercy-seat.

3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy
place : with a young bullock for a sin-offer-
ing, and a ram for a burnt-offering.

4 He shall put on the holy linen coat,
and he shall have the linen breeches upon
his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen
girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be
attired : these are holy garments ; therefore
shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put
them on.

5 And he shall take of the congregation
of the children of Israel two kids of the
goats for a sin-offering, and one ram for a
burnt-offering.

6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of
the sin-offsring, which is for himself, and
make an atonement for himself, and for his
house.

7 And he shall take the two goats, and
present them before the Lord at the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation.

XVL Tlie live goat

8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the
two goats ; one lot for the Lord, and the
other lot for the scape-goat.

9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon
which the Lord's lot fell, and offer him /or
a sin-offering.

10 But the goat on which the lot fell to
be the scape-goat, shall be presented alive
before the Lord, to make an atonement
with him, and to let him go for a scape-goat
into the wilderness,

11 "ff And Aaron shall bring the bullock
of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and
shall make an atonement for himself, and
Tor his house, and shall kill the bullock of
the sin-offering which is for himself:

12 And he shall take a censer full of
burning coals of fire from off the altar be-
fore the Lord, and his hands full of sweet
incense beaten small, and bring it within
the vail :

13 And he shall put the incense upon
the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of
the incense may cover the mercy-seat that
is upon the testimony, that he die not.

14 And he shall take of the blood of the
bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon
the mercy-seat eastward: and before the
mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the blood
with his finger seven times.

15 U Then shall he kill the goat of the
sin-offering that is for the people, and bring
his blood within the vail, and do with that
blood as he did with the blood of the bul-
lock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat,
and before the mercy-seat :

16 And he shall make an atonement for
the holy place, because of the uncleanness
of the children of Israel, and because of
their transgressions in all their sins : and so
shall he do for the tabernacle of the con-
gregation that remaineth among them m
the midst of their uncleanness.

17 And there shall be no man in the ta-
bernacle of the congregation Avhen he go-
eth in to make an atonement in the holy
place, until he come out, and have made an
atonement for himself, and for his house-
liold, and for all the congregation of Is-
rael.

18 And he shall go out unto the altar
that is before the Lord, and make an atone-
ment for it; and shall take of the blood of
the bullock, and of the blood of the goat,
and put it upon the horns of the altar round
about.

19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood
upon it with his finger seven times, and
cleanse it, and liallow it from the unclean-
ness of the children of Israel.

20 If And when he hath made an end of
reconciling the holy place, and the taberna-
cle of the congregation, and the altar, he
shall bring the live goat :

21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands
upon the head of the live goat, and confess
over him all the iniquities of the children

T^ie feast of expiation.

LEVITICUS.

Blood forbidden

of Israel, and all their transgressions in all
their sins, putting them upon the head of
the goat, and shall send kim away by the
hand of a fit man into the wilderness :

22 And the goat shall bear upon him all
their iniquities unto a land not hihabited:
and he shall let go the goat in the wilder-
ness.

23 And Aaron shall come into the taber-
nacle of the congregation, and shall putofl"
the linen garments which he put on when
he went into the holy place., and shall leave
them there :

24 And he shall wash his flesh with water
in the holy place, and put on his garments,
and come forth, and offer his burnt-ol!ering,
and the burnt offering of the people, and
make an atonement for himself, and for tlie
people.

25 And the fat of the sin-offering shall
he burn upon the altar.

26 And he that let go the goat for the
scape-goat shall wash his clothes, and bathe
his flesh in water, and afterward come into
the camp.

27 And the bullock /or the sin-oflfering,
and the goat for the sin-offering, whose
blood was brought in to make atonement in
the holy place, shall one carry forth without
the camp ; and they shall burn in the
fire their skins, and their flesh, and their
dung.

28 And he that burneth them shall wash
his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward he shall come into the camp.

29 U And this shall be a statute for ever
unto you : tlmt in the seventh month, on
the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict
your souls, and do no work at all, ivhethcr
it be one of your own country, (;r a stran-
ger that sojourneth among you :

30 For on that day shall the priest make
an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that
ye may be clean from all your sins before
the Lord.

31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you,
and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute
for ever.

32 And the priest whom he shall anoint,
and whom he shall consecrate to minister
in the priest's office in his lather's stead,
shall make the atonement, and shall put on
the linen clothes, even the holy garments :

33 And he shall make an atonement for
the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an
atonen)ent for the tabernacle of the congre-
gation, and for the altar: and he shall make
an atonement for the priests, and for all the
people of the congregation.

34 And this shall be an everlasting statute
unto you, to make an atonement for the
children of Israel for'all their sins once a
year. And he did as the Lord commanded
Moses.

CHAP. XVII.

AND the Lord spake unto Moses, say-
in,2:,

2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons,
and unto all the children of Israel, and say
unto them, This is the thing which the
Lord hath commanded, saying,

3 What man soever there be of the house
of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat
in the camp, or that killeth it out of the
camp,

4 And bringeth it not unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, to oflTer
an oflTering unto the Lord before the ta-
bernacle of the Lord: blood shall be im-
puted unto that man ; he hath shed blood ;
and that man shall be cut off" from among
his people :

5 To the end that the children of Israel
may bring their sacrifices which they offer
in the open field, even that they may bring
them unto the Lord, unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, unto the
priest, and offer them for peace-offerings
unto the Lord.

6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood
upon the altar of the Lord at the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn
the fat for a sweet savour unto the Lord.

7 And they shall no more offer their sa-
crifices unto devils, after whom they have
gone a whoring : This shall be a statute for
ever unto them throughout their genera-
tions.

8 And thou shalt say unto them, What-
soever man there be of the house of Israel,
or of the strangers which sojourn among
you, that offereth a burnt-offering or sacri-
fice,

9 And bringeth it not unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer
it unto the Lord ; even that man shall be
cut off" from among his people.

10 ^\ And whatsoever man there be of the
house of Israel, or of the strangers that so-
j'ourn among you, that eateth any maimer of
blood ; I will even set my face against that
soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off"
from among his people.

1 1 For tiie life of the flesh is in the blood :
and I have given it to you upon the altar,
to make an atonement lor your souls : for it
is the blood that maketh an atonement for
the soul.

12 Therefore I said unto the cliildren of
Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, nei-
ther sliall any stranger that sojourneth
among you eat blood.

13 And whatsoever man there be of the
children of Israel, or of the strangers that
sojourn among you, which hunteth and
catcheth any beast or fowl that may be
eaten ; he shall even pour out the blood
thereof and cover it with dust.

14 For it is tlie life of all flesh, the blood
of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said
unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the
blood of no manner of flesli : for the life of
all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever
eateth it shall be cut off".

Unlawful marriages. CHAP.

15 IT And every soul that eateth that
which died of itself, or that which was torn
toith beasts, {whether it be one of your own
country, or a stranger,) he shall both wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even : then shall he be
clean.

16 But if he wash them not, nor bathe his
flesh ; then he shall bear his iniquity.

CHAP. XVHI.
ND the Loud spake unto Moses, say-
ings

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them, I am the Lord your God.

3 A fter the doings of the land of Egypt
wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do : and alter
the doings of the land of Canaan whither I
bring you, shall ye not do : neither shall ye
walk in their ordinances.

4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep
mine ordinances, to walk therein : I am the
Lord your God.

5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes
and my judgments : which if a man do, he
shall live in them : I am the Lord.

6 H None of you shall approach to any
that is near of kin to him, to uncover their
nakedness : I am the Lord.

7 The nakedness of thy father, or the
nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not un-
cover : she is thy mother, thou shalt not
uncover her nakedness.

S The nakedness of thy father's wife
shalt thou not uncover : it is thy father's
nakedness.

9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daugh-
ter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother,
whether she be born at home, or born abroad,
even their nakedness thou shalt not unco-
ver.

10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter,
or of thy daughter's daughter, epen their
nakedness thou shalt not uncover : for theirs
is thine own nakedness.

11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's
daughter, begotten of thy father, (she is
thy sister) thou shalt not uncover her naked-
ness.

12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of thy father's sister : she is thy father's
near kinswoman.

13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of th}' mother's sister : for she is thy mo-
ther's near kinswoman.

14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of thy father's brother, thou shalt not ap-
proach to his wife : she is thine aunt.

1-5 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of thy daughter-in-law : she is thy son's
wife, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of thy brother's wife : it is thy brother's
nakedness.

17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt
thou take her son's daugliter, or her daugh-
ter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness ;

XVHI. Unlmoful lusts,

for they are her near kinswomen : it is
wickedness.

IS Neither shalt tliou take a wife to her
sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness
beside the other in her Wie-time.

19 H Also thou shalt not approach unto
a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long
as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

20 Moreover, thou shalt not lie carnally
with thy neighbour's wife, to dehle thyself
with her.

21 And thou shalt not let any of thy
seed pass through the fire to Molech, nei-
ther shalt thou profane the name of thy God :
I am the Lord.

22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as
with womankind : it is abomination.

23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast
to defile thj'self therewith : neither shall
any woman stand before a beast to lie down
thereto : it is confusion.

24 Defile not ye )'ourselves in any of
these things : for in all these the nations
are defiled which I cast out before you :

25 And the land is defiled : therefore I
do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and
the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes
and my judgments, and shall not commit
any of these abominations ; neither an}" of
your own nation, nor any stranger that so-
journeth among you :

27 (For all these abominations have the
men of the land done, which tucre before
you, and the land is defiled ;)

28 That the land spue not you out also,
when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations
that ivere before you.

29 For whosoever shall commit any of
these abominations, even the souls that
commit them shall be cut off from among
their people.

30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordi-
nance, that ye commit not any one of these
abominable customs, whicli were committed
before you, and that ye defile not yourselves
therein : I am. the Lord your God.

CHAP. XiX.
ND the Lord spake unto Moses, say-
ing,

2 Speak unto all the congregation of the
children of Israel, and say unto tliem. Ye
shall be holy : for I the Lord your God am
holy.

3 Ye shall fear every man his mother
and his father, and keep my sabbatlis : I
am the Lord your God.

4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to
yourselves molten gods : I am the Lord
your God.

5 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace-
offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it at
your own will.

6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer
it, and on the morrow : and if ought remain
until the third day, it shall be burnt in the
fire.

A repetition of sundry laivs.

7 And if it be eaten at all on the third
day, it is abominable ; it shall not be ac-
cepted.

8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall
bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned
the hallowed thing of the Lord ; and that
soul shall be cut on from among his people.

9 And when ye reap the harvest of your
land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners
of thy held, neither shalt th.ou gather the
gleanings of thy harvest.

10 And thou shalt not glean thy vine-
yard, neither shalt thou gather every grape
of thy vineyard : thou shalt leave them ibr
the poor and stranger : I (im the Lord your
God.

11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely,
neither lie one to another.

12 And ye shall not swear by my name
fiilsely, neitiier shalt thou profane the name
of thy God : I am the Lord.

13 Thou shak not defraud thy neigh-
bour, neither rob him : the wages of him
that is hired shall not abide with thee all
night until the morning.

14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put
a stumbling-ljlock before the blind, but
shalt fear th}' God : I am the Lord.

15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in
judgment ; thou shalt not respect the per-
son of the poor, nor honour the person of
the mighty : hut in righteousness shalt thou
judge thy neighbour.

16 Thou shalt not go up and down eis a.
tale-bearer among thy people ; neither shalt
thou stand against the blood of thy neigh-
bour ; I eim the Lord.

17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in
thine heart : thou shalt in any wise rebuke
thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon
him.

18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any
grudge against the children of th}^ people,
but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy-
self: I am the Lord.

19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou
slialt not let thy cattle gender with a di-
verse kind : Thou shalt not sow thy field
with mingled seed : neithershall a garment
mingled of linen and woollen come upon
thee.

20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a
woman that is a bond-maid betrothed to an
husband, and not at all redeemed, nor free-
dom given her ; she shall be scourged :
they shall not be put to death, because she
was not free.

21 And he shall bring his trespass-offer-
ing unto the Lord, unto the door of the ta-
bernacle of the congregation, even a ram
for a trespass-offering.

22 And the priest shall make an atone-
ment for him with the ram of the trespass-
offering before the Lord for his sin which
lie hath done ; and the sin which he hath
done shall be forgiven him.

23 And when ye shall come into the

LEVITICUS. A repetition of sundry latvs.

land, and shall have planted all manner of
trees for food ; then ye shall count the fruit
thereof as uncircumcised : three years shall
it be as uncircumcised unto you : it shall
not be eaten of.

24 But in the fourth year all the fruit
thereof shall be holy to praise the Lord
imtlial.

25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of
the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you
the increase thereof: I am the Lord your
God.

26 Ye shall not eat (my thing with the
blood : neither shall )"e use enchantment,
nor observe times.

27 Ye shall not round the corners of
your heads, neither shalt thou mar the cor-
ners of thy beard.

28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in
your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks
upon you : 1 a in the Lord.

29 bo not prostitute thy daughter to
cause her to be a whore : lest the land fall
to whoredom, and the land become full of
wickedness.

30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reve-
rence my sanctuary : I am the Lord.

31 Regard not them that have familiar
spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be de-
filed by them : I can the Lord your God.

32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary
head, and honour the face of the old man,
and fear thy God : I am the Lord.

33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee
in your land, ye shall not vex him.

34 But the stranger that dwelleth with
j^ou shall be unto you as one born among
you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for
ye were strangers in the land of Egypt : I
am the Lord your God.

35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in
judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in
measure.

36 Just balances, just weights, a just
ephah, and a just bin shall ye have : I am
the Lord your God, which brought you out
of the land of Egypt.

37 Therefore shall ye observe all my sta-
tutes, and all my judgments, and do them :
I am the Lord.

CHAP. XX.

AND the Lord spake unto Moses, say-
ing,

2 ^ Again thou shalt say to the children
of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children
of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn
in Israel, that giveth a?iy of his seed unto
Molech, he shall surely be put to death :
the people of the land shall stone him with
stones.

3 And I will set my face against that
man, and will cut him off from among his
people ; because he liath given of his seed
unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to
profane my holy name.

4 H And if the people of the land do any
ways hide their eyes from the man, wlien

Divers laws and ordinances. CHAP,

lie givetli of his seed unto Molech, and kill
him not ;

5 Then I will set my face against that
man and against his family, and will cut
him off, and all that go a whoring after him,
to commit whoredom with Molech from
among their people.

6 H And the soul that turneth after such
as have familiar spirits, and after wizards,
to go a whoring after them, I will even set
my face against that soul, and will cut iiim
off from among his people.

7 *\ Sanctify yourselves therefore and be
ye holy : for I am the Lord your God.

8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do
them : I am the Lord which sanctify you.

9 If For every one that curseth his father
or his mother, shall be surely put to death :
he hath cursed his father or his mother : his
blood shall be upon him.

10 U And the man that committeth adul-
tery with another man's wife, even he that
committeth adultery with his neighbour's
wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall
surely be put to death.

11"^ And the man that lieth with his fa-
ther's wife hath uncovered his father's naked-
ness : both of them shall surely be put to
death : their blood shall he upon them.

12 And if a man lie with his daughter-
in-law, both of them shall surely be jnit to
death : they have wrought confusion ; their
blood shall be upon them.

13 H If a man also lie with mankind, as
he lieth with a woman, both of them have
committed an abomination : they shall
surely be put to death ; their blood shcdl be
upon them.

14 °i And if a man take a wife and her
motlier, it is wickedness : they shall be
burnt with fire, both he and they : that
there be no wickedness among 3"ou.

15 H And if a man lie with a beast, he
shall surely be put to death : and ye shall
slay the beast.

IG And if a woman approach unto any
beast, and lie down thereto, thou shall kill
the woman and the beast ; they shall surely
be put to death ; their blood shcdl be upon
them.

17 ^ And if a man shall take his sister,
his father's daughter, or his mother's daugh-
ter, and see her nakedness, and she see his
nakedness : it is a wicked thing ; and they
shall be cut off in the sight of their people :
he hath uncovered his sister' nakedness ; he
shall bear his iniqvuty.

IS ^ And if a man shall lie with a wo-
man having her sickness, and shall uncover
her nakedness; he hath discovered her
fountain, and she hath uncovered the foun-
tain of her blood: and both of them shall
be cut off from among their people.

19 ^ And thou shalt not uncover the na-
kedness of tl\y mother's sister, nor of thy
father's sister : for he uncovereth his near
kin : they shall bear their iniquity.

XXI. Of the priests'' mourning.

20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's
wiie, he hath uncovered his uncle's naked-
ness : they shall bear their sin ; they shall
die childless.

21 And if a man shall take his brother's
wife, it /.s an unclean thing: he hath un-
covered his brother's nakedness ; they shall
be childless.

22 H Ye shall therefore keep all my sta-
tutes, and all my judgments, and do them:
that the land whither I bring you to dwell
therein, spue you not out.

23 And ye shall not walk in the manners
of the nation which I cast out before you :
for they committed all these things, and
therefore I abhorred them.

24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall in-
herit their land, and I will give it unto you
to possess it, a land that floweth with milk
and honey : I am the Lord your God, which
have separated you from other people.

25 Ye shall therefore put difference be-
tween clean beasts and unclean, and be-
tween unclean fowls and clean: and ye
shall not make your souls abominable by
beast or by fowl, or by any manner of liv-
ing thing that creepeth on the ground,
which I have separated from you as un-
clean.

26 And ye shall be holy unto me : for I
the Lord am hoi}', and have severed you
from other people, that ye should be mine.

27 II A man also or a woman that hath a
familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall
surely be put to death: they shall stone
them with stones : their blood shall be upon
them.

CHAP. XXI.
ND the Lord said unto Moses, Speak
unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and

say unto them, There shall none be defiled

for the dead among his people :

2 But for his kin, that is near unto him,
tluit is, for his mother, and for his father,
and for his son, and for his daughter, and
for his brother,

3 And for his sister a virqfm, that is ni^h
unto him, which hath had no husband : lor
her may he be defiled.

4 But he shall not defile himself, bei7ig-
a chief man among his people, to profane
himself

5 They shall not make baldness upon
their head, neither shall they shave off the
corner of their beard, nor make any cut-
tings in their flesh.

6 II They shall be holy unto their God,
and not profane the name of their God :
for the offerings of the Lord made by fire,
and the bread of their God they do offer :
therefore they shall be holy.

7 H They shall not take a wife that is a
whore, or profane ; neither shall they take
a woman put away from her husband : for
he is holy unto his God.

8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore, for
he offereth the bread of thy God : he shall

When the priests are to

LEVITICUS.

abstainfrom holy things.

be holy unto thee : for I the Lord, which
sanctify you, am holy.

9 *il And the daughter of any priest, if
she profane herself by playing the whore,
she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt
with fire.

10 Tf And he that is the high priest among
his bretliren, upon whose head the anoint-
ing oil was poured, and that is consecrated
to put on the garments, shall not uncover
his head, nor rend his clothes ;

11 Neither shall he go in to any dead
body, nor defile himself for his father, or
ibr his mother ;

12 Neither shall he go out of the sanc-
tuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God ;
for the crown of the anointing oil of his
God is upon him : I am the Lord.

13 II And he shall take a wife in her vir-
ginity.

14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or
profane, or an harlot, these shall he not
take : but he shall take a virgin of his own
people to wife.

15 Neither shall he profane his seed
among his people : for I the Lord do sanc-
tify him.

16 II And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whoso-
ever he be of thy seed in their generations
that hath any blemish, let him not approach
to offer the bread of his God :

18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a
blemish, he shall not approach : a blind
man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose,
or any thing superfluous,

19 Or a man that is broken-footed, or
broken-handed,

20 Or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that
hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or
scabbed, or hath his stones broken ;

21 No man tliat hath a blemish of the
seed of Aaron the priest shaU come nigh
to offer the offerings of the Lord made by
fire ; he hath a blemish, he shall not come
nigh to offer the broad of his God.

22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both
of the most holy, and of the holy.

23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail,
nor come nigh unto the altar, because he
hath a blemish ; that he profane not my
sanctuaries : for I the Lord do sanctify
them.

24 And Moses told if imto Aaron, and to
his sons, and unto all the children of Israel

CHAP. XXII.
ND the Lord spake unto Moses, say-
ing,

2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that
they separate themselves from the holy
things of the children of Israel, and that
they profane not my holy name in those
things which they hallow unto me : I am the
Lord.

3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all
your seed among your generations, that

goeth unto the holy things, which the chil-
dren of Israel hallow unto the Lord, having
his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall
be cut off" from my presence : I am the
Lord.

4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron
is a leper, or hath a running issue ; he shall
not eat of the holy things, until he be clean.
And whoso toucheth any thing that is un-
clean by the dead, or a man whose seed
goeth from him ;

5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping
thing, whereby he may be made unclean,
or a man of whom he may take unclean-
ness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath :

6 The soul which hath touched an}' such
shall be unclean until even, and shall not
eat of the holy things, unless he wash his
flesh with water.

7 And when the sun is down, he shall be
clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy
things, because it is his food.

8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn
with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself
therewith : I a?n the Lord.

9 They shall therefore keep mine ordi-
nance, lest they bear sin for it, and die
therefore, if they profane it : I the Lord do
sanctify them.

10 ^ There shall no stranger eat of the
holy thing : a sojourner of the priest, or an
hired servant, shall not eat of the holy
thing.

11 But if the priest buy any soul with
his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is
born in his house : they shall eat of his
meat.

12 If the priest's daughter also be married
unto a stranger, she may not eat of an of-
fering of the holy things.

13 But if the priest's daughter be a
widow, or divorced, and have no child, and
is returned unto her father's house, as in
her youth, she shall eat of her father's
meat ; but there shall no stranger eat there-
of

14 "ff And if a man eat of the holy thing
unwittinglj', then he sliall put the fifth part
thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the
priest, with the holy thing.

15 And they shall not profane the holy
things of the children of Israel which they
offer unto the Lord :

16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of
trespass, when they eat their holy things ;
for I the Lord do sanctify them.

17 *il And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons,
and unto all the children of Israel, and say
unto them. Whatsoever he br. of the house
of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that
will offer his oblation for all his vows, and
for all his free-will-offerings, which tliey
will offer unto the Lord for a burnt-offer-
ing :

19 Ye shall offer at your own will a male

100

Tlic age of the sacrifice.

CHAP. XXIII.

Of sundry feasts.

without blemish of the beeves, of the sheep,
or of the goats.

20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that
shall ye not offer : for it shall not be ac-
ceptable for you.

21 And whosoever ofFereth a sacrifice of
peace-offerings unto the Lord to accom-
plish his vow, or a free-will-offering in
beeves, or sheep, it shall be perfect to be
accepted : there shall be no blemish therein.

22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or hav-
ing a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall
not offer these unto the Lord, nor make
an offering by fire of them upon the altar
unto the Lord.

23 Either a bullock, or a lamb that hath
any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts,
that mayest thou offer /or a free-will-offer-
ing; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

24 Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that
which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or
cut; neither shall ye make any offering
thereof in your land.

26 Neither from a stranger's hand shall
ye offer the bread of your God of any of
these; because their corruption is in them,
and blemishes be in them : they shall not be
accepted for you.

26 If And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

27 when a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat
is brought forth, then it shall be seven days
under the dam ; and from the eighth day
and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an
offering made by fire unto the Lord.

28 And lohvther it be cow, or ewe, ye
shall not kill it and her young both in one
day.

29 II And when ye will offer a sacrifice
of thanksgiving unto the Lord, offer it at
your own ^vill.

30 On the same day it shall be eaten up,
ye shall leave none of it until the morrow :
I am the Lord.

31 Therefore shall ye keep my com-
mandm.ents, and do them : I am the Lord.

32 Neither shall ye profane m}^ holy
name; but I will be hallowed among tl^.e
children of Israel : I am the Lord which
hallow you,

33 That brought you out of the land of
Egypt, to be your God : I am the Lord.

CHAP. XXIIL

AND the Lord spake unto Moses, say-
ing,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them. Concerning the feasts of the
Lord, which ye shall proclaim to he holy
convocations, even th.ese are my feasts.

3 H Six days shall work be done : but the
seventli day is the sabbath of rest, an holy
convocation : ye shall do no work therein :
it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your
dwellings

5 In the fourteenth day of the first month
at even is the Lord's passover.

6 And on the fifteenth day of the same
month is the feast of unleavened bread unto
the Lord : seven days ye must eat unlea-
vened bread.

7 In the first day ye shall have an holy
convocation : jq shall do no servile work
therein.

8 But ye shall offer an offering made
by fire unto the Lord seven days : in the
seventh day is an holy convocation, ye shall
do no servile work therein.

9 H And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them. When ye be come into the
land which I give unto you, and shall reap
the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a
sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto
the priest :

11 And he shall wave the sheaf before
the Lord, to be accepted for you : on the
morrow after the sabbath the priest shall
wave it.

12 And ye shall offer that day when ye
wave the sheaf, an he-lamb without blemish
of the first year for a burnt-offering unto
the Lord.

13 And the meat-offering thereof shall he
two tenth-deals of fine flour mingled with
oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord
for a sweet savour : and the drink-offering
thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of
an hin.

14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor
parched corn, nor green ears, until the self-
same day that ye have brought an offering
unto jour God : It shall be a statute for
ever throughout your generations in all
your dwellings.

15 H And ye shall count unto you from
the morrow after the sabbath, from the day
that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-of-
fering ; seven sabbaths shall be complete :

16 Even unto the morrow after the se-
venth sabbatli shall ye number fifty days ;
and ye shall offer a ne\v meat-offering unto
the Lord.

17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations
two wave-loaves of two tenth-deals : they
shall be of fine flour, they shall be baken with
leaven, thry are the first-fruits unto the Lord.

IS And ye shall offer with the bread se-
ven lambs without blemish of the first j'ear,
and one young bullock, and two rams : they
shall he for a burnt-offering unto the Lord,
with their meat-offering, and their drink-of-
ferings, even an offering made by fire of a
sweet savour unto the Lord.

19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the
goats for a sin-offering, and two lambs of the
first year for a sacrifice of peace-offerings.

20 And the priest shall wave them with
4 IT These are the feasts of the LoRD,;th.e bread of the first-fruits /«?• a wave-offer

even holy convocations, which ye shall pro-
claim in tlieir seasons.

I mg before the Lord, with the two lambs :

I they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.

101

The feast of tabernacles.

LEVITICUS.

The sheiv-hread.

21 And ye sliall proclaim on the self-
same day, that it may be an holy convoca-
tion unto you : ye shall do no servile work
therein. It shall be a statute for ever in all
your dwellings throughout your genera-
tions.

22 '\ And when ye reap the harvest of
your land, thou shaJt not make clean rid-
dance of the corners of thy field when thou
reapest, neither shalt thou gather any glean-
ing of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them
unto the poor, and to tJie stranger : I am
the Lord your God.

23 H And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

24 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, in the seventh month, in the first
day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath,
a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy
convocation.

25 Ye shall do no servile work therein ;
but ye shall offer an offering made by fire
unto the Lord.

26 H And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,

27 Also on the tenth daij of this seventh
month there shall be a day of atonement ; it
shall be an holy convocation unto you, and
ye shall afflict )'our souls, and offer an offer-
ing made by fire unto the Lord.

28 And ye shall do no work in that same
day ; for it is a day of atonement, to make
an atonement for you before the Lord your
God.

29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall
not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be
cut off' from among his people.

30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth
any work in that same day, the same soul
will I destroy froin among his people.

31 Ye sliall do no manner of work. It
shall be a statute for ever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.

32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest,
and ye shall afflict your souls in the ninth
flay of the month at even : from even unto
even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

33 '\\ And the I^ord spake unto Moses,
saying,

34 Speak unto the children of Israel, say-
ing, The fifteenth day of this seventh month
shall be tlie feast of tabernacles for seven
days unto the Lord.

35 On the first day shall be an holy con-
vocation : ye shall do no servile v/ork therein.

36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering
made by fire unto the Lord : on the eighth
day shall be an holy convocation unto you,
and ye shall offer an offering made by fire
unto the Lord : it is a solemn assembly ; and
ye shall do no servile work therein.

37 These are the feasts of the Lord,
which ye shall proclaim to be holy convo-
cations, to offer an offering made by fire